An ideal booklet for a high-ability Year 8 or for Year 9. It seeks to target analytical skills through the study of a variety of extracts from across the Gothic genre. Would be great to challenge and stretch KS3 students.

A homework booklet with activities which looks to develop analytical and literacy skills. Extracts come from a range of dystopian novels. Ideal for students in KS3, especially Year 8 and Year 9. It can be used in and out of lessons. It also includes a homework choice menu at the end of the booklet.

A lesson which seeks to teach students what a doppelganger is and what Freud meant by the uncanny. Students then go on to create their own doppelgangers. Students also look at an extract from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein. Homework booklet can be found in my shop.

Easily adaptable lesson on using punctuation and sentence structure for effect. Uses an extract from Malcolm X's autobiography. Uses the NC App levels but can easily be changed to suit your school's system.

Challenge your students with ambitious vocabulary and help to enrich their reading and academic writing. This was created with Year 8s in mind. They would usually complete this during a unit on dystopian writing. This can be used throughout KS3 though and into KS4 depending on your group’s ability.

Lesson comes from a dystopian scheme of work. Students will be required to analyse the way in which an author of a non-fiction text structured their text. They will also be expected to identify and evaluate the most impactful technique used by the author. This leads to the students writing their own articles, using the techniques analysed, which serves as propaganda for a dystopian government. Connections are made with the real world through the use of an article about Donald Trump.

A lesson which seeks to encourage students to use more ambitious sentence structures in their dystopian writing.

Easily adaptable lesson on sentence structure. Uses the NC App levels but can easily be changed to suit your school's system.

Challenge your students with ambitious vocabulary and help to enrich their reading and academic writing. This was created with Year 7s in mind. They would usually complete this during a unit on autobiographical writing. This can be used throughout KS3 though and maybe up into KS4 depending on your group’s ability. An extremely able Year 6 class may also really benefit too.

A-level English Literature lesson for Edexcel on the poem, To my Nine-Year-Old Self by Helen Dunmore.

This Boy in the Tower SoW was created for a mixed ability virtual classroom. It can be adapted very easily to suit a classroom setting, replacing ‘Breakout Rooms’ with ‘table groups’. The mini-scheme of work includes 6 lessons, an assessment, tasks and videos. SoW works on KS3 English skills such as inference, analysis, analytical paragraphs and word and structural analysis. Some keywords have been provided in Arabic - though they can be easily removed or replaced. Reading assessment is included.

Images and quotes taken from around the internet - used as a display.

A display for a small area looking at a variety of banned books and the reason for their banning.

Get your students out of their seats and develop their 19th Century vocabulary with this Quiz, Quiz, Trade game. It uses challenging vocabulary from Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic short story, The Tell-Tale Heart (the word class is also included). You can either have your students play it before they approach the short story or after having read it. If you don’t know how to do Quiz, Quiz, Trade, there are short instructional videos on YouTube.

Easily adaptable lesson on inference and quotations using an extract from Stephen Fry's autobiography, Moab is my Washpot. Uses the NC App levels but can easily be changed to suit your school's system.

A lesson on Crooks and the themes of prejudice and racism in Of Mice and Men.

A bundle pack of the two Crooks lessons from Of Mice and Men.

A lesson on Crooks and loneliness.

Lessons cover: -Sentence structure -Inference and quotations -Using evidence -Punctuation and sentence structure