I’ve summarised the play Measure for Measure for teacher notes and included a cast list

Some ideas for essay planning for Measure for MEasure

This lesson finishes off the play and suggests some analytical title formats for students to plan

This is the third lesson of my scheme of work on Twelfth Night, on fools.

This handy resource sets out the fake letter ‘from’ Olivia to Malvolio as letter in one column and Malvolio’s thoughts in another. Could be a useful start to a drama game or way for students to use voices and actions to characterise Malvolio.

A Level lesson on Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ with a focus on illness. Context, research, Bronte family illness and the way that physical and mental health are presented in the novel are covered. There are also some suggested links in one slide to ‘Mrs Dalloway’, which is a potential comparative text on the Edexcel prose paper.

A Level lesson on education and parents in Wuthering Heights. Includes extracts from the novel as well as discussion questions. Also refers to ‘Mrs Dalloway’, one of the potential comparison texts if WH is being studied for Edexcel.

To go with lesson 17 of my scheme of work on ‘Wuthering Heights’, Bronte’s poetry can help students understand context.

As part of my scheme of work on Wuthering Heights, this selection of Wordsworth’s ‘Lucy’ poems can add to students’ understanding of context for the novel.

There’s lots to choose from here. Nominally 8 lessons but elastic depending on your group and how long you want to spend on individual sonnets or activities. Starting with a look at love lyrics in modern songs and moving to sonnets, with information about context, where sonnets came from, structure and meaning. There are activities on analysing and comparing poems and the focus is analytical, with an end of unit essay.

This very long lesson / 2 lessons includes lots of examples of the kinds of literature which existed before novels. It aims to show students quite how dull most literature was and why the conditions arose for the birth and growth of the novel as a genre. It’s pretty context heavy and perhaps a bit dry unless you get students to come and read out some of the pre-novel literature reproduced on the slides - pompous and long winded speeches, religious tracts, sermons to young women on how they should behave, religious poetry, translations of the Classics etc etc. By contrast, novels seem modern, insightful and emotionally mature. I’ve put suggestions in the ‘notes’ section of each slide.

This lesson works with the extract where Darcy rejects Lizzie at the ball. It’s got some analytical tasks and then a creative task on the conversation Lizzie had after the ball with her sisters on social media.

A simple list of creative writing tasks for students to try.

This introduces the idea of what rhyme and half rhyme are used for in poetry. It can be used for higher level GCSE or A Level students.

These notes give an overview of how rhythm is used in poetry and how you can link it to meaning.

Research information for students on the Masque fashion and how it links to The Tempest. Goes with Lesson 7 of my scheme of work.

This lesson has an overview of how the Edexcel A Level’s requirements work for Keats as well as looking at Keats’ early life and the first 2 sonnets on the Edexcel list: O Solitude and On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer. I’ve also written a summary of what to expect from a sonnet and put all the Keats sonnets in a Word Doc.

This lesson gives some context about Keats’ life and has slides for annotating ‘On the Sea’ and ‘In Drear nighted December’. There’s a resource on negative capability too.

This lesson explores more Keats context and the poem ‘Ode to Psyche’. There’s a selection of Keats’ writing from his letters which includes all his well-known concepts like negative capability, life being a vale of soul-making, life being a mansion of many apartments etc.