A highly experienced English HOD with 11 years of experience teaching ages 11-18, specialising in English Literature at A-Level. Innovative and thorough, I enjoy creating materials that ensure students understand exactly how to get the top marks in each specification and ensure that teachers have all the materials they need to deliver outstanding lessons that guarantee outstanding results.
A highly experienced English HOD with 11 years of experience teaching ages 11-18, specialising in English Literature at A-Level. Innovative and thorough, I enjoy creating materials that ensure students understand exactly how to get the top marks in each specification and ensure that teachers have all the materials they need to deliver outstanding lessons that guarantee outstanding results.
A lesson-by-lesson scheme of work with all attached resources included for delivery of the pre-1900 Prose text on the new AQA A English Literature specification. This resource fully delivers the teaching of Jane Eyre and sets students up so that they are enabled to develop comparisons with the later poetry text, in preparation for comparing the two texts in Section C of the Love through the Ages exam paper.
Handy resources that include clear instructions for how students should shape and structure their paragraphs when writing an A-Level essay to ensure that they meet all of the AO criteria.
A handy resource that collects together a number of critical interpretations of "King Lear". These could easily be incorporated into classroom discussion when teaching students to engage with others' viewpoints (AO5) or be used as part of a lesson where you are teaching students how to incorporate critical quotes into their written responses.
A 5 week scheme of work, fully resourced with both medium and short term plans, that works as an induction unit at the start of Year 12.
This unit uses ‘Dracula’ as a base text which students are asked to read over the summer in advance of starting the A-Level. This induction unit then introduces students to 4 different critical perspectives (Feminism, Marxism, Post-Colonialism, Canon Theory) from AQA’s Critical Anthology and teaches students how to explore a text from this literary perspective. The unit culminates in an assessment where students write a magazine article (in the style of e-magazine) exploring a critical reading of the text in more depth.
The unit has been written as an introduction to the AQA B English Literature specification but could easily be used as it is for any specification where the teaching of critical theory is relevant.
A great collection of resources which provide students with handy step-by-step instructions for how to write the perfect A-Level essay.
These resources contain guides to writing fantastic introductions, how to structure paragraphs, templates to help students plan their paragraphs, guides to help them incorporate each AO at top band standard as well as a step-by-step strategy for each of the exam questions on the NEW AQA A specification, showing students how to tackle each question.
There is nothing else like these set of resources elsewhere online!
A handy booklet to support A-Level students with their wider reading. In the requirements for AO4 to make wider connections, students need to be reading widely around their core texts. This booklet makes those expectations clear to students from the beginning of the course and provides them with a convenient place for them to log what they have been reading and to reflect on the ways in which they can use their wider reading in comparison to their set texts.
A great resource to hand out to students at the beginning of the course!
A handy copy of the mark sheet for each component of the NEW A-Level AQA English Literature course. This mark sheet can be attached to the front of any student's piece of work and contains a space for teachers / other students to write their feedback. It also contains a space for student to act upon the advice they have been given to show them making immediate progress and responding to your marking and feedback - a clear Ofsted priority at the moment.
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work to teach Journey's End. The scheme of work is objective-led for the archive AQA course but can easily be adapted to the new curriculum for teaching as a core text for Paper 2 of the new A-Level.
A complete lesson to be taught as an introduction to English Literature at A-Level. This gets students thinking about the Literary Canon and their reasons for wanting to take on the A-Level. Students will also be required to put to the test, many of the skills they will need to be successful A-Level students.
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work to teach Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy. This unit comprises 40 lessons, covering the entire anthology and preparing students for answering Paper 2 Section A. Exemplar work is included in this scheme of work, including revision materials and work preparing students for a variety of different essay questions in preparation for the exam. All lessons are objective based, with differentiated success criteria, linked to the new AQA specification.
There is nothing of this quality on the Internet for this text!
A handy step-by-step resource that enables students to understand the process they need to go through to include evaluation in their A-Level essay paragraphs.
This skill is vital if they are to hit the top band criteria for AO1 and AO5.
A full and detailed lesson-by-lesson scheme of work with all attached resources, covering a range of War poetry and War literature, to introduce this genre to KS3 students. All lessons are objective led and help students to develop their reading skills, with particular focus on their ability to analyse texts in detail.
A three lesson scheme of work, fully resourced and with powerpoints that work as the introduction to the genre of tragedy. Suitable for AQA B English Literature A-Level specification.
An exemplar essay on Journey's End, considering how the theme of camaraderie is presented. This resource was written by a teacher to demonstrate how to meet the Assessment Criteria. This is particularly aimed at KS5 but could be adapted for use with KS4 students.
Fully annotated copies of teacher's poems with detailed analysis. This will make your teaching of this anthology so much easier. This resource is designed to complement the complete SOW and resources that I have produced for teaching Feminine Gospels over 40 lessons., aimed at A-Level standard for the NEW AQA-A specification.
Save time with this unique resource!
Poems annotated:
The Long Queen
Beautiful
The Map-Woman
The Diet,
The Woman who Shopped
Work
Tall
Loud
History
Sub
The Cord,
The Light-Gatherer
Wish
Death and the Moon
North-West.
A collection of booklets that cover different aspects of love. Each booklet contains a series of extracts taken from across the Literary Canon, to help students improve their contextual understanding of how love has been presented throughout time, to enable them to meet the criteria for AO4 in the new A-Level Love through the Ages Paper 1 Exam.
These resources would easily be customisable for the needs of your students but save you the time of finding the resources!
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with all resources included to teach students how to analyse and how to write their own newspaper articles. All lesson plans are objective led to help students develop a range of reading and writing skills.
A handy resource that outlines a foolproof exam strategy for students so they know how to use their planning time in the exam to craft and shape a top band essay response.