A whole scheme of work dedicated to Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Excellent context work for supporting appreciation of Shakespeare using context. It includes an introduction to the Globe, life for men and women, Shakespeare’s family life, Machiavelli and a Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England. Fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes and creative writing opportunities. Lesson 1: Context Lesson 2: Library and online research Lesson 3:The Globe Lesson 4: The Plays Lesson 5: Shakespearean language Lesson 6: Mid term assessment Lesson 7: Designing a movie trailer Lesson 8: Tudor women Lesson 9: John Shakespeare Lesson 10: Designing a theatre Lesson 11: Staging A1S5 of Romeo and Juliet Lesson 12: Machiavelli Lesson 13: The Taming of the Shrew Lesson 14: The Witches in Macbeth Lesson 15: The Tempest Lesson 16: Love poems and sonnets Lesson 17: Origins of English Lesson 18: Elizabethan beliefs Lesson 19: Planning your assessment Lesson 20: Writing your assessment

Make public speaking fun and interactive! Help your students conquer their fear of standing up by getting them to explore subjects they love, and are desperate to tell the world about! This unit of work would suit Grade 7 or Grade 8. There are 10 lessons covering a variety of speeches and rhetorical devices, as well as a final activity for students to write their own inspirational speech. It is fully resourced with ppts, contextual information to illuminate understanding, extracts and activities to promote positive body language. This is perfect for early Speaking and Listening preparation. Lesson 1: persuasive devices Lesson 2: debating Lesson 3: Emma Watson’s speech at the UN Lesson 4: George Bush’s defense of America after 9/11 Lesson 5: using body language and voice Lesson 6: your future ambitions Lesson 7: how to spend money on your school Lesson 8: analyzing persuasive speeches in movies Lesson 9: planning a speech Lesson 10: writing and performing a speech to go to Mars

If your students find Shakespeare dull and inaccessible, this is the unit for you. The lessons are focused on staging a shipwreck, costume, props, bringing the play to life and contextually understanding Elizabethan views of slavery, love, revenge and violence. This scheme of work designed as a way into Shakespeare at KS3. It includes opportunities for online research and extract analysis from the most popular plays. It is fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes and creative writing lessons. It also works well with Roland Emmerich’s 2012 ‘Anonymous’ , as the plays studied match the plays performed in the film, allowing the students to see the words come to life on the stage. Lesson 1: Othello Lesson 2: Othello feedback Lesson 3: Romeo and Juliet Lesson 4: Agony Aunt writing for Juliet Lesson 5: Romeo and Juliet movie analysis Lesson 6: Anthony and Cleopatra Lesson 7: Sonnet 130 Lesson 8: Macbeth witches Lesson 9: Iago Lesson 10: Midsummer Night’s Dream Lesson 11: Midsummer Night’s Dream Lesson 12: Hamlet Lesson 13: Richard III Lesson 14: The Tempest Lesson 15: Caliban Lesson 16: Staging Lesson 17: Henry V Lesson 18: King Lear plot Lesson 19: King Lear A1S1 Lesson 20: Midsummer Night’s Epilogue

Do you find it difficult to engage teenagers, especially boys, with creative writing and story telling? This unit includes everything you need to teach Fantasy Writing at KS3 . It includes 10 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, exemplar paragraphs, IWB resources and extracts. This unit works well with boy heavy groups who are interested in fantasy worlds and science fiction such as Lord of the Rings and A Game of Thrones. Lesson 1: Verb-Noun collocations in Lord of the Rings Lesson 2: How fantasy writers create characters Lesson 3: Describing a market in Game of Thrones Lesson 4: Structuring a story in an enchanted forest Lesson 5: How George RR Martin uses language Lesson 6: How George RR Martin uses structure Lesson 7: Designing a presentation Lesson 8: Describing an alien planet in Star Wars Lesson 9: How to describe a castle Lesson 10: The Weird Sisters in Macbeth

