An outline of the new A level AQA Literature course, designed for students but also useful for teachers new to the course. Outlines Assessment Objectives, set texts (you will have to adapt this for your own chosen set texts), expectations, wider reading, literary vocabulary and a possible route through the course in preparation for examination at end of Year 12.

A revision resource with activities for students to address the assessment objectives in exams and make a note of key vocabulary for each poem. The template document can be shared with students for a collective revision through shared documents or can be printed and students can fill in during a lesson or for personal revision

3 power points and a booklet for use with AS and A level AQA students to revise the pre-1900 poetry. Range of activities for planning, addressing the Assessment Objectives and essay writing. Activities can also be used for revising and embedding poets and poems into long term memory

A series of 4 lessons comparing Gatsby with the pre-1900 poetry for the AQA A Level Literature course.

4 lessons comparing apects of love and power in Gatsby and pre1900 poems

Another Revision Resource for AQA A Level English Literature poetry. Covers aspects of recall to embed poems in long term memory, as well as tactics for addressing all of the assessment objectives in planning. Essay questions suggested and model responses provided

re-call quizzes, key quotations, planning advice and three essay style questions to practice planning and essay writing in timed conditions

A brilliant detailed consideration of Act One, Scene One and Two. This resource includes exam style questions styled on the new AQA exam specification and has two invaluable model answers. Students can annotate the worksheet (which includes the two Acts in question) and use the assessment objectives to self assess their own work and set targets. This could be a very useful stand alone resource for a cover teacher. It is also clearly addressing AQA's assessment objectives in preparing students for the demands of the examination. The Literary Vocab Power Point can be used to accompany this comprehensive worksheet, which covers at least two weeks' worth of lessons, self study and homework, with two potential exam style assessments and self assessment tools.

This power point was designed for a lecture style revision session geared towards the new AQA Literature syllabus. The lecture covers key revision points, key terminology, contextual information and video clips of rising action and dramatic climaxes in the play. It's a good 40 minutes in lecture format or could be adapted to 2 to 3 lessons.

an overview of Burns' poem Ae Fond Kiss, with a careful look at the use of vernacular and links with AO3. Key questions for analysing aspects of language and structure and suggestions for possible timed essay questions

A power point to support teaching of Lovelace's poem AS WELL AS looking at an exemplar response from AQA outlining how to address the assessment objectives in the exam. Includes key literary terminology to address the historicist aspect of the syllabus as well as key poijts to aid with understanding of the poem itself.

An excellent resource including plenty of social and historical context as well as analysis of the language and structure of the poem. A stand alone lesson with a possible timed essay response at the end. This produces excellent responses from my Year 12 group, which is a broadly mixed ability group!

a resource with Flip classroom materials so that students can read and analyse the poems and make annotations before the lesson. the lesson can then be spent on social context and comparative skills

a specific explanation of how to integrate a historicist perspective into the poetry and Othello in order to address AO3 effectively. Good range of historicist vocabulary specifically for poetry analysis and links, as well as an outline of Revenge Tragedy and ways in which students can give alternative interpretations of Othello based on gender/race/class changes in society.

Worksheets and powers point presenttations to support AQA teaching for this subject

Worksheets to help support students in analysing Gothic texts (you will need a copy of the film Van Helsing for one exercise - you only need watch the first ten minutes!) Self and paired assessment sheets for when the students are ready to assess coursework.

Looking closely at the scary stories genre, the genre worksheet is designed to work with the story Winter Pruning by Chris Priestley from the short story anthology Uncle Montague´s Tales of Terror. The other two sheets are generic genre or horror or scary story worksheets. For the characteristics sheet, I viewed lots of youtube clips of genres and looked at book covers to get the students to fill in the characteristics.