L.O: To analyse the importance and significance of Marley’s ghost.

A lesson which looks at life in the trenches for soldiers during WW1. Students are given information about trench life including a diary entry and a poem. Students will write a description based on trench life from the perspective of a soldier during WW1. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge.

AQA Language Paper 1. A lesson on answering question 4 using an extract from ‘The boy in the striped pyjamas.’ Differentiated and planned using the GCSE mark scheme.

A lesson teaching GCSE unseen poetry using William Blake’s poem ‘A Poison Tree.’ Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Includes context and language analysis tasks.

2 x lessons on the topic of the death penalty. Sources from 19th century and modern day. Lesson 1 teaches question 5 and lesson 2 teaches question 1 and 4. The document with the sources contains questions 1-5 so can be used if you also want to teach questions 2 and 3. Lessons differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. All lessons objectives based on the AO’s on the exam paper and clearly highlight which AO’s are being covered. Please leave a review if you get chance, I’d love to know what you think :)

Students analyse how the character of Scrooge is presented and how Dickens’ presents the characters of Fred and Bob in contrast to him. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme.

A lesson based around analysing how language is used to describe a setting. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is part of a full scheme of gothic horror lessons (full scheme available on TES.)

A lesson aimed at teaching language paper 1, question 2 skills. Lesson was made as part of a module teaching the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas but can also be used for GCSE students teaching language paper 1. Lesson includes challenge questions and uses the GCSE mark scheme.

A lesson based around body image and how expectations of body image have changed over the decades. This lesson looks at barbie dolls and at the representation of people on Love Island and asks students to consider if there is too much pressure on young people to look a certain way.

A lesson taught as part of a unit teaching Of Mice and Men. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Aimed at a top-set year 9 class but can easily be adapted for lower ability groups.

A GCSE Christmas Carol lesson analysing the Cratchit family and the theme of poverty within the novel Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is based around AO1 and AO2. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme and aim/challenge/super challenge. Includes context and language analysis tasks. Includes annotations of the poem. Differentiated language/structure analysis tasks. Please leave a review - i’d love to hear your feedback :)

A poetry lesson studying the context and language in the poem Island Man. Differentiated and aimed at a KS3 class but could be adapted for KS4 students.

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. A lesson analysing the context and language in Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker. Differentiated and aimed at KS3 but could be taught to older students.

A lesson teaching the poem ‘Checking out me history’ from the GCSE power and conflict poetry. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Includes context and language analysis tasks.

3 lessons using the short story ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ to each language paper 1 skills. Lessons are aimed at teaching question 1,2 and 4 on the language paper 1. All lessons differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme and aim/challenge/super challenge.

4 lesson starters on 4 aspects of SPAG. These can be used as a starter or a tutor activity to teach or refresh students knowledge of various aspects of SPAG. Dashes/colons/semi-colons and speech marks.

Lesson aimed at practicing skills for Paper 1, Question 5. Students discuss the typical features of a fairytale, watch clips from fairytales and from the TV show ‘Once Upon A Time.’ Students eventually write a story about a fairytale character in the real world. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge.

A lesson aimed at introducing KS3 students to analysing poetry. Can also be used with KS4 students. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. This lesson was made as part of a module teaching poetry from other cultures (complete bundle also available.) Please leave a review - I’d love to know what you think.