An extract from ‘About a Boy’. You could show students the clip for extra engagement! Can be used as cover or to enable students to focus on their reading comprehension and fully understand what they’re reading. Includes comprehension questions, inference, language and ‘evaluate’ questions leading nicely to Language Paper 1 (AQA) and Component 1 (Eduqas) Includes sentence starters for support and challenges to stretch and challenge.

Extract based analysis- revising Juliet’s transformation throughout the play. Includes visual hexagons with key quotations and key vocabulary. Focus on language analysis with hexagons. Analytical paragraph plenary to track her transformation. Includes challenges throughout to explore and analyse her/ consider possible questions that may come up on the exam.

A nice lesson where pupils will complete a descriptive writing task based on an image. A match-up language technique starter. A WAGOLL. A nice peer-assessment feature.

A nice little lesson looking at Macbeth's changing ambitions. Features a language technique match-up starter with some really ambitious devices. Goes onto look at ambitious adjectives to describe Macbeth's changes, guided annotations of the extract and a WAGOLL/ sentence starters for pupils to look at PETER paragraphs!

An activity (print on A3) looking at how love is presented with guided questions and annotations to guide pupils.

A lesson focusing on the theme of family throughout the novella with key pointers and quotations. Starter: Looks a the four sentence types Specifically, it focuses on a key extract from Stave 3 with questions and a table to complete. A WAGOLL of a PETER paragraph

Features a guide to approaching the comparison question with sentence starters, Assessment Objectives and comparative connectives. Also, includes flashcards for each poem focusing on themes, context, quotes (with writers’ methods and explanations) and structure and form.

An activity and lesson in one! Blow place-mat up onto A3 sheet of paper. Starter: Writing down ambitious adjectives to describe the image. Development: Annotate the model paragraph Main: Writing a description based on the image using the structure strips as a guide.

Starter: Blind date. Paired discussion of marriage- (Marry, Avoid, Banish) Students pick either Paris, Mercutio or Romeo for Juliet and Lord Capulet. Starter: Exploring Romeo as a Petrarchan lover. Main: Key quotations from Lord Capulet featuring step-by-step guide for analysis. Exploration of Lord C. Plenary: Discussion–> Is Lord Capulet a one-dimensional character?

Starter: Students explore physical and emotional traits they would choose in a partner vs who their parents/ carers would choose in a partner. Main Task: Students will explore Act 1, Scene 2 and Juliet’s relationship with the Nurse and Lady Capulet through a series of prompted questions and will answer in their books. Plenary: Write a paragraph exploring the differences in Lady C / Nurse and Juliet’s relationships. Ext: Exploring ambitious vocabulary for characters. Targeted towards middle ability to high ability with challenges throughout

Starter: Introduces main themes and context of MLD and key context Main: Students go through key quotations and language/ structural techniques Active Learning: Students are to ‘compare’ the model paragraph with an additional poem using the model paragraph as a WAGOLL Plenary: Fill-the-gaps/ reduce task guiding students to retain and memorise quotations

Starter: Exploring rules students would create in school Development: Exploring the theme of colonialism / how the message is conveyed in The Tempest Main: Exploring Gonzalo’s Commonwealth ideas/ creating their own shared set of social ideas Plenary: PEAR paragraph ���What social message is Shakespeare trying to send through the character of Gonzalo?’

A resource encouraging students to ‘dig deeper’ when analysing quotations with a modeled example.

A revision bundle focusing on the theme of family. Includes: A lesson Powerpoint Two extracts PETERR paragraph models Success Criteria and sentence starters A revision homework booklet An assessment objective checklist

PEE paragraphs including self-assessment. Focuses on the imagery in the poem. Pupils match images to images in the poem in pairs. Pupils then are asked to write about the imagery in the poem using PEE paragraphs.

A lesson focusing on the plot to kill King Duncan. Features an extract with effective questioning for analysis and annotations and a Jeremy Kyle task.

Exploring Paris and Juliet prior to her plan to feign her own death. Juliet and Paris in the tomb. Explores ambitious key terms such as equivocation in a match-up activity. Guided reading with key focus on language analysis and exploring Shakespeare’s methods. Challenges throughout exploring Paris as a symbol of the Patriarchy. For/against discussion of Juliet as a deceitful character Analytical paragraph tracking Juliet’s transformation throughout the play.

Revision including key vocabulary / ambitious key terms. Explores love, fate, age and conflict. Includes key quotations, guided questions to explore with relation to a range of characters and main essay/ topic points that may come up on the exam. Challenge asks students to criticize / play devil’s advocate to statements. My students learned a LOT from these lessons and it enabled them to revise and plan their essay responses.

An activity focusing on descriptive writing. Used as a whole lesson placemat. Blow up onto A3 paper. Starter: Whole class ambitious adjectives to describe the image. Development: Annotating the WAGOLL (model description paragraph) Main: Using structure strips as a guidance, pupils will create their own descriptions.