Created for the new English Literature, AQA A Level Specification A, this PowerPoint includes a range of discussion questions and activities, guiding students to compare Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ with the pre-1900 section of poems from the AQA Anthology. Could cover a couple of lessons and includes homework task in the style of exam questions.

A whole lesson's worth of activities including starter, PowerPoint instructions, worksheets, plenary and formal lesson plan with spaces for your own details. This lesson explores levels of formality in the language used in various points of the play. It includes some role play, group work and individual work. Could be used over two lessons depending on ability range.

Originally designed with 'The London Eye Mystery' in mind, but could be used for any class as a quick starter introduction to idioms. Match the idiom to the meaning.

Outline for possible group task based on Dowd's 'The London Eye Mystery', where students are placed into differentiated groups and asked to complete witness statements, collect evidence, make a missing person's poster and prepare to feedback to the rest of the class on their findings.

Three tasks exploring tension and writing to create tension based on the end of Dowd's novel, 'The London Eye Mystery'. Could be group work, individual tasks, or a carousel where each group completes each activity and feeds back at the end as a plenary.

Empty Facebook template. Could be used to fill in character details or even as a PSHE activity.

Designed as a starter to go alongside the teaching of Dowd's 'The London Eye Mystery', but could be used as a starter activity for any lesson. Different images of clouds are used as a prompt for the description of thoughts, feelings, physical features. A good build up to the creative writing tasks in the new GCSE, which require descriptive writing from picture stimulus. Could also be printed off and used as a group/carousel task.

Two PowerPoint presentations outlining the context of the Romantic period and what came before. Teacher notes included on the notes page. Could culminate in an independent/group research task into the 'big six' Romantic poets.

Designed for AQA AS Spec A ( from 2015) this resource includes a comparison table with some shared themes between the novels and also a selection of possible questions for this exam. The questions are on A3 and are designed for students to mind-map their answers together in pairs and small groups. They could do this with the Assessment Objectives in mind and then use their notes as essay plans.

This is a rework of another resource (can't remember where it's from but am sharing for free). It has a greater focus on British Values, democracy etc, which might tick some boxes for observations/inspections! The resources could form part of a longer activity, where students prepare their evidence when putting George on trial for the murder of Lennie. There are stimulus materials for for the Defense team and the Prosecution.

Designed with the new AQA GCSE English Language Specification in mind, this resource takes students through writing a description based on a picture stimulus and provides a group based activity for writing descriptions.

A lesson comparing Spenser's Sonnet 75 with Armitage's 'I am very bothered'. Designed for AQA English A Level, but could be adapted to suit your own purposes.

Discussion based questions with video links, based on Act 2 Scene 2 of 'Macbeth'

Several lessons focused upon the setting in 'The Help' and the theme of isolation. Created with the new AQA A Level English Literature Specification in mind. Opportunities for group work, class discussion and individual analysis.

Created with the new AQA English Specification in mind, these resources should give you a number lessons of student research, group discussion and debate. Includes: Comparison with Othello, Character study activity, Analysis activities for the opening and ending and a plot overview, detailed exploration of chapters 16 and 17, Pre-reading activity, narrative perspective task and a comparative lessons which compares the novel with the AQA Poetry Anthology. Several hours of teaching material here!

Lesson activities and discussion points focused on the the first three scenes in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. The resources also identify opportunities to compare with Kathryn Stockett’s ‘The Help’; these would be easily adaptable for your own comparison text, or could be removed entirely for sole study of the play. Created with the new A Level English Literature AQA Specification A, in mind, this presentation is designed to be used alongside the reading of the opening scenes of the play. Page numbers on the notes section refer to the Heinemann edition.

Introductory lesson focused on the first four chapters of Stockett's 'The Help'. Group activity to explore first impressions of the key characters, followed by group discussion tasks. Used with A Level English Literature class as an introduction, could also use at GCSE.

Introductory lesson for studying Stockett's 'The Help'. Created with new A Level English Literature Specification in mind. Includes discussion stimulus and research tasks.