A fourth lesson in a scheme for year 8 (adaptable) of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This lesson explores the attitudes of Lysander and Helena to the love triangle and also gender and love.

A model essay I have written to demonstrate how to write about the Inspector - refers lots to ideas about capitalism and socialism; develops ideas about the final speech and Priestley’s message; also looks at Inspector Goole as a regent of God.

A lesson exploring how to analyse a difficult poem - I used this with top ability year 9 - but could be adapted for poetry unseen skills for GCSE. This is 2 lessons worth - all resources are clearly shown on powerpoints so it’s clear where different ones are needed.

A lesson analysing the intro of Kevin in the novel. Builds on from lessons 1 and 2 uploaded. Begins to get students to think about retrieving quotes from multiple chapters. Opportunity for extended writing task to develop essay skills. Differentiated work sheets included.

A full written scheme of work for year 7 introducing them to poetry across time. Each lesson is clearly outlined with activities and outcomes. The unit explores poems such as the Night Train by Auden and Daffodils by Wordsworth.

A lesson exploring how Max is presented in chapter 2. Builds on from Lesson 1 uploaded on to Tes. Includes: Chance to read the chapter Worksheets to enable students to find quotes and analyse. Extended writing task. Peer assessment should follow this.

Here are a series of lessons and resources for the year 7 unit.

A lesson about Mr Birling during the beginning of Act 1. They are a very weak year 10 and so I showed them the film first in order then to simply teach key extracts. This lesson looks at the engagement extract and the dramatic irony extract.

A lesson exploring Mrs B's character in act 2

A poem for low ability GCSE - annotated with questions

A set of flash cards of poetic techniques - there is an example with an explanatory comment; ways each technique is used; what it is etc. I have been using them to enable students to explore poems independently. In a recent lesson with year 7, I split them into groups and gave them each a specific technique to find in Havisham and comment on. They then taught each other. A weaker student in the class was able to identify an oxymoron in the poem and comment "it shows she has a lot of different emotions and it confuses her". Proves that these cards are effective :) Aimed at KS3

A scaffolded copy of first half of stave 1 of ACC. Questions around edge of text so students can work independently. Ideal for top set year 9/10.

Low ability - I did a saturday skills day with my 11s where we looked at questions 2 and 3. We spent most of the time on question 2. for each question type, we did one together slowly and then they had a more independent go. All resources are labelled - it should be clear on the ppt which resources to use when.

A scaffolded poem for very low ability GCSE

A lesson exploring techniques in poetry. I am giving the students a series of unseen poetry. Using the technique flashcards (available to purchase on my page), the students worked in groups on specific techniques within Havisham. All students were able to access this learning and the cards worked really well as a support to the learning process.

A lesson where top set year 9 wrote a response to the extract question of the new GCSE (AQA) - How is LM presented in Scene 5? There is a detailed booklet with a lot of support as it is their first attempt and a support sheet to enable access for weaker students. A model level 9 paragraph is also included.

A lesson analysing C of the LB, with scaffolded poem and starter sheet looking at context

A detailed context carousel lesson. I got my top set in to smaller groups. They each started with a specific worksheet. They had to read the information, and then condense it using the "what to find out" sheet to help them to keep focus. They were given a word limit as a challenge. Tehy had 15 minutes on each topic. It took a few lessons, but by the end, they had a really detailed knowledge of Macbeth. The intention is then to refer back to it as we are studying the play. Please note: this was a very intelligent top set.

A lesson learning , and completing extended writing, about Act 2, Scene 2.

This is the second lesson in a scheme for Animal Farm for new 9-1 AQA. Class is very weak - I try to teach the context alongside the novel so that the students can make clear links due to being very low ability.