This unit has everything you need to teach ‘The Woman in Black’ at KS3. It is a fantastic gothic horror novel, and the children are genuinely enthralled by this novel as the secrets are revealed, complimented by the movie with Daniel Radcliffe as an end of unit treat! This unit of work includes 18 lessons and comes with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar paragraphs, activities to exploit drama, extracts from the text and opportunities for creative writing. Page numbers refer to the 1998 Vintage edition. Lesson 1: The gothic genre Lesson 2: Creating a gothic atmosphere Lesson 3: How Susan Hill uses pathetic fallacy Lesson 4: Tracking Arthur’s progress north Lesson 5: Creating mystery and expectation Lesson 6: Character reactions Lesson 7: Leaving clues Lesson 8: Creative Writing Lesson 9: Writing a formal letter Lesson 10: Hiding secrets Lesson 11: How Susan Hill creates tension Lesson 12: Using rhetorical devices Lesson 13: Using clues to form predictions Lesson 14: The letters Lesson 15: The Ending Lesson 16: Prepare your assessment Lesson 17: Write your assessment Lesson 18: Feedback and improvement There is an opportunity to assess the students’ progress at the end of the novel in an essay on how Susan Hill creates a sense of mystery.

This 21 lesson unit of work for Wonder, by R.J. Palacio, contains comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative writing opportunities, the trial of Jack Will, camp planning, friend dilemmas and much more! This literature unit is teacher and student friendly. It contains a wide variety of activities, along with open-ended questions and role plays that will enthrall your students, especially those who have just started at a new school, as Auggie overcomes the challenges students face on a daily basis. The unit ends with an assessment evaluating Jack Will’s role as a friend and his relationship with Auggie. It is supported by extracts and important pages in the novel, so the students don’t have to trawl through 400 pages looking for a quote! Lesson 1: First day at middle school Lesson 2: Treacher-Collins syndrome Lesson 3: Jack, Julian and Charlotte Lesson 4: bullying Lesson 5: write your own precept Lesson 6: Halloween Lesson 7: Via’s perspective Lesson 8: the trial of Jack Will Lesson 9: Summer Lesson 10: Jack Will Lesson 11: the parents Lesson 12: Justin Lesson 13: dealing with bereavement Lesson 14: losing friendships Lesson 15: the camping trip Lesson 16: the fight and social acceptance Lesson 17: the aftermath Lesson 18: graduation Lesson 19: prepare your assessment Lesson 20: write your assessment Lesson 21: assessment feedback

This unit contains everything you need to teach myths and legends at KS3, and it will save you hours of preparation! This unit of work includes 10 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar answers, quizzes and the classical stories. The unit includes: Lesson 1: Online research of classic fables Lesson 2: Echo and Narcissus Lesson 3: The Illiad Lesson 4: The Odyssey Lesson 5: Theseus and The Minotaur Lesson 6: King Midas Lesson 7: Arachne and much more…

This unit is ideal as an introduction to non-fiction texts at KS3. It has 18 lessons focusing on evaluating non-fiction texts, opinion writing, describing travel destinations, writing a letter of complaint and more. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, travel guide extracts, example answers and newspaper articles. Lesson 1: Introduction to travel writing Lesson 2: The Road to Manali by Melissa Bell Lesson 3: The Red Dust Lesson 4: Describing Antarctica Lesson 5: Writing a speech to reduce tourism Lesson 6: Pole to Pole by Michael Palin Lesson 7: Narrative tenses in The Beach Lesson 8-9: Designing a travel advert Lesson 10: Designing the ultimate trip Lesson 11: Describing holidays Lesson 12: Holiday web quest Lesson 13: Holiday narrative writing Lesson 14-15: Holidays from hell Lesson 16: Designing a promotional video Lesson 17: Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks Lesson 18: Travel TV Shows

This unit contains everything you need to teach speech writing at KS3. It is solid foundation for AQA Paper 2 for English language and the Spoken Language module at GCSE. The students analyse speeches by Emma Watson, Muhammad Ali, Leonardo DiCaprio, John F Kennedy and more. It includes 14 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar speeches, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and opportunities to exploit online research. Lesson 1: Sentence structure in JFK’s speeches Lesson 2: How to talk formally Lesson 3: Writing a protest speech Lesson 4: Body language with Malala Jusef Lesson 5: Feminism with Emma Watson Lesson 6: Equality in education Lesson 7: Arguing for or against capital punishment Lesson 8: Defending Derek Bentley Lesson 9: Let him Have It! Lesson 10: Analysing a court case speech Lesson 11: Formal writing Lesson 12: Planning your speech Lesson 13:Writing your speech Lesson 14: Presenting your speech to the class

