When asked to teach a quick unit on just short stories, this is what I pulled together: contains lots of videos and excerpts to analyse and apply theories of structure, character description, setting, atmosphere, drafting, and conclusions, to pupils' own work.

An activity where pupils identify types of words in a nonsense poem ('Jabberwocky'), then create their own dictionary of nonsense words in order to write their own poem about school.

A lesson exploring William Blake's 'The Tyger' poem, as part of a larger scheme studying Yann Martel's novel, 'Life of Pi'. I have included two formats of the original presentation, if it's of interest to retain some of the information from the novel, but if you wish to study the poem exclusively, I have also included a stripped-back version of the lesson.

A presentation that guides KS3 pupils through making a speech for assessment in Talking&Listening; guidance, advice, study, explanation, and examples, as well as markschemes are all included in the presentation. This covered two preparatory hour-long lessons, and then two lessons to see and peer-assess the class's speeches. Due to its size, the presentation is split into two parts.

Two original study maps for the novel 'Of Mice and Men' for pupils to complete as they study the ranch workers, life on the ranch, and the control they have over their lives. Both study maps include completed versions for teachers to use to go through pupils' responses, which works well as whole class discussion. I created these study maps for my GCSE class to use as revision for their final exam after studying the whole novel, but colleagues also used them effectively as resources as they taught the text. They also form a good basis for writing a Speaking and Listening presentation on the text.