Two detailed lessons exploring 'Nettles’ by Vernon Scannell from the Relationships cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'My Father Would Not Show Us’ by Ingrid de Kok from the Relationships cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Love’s Dog’ by Jen Hadfield from the Relationships cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

This four lesson unit of work is a piece developed on request as a commission for EAL A Level students designed for stretch and challenge and to allow them to practice their speaking and listening skills in English. There are four lessons covering extracts from: Benjamin Zephaniah’s ‘We Refugees’; Zadie Smith’s ‘White Teeth’; and Monica Ali’s ‘Brick Lane’. The final lesson is a scaffolded assessment lesson. The lessons are aimed at those for whom English is not their first language, but other A Level students will find the activities useful as an introductory or independent activity.

A complete lesson for GCSE or Year 9 focusing on Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet. The lesson includes a 10 slide PowerPoint, an extract booklet for annotation and a suggested lesson plan. Students are encouraged to: make links with Shakespearean tragedy, analyse language in the extracts and produce a response to the assessment question ‘How does Shakespeare present tragedy in Act 3 Scene 1?’ Modelled suggestions are included. The suggested learning objectives are: To annotate and explore Act 3, Scene 1 from Romeo and Juliet To understand how Shakespeare makes use of tragic conventions in this scene To evaluate to what extent the relationships between the characters are connected to tragedy This lesson will stretch and challenge students and could easily be extended over two sessions.

A comprehesive 46 slide Powerpoint which takes students through all nine scenes of Act II. Included: Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for each scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.

This resource is comprised of a 32 slide Powerpoint with four lessons on Scene One from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. The resource is aimed at A Level English Literature, but could also be used as a starting point for English Language and Literature. The slides cover: Contextual background to New Orleans at the time the play is set Discussion of the epigraph (Hart Crane’s ‘The Broken Tower’) Guided close analysis of key sections of the text with reference to key terminology, e.g. ‘motif’ and ‘in media res’ Teaching questions for each section of the first scene Learning objective slides and homework tasks for each lesson This resource will stretch and challenge more confident students and support those less confident. It was not created with any particular exam board in mind so can be used with any specification.

A comprehesive 33 slide Powerpoint which takes students through all five scenes of Act III. Included: Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for each scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.

A comprehesive 15 slide Powerpoint which takes students through both scenes of Act V. Included: The Merchant of Venice audit document Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for the scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.

A fourteen page revision workbook for students to revise Lord of the Flies for GCSE (for any specification). This workbook focuses on analysis rather than knowledge recall and is perfect for those aiming for very high grades. The booklet can be used in class or for independent revision. Enclosed are: A question activity to encourage students to think perceptively about ideas in the text. A quotation gathering template with half the quotations given. An AO3 focused table where students write up an analytical link between context, quotations and links to language form and structure (one example modelled and all contextual points given). A table which encourages deeper exploration of effects, with an extract and one example modelled. An exercise where students identify and analyse ambitious literary terminology. An effects table encouraging a What How Why approach to writing about effects. A follow up activity where students then make contextual links with their analysis. A set of questions, introductions and topic sentences. A modelled introduction and main paragraph with a follow up activity for students to write their own. Two guides to essay structure. A modelled full response to a question. The booklet is designed to be used by students with knowledge of the text and is perfect for use in the run up to examinations. There is scaffolding but also appropriate stretch and challenge for those who are aiming for the highest grades. This booklet works well with my knowledge organiser and A3 quotation posters which can be downloaded for free here: [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12835151] and [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12836254]

A comprehesive 25 slide Powerpoint which takes students through both scenes of Act IV. Included: An Act IV Scene i ‘chunked’ resource to use as a pre-reading activity Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for each scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.

Two detailed lessons exploring 'The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled’ by Leontia Flynn from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'The Deliverer’ by Tishani Doshi from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

This resource is comprised of a set of four lessons exploring the theme of identity in Hamlet. A Powerpoint guides students through revision activities, discussion questions and activities leading to a non-exam board specific question which you can adapt for your own purposes. Enclosed is an extract booklet with three different extracts linked to identity. The opening of each of these is analysed in detail on the Powerpoint slides. A theory document is included for one homework task. There are also questions and answers for two revision quizzes intended to be transferred onto Kahoot or another such app. A detailed assessment guide consolidates the unit. A lesson plan is included with detailed notes for four lessons.

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’ by Simon Armitage from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn’ by Tim Turnbull from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Material’ by Ros Barber from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'History’ by John Burnside from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!