A 44 page revision booklet which brings together my best selling Animal Farm worksheets into one easy to print/download document. It includes character revision cards, theme trackers, quotation knowledge organiser, chapter questions, 5 graded exemplar responses, 14 sample GCSE questions, essay plans, writing frames and lots more.

100 comprehension questions on A Christmas Carol. 20 questions on each Stave that is useful to use at the end of scheme of work to test students’ understanding of the novella. All the questions are in chronological order. I have put them all onto one A3 sheet to allow for easy printing. I have also included an answer sheet for students to mark the quiz themselves. NEW: Also contains the questions in the form of a board game. Also includes analysis of the top 10 single words to analyse in the novella with high level explanations of how to zoom in and then how to zoom out to explore Dickens’ authorial purpose. Also includes 5 lessons to accompany a first reading of the text with direct knowledge, comprehension questions and a summary activity on each stave.

A lesson exploring Chapter 7 with a specific focus on the mob mentality when Ralph joins in with the hunt and finds the desire the hurt ‘overmastering’.

Comparing Your Shoes with Superman and Paula Brown’s Snowsuit.

A range of differentiated resources for teaching students how to compare the writer’s perspectives in two non-fiction texts (Red Dust and Touching the Void).

Lesson that guides students through how to write an exam response about the character of Napoleon in Animals Farm. Includes detailed analysis of 6 quotations. Includes a planning sheet and useful quotations for tackling an exam style question on how Napoleon is presented in Animal Farm. Also includes a model response on Napoleon to an AQA style question. Also includes 20 speed-marking targets to show progress between a first and second draft.

A lesson aimed at teaching students how to write an informal article for Paper 2 Question 5 in a lively and compelling way. It uses the popular TikTok debate about wheels and doors to engage students in the the topic. Students read and annotate the two exemplar paragraphs for the techniques that are being used such as hyperbole, chatty phrases, withholding, parallelism, triplets, rhetorical questions. They then go on to write their own response in the same lively style as the exemplar - using the list of chatty phrases as a handy crib sheet, My students really enjoyed this lesson and produced some amazing work.

A highly detailed 31 slide lesson or series of lessons focused on challenging students to develop their own critical stance about Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire. Students start with an exam style question and are given asked a series of challenging questions to discuss and tasks to complete. They then go on to plan and write their own response and compare it to an A* example.

Full lesson PowerPoint guiding students through understanding Act 3 Scene 1 of The Tempest. This lesson is pitched at low-ability students.

A whole scheme of work based on Defying Gravity analysis. It includes extra questions asking students to summarise learning as you analyse the piece - possible answers are provided. Homework examples are also included. All pps include differentiated success criteria and extension questions for target grade 8/9 (all answers are on the pp and harder questions are in pink). PPs break down the piece into manageable chunks for each lesson. A glossary and worksheets are included where necessary.

This can take up to 5 hour long lessons (includes performance, analysis, homework tasks and extended essay). A pp detailing all analysis for the Afro Celt set work. Includes differentiated success criteria and questions that encourage students to be more independent with analysis (and answers) *more difficult questions are in pink. Analysed in sections and broken down by musical elements - all annotations to be added directly to the score. Performance tasks are included (and differentiated) and students would use the score to complete it. A summary grid is also included and links to the fusion genre. Possible listening questions are on the bottom of the pp. An extended answer pp is also included where links are made to another fusion piece. Possible answers are given for both pieces for each musical element and it walks the students through completing sections of the essay.

Analyse language features in some famous slogans.

Lesson on The Soldier by Rupert Brooke for Eduqas GCSE 9-1

6 techniques to help students with Paper 2 Question 5.

A simple Paper 2 Question 5 revision activity for lower ability. Students read the modelled opening paragraph and have to try and write the next paragraph in a similar style. w

20 starters focused on technical accuracy

An extract and helpsheet for tackling Paper 1 Question 5 for Eduqas.