A 20 lesson scheme of work for teaching The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for English Literature GCSE. The two assessment questions used are from AQA. This full SoW covers the text in detail, opening with a context lesson. It encourages students to look at extracts from the text throughout. The scheme of work ends with lessons recapping context, characters, themes, structure, and motifs. Every slide has clear titles, instructions, often an eye catching relevant image, and a ‘challenge’ extension task. Every lesson has a simple starter and plenary. This would probably be aimed at a higher set but the instructions are clear and could be adapted for a mid set.

A complete scheme of work to teach Seamus Heaney’s collection ‘North’. Each lesson is designed for a double period, so this is a 28 lesson SoW. There is also one essay prep lesson. The first lesson covers context of the history of Ireland, The Troubles, and Heaney’s life. Each lesson contains attractive slides, clear instructions, and exentsion tasks on every slide. I taught this to compare with Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, but any slides linked to this can be easily removed - it does not impact the teaching of the poems. Check out my other resources and schemes of work for English Literature and/or Language! Poems from ‘North’ covered are: Antaeus Funeral Rites North Bog Queen The Grauballe Man Punishment Strange Fruit Act of Union Hercules and Antaeus Whatever you say, say nothing Ministry of Fear A Constable Calls Orange Drums Summer 1969 Exposure

4 lessons which will introduce students to the main themes and ideas of Jane Eyre, as an introduction to Wide Sargasso Sea. The lessons are all in one document; they ‘look like’ 2 lessons, but were planned to be taught over 2 double periods, so there is enough content for 4 lessons. Also included is a worksheet for students to fill in, relevant extracts from Jane Eyre, and wider interpretations of what Bertha could represent in Jane Eyre. Check out my full scheme of work for Wide Sargasso Sea as well!

A complete scheme of work to teach Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. Each file contains 2 lessons (as I have been teaching double periods!) and each lesson contains a starter, plenary and 3-4 tasks, each with an extension task. Links to Jane Eyre are also made throughout. There are 4 lessons in there comparing to Seamus Heaney’s ‘North’ as that is what we are comparing WSS to, but the vast majority of the lessons just focus on WSS. Page references refer to the Penguin Classics edition. See also my WSS/Jane Eyre introductory lessons, giving a quick overview of Jane Eyre to allow greater understanding of WSS.

These are 20 lessons to teach the 20 Voices anthology texts for Paper 1 of the Edexcel Language and Literature A Level. Each lesson is designed to be taught over a double period, so this is essentially 40 lessons! There is context for each text/writer, and tasks to examine genre/audience/purpose, tone, text conventions, and other features more specific to the text. The second text of each genre is also encouraged to be compared with the first (i.e. so you compare both articles in the final articles lesson) The research might require students to go online - perhaps on phone or laptop. Enjoy!

A complete scheme of work to teach the Metaphysical poems from the Edexcel English Literature spec. There are 17 lessons in total, including a context lesson, assessment lesson, and mock exam prep lesson. All poems are in the powerpoint. There is a lesson on overall context, as well as key context for each poet in relevant lessons. Each lesson has homework questions to prep students for the poem in the next lesson. These, as well as the main tasks, will allow the poems to be analysed in detail, with oppportunities for evaluative discussions.

This document provides a timeline of some key novels written over the last 300 years, with their titles, what makes them significant, and how novel writing as a whole has changed and developed. The idea is for students to be able to see the novels that they are studying in context - what other novels were written at the time, and how are they similar or different to what came before and after? This is not a lesson as such but a starting point for further research, discussion, and evalution.

This is four lessons (in one document) which helps students understand Postmodernism, and applies this in detail to the ‘Historical Notes’ section of The Handmaid’s Tale. First, students look at 3 poems to explore Victorian, Modernist, and Postmodern themes. They also look at how painting styles have changed over the centuries to less realistic and more abstract forms. They also consider the relative reliability of different ways of researching the past. The Historical Notes is then broken up into 6 sections, with specific questions linking to Postmodernism for each section. Finally, other theories (such as Marxism and Feminism) are used to analyse the text through different lenses. See my complete SoW on The Handmaid’s Tale for more useful lessons!

This document contains the 30 poems for the Edexcel English Literature spec. Each poem has a detailed summary and glossary. This has been especially helpful for students to tackle these challenging poems. It also contains a contents page, tables to summarise poems and links between them (for students to complete) and overall exam information.

A complete Scheme of Work (15 lessons) to teach A Streetcar Named Desire, aimed towards the English Language and Literature spec. This SoW will teach the entirety of the play, looking at characters, themes, and context, and analysing linguistic and dramatic features, such as spoken language features, word/sentence types, and conventions of a tragedy. PLEASE NOTE: I already sell a scheme of work to teach Streetcar for the Literature spec; these two schemes are very similar, except for the Lang-Lit one having a much more linguistic focus!

8 lessons introducing key language theorists on the topics of power, gender, and technology. Covers: Ideology (Althusser) Instrumental and Influential Power (Fairclough) Sapir-Whorf Marked and unmarked terms Holmes and metaphors Trudgill, Tannen, Lakoff, Zimmerman and West The influence of technology, from the printing press, to phones, to social media

8 lessons which introduce students to the English Language A Level (aimed at OCR but easily adaptable/applicable accross exam boards) Recaps/introduces word classes and grammar terms, as well as the key theories or critical lenses of power, gender, and technology.