A collection of relevant quotes from a range of secondary sources on A Midsummer Night’s Dream (on a 19-slide Powerpoint).
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level specification.
2.5 pages of notes analysing ‘A Valediction of Weeping’ by John Donne (summary, technical terms, title, structure, five important quotes, context).
Designed for A-Level English Edexcel Metaphysical Poetry.
3.5 pages of notes analysing ‘Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’ (Simon Armitage), from ‘Poems of the Decade’ for the A-Level Edexcel English Literature syllabus.
Essay plan on the theme of language in Animal Farm (designed to be used for the AQA GCSE syllabus).
Points also applicable to rhetoric, propaganda and manipulation.
Bullet points comparing and contrasting the characterisation of Daisy and Myrtle. Discusses what their presentation reveals about social class, gender and the perspective of the narrator.
Resource helping students to use adjectives and adverbs effectively and strategically, and to find alternative ways of describing.
Includes both notes and activities.
Aimed for 11+ and KS3, but many of the ideas could also be suitable for older students.
A resource with guided activities (inspired by Anne of Green Gables) and tips on how to help your students ‘show, not tell’ in their creative writing.
Designed for 11+, but relevant for 13+/KS3.
Resource with notes and activities on different ways of starting a sentence, suggesting -ed, -ing and -ly words.
Aimed primarily at students going for the 11+, but could be relevant to KS3 students as well.
Context notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes: Courtly Love, gender, Queen Elizabeth I, the supernatural, Shakespeare’s other plays, Classical/mythological references, literary influences and conventions, historical context of the contemporary theatre, modern productions.
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level English specification.
Resource with tips on how to use similes and metaphors effectively, with some activities to practice.
Aimed at KS3 level students or could also work for 11+.
2-page handout of biographical information about Tennessee Williams, focusing on details particularly relevant to the play A Streetcar Named Desire for use as context in A-Level essays.
3 page document outlining tips for GCSE English Language exams.
Covers: answering longer questions about an unseen passage, suggestions of language and structure techniques to look out for, how to approach creative writing exam questions (writing to persuade, explain or describe).
Detailed context notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes: Courtly Love, gender, Queen Elizabeth I, the supernatural, Shakespeare’s other plays, Classical/mythological references, literary influences and conventions, historical context of the contemporary theatre, modern productions.
Critical quotes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both from the prescribed anthology and from elsewhere.
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level English specification.
Powerpoint containing notes for analysing A Streetcar Named Desire. Includes points about the play’s structure, genre/style, characterisation, diction, significance of characters’ names, key symbols and motifs (including further detail about light, the streetcars, colours, animal symbols), setting of the apartment, music and sound, interactions in the street.
Designed for the Edexcel English A-Level.