A series of lessons on Wilde’s ‘Dorian Gray’ including the quotations and analysis from the text, covering such themes as Influence/gothic/Art and Aesthetics/doubles, dopplegangers and splitting/hereditry/flowers, colour and decadence/ context/women and gender. Some of these themes may be in these first two chapters or may be in subsequent chapters (also uploaded) or you may purchase all together as a bundle.

This is one of 6 flashcards I have made for students to fully revise the characters of ‘An Inspector Calls’. These cards can be printed and laminated or printed straight onto card. They are organised into paragraph ideas so that students aren’t simply learning quotations but are learning mini essays on these central characters.

This includes both a pdf and a powerpoint version covering the two titles as follows: Typically, texts present men as the authority figures in relationships’. In the light of this view, how does Shakespeare present husbands and wives in this extract and elsewhere in the play? Act 3 scene 3 lines 294 -323 AND ‘Typically, texts about husbands and wives present marriage from a male point of view.’ In the light of this view, discuss how Shakespeare presents the relationship between Othello and Desdemona in this extract and elsewhere in the play. (This is Act 3 scene 3 Line 235 -278) This includes the passages from the text and two detailed slides of notes with quotations gathered from the play.

Everything you need to teach the following poems from the Eduqas poetry anthology for GCSE: Sonnet 43, She Walks in Beauty, London, Living Space, As Imperceptibly as Grief, Afternoons, Hawk Roosting, Ozymandias, To Autumn. This presentation includes 87 slides and covers both the context of each poem and a close anlaysis of each poem. There is also a sample exam question with scaffolded support on power in Living Space and London.

49 slides to take you through these four poems with a scaffolded structure for writing both the a) and b) essays. This resource should help students to phrase the comparative element and also to include the context. Success criteria included for students to peer assess. All videos and poetry annotations included. This should cover a couple of weeks work if you are taking them through the assessment in class in order to teach them how to approach it.

Two detailed essay plans on ‘Othello’. These have been put together to aid the teaching of AQA’s spec A English Literature course ‘Love Through the Ages’ but would be suitable for any A level course or to support more able students at GCSE. The pdfs include the essay titles and the passage with suggested ideas on both the passage and elsewhere in the play.

An excellent revision session which involves the students working in teams to work out the clues to quotations and questions from An Inspector Calls. The first letter of the answers will then need to be unscrambled to name a well known Easter food. There are two rounds. This took my class all lesson (50 minutes)

A collection of all the references to the sea in the play, with blank slides for students to interact with the quotation followed by my teacher notes, analysing each quotation. This would be useful if you were setting up an essay perhaps on this theme.

Suitable for any A level spec, the slides cover the theme of Love and are structured to cover the following ideas: Love is unbalanced and dependent Lust/sex is expressed in place of love Self-preservation is more important than love Available as both a pdf or powerpoint

Close analysis of the Thornfield chapters of Jane Eyre. This has been produced in a powerpoint format so that teachers may use it in front of the class enabling students to annotate their texts and to discuss the implicit meanings that Bronte hints at in her narrative. This was produced for an A level class but could equally suit a high achieving GCSE group.

quotations and paragraph ideas for an essay on how gender is presented in An Inspector Calls. This has contextual prompts, quotations and analysis.

A detailed resource on how Priestley presents the character of Gerald with quotations, analysis and context.