A collection of knowledge recall starters.

A lesson exploring the theme of guilt in ‘Macbeth’. All resources are included within the PowerPoint.

Resources to accompany the teaching of ‘Ozymandias’.

A fully-resourced lesson building towards students completing a piece of descriptive writing on a Victorian setting. A task designed to develop understanding of A03 and to demonstrate clear links with ‘A Christmas Carol’.

A post-assessment lesson focusing on whole-class targets to build better descriptions. A focus on advanced structural and language features.

A single lesson exploring the poem ‘London’ by William Blake in the Power and Conflict GCSE cluster.

A single lesson exploring some archetypal characters in Gothic literature and relating it to the ‘Outsider’ in Frankenstein.

A single lesson using ‘Wuthering Heights’ as a stimulus to understand the difference between tone and mood in Gothic literature.

A LA, heavily-scaffolded lesson exploring the Gothic genre. Fully-resourced.

A LA, heavily-scaffolded lesson exploring the Gothic genre. Fully-resourced.

A lesson exploring the origins of rhetoric (MA). Fully resourced.

A LA, heavily-scaffolded lesson exploring the Gothic genre. Fully-resourced.

A LA, heavily-scaffolded lesson exploring the Gothic genre. Fully-resourced.

A MA lesson exploring how to write to persuade.

A collection of book titles for the back of lanyards, potentially for use on the 7th March to celebrate all things reading.

This is a fun set of lessons I designed recently to aid those on their Language Paper 2 Examination and general transactional writing. The lessons are designed to be engaging; the students will be scaffolded to writing a persuasive writing piece. It can easily be differentiated (I personally use Bronze, Silver and Gold for my class). Resources: I have included the Martin Luther King extract from ‘I Have A Dream’. This can easily be adapted to other speeches. Barack Obama, JFK and monologues from US Talk Shows are current but must be sensitively used. As for the video game research, I would recommend using five or six articles around the room. Use the most up to date articles you can and therefore print off according to the date of use. Interactive Elements: Check and adapt depending on software and model. Very easily adapted.

An easily adaptable resource designed for a HA Year 7 group, could be used for most of KS3 with slight tweaking. Print and cut the resources, stick them around the room or on different tables, giving students time to visit and make comments on each station. Differentiated success criteria. Proved to be very engaging and effective.

A fun and engaging lesson showing students the conventions of letter writing, the purpose of a letter and then good practice.

A two/three part lesson which has really helped my 7s/8s improve their writing style. It is based on science-fiction, but can easily be adapted for a range of literature or schemes of work. Is based on the PETER structure, but it could be adapted to whichever acronym you use.

A collection of English exam posters for weekly revision sessions for the following: AQA LP1 and LP2, ‘AIC’, ‘ACC’, ‘Macbeth’ and Power and Conflict poems.