Get your claws into the clause with this detailed set of slides on everything you need to know about where commas go in clauses and why.

A very detailed presentation on the presentation of the Duke in the play. This is available as pdf or a powerpoint and includes pointers, followed by teacher notes and critics’ quotations. It was produced for edexel but is suitable for other specifications

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 these first two chapters or may be in subsequent chapters (also uploaded) or you may purchase all together as a bundle.

A series of 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 these first two chapters or may be in subsequent chapters (also uploaded) or you may purchase all together as a bundle.

A collection of all the references to the sea in the play, with blank slides for students to interact with the quotation followed by my teacher notes, analysing each quotation. This would be useful if you were setting up an essay perhaps on this theme.

This is a brilliant book covering lots of thoughtful issues around friendship, grief and it is also utterly magical and enchanting. This unit of work contains over 170 slides covering comprehension skills, reading implicit meaning, punctuation, report writing, descriptive writing, speech writing to name a few. It was used for year 8 students but could be used for top primary as well as early secondary. Lots of consolidated work here, fun and enough to keep students busy for at least a term.

Two powerpoints to guide students in how to hit the AOs

This is a detailed analysis of the poem with alternate readings. There are also slides with notes on the analysis of techniques.

Two essay titles with all the appropriate quotations gathered together for students to analyse: Why do you think it is important that Golding portrays the natural world as a character with malevolent characteristics? How does Golding establish a contrast between the two boys in the first five pages?

Poetry often manages to engage our interest in issues and characters which we do not necessarily like or admire. How far would you support this remark? A detailed essay plan on ‘The Wife of Bath’ with quotations

An essay on Jack in Lord of the Flies. How does the character of Jack develop throughout the novel? In your answer you should refer to events in the novel and its social, cultural and historical context. The context is highlighted for students to see. Also a sheet with context is supplied

An essay plan on Jack in Lord of the Flies as follows: Consider the presentation of Jack in ‘Lord of the Flies’ and in the course of your answer comment on the social, cultural and historical context. This also includes all the quotations gathered ready for students to analyse.

A detailed powerpoint looking at the text from a feminist perspective.

A useful sheet of critic’s quotations suitable to support the study of The Wife of Bath.

A Christmas Quiz on the play ‘Othello’ which should also help students to learn quotations. The first letter of each answer is a clue to a final well-known Christmas carol. The team that also works out the carol could have extra points. Enjoy!

A presentation covering the various plot narratives students could choose from when planning a short story. Towards the end are a series of detailed questions helping students to think about their own characters and how to create jeopardy and therefore a plot.