Powerpoints, Worksheets and Lesson Plans for the whole book, chapter by chapter, along with an activity booklet to prepare them for the unseen reading at GCSE. Suitable for Y9 or a bright Y8.

My favourite author. You’ll need the whole story, which I’m not allowed to sell obviously.

PPTs and Worksheets to link Logos, to slogans, to adverts to persuasive writing of the highest calibre.

5 weeks’ worth of lessons to teach this much loved but under represented play - annoys me that Inspector Calls tends to pip it, which is why I’ve included the High Prior Attainment work and RAG most of the lessons. I teach AQA but the specification has changed about a billion times in the last six seconds, so most of the work is as generic as possible; I don’t go for teaching to the exam, I teach the play. It’s what we’re paid for. Passing the exam is the pupils’ job. Enjoy :-)

A fun intro to being playful and experimental with poetry.

Tackles the use of Shakespeare’s Method - the serious flaw in pupils’ responses. Can be delivered to a whole year group or class by class, to make sure that this key factor in teaching is sorted.

Can be delivered to a whole year group or class by class to absolutely nail the method aspect of paper 1 Lit.

Philip Larkin, Maya Angelou, Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke, Sylvia Plath, Tony Harrison RS Thomas, Linda Pastan, Theodore Roethke, Vicki Feaver, Seamus Heaney, Carol Anne Duffy, Wislawa Syzymborska, WH Auden, Ekaterina Serbrovskaya, Anna Akhmatova, John Agard.

About 5 weeks’ work for KS3. Extracts, ppts and activities based on Great Expectations, Bleak House and Oliver Twist, for an able Y7 class, a good mixed ability Y8 class, or a struggling Y9 class to prepare them for the language and themes in A Christmas Carol

For each lesson there is a Powerpoint presentation and a differentiated close-reading Microsoft Word worksheet, plus a range of non-fiction activities designed to address the book’s historical context. This unit allows the teacher to study the book closely in parallel with class reading; it introduces the sensitive and complex subject matter incrementally, allowing Y7s or Y8s enough time and opportunity to best appreciate the shock of the book’s final event .

Helps Y9 produce a piece of creative writing based on the opening 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan (an old coursework / controlled writing task). You can also use the resource to help prepare Y9 pupils for Q5 paper 1, looking at details on images and helping them to write creatively in response.

Basically these are my resources for the last specifications and before, which is why they are cheap. They will get you sailing towards the new specs for sure, helping the kids to get fully familiar with the basics, including language, themes, context and characters.

This is a well-crafted, highly visual, lecture for middle to upper ability kids who need to move from band 2 to band 3 - focusing explicitly on Priestley’s dramatic methods and effects on an audience.

A complete unit of work giving pupils practical experience of the knowledge and skills necessary for the new spec AQA English Language Paper 1.

It says fairy tales but it’s quite scary - so beware your more tender hearted souls. The usual worksheets, resources and powerpoints for a jolly good teach-out. If you’re really wanting to spread the culture, check out Paula Rego - the Portuguese artist who illustrated some fairly heavy tales.

Based on Seamus Heaney’s ‘Follower’, the lecture tackles the key methods pupils need to identify and comment on in Literature Paper 2

A one size fits all powerpoint to revise the importance of method when analysing Dickens in Q1 AQA English Literature Paper 1

This is really useful for a disengaged GCSE class, using banned music videos as a starting point for spoken language or a piece of transactional writing. I’ve suggested some really interesting videos (all on Youtube) but I’m 50 now, and not as down with the kids as I used to be, so you’d probably want to augment the unit with some gangsters shooting each other or scantily clad dancers with gold teeth smoking decidedly dodgy looking Vape machines. Or something.

This is a right laugh to do with Y9 kids, to stimulate creative writing, writing for a purpose or as an introdution to GCSE Media / Film studies.