Twelfth Night - 20 lessons for A Level, plus resources

Here are 20 lessons I’ve made covering Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for an A Level class. They were designed for students of Edexcel’s A Level Literature course, but other than the wording of the essay practice questions they would also be appropriate for other exam boards (though lessons 17-19 do pertain specifically to Edexcel’s Twelfth Night critical anthology). Hopefully these lesson activities will provide a useful starting point for teachers taking their students through this play.

I have not provided a written scheme of work on a separate document, but the titles of the Powerpoints and the activities on each one should make it clear how I have structured the content.

The majority of these lessons (3-15) are designed to be taught while reading/watching the play chronologically, with lessons broken up between reading/watching and the activities. All of the time-stamps in the Powerpoints correspond to the (amazing) Globe production of the play with Stephen Fry as Malvolio and Mark Rylance as Olivia. This recording can be purchased and downloaded from The Globe theatre’s website, and it’s highly recommended because it’s a stellar production and the students always love it.

Also included are some other resources that might be useful, including various revision tasks (presentation 21) which can be set as homework activities or as general end-of year revision work. I’ve also included an essay planner template I’ve made for students.