Everything you need to revise Unseen Poetry at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 12 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, IWB interactive resources using SMART Notebook, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and examiner advice. This unit is best if you have already taught the skills for Unseen Poetry and are revising just before the exam. Lesson 1: Analysing a Child’s Sleep by Carol Ann Duffy Lesson 2: Comparing A Child’s Sleep with The Night Feed by Evan Bolan Lesson 3: Analysing Rejection by Jenny Sullivan Lesson 4: Comparing Rejection with Years Ago by Elizabeth Jennings Lesson 5: Analysing Tramp by Rupert Loydell Lesson 6: Comparing Tramp with Decomposition by Zulfikar Ghose Lesson 7: Analysing I See You Dancing, Father Lesson 8: Comparing I See You Dancing with Coat Lesson 9: Analysing Woman Work by Maya Angelou Lesson 10: Comparing Woman Work with County Sligo by Gillian Clarke Lesson 11: Analysing Yew Tree Guest House by Phoebe Hesketh Lesson 12: Comparing Yew Tree with Goodwill Store by Ted Kooser

Do you need your students to have an overview of English Literature canon? From Beowulf to The Bard? This unit of work is dedicated to the progress of language from Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare and The Romantics to modern day speakers like Muhammad Ali and Malala Jusef . This unit works well with mid to high ability KS3 students, and could serve as a basic introduction to language change. It is fully resourced with extracts, gap fills, cartoon strips, timeline sorts, games and drag and drop activities. Lesson 1: Timeline of English Literature Lesson 2: The origins of English Lesson 3: English pronunciation Lesson 4: The Romantics Lesson 5-7: Beowulf Lesson 8: The Magna Carta Lesson 9: The Wife of Bath by Chaucer Lesson 10: Write your own Canterbury Tale Lesson 11: Shakespearean Language Lesson 12: The Witches in Macbeth Lesson 13: The Great Fire of London Lesson 14: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Lesson 15: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Lesson 16: JFK speeches Lesson 17: Muhammad Ali speeches Lesson 18: I am Malala Lesson 19: Emma Watson’s speech on feminism

This unit contains everything you need to teach War Poetry at KS3. It gives a balanced view of patriotic poems that glorify war (Brooke and Pope) with more realistic poems from the front line (Sassoon and Owen). This unit of work is focused on preparing students for a final poetry assessment, whilst fostering a love of poetry. It includes 17 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, original redrafts and opportunities for online research. Lesson 1: Context reading Lesson 2: Poet online research Lesson 3: Rhythm and rhyme in poetry Lesson 4: Poetic techniques Lesson 5: Techniques review Lesson 6: Write your own war poem Lesson 7: Anthem for Doomed Youth Lesson 8: The Charge of the Light Brigade Lesson 9: Base Details Lesson 10: A Remembrance Tale Lesson 11: Dulce et Decorum Est Lesson 12: The Hero Lesson 13: Who’s for the game? Lesson 14: The Soldier Lesson 15: Explosure Lesson 16: Assessment Preparation Lesson 17: Write your assessment

This unit is designed to give Year 9 students an introduction to Charles Dickens and other Victorian Writers at KS3. It includes extracts from Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and more. This is perfect for introducing KS3 students to the skills they will need for their GCSE course and the context for Victorian Literature. The 14 lessons are fully resourced with extracts, contextual information, quizzes, gap fills and exemplar answers. Lesson 1: The plot of Dombey and Son Lesson 2: Analysing an extract Lesson 3: Formative assessment Lesson 4: Language to describe Victorian London Lesson 5: The Dining Hall in Oliver Twist Lesson 6: Victorian Women Lesson 7: Lowood in Jane Eyre Lesson 8: Miss Temple from Jane Eyre Lesson 9: Mr Creakle from David Copperfield Lesson 10: Describing characters Lesson 11: Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights Lesson 12: Comparing childhoods in Wuthering Heights and David Copperfield Lesson 13: Comparing teachers in Jane Eyre and David Copperfield Lesson 14: Assessment

