A lesson teaching students how to analyse an extract from Romeo and Juliet, preparing them for the new GCSE 9-1 Literature exams. This lesson focuses on Act 1, Scene 5 (a previous exam question). Based on Edexcel mark scheme, though this can be easily changed.

This took my top set Y11 class two hours. It is a lesson designed to help them revise the working-class characters and their significance throughout the novel. There is work on key quotations and also a help sheet to help students embed contextual knowledge. Students are then taught how to approach the exam question and given an excellent model answer as a guide. Very challenging for the more able.

This lesson took my top set Year 11s two hours. It is designed to help them revise the theme of hope in Animal Farm, as well as the ideas that relate to it - Old Major, the Windmill, Beasts of England and Moses and his tales of Sugarcandy Mountain. Students are then taught how to write and structure the essay. An exemplar answer is included.

A fully-resourced lesson on Zimmