A powerpoint to accompany and essay on: to embrace love is to embrace danger. In light of this view, discuss the poet’s treatment of love. Suitable for any A level study of the text.

Two powerpoints helping students to consider contexts and how to phrase using critics in their essays.

A detailed powerpoint or pdf covering the comparison of The Great Gatsby and pre 1900 poems from the AQA English Literature specification. This includes context and ideas/close textual analysis for essay preparation on the theme of HOW SOCIAL CONVENTIONS IMPEDE LOVE

A detailed powerpoint or pdf covering the comparison of The Great Gatsby and pre 1900 poems from the AQA English Literature specification. This includes context and ideas/close textual analysis for essay preparation on the theme of unfulfilled longing.

A detailed powerpoint or pdf covering the comparison of The Great Gatsby and pre 1900 poems from the AQA English Literature specification. This includes context and ideas/close textual analysis for essay preparation on the theme of POSSESSIVE LOVE

A very detailed presentation on the presentation of liberty in the play. This is available as pdf or a powerpoint and includes pointers, followed by teacher notes and critics’ quotations. It was produced for edexel but is suitable for other specifications.

A very detailed presentation on the presentation of women in the play. This is available as pdf or a powerpoint and includes pointers, followed by teacher notes and critics’ quotations. It was produced for edexel but is suitable for other specifications

Please leave a review if it’s helped you! A very detailed presentation on how conflict is presented in Act 1 of the play. Useful for all GCSE specs this structure could also be utilised for the rest of the play: conflict in battle, in relationships, in nature, in the supernatural, internal conflicts and in imagery. Some slides are fully annotated, others leave gaps for students to suggest ideas and to finish off. Teachers could choose to not reveal any of the annotations and allow students to respond on their own to quotations first.

A detailed presentation covering the motif of clothing and colour throughout the play. Looking at how Blanche’s clothes change and the significance of this; the men’s primary colours; the clash of two worlds as seen through clothing and colour; and Blanche’s trunk. Suitable for all A level specs and available as both a powerpoint and as a pdf.

A collection of resources gleaned from various places to cover an overview of the play, its contexts and its themes. Suitable for any A level spec and available as a pdf and a powerpoint.

This resource took a long time to put together but is worth it. The teacher chart covers all the literary periods (although I timed this from Middle English not Anglo Saxon). Each time period includes features of the era and an exemplar text/writer with a short critique on what they say about love/how it’s presented. I have included a student copy which is a mixed up chart with no dates so that students can attempt to order the literary periods and the texts appropriately, discussing the features evolving over time.

This is a unit I put together for Eduqas new spec. However, the tasks and information would suit any GCSE study of this text. Everything is embedded within the slides.

Support your students with the Edexcel spec comparing Dracula and Dorian Gray — exploring how both writers present supernatural settings in their texts.

This presentation was prepared to support students when tackling an essay on how Shakespeare presents the theme of deception in Measure for Measure. It includes paragraph prompts on the following: Deception for a good purpose? Deception to hide/cloak immoral deeds/intentions. How is deception carried out? clothing/in substitutions/in public court. Self -deception and also includes critical quotations that students may weave into their arguments.

This presentation was prepared to support students writing essays tackling the themes of power, government and politics. It covers imagery, justice, corruption, the role of the Duke and there are also some critical quotations which they may weave into their arguments. It was prepared for Edexcel A level spec.

A very detailed presentation on the presentation of Angelo in the play. This is available as pdf or a powerpoint and includes pointers, followed by teacher notes and critics’ quotations. It was produced for edexel but is suitable for other specifications

This presentation was put together to guide students in their thinking as they prepared to write an essay on how substitution is presented in the play. It includes prompts on physical, moral and imaginative substitutions and settings. It was produced for the Edexcel spec.

Support your students preparing essays for the Edexcel spec comparing Dorian Gray with Dracula. This presentation provides a skeleton structure for the theme of concealment.

A series of A Level lessons on Wilde’s ‘Dorian Gray’ including the quotations and analysis from the text, covering such themes as Influence/gothic/Art and Aesthetics/doubles, dopplegangers and splitting/hereditry/flowers, colour and decadence/ context/women and gender. Some of these themes may be in these first two chapters or may be in subsequent chapters (also uploaded) or you may purchase all together as a bundle.

Get your claws into the clause with this interactive lesson presentation with detailed questions and suggestions on punctuating clauses.