This unit of work is fantastic for introducing the crime genre and detective stories to KS3 students. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, activities to exploit drama, debates, creative writing opportunities and short stories. This works well with a boy heavy group, who get very excited when they use the clues to solve the crimes before the ending is given away! Lesson 1: An introduction to crime Lesson 2: How writers use narrative hooks Lesson 3: Crime Scene Investigation Lesson 4: Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens Lesson 5: Using Voice in Captain Murderer Lesson 6: Writing feedback Lesson 7: About His Person by Simon Armitage Lesson 8: Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl Lesson 9-11: The Darkness Out There by Penelope Lively Lesson 12: The Trial of Mrs Rutter Lesson 13: Perform and peer assess Lesson 14: The Red Room by HG Wells Lesson 15: Planning your own detective story Lesson 16: Writing your own detective story Lesson 17: Writing feedback and improvement Lesson 18: Who killed Vic Timberlake?

Are you looking for a fresh and creative way to teach Romeo and Juliet? I recently studied for my Certificate for Teaching Shakespeare at the RSC in Stratford and it has revolutionized the way I teach the bard. This unit contains everything you need to teach Romeo and Juliet at KS3 . It is focused on essay writing skills, analyzing extracts for English Literature and bringing the play to life. It includes 30 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extract analysis and opportunities for online research. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. Lesson 1: Writing Elizabethan context quizzes Lesson 2: Shakespearean language Lesson 3: The main characters Lesson 4: Acting out the play Lesson 5: Plot and key lines Lesson 6: The prologue and sonnets Lesson 7: Masculinity in A1S1 Lesson 8: Romeo’s masculinity in A1S1 Lesson 9: Our first impressions of Mercutio in A1S4 Lesson 10: Staging A1S5 Lesson 11: Courtly love in A2S2 Lesson 12: Friar Lawrence’s advice in A2S3 Lesson 13: Review of Acts 1-2 Lesson 14: Character discussion and debate Lesson 15: The death of Mercutio in A1S1 Lesson 16: Who is to blame for Mercutio’s death? Lesson 17: Conflict in A3S1 Lesson 18: Juliet’s growing independence in A3S2 Lesson 19: Impressions of Lord Capulet in A3S5 Lesson 20: Act 3 Review Lesson 21: Juliet’s equivocation in A4S1 Lesson 22: Soliloquys in A4S3 Lesson 23: Staging A4S3 Lesson 24: Juliet fakes her death in A4S5 Lesson 25: The role of the Apothecary in A5S1 Lesson 25: Staging A5S3 Lesson 26: The End Lesson 27: The Trial of Friar Lawrence Lesson 28: How Juliet develops as a character Lesson 29: Plan your Juliet assessment Lesson 30: Write your Juliet assessment

Do you want to teach a play that will demystify the language of love and relationships? This unit of work is fantastic for stretching high ability KS3 students. 18 lessons covering the whole of the play, focusing on playwright’s use of language, how the playwright uses structure, creative writing and the effect of staging. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, chapter extracts and IWB activities. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge School Shakespeare Edition. Lesson 1: Elizabethan context quizzes Lesson 2: Shakespearean language Lesson 3: the theatre Lesson 4: act out the play Lesson 5: the soldiers return in A1S1 Lesson 6: the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick in A1S1 Lesson 7: Don John in A1S3 Lesson 8: the masked ball in A2S1 Lesson 9: deception in A2S1 Lesson 10: focus on the villain in A2S2 Lesson 11: focus on Benedick in A2S3 Lesson 12: appearance and reality in A2S3 Lesson 13: review of Acts 1-2 Lesson 14: Beatrice is tricked in A3S1 Lesson 15: Claudio is tricked in A3S2 Lesson 16: the marriage in A4S1 Lesson 17: Beatrice and Benedick in A4S1 Lesson 18: Leanato and Antonio in A5S1 Lesson 19: the ending

Private Peaceful is a fantastic way to teach students about the realties of war, at a time when politicians seek to glorify it. This unit is ideally for Year 7 or mid ability Year 8. 18 lessons covering the whole of the text, focusing on writer’s use of language, how the writer uses structure, character analysis and creative writing opportunities. The unit of work is fully resourced with ppts, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, chapter extracts and more. This is perfect for early exam preparation as well as fostering English Literature skills. Page numbers refer to the Harper Collins Edition. Lesson 1: Introduction to WW1 Lesson 2: First day at school Lesson 3: Older brothers Lesson 4: Creating characters Lesson 5: Grandma Wolf Lesson 6: Siblings Lesson 7: Describing a plane crash Lesson 8: Parent-child relationships Lesson 9: Diary Writing Lesson 10: Life in the army Lesson 11: Analysing character motivation Lesson 12: War propaganda Lesson 13: Use of setting Lesson 14: Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen Lesson 15: Describing a gas attack Lesson 16: Letter writing Lesson 17: Assessment Lesson 18: Assessment feedback

This unit contains 20 lessons covering the film ‘Let Him Have It’, focusing on opinion writing, speeches and newspaper articles that discuss capital punishment. It is fully resourced with worksheets, speeches, crime scene sketches and contextual information to illuminate understanding of capital punishment in the 1950s and the Derek Bentley case. This unit of work is an engaging way to prepare for non-fiction writing . It works well in conjunction with the film ‘Let Him Have It’ (1991) . Lesson 1: Attitudes to capital punishment Lesson 2: Crime Lesson 3: A timeline of the warehouse robbery Lesson 4: Witness evidence Lesson 5: Prosecution and defence Lesson 6: Using camera angles Lesson 7: Creating a storyboard Lesson 8: Filming your storyboard Lesson 9: Writing a police report Lesson 10: The Court Case Lesson 11: Bentley’s execution Lesson 12: 1950s culture Lesson 13: Protest songs Lesson 14: Persuasive techniques in a letter Lesson 15: Persuasive techniques in a speech Lesson 16: Creating a protest poster Lesson 17: Writing a defence speech for Craig Lesson 18: Writing a defence speech for Bentley Lesson 19: Planning your assessment speech Lesson 20: Writing your speech

Bring Titanic to life with this introduction to non-fiction texts at middle school. 16 lessons focusing on evaluating non-fiction texts, opinion writing, evaluating a statement and writing a summary. Fully resourced with ppts, contextual information to illuminate understanding and Interactive White Board activities. Lesson 1: an introduction to Titanic Lesson 2: online research Lesson 3: a timeline of the sinking Lesson 4: newspaper articles Lesson 5: a survivor’s account Lesson 6: radio broadcasts Lesson 7: creating Titanic characters Lesson 8: character profiles Lesson 9: grammar Lesson 10: writing a speech Lesson 11: performing a speech Lesson 12: report writing Lesson 13: evaluating blame Lesson 14: the Titanic quiz Lesson 15: poster lesson Lesson 16: descriptive writing

This unit is ideal as an introduction to non-fiction texts and multi-media at middle school. It contains 17 lessons focusing on newspaper bias, presenting a radio report, website design, opinion pieces, film reviews and the register of broadsheets and tabloids. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, newspaper articles, reviews and exemplar answers to stretch the top end. The unit includes: Lesson 1: News values Lesson 2: The structure of a newspaper Lesson 3: Analysing website design Lesson 4: Online website analysis Lesson 5: Radio broadcasts Lesson 6: Snack Attack perspective Lesson 7: Writing a formal report Lesson 8: Writing a film review Lesson 9: Travel writing Lesson 10: Writing a job application letter Lesson 11: Writing Horoscopes Lesson 12: Identifying bias Lesson 13: Tabloid vs Broadsheet Lesson 14: Headlines Lesson 15: Jamie’s Dream School Lesson 16: Writing a music review Lesson 17: Writing a speech on technology