A fill-in-the-blanks pop quiz that tests your students on their ability to remember key quotations from the novel.

Here are eight practice papers for the Macbeth questions on the new Edexcel English Literature 9-1 GCSE.

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

This two/three hour lesson is a detailed walk-through of everything students need to know and demonstrate in the imaginative writing section of Edexcel’s Language paper one exam. It includes a full marks model answer that is analysed and then used as an example for students; they use this as inspiration for their own writing.

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 fully-resourced A Level lesson on Lakoff’s Deficit Model, using a Loose Women transcript as a stimulus. Observed by Oftsed inspector and graded outstanding. All resources, differentiation and a lesson plan are included.

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.

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’.

This is a 16 lesson unit of work that walks students through everything they need to know to answer the identify, analyse and evaluate questions in relation to a 19th century extract on the new GCSE English Language Paper 1 exam. This unit is designed to suit Edexcel, though can be easily adapted for other exam boards. The unit includes example responses (including full mark model answers) and exemplar paragraphs for modelling with each lesson.

This is a fully-resources scheme of work that I created for Year 7 students. After visiting a local primary school and learning more about the KS2 SATs requirements, I designed this scheme of work to ensure that our KS3 students continue to build on the skills 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.

This is an extract-based question and corresponding full marks exemplar essay. Written in timed conditions so that students are able to use this essay as a realistic exemplar.

A 40/40 essay answering the following Animal Farm question: ‘Explore the significance of Snowball throughout the novel’. This has not yet appeared as an exam question, so a great exemplar to use with groups, especially those you are challenging to achieve grades 8 and 9.

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

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!

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 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 fill-in-the-blanks pop quiz that tests students ability to remember key quotations from each poem in the anthology.

This two-hour session teaches students what skills they need to demonstrate in the transactional writing component of the Edexcel Language Paper 2 exam. It includes a break down of the success criteria, an exemplar answer that can be analysed and then used as a model for writing, followed by an independent task for students.

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.