Created using a school template for use with my Year 10 class to reflect upon what they have learned across lessons that week.

A handout with the story of Theseus and the minotaur, with some questions aimed at Year 7 students using P.E.E (point, evidence, explain), and a handout with an extract from ‘The Hunger Games’ called ‘The Reaping’ so that students can discuss how Suzanne Collins used Theseus and the minotaur to inspire her novel. You could then ask them to adapt other myths into a modern context as a creative writing task.

I used this with a MAT Year 7 group who had been looking at extracts from Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island throughout the term. As a group oracy task, they had to read the film pitches for both stories and then discuss which one to invest in, imagining they worked for a film production company. They really enjoyed the task and it allowed them to use a wide vocabulary when discussing the advantages of each story.

This PowerPoint contains extracts from websites with details of contextual significance to To Kill a Mockingbird, explaining why lynch mobs were common in relation to sexual crimes in the South. It also contains extracts from the text and Chapter 15, where the potential lynch mob arrive at Maycomb jail, for analysis of the Gothic parody and the increase in tension.

An article about the ‘Critics’ Club’ with a summarise and explain question, then a choice of three writing tasks. Suits candidates aiming for A-A*. Accompanying PPT to help.

These are resources I created for my Year7 class to teach them how to summarise and then give them a scaffolded persuasive ‘real life’ writing task of writing a letter to a soft drink company to persuade them to support the Deposit Return Scheme of plastic bottles. There is an article about companies lobbying the Government to delay the DRS which students summarise in sections.

I am using Podbean to post revision podcasts for my GCSE Literature class; it is free to use and free to download. Topics include: -Racism, prejudice and justice Character essays with Scout as a worked example How to plan an essay Religion Boo Radley Context Chapter summaries [https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/] https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/

I have published a few podcasts to help students revise ‘Doctor Faustus’: Marlowe and the original story: https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/e/faustus-lesson-part-1-original-legend-and-marlowe/ The Reformation and religious context: https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/e/faustus-lesson-part-2-the-reformation/ Greek tragedy: https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/e/faustus-lesson-part-3-greek-tragedy/ These are on my channel https://sophietoovey.podbean.com - students can download them for free.

I’m preparing to teach North and South for the first time and creating podcasts and study vlogs which hopefully students will find useful. The podcast series has chapter-by-chapter commentaries and a few topical podcasts about the Victorian era and Margaret as a subversive heroine. https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/ The study vlog starts by looking at Patsy Stoneman’s feminist reading of the novel, looking at the intersection of class and gender. I’ve also uploaded a document about the Victorian crisis of faith (to accompany the podcast) and a compilation of past paper questions with mark scheme comments from the chief examiner.

Study vlogs working through ‘Of Mice and Men’ for GCSE English Literature.

Study vlogs to help students work through the novel for WJEC English Literature GCSE.

Study vlogs looking at ‘The Great Gatsby’ to support A level students studying English Literature.

This study vlog works through a strategy for how to read a poem to give students tools for independent study. It uses Owen Sheers’ poem ‘The Hill Fort’ as a model example.

A study vlog looking at the moral of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ which students may be studying for GCSE English Literature.

Study vlogs looking at different aspects of GCSE English Language, helping students to revise. Can also support remote learning.

This study vlog models how to annotate a poem, using Owen Sheers ‘Y Gaer’ and ‘The Hill Fort’

PPTs to work through the whole of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, looking at summarising the events in chapters, selected extracts for analysis, essay questions, critics and historical context.

Can be used for reflection on the learning of a unit, and also for ongoing skills-based reflection for writing, reading, oracy and attitude to learning.

A revision guide focusing on social and historical context, key quotes, and critics.

A Powerpoint to give tools for students to revise for an extract response in any novel or text. Suits GCSE/ AS Level English Lit. I have also made a Study Vlog video to go with this.