This bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Edexcel Belonging Cluster: ‘To My Sister’; ‘Sunday Dip’; ‘Mild the Mist Upon the Hill’; ‘Captain Cook (To My Brother)’; ‘Clear and Gentle Stream’; ‘I Remember, I Remember’; ‘Island Man’; ‘We Refugees’; ‘Peckham Rye Lane’; ‘Us’; ‘In Wales, wanting to be Italian’; ‘Kumukanda’; ‘Jamaican British’; ‘My Mother’s Kitchen’; and ‘The Émigrée’. Each PowerPoint contains the following: A starter discussion activity Contextual information Form and structural information Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology Consolidation questions An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able. A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions. If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource, ‘Island Man’

Based on the Eduqas poetry anthology, this unit is comprised of 18 poetry lessons (which can be extended to 36 lessons if you include the assessment lessons). Each PowerPoint explores a different poem in isolation and is the perfect introduction to poetry for a Year 9 group. This can also be used as an unseen unit for GCSE if you do not teach Eduqas. Eduqas questions lend themselves well to unseen analysis as they are comprised of two parts - one question focuses on the poem and the second question asks students to compare that poem to another in the anthology. You will need to download the Eduqas poetry anthology or print off copies of the poems from the PowerPoint slides. This bundle comprises 18 poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Eduqas Poetry Anthology: ‘A Wife in London’; ‘Afternoons’; ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’; ‘Cozy Apologia’; ‘Death of a Naturalist’; ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’; ‘Excerpt from the Prelude’; ‘Hawk Roosting’; ‘Living Space’; ‘London’; ‘Mametz Wood’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘She Walks in Beauty’; ‘Sonnet 43’; ‘The Manhunt’; ‘The Soldier’; ‘To Autumn’; and ‘Valentine’. Each PowerPoint contains the following: A starter discussion activity Contextual information Form and structural information Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology - guided poetry analysis Consolidation questions An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.

This bundle comprises eighteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Eduqas Poetry Anthology: ‘A Wife in London’; ‘Afternoons’; ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’; ‘Cozy Apologia’; ‘Death of a Naturalist’; ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’; ‘Excerpt from the Prelude’; ‘Hawk Roosting’; ‘Living Space’; ‘London’; ‘Mametz Wood’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘She Walks in Beauty’; ‘Sonnet 43’; ‘The Manhunt’; ‘The Soldier’; ‘To Autumn’; and ‘Valentine’. Each PowerPoint contains the following: A starter discussion activity Contextual information Form and structural information Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology Consolidation questions An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able. A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions. If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource (from the Edexcel specification), ‘Island Man’

This bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the AQA Worlds and Lives cluster: Lines Written in Early Spring; England in 1819; Shall earth no more inspire thee; In a London Drawingroom; On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955; Name Journeys; pot; A Wider View; Homing; A century later; The Jewellery Maker; With Birds You’re Never Lonely; A Portable Paradise; Like an Heiress; and Thirteen. Each PowerPoint contains the following: A starter discussion activity Contextual information Form and structural information Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology Consolidation questions An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able. A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.

Five Powerpoints and accompanying resources to teach The Merchant of Venice in its entirety for GCSE or A Level. Included: The Merchant of Venice audit document A comprehensive guide to tragedy with a terminology matching exercise An Act IV Scene i ‘chunked’ resource to use as a pre-reading activity 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 bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Edexcel Time and Place cluster: London; Composed Upon Westminster Bridge; To Autumn; I started Early, Took my Dog; Adlestrop; Where the Picnic Was; Home Thoughts from Abroad; Stewart Island; Postcard from a Travel Snob; First Flight; Hurricane Hits England; Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan; Nothing’s Changed; In Romney Marsh; and Absence. Each PowerPoint contains the following: A starter discussion activity Contextual information Form and structural information Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology Consolidation questions An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able. A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions. If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource, ‘Island Man’

Five Powerpoints and accompanying resources to teach The Merchant of Venice in its entirety for GCSE with examination preparation and question resources. Included: The Merchant of Venice audit document A comprehensive guide to tragedy with a terminology matching exercise An Act IV Scene i ‘chunked’ resource to use as a pre-reading activity 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 15 short quotation cards from The Merchant of Venice for student analysis An extract analysis booklet which contains 23 examination-length extracts from The Merchant of Venice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract