An extensive, full scheme of work for ‘An Inspector Calls’ tailored to fit the new AQA GCSE specification. 59 resources including 14 whole lessons, supporting resources and homework activities to run over a 7 week term. The SOW includes a series of 14 lessons and additional resources leading up to an exam style question at the end of the scheme. Each character is analysed in detail as well as key themes and issues as well as the social and historical context. Each lesson has a lesson plan and homework activities as well as tasks for extension and differentiation. Also included is information on how to achieve the AOs when tackling an exam question, exemplars and detailed success criteria teaching up to level 9. Everything you need for teaching the text ‘An Inspector Calls’.

Two fully annotated lessons on Charge of the Light Brigade. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10. Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, teacher model, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary. Everything you need to teach Charge of the Light Brigade, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.

Excellent complete scheme of work on Anita and me. Designed to be used with KS4 GCSE class. Covers chapters 1, 2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, 11,12 and 13. Includes 38 resources in total: 14 lessons, 3 mock exams with model answers and fun interactive activities. Also included: 2 revision lessons and flashcards. Everything you need to teach Anita and Me at KS4.

2 excellent workbooks addressing Literacy. Can be used as homework over a term, or as class starters. Total of 88 pages! Includes activities on: Vocabulary Spellings Synonyms and antonyms Reading comprehension activities Nouns/Pronouns Verbs Commas and subordinate clauses Sentences types Apostrophes Homophones Dictionary work Past, present, future tense

Extensive SOW that covers A Midsummer Night's Dream. Includes 46 resources over 14 lessons, leading up to a character assessment. Each lesson includes a PowerPoint, differentiated worksheets and activities, model answers and fun, interactive activities. Everything you need to teach AMSND at KS3! Lesson 1: Context Lesson 2: Themes: Love Lesson 3: Characters Lesson 4: Plot Lesson 5: Exploring status Lesson 6: Act 1 Scene 1 Lesson 7: Act 1 Scene 2. The Mechanicals Lesson 8: Act 1 Scene 2. Bottom Lesson 9: Act 2 Scene 1. Puck Lesson 10: Act 2 Scene 1. Titania and Oberon Lesson 11: Act 2 Scene 1. Demetrius and Helena Lesson 12: Act 2 Scene 2. The Lovers Lesson 13: Bottom becomes an ass! Lesson 14: Interpretations of Puck Lesson 12: The Lover's quarrel Lesson 13: Lesson 14:

Complete scheme of work focusing on crime fiction. 14 lessons in total. Includes: reading and writing assessment, homework tasks, stretch and challenge and differentiation. Takes pupils through: Poetry analysis of Simon Armitage's poem, about his person- inference and deduction skills. The Speckled Band, Sherlock Holmes- pathetic fallacy, character analysis of Helen Stoner, Dr. Roylott and Sherlock Holmes- PEEDL analysis skills (reading assessment), how to write an effective description (writing assessment), tracking tension graphs, features of Victorian writing lesson and a comparison between 2 Sherlock Holmes texts. Also includes 3 lessons on Hound of the Baskervilles and a study booklet on The Silver Blaze. Everything you need for a complete half term of crime fiction!

Exciting scheme of work for KS3 classes on Moving Image. Takes pupils through media terminology in the first section and then allows them to apply what they have learnt to Casino Royale. Lesson 1- Introduction to the Media. Lesson 2- Audience. Lesson 3- Genre. Lesson 4- Signifiers and connotations. Pupils analyse a Casino Royale film poster and then create their own. Lesson 5- Connotation and denotation. Lesson 6- Stereotypes. Lesson 7- Soundtracks. Diegetic and non-diegetic sound. Lesson 8- Camera angles. Lesson 9- Writing up an essay. Lesson 10- Stereotypes in Casino Royale. Lesson 11- Camera angles in Casino Royale. Lesson 12- Writing up stereotypes and signs in Casino Royale. Lesson 13- Writing up camera angles and sound in Casino Royale. Lesson 14- Extension lesson for top-sets on Representation in the Media. Includes writing frames, model answers and builds up to an end of term assessment on Moving Image in Casino Royale.

Complete Gothic writing SOW includes 26 lessons and 51 resources in total! Everything you need for teaching Gothic reading and writing skills to KS3 and KS4 pupils. The SOW includes: 1. Assessment on horror posters- focusing on language and presentational devices. 2. Features of horror writing- extracts of texts which pupils analyse and then use to create their own. 3. Horror openings- extracts of openings which pupils analyse and then use to create their own. 4. The Man with the Yellow Face- series of 4 lessons looking at: The opening and narrative hooks, sentence length to create tension, and how Horowitz uses devices to create tension. 5. The Monkey's Paw- series of 4 lessons looking at: Tension and structure in the opening, sentence length and devices to create tension and comprehension questions. All building up to a reading assessment. 6. 2 creative writing lessons looking at using devices, narrative hooks and sentences to create tension. Applying and consolidating everything learnt so far. 7. The Tell Tale Heart- 4 lessons looking at how Poe uses language, sentence structure, senses and punctuation to create tension. Reading assessment provided with peer assessment. 8. 4 lessons on The Red Room looking at character, plot and tension. Consolidates all learning so far. A really comprehensive SOW that is all you need to teach Gothic Horror!

11 lessons covering The Lady of Shallott. Lesson 1- Discussion of the Legend of King Arthur. Lesson 2- Predictions and setting. Lesson 3-Lady of Shallott character analysis. Includes pictures and word grids for lower ability pupils. Lesson 4- Sir Lancelot character analysis.Includes pictures and word grids for lower ability pupils. Lesson 5- Lady of Shallott part 4. Includes cloze activity, sequencing and comprehension questions. Lesson 6- Metaphors and imagery. Lesson 7- A closer look at techniques. Lesson 8- PEE analysis. Extra lessons: Lesson 9- Draw the setting and label with quotes. Lesson 10-Sir Lancelot autobiography. Lesson 11-Newspaper article. All builds up to an assessment on character- looking at the Lady of Shallott and Sir Lancelot. The final resource is a cloze worksheet that builds pupils up to analysing the characters on their own. I created this SOW for my bottom set year 8, but it can be differentiated up quite easily.

Full and extensive SOW for Poetry from other cultures. Includes introduction to each poem, annotated poems, analysis, comprehension questions, homework activities and diamond ranking activities. Can be taught across KS3 as builds up to an assessment on Island Man or Nothing's changed, or can be used as unseen poetry practice in KS4. There is an alternative assessment comparing 2 poems which can be used for very high ability pupils. The full SOW is aimed at middle ability pupils, but I have taught to both lower and higher and there are resources included for both. Lessons include: Lesson 1,2,3-Introduction to culture- What is culture? Analysis of Melting Pot by Benjamin Zephaniah. Lesson 4-Poetic techniques. Lesson 5-Island Man- introduction. Lesson 6- Island Man- analysis. Lesson 7- Island Man- diamond ranking- identity. Lesson 8- Island Man- diamond ranking- protest. Includes comprehension worksheet for homework. Lesson 9- Limbo introduction, analysis. Lesson 10-Limbo comprehension questions. Lesson 11-Nothing's changed annotations, analysis and PEEDL. Lesson 12-Presents from my Aunt in Pakistan- introduction, annotation and analysis. Lesson 13-Presents from my Aunt in Pakistan- outstanding observation lesson. Lesson 14-Scavengers. Intro and analysis. Lesson 15-Search for my tongue. Intro and analysis. Lesson 16, 17, 18- Lessons on Vultures- intro, analysis and PEEDL. Lesson 19-Night of the scorpion. Introduction. Lesson 20, 21- Mind-mapping Night of the scorpion. Lesson 22- Planning an essay. Lesson 23-25- Comparative poetry essay. Lesson 26- Final comparative essay. Everything you need to teach Poetry from Other Cultures!

Extensive SOW of 28 lessons on 'Holes' by Louise Sachar. Lessons include: Comprehension activities, reading focus, PEEDL analysis, cloze activities, imaginative writing, character analysis and comparison, writing to persuade and much more! Everything you need to teach the novel 'Holes'. Leads up to a writing assessment on: Write about Kissin' Kate Barlow's first bank robbery from her point of view. Includes a lesson on segregation laws to prepare students for the assessment and include contextual details.

This is a revision booklet to assist your pupils with tackling Paper 1 Literature. It includes: A reminder of the plot. One page character analysis, with quotes, for each major character. Covers all the significant events and has revision notes on each scene, with language analysis and evaluative comments to reach the higher grades. It also includes an exemplar response with commentary from AQA exam board. 24 pages in total, with 10 lessons worth of activities.

Series of 16 lessons which takes you though all of the poems in the new AQA Power and conflict cluster. 50 resources in total which are extensive and include GT stretch. Each poem is fully annotated and animated to take pupils though each poem a line at a time and there are opportunities for the pupils to explore the poems before the teacher takes them through the annotations. Each poem has a question sheet to extend pupils’ learning at home and a revision worksheet to aid with exam preparation. The SMILE technique is applied to each poem and reference is made to the new 1-9 levels. Also included are poetry terminology worksheets to remind pupils of what they need to look for in poems and also resources to aid with the unseen poetry exam.

Full SOW for the new AQA Media GCSE 2016. Broken down into two half terms of teaching: Term 1- Analysing Magazines and Term 2- Creating Magazines. Series of 15 lessons for Term 1 and 11 lessons for Term 2. Term 1- Analysing Magazines- leads pupils through how to analyse magazine front covers using correct media terminology with exemplar answers. Looks in detail at: Anchoring and Bias, camera angles, signifiers and connotations, narrative theory, connotation and denotation, typography, target audiences, media institutions and sub-generic conventions. Leads up to a controlled assessment analysis of 2 magazine covers. Term 2- Creating Magazines- Looks in detail at: magazine appeal, readers and advertisers, mode of address, media language, representation and stereotypes, visual codes and conventions, magazine composition and mastheads. Leads up to a controlled assessment of creating and evaluating a magazine cover. Each lesson comes with a PowerPoint and resources. I have also uploaded Unit 2: Cross-Media Study (Advertising and Marketing) and Unit 3: Practical Production and Evaluation (Moving Image) , but have kept them separate as you might want to teach something different from the list of choices.

Everything you need to teach the new AQA Specification for Language Paper 1. Reading. 2017. Full SOW which has enough lessons to run over a full term. Contains 42 lessons on 12 different texts. Each lesson includes: sentence starters to assist pupils in structuring their responses; annotated extracts, models written at all levels (this SOW can be used for both a top and bottom set); mark schemes for each question, and opportunities for self and peer assessment. You can also use some of the texts as mock exams and use the mark schemes and exemplar answers provided to ensure pupils can independently assess their work. Save yourself hours of planning! I have used this SOW with both my year 10 and 11 top and bottom sets and both classes achieved really good results in their mock exams.

43 pages of spelling practice. Can be given as a homework project, or printed as individual pages for starter activities in class. Index: 1. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD TO FILL IN THE SPACE: Here, Hear, There, Their 2. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD TO FILL IN THE SPACE: Our, Are, Your, You’re 3. Confusable words There / Their 4. Confusable words Know / Now / No 5. Confusable words Where / Were / We’re 6. Confusable words Where / Wear 7. Key spellings – week one 8. Key spellings – week two 9. Key spellings – week three 10. Key spellings – week four 11. Key spellings – week five 12. Key spellings – week six 13. Key spellings – week seven 14. Of or Off? Which do you use? 15. Our or Are? Which do you use? 16. Plurals practice – Plurals ending in y 17. Word games for spelling skills (3 pages) 18. Using ‘Who’ and ‘Which’ 19. Identifying and using synonyms and antonyms 20. Proofreading 21. Common Errors 22. Crossword 23. This is the personal Word Wall of 24. Subject specific spelling collection (8 pages) 25. Correction exercise 26. Correct the mistakes in this passage 27. Allowed / aloud 28. Handy hints for improving your spelling – tricky words 29. Adding

Excellent resource which covers the all the main themes in the Power and Conflict cluster of poems. Can be used as a lesson or as revision homework. Compares poems alongside each other. Analysis includes: Power of Humans: Ozymandias and Duchess. Power of Nature: Storm on the Island and Exposure. Reality of Conflict: War Photographer and Poppies. Effects of Conflict: Bayonet Charge and Charge of the Light Brigade. Conflict of identity: Kamikaze and Émigrée. At the end of the Powerpoint, there is the start of a comparison essay for Kamikaze and Émigrée- I modelled meaning, structure and imagery/language and then included 4 comparison quotes that pupils can finish off in class. I have also included a comparative essay on COTLB and Bayonet Charge. My current year 10 and 11s found this extremely useful as a way of revising.

A 218 slide PowerPoint covering the Macbeth section on Literature Paper 1. New specification. This SOW includes annotated scenes, exam questions, homework opportunities, extension activities, comprehension questions, group work and differentiated activities. I have used this resource with my top and bottom set year 10 and both classes could access the work and make progress. Lesson 1- The plot. Comprehension questions to consolidate understanding. Lesson 2- The social and historical context- a carousel lesson. Lesson 3- Consolidation of the SHC. Lesson 4- Act 1 Scene 1. Annotated analysis of the witches. Lesson 5- Act 1 Scene 2. Character analysis of Macbeth- includes annotations, exam question, mark scheme and a modelled answer. Lesson 6- Act 1 Scene 3. Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches- includes annotations and exam question. Lesson 7- Act 1 Scene 4. Looking at Macbeth’s soliloquy. Lesson 8- Act 1 Scene 5. First impressions of Lady Macbeth- includes annotated scene and exam question. Homework opportunity discussing how Lady Macbeth compares to a typical 16th century woman. Lesson 9- Act 1 Scene 6. Exploring dramatic irony. Lesson 10- Act 1 Scene 7. Annotated scene and comprehension questions. Lesson 11- Act 2 Scene 1. Dagger scene- quotation match up and questions for discussion. Lesson 12- Act 2 Scene 2. The murder- annotated scene and exam question focusing on the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Includes a success criteria and differentiated quotation grids with model answers. Lesson 13- Act 3 Scene 1. Activity which includes highlighting and annotating the text. Exam question with AQA mark scheme. Lesson 14- Act 3 Scene 4. Banquo’s ghost- annotated scene and exam question with differentiated modelled answers. Also includes comprehension questions which can be set for homework. Lesson 15- Act 4 Scene 1. Activity and comprehension questions. Lesson 16- Act 5 Scene 1. Sleepwalking scene- annotated scene with exam question. Differentiated homework activities. Lesson 17- Act 5 Scene 3. Match up quotation activity. Comprehension questions. Lesson 18- Act 5 Scene 5. Cloze activity on plot. Lesson 19- Act 5 Scene 5. Annotated scene- An idiot’s tale. Comprehension questions to provoke discussion. Lesson 20- The rise and fall of Macbeth- tracking his character through the play. Lesson 21- Key themes in Macbeth.

Complete scheme of work covering the entire play of Macbeth. I use this with my KS3 class, but can also be used with KS4 as it builds up to an AQA GCSE style assessment question on Lady Macbeth. Lesson 1- Context carousel. Lesson 2- Act 1 Scene 1 Witches. Lesson 3- Act 1 Scene 2 The character of Macbeth. Lesson 4- Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth meets the witches. Lesson 5- Act 1 Scene 4/4 Lady Macbeth. Lesson 6- Act 1 Scene 6 Dramatic irony. Lesson 7- Act 1 Scene 1 Dagger of the mind. Lesson 8- Act 2 Scene 2 The murder. Lesson 9-Act 3 Scene 4 The banquet. Lesson 10- Act 5 Scene 1 Lady Macbeth. Lesson 11- Act 5 Scene 5. Macbeth’s final soliloquy. Extra lessons- Plot, Act 2 Scene 2, Act 3 Scene 1. Includes a takeaway homework.

Complete scheme of work on war fiction. 16 complete lessons taking pupils through the following: Analysis of 1st World War posters- PEEDL reading assessment with models and success criteria. Analysis of Jessie Pope's 'Whose for the Game?' poem. Comparison of Jessie Pope's poem to Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce' Series of lessons of Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum Est'- empathetic writing, PEEDL analysis- includes an observation lesson, speaking and listening activity, 2 lessons on writing skills- sentences and punctuation. 'War photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy PEEDL analysis and speaking and listening activity. Lesson on Churchill's speeches. Lesson on Accrington Pals- assessment. Everything you need to teach WAR! Great selection of resources.

An extensive full scheme of work on 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell. The SOW includes a set of 15 lessons, including 2 assessments across the scheme. The scheme of work includes the following: 1-3. A marketplace lesson on the social and historical context. Homework activity. 4. A lesson on how the story is an allegory/fable. 5-6. An assessment with detailed success criteria on Old Major's speech focusing on writers' purpose and viewpoint. 7. A lesson on the 10 commandments with comprehension questions designed to stretch and challenge pupils. Homework activity. 8-9. A lesson focusing on chapter 3 with a power plotting grid and group activity. 10. Battle of the Cowshed lesson with a writing activity. Success criteria and writing frame for a tabloid newspaper. 11. Ofsted lesson on Squealer's speech. Assessment with detailed model and success criteria. Homework on: Show how George Orwell used "Animal Farm" to teach readers about human beings, includes a writing frame. 12-14. Chapter 6- The Windmill. Speaking and listening activity on: How can you persuade the class to join you in your leadership of Animal Farm? Homework opportunities. 15- The execution. Students explore the principles of Animalism through writing Benjamin's journal. 16- Comparing The Battle of the Cowshed and The Windmill using a VENN diagram, which results in pupils writing up their response using PEEDL structure. 17- Exploring the death of Boxer. Homework opportunity. 18- Pupils explore how the ideals have changed. Homework opportunity. Also includes a homework project. Each lesson has a PowerPoint and resources to support it. Extension activities are included, as well as opportunities for differentiation and homework. Everything you need to teach 'Animal Farm' to a higher ability class. Lots of opportunity for stretch and challenge.