Hamlet Revision: Thinking Quilt on Characters and Relationships Students explore how key quotes can be multi-functional for describing a character based on what they say or what is said about them as well as a relationship between different characters. By applying symbols/patterns and colours they can visulaise how quote can overlap. I’ve provided a sample answer as well to see how it’s done.

Leaving Cert Paper One Booklet

Three poems suitable to be studied at Junior Cycle with differentiated activities for both Ordinary and Higher Level. ‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou ‘Breathe’ by Becky Hemsley ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’ by Emily Dickinson All poems can be interlinked as well to be compared and contrasted (Junior Cycle HL 2022 Q)

Intended to be adapted to suit your own class, a PPT which explores a selection of poems from the 2025 OL Leaving Cert course, some poems include class annotations. William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18 Derek Mahon - Grandfather Sylvia Plath - Poppies in July and Child Eavan Boland - Child of Our Time, This Moment and Love Emily Dickinson - I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died and I Felt a Funeral in my Brain Sinead Morrisey - Genetics Gerard Manley Hopkins - Spring and Inversnaid T.S Eliot - Preludes and Aunt Helen

A set of PPTs for each act which include notes to breakdown scenes, Qs to support students with comprehension and challenge them to breakdown Shakespearean language and activities, including retrieval practice Qs. Also included: A worksheet on key quotes in the form of a Thinking Quilt A sample exam Q for characters - can be adapted to any character A PPT with Q prompts for group work revision

A set of comprehension and exam-style Qs doe the short story ‘The Tell Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allen Poe. The Qs focus on reading comprehension as well as understanding of literary devices. Included is a marking scheme which can be shared with students to allow them to self or peer assess answers to save time on corrections!

A PPT with guided reading prompts for students to help them analyse the novella ‘Small Things like These’ by Claire Keegan (Leaving Certificate text). I have divided the novella into different sections and the analysis focuses mainly on Cultural Context. I have included an exam Q for each section as well which would be completed in a scaffolded fashion in class for comparing with ‘Lady Bird’ by Greta Gerwig. However, this could be adapted for any other comparative text. Space for a third text to be added in has also been included.

A collection of six PowerPoints analyzing six poems by Eavan Boland as are prescribed for the Leaving Certificate. Child of Our Time, This Moment, Love, The Famine Road, The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave Me and the Pomegranate. Each lesson provides a PPT with an analysis of the poem as well as points on language and theme for each.

A collection of editable notes on “Foster” by Claire Keegan which are a compilation of my own and some found online. The booklet focuses on relationships and social setting with key quotes for each. Some information has been adapted from https://vinhanley.com/2017/12/19/study-notes-on-foster-by-claire-keegan/

A worksheet showing the format of a formal letter with some guiding vocabulary included.

A PPT for teaching five of Gerard Manley Hopkin’s Leaving Certificate poems - Spring, Inversnaid, God’s Grandeur, Pied Beauty and Felix Randal.

A basic workbook to use for guided reading or revision. Scene summaries with space for students to choose key quotes as well as specific spaces for students to enter in notes on key soliloquies.

A booklet of worksheets for comparing the novel of TRASH by Andy Mulligan to its film adaptation.

A PowerPoint presentation giving a detailed description of John Keats’ poem “Ode to a Nightingale”.

A set of worksheets to use in comparing the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee to its film adaptation.

Sample Answer - Exam Q ‘Sing Street’

A PowerPoint presentation giving a detailed description of John Keats’ poem “Ode to Autumn”.

A class lesson PPT on the poem Ambulances by Philip Larkin, aimed at an OL LC class.

A PowerPoint presentation giving a detailed description of John Keats’ poem “…Chapman’s Homer”.

A PPT focusing on studying TKS with some points and sample paragraphs for comparing with the short novel “Foster”.

Notes with definitions and examples of literary devices used in “Hamlet”.