A fun Macbeth quiz to help your students revise plot, characters, key quotations and themes. Also, this quiz contains a fun "music round" where your students have to link a song to a key theme, for example Beyonce's "Crazy in Love". Answers: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/answers-to-macbeth-pub-quiz-11460545

This is a full marks model answer comparing how the theme of anger is presented in A Poison Tree and Half-caste, two poems from the Edexcel (new spec) Conflict Poetry cluster.

This 4 week fully-resourced scheme of work gives your students the opportunity to analyse, evaluate and compare famous speeches in preparation for writing and delivering their own (the spoken language endorsement). Through this scheme of work, students learn the terminology associated with the techniques they can use to make their writing more engaging (also excellent for the imaginative/transactional writing task) before analysing, evaluating and recreating them. This scheme of work serves as excellent practice for both Edexcel language papers, building in the spoken language endorsement in a useful way.

A fully-resourced, differentiated lesson for Year 10 on one of the key scenes in Macbeth: Act 5, Scene 1. Observed by an Ofsted inspector and graded outstanding.

A full marks model essay answering the question 'Explore the significance of the theme of education in Animal Farm'. Written to support the teaching of the new Edexcel 9-1 Literature specification. Suggested activities: - Print off the mark scheme and get students to mark the essay - Get students to colour-code where the essay meets the different assessment objectives - Use the essay to create a list of spellings/keywords since 8 marks are available for SPaG - Use the essay as a model when asking students to answer a different question - Get students to identify where contextual comments are linked into the analysis

A complete 3-week scheme of work to help your students to revise for the new Macbeth extract and whole-text questions on the Edexcel Literature exam. This scheme of work consists of 12 lessons (though may take up to 15 hours of class time) and is fully resourced. There are regular references to the exam success criteria, model answers and assessment opportunities built into every lesson. The scheme of work also allows students to revise plot, characters and themes in an engaging way.

A revision lesson on Lady Macbeth to help students prepare for the new 9-1 Literature exam. The lesson includes an engaging game of Quiz-Quiz-Trade to help students to recap their prior knowledge of Lady Macbeth, and an extract-based exam question (with model answer) to help students to revise exam techniques.

A game of BINGO to help students revise plot, characters and themes in Jekyll and Hyde. Comes with 30 bingo cards and 40 possible answers to ensure a varied game.

This lesson explores the most significant moments of tension in Macbeth and also encourages students to recap plot and learn quotations in preparation for the new 9-1 Literature exams.

EDEXCEL CONFLICT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - 9-1 SPEC Each sheet contains 15-20 thoughtful analysis questions for students to answer on these poems. This would make an excellent revision task, homework task or consolidation of learning task.

A 10-week scheme of work for KS3 English based on myths, legends and symbols. Through this scheme of work, students will study a range of texts (Bible stories, non-fiction extracts, poetry and fiction extracts) and examine how these texts form the basis of modern Literature. Lessons are designed to target a range of skills, such as language and structural analysis, comparing texts, analysing poetry, using quotations to support ideas, writing analytically and writing creatively. This scheme of work has been used successfully and enjoyed by students in my school for the last three years.

Animal Farm Pub Quiz perfect for recapping plot, characters, themes and key quotations. Contains: - 20 multiple choice questions - true or false round - quotation fill-in-the-blanks round - music round (link the song, for example Parton's 9-5, to a key theme in the novella) - bonus round based on the ending of the novel.

2 festive lessons that would be great for any KS4 group (or higher ability KS3 group!). The first is a reading lesson based on a Christmas extract from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; this is followed by a series of reading questions in the style of the new Edexcel Language paper 1 questions. The second is a creative writing lesson based on a clip from Home Alone, which encourages students to write in the third person using a range of sentence structures. These festive lessons can be enjoyed by all ages and require no extra planning.

A full marks Animal Farm Literature essay answering the question 'Explore the significance of Boxer'. This is the style of question asked in the new Edexcel 9-1 Literature exam.

Lesson designed for high-ability students. Students are taught 6 persuasive writing techniques and then have to use them in a letter to Santa persuading him NOT to visit them this year. I used this as an interview lesson and received an 'outstanding'.

This is a complete Jekyll and Hyde revision/activity booklet for students, containing chapter summaries, comprehension questions, vocabulary tasks, contextual/thematic exploration opportunities and key quotation analysis for every chapter. 56 pages in total. Please review!

A game with 70 slides containing key terminology relevant to AS Level English language (multiple specs). Game is easy to play and only requires a couple of students. Excellent revision tool.

A fully-resourced, differentiated lesson teaching students how to compare two texts, focusing on the new OCR AS English Language Spec (paper 1, question 2). A lesson plan and all resources are included. This lesson was observed by Ofsted and graded 'Outstanding'.

A fully-resourced, differentiated scheme of work that lasts 8-10 weeks built around the Gothic genre. The scheme of work also perfectly prepares students for the new Edexcel Language Paper 1 (19th century extracts and creative writing). There are regular links to the new spec in terms of mark schemes and assessment objectives. Assessment opportunities (and exemplars!) are built in throughout. Each lesson has a PPT and any resources needed are attached. This is great for KS4 students or a high-ability KS3 group.

A fully-resourced lesson on Zimmerman and West's Dominance Theory - lasts 2-3 hours.

This is a fully-resources scheme of work that I created for Year 7 students. I have included lots from the new Year 6 SPG tests to ensure that our current Year 7s know as much as next year's will! Also, this scheme of work will allow next year's Year 7 cohort to build on the skills they learned in primary school. Every lesson has a powerpoint, worksheets, homework activities, differentiation (including differentiated learning objectives) and there are assessment opportunities built into the scheme of work.