This is a complete unit on the engaging text of ‘Mortal Engines’ for late primary or early secondary students. There are 260 slides here which is ideal for online learning with tasks and sample student answers to refer to. Students are encouraged to do both creative writing tasks, grammar and spelling tasks throughout and alongside the close reading of the book. Characterisation, setting, report writing, diary writing, letter writing, close analysis, writing a guide for the hunting ground, writing a scapheap challenge for making the Jenny Haniver…just some of the tasks. There is a lot of work here and should keep a class busy for at least six weeks, covering a great variety of English skills and targets.
Everything you need for teaching travel writing. 90 slides that should take a class a month to complete - maybe longer, depending on your group. A comprehensive unit which builds all the necessary non-fiction skills for students approaching the new GCSE courses. Both modern and early 20th century travel writing texts are included. This unit covers traditional travel writing, complaints, comedy, journalism, television and online forums.This was written for year 9 but could slot in at any point in Key Stage 3. Writers included: Shackleton, Callahan, Palin, Bryson, Ffyona Campbell, Tony Hawks, and more. Includes 90 slides Students will analyse in detail how humour is created, critique the use of persuasive language to engage consumers, write creatively, imaginatively and produce complaint reviews.
Everything you need for covering the teaching of the Eduqas poetry: this first presentation has lessons on Heaney, Wordsworth (comparing them on childhood) then Valentine and Cozy Apologia (comparing them on relationships - finally adding on Manhunt as a bridge between relationships and the next collection I do will look at the war/conflict poems. The slides cover questions on the poems, detailed analysis of the poems, plus modelled essay structures, plus essay charts and assessment titles. Slides include highlighted annotations and links to relevant videos. 65 slides
A series of A Level lessons on Wilde’s ‘Dorian Gray’ including the quotations and analysis from the text, covering such themes as Influence/gothic/Art and Aesthetics/doubles, dopplegangers and splitting/hereditry/flowers, colour and decadence/ context/women and gender. Some of these themes may be in the first two chapters or may be in subsequent chapters. Some lessons also include essay frameworks. This was written for the Edexcel new spec but is generic enough for any A level course.
A detailed powerpoint on the character of Eddie, looking at aspects of Greek tragedy and whether he conforms to the definition of a tragic hero. This powerpoint will lead students towards a detailed essay on his character.
This is a fun way to revise the play at the end of the term. The first letter of every answer is part of a title of a well-known Christmas Carol. So for additional points, at the end of each round, the first team to work out the Christmas Carol could have an extra 5 points.
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This is a collection of comparative essay plans which I put together for the teaching of Edexcel A level spec. They cover deviant sexuality, heroes and villains, violence, doubles, fear and threat and power. I have another bundle with further plans. Some are perhaps too detailed to just give out to a class but others are for students to develop.
A presentation which covers the theme of the past and how Williams presents it in A Streetcar Named Desire, covering the main ideas of:
The past is significant to personal identity.
The past is traumatic and detrimental
The past is symbolised through music
Some slides have just the relevant quotations for the students to reflect and plan around with other ‘teacher’ slides padded out with ideas related to these quotations.
Everything you need to teach the ‘war’ poems from the GCSE Eduqas poetry anthology. 77 slides, include lessons on all of the following: Armitage, Sheers, Owen, Brooke, Hardy. Slides include close analysis of each poem, plus context and essays plans and structures to follow. I also have other resources on the other poems in the anthology and a bundle covering a full term’s work (with over 250 slides)
This was a really useful task which invited students to visualise the town of Maycomb and to answer the question: How does Harper Lee use the settings of Maycomb to reflect aspects of life in 1930s America. I’ve included my filled in version for teacher use.
This resource has been edited and made more detailed. Three detailed essay plans on Lord of the Flies on the following titles:
One of the themes in ‘Lord of the Flies’ is the corrupting influence of power. How does Golding present this theme. In your answer you should consider social, cultural and historical contexts.
Consider Golding’s presentation of fear in ‘Lord of the Flies’. Consider social, cultural and historical context in your answer.
How does Golding present the theme of conflict in his novel ‘Lord of the Flies’. In the course of your answer you should consider social, cultural and historical contexts.
Support your students preparing for the Edexcel spec comparing Dracula and Dorian Gray — exploring how both writers present gothic elements in their texts. This has paragraph planning sheets on the following and includes quotations, analysis and context prompts.
Settings:
portrait/mirror/poisonous book/ crucifix/ animals/
Windows:
Faustian bargain
Violence:
Secrets:
Influence: mesmeric/psychic in its suggested power.
The slides are arranged in a lecture style with quotations and ideas combined. The outline covers the following main points:
Blanche’s manipulation of her sexuality and how this is linked to her guilt
the tragedy of her diminishing sexuality and her deception surrounding this
Stanley’s raw animal sexuality
Mitch’s uncertain sexuality and attempt to fulfil Blanche’s past code for gentleman callers with chivalry disguising sexuality
Marital sexuality is presented as controlling and marked by infidelity
Sexuality as a destructive force within the play
Useful for any A level spec and available as either a pdf or powerpoint
A very comprehensive collection of resources on The Wife of Bath with material covering contexts, criticism, close analysis, essay plans, exemplar essay
Three essay titles are included in this bundle covering women as victims, self-love, jealousy and love being transformed into hate. A powerpoint is also included covering Shakespeare’s heroines looking at the contexts.
Everything you need to teach the Eduqas poetry anthology. These lessons are grouped together according to theme such as war, love, hardship, growing up and include close analysis of each poem, with detailed annotations on mood, language and structure and also contexts. There are also essay plans for both single poems and comparative essays.
This is the first of 4 presentations which cover all of Dracula for the Edexcel A level spec. It is too big to upload in one go, so this is the first 4 chapters (49 slides) including questions, exemplar answers, contexts, themes. It works as a complete unit as the themes build as the chapters continue. Everything you should need for the teaching of Dracula to A level. Please see my Dorian Gray unit, produced in the same way and then my essay plans comparing both texts.