This lesson focuses on Act 1, Scene 5 where Romeo and Juliet meet. The full script is included for easy annotation on interactive whiteboards. Students produce an essay response using the provided framework.

This lesson covers the first four scenes of the play (and includes full script for annotation purposes). It introduces students to essay writing responses using the PEA frame.

This lesson introduces students to the historical and social context of the play.

This lesson focuses on Act 2, Scene 2 (the balcony scene) The full script is included for easy annotation on interactive whiteboards. Students can produce an essay response using the provided framework.

This lesson focuses on Act 4 of the play and includes the script for easy annotation (particularly useful for interactive whiteboards). Students can produce a full essay response using the provided framework.

This lesson focuses on Act 2 after the balcony scene. It has the full script included for easy annotation (particularly useful with on an interactive whiteboard). Students can produce a whole essay response using the provided framework.

This lesson focuses on Act 3. It includes the script for ease of annotation (particularly useful for an interactive whiteboard). Students can produce a full essay response using the provided framework.

This lesson focuses on the final act of the play. It includes the script for easy annotation (particularly useful on an interactive whiteboard). Students can produce a full essay response using the provided framework.

An excellent revision game after teaching Macbeth based upon the format of BBC quiz show House of Games. Focused on plot, character and themes, pitch students against each other to test their recall. There’s a mix of questions for different abilities, but you can easily add slides to incorporate more challenging or easier ones depending on your students’ needs.

An excellent revision game after teaching An Inspector Calls and Jekyll & Hyde based upon the format of BBC quiz show House of Games. Focused on plot, character and themes, pitch students against each other to test their recall. There’s a mix of questions for different abilities, but you can easily add slides to incorporate more challenging or easier ones depending on your students’ needs.

Great for helping students learn and remember 28 quotations in a fun and interactive way using the Catchphrase game format. Each slide has a clue for a quotation for students to guess. Bonus points can be given for identifying who said the quotation and when they said it. Can be played individually or in teams. Quotations are in chronological order, so it can be used as starter or plenary activities whilst reading the play. A great revision tool with extension activities based around the quotations. Also ideal for cover lessons.

This resource has everything you need to teach a full term of Romeo and Juliet. The PowerPoint contains a series of lessons that can be adapted to suit the needs of your students and prepare them for assessment/examination. Each lesson can be delivered over the course of a week or whatever amount of time, you deem fit for your students. The full play is also provided in order to allow for easy interactive whiteboard annotation. They have been designed so that annotation and essay writing skills build progressively over the course and culminate with a final assessment question.

This scheme of work covers the entire play with ready-to-use PowerPoints. It is everything you need for at a full half term or longer teaching Macbeth! It focuses on developing annotation and essay writing skills, with writing frames and ‘stretch and challenge’ foci embedded. The lessons are well-structured to build up these key skills and have in-depth language and structure analysis alongside key extracts from the text, so that you can demonstrate annotation easily. Students focus on specific essay questions throughout that will prepare them for everything a GCSE exam might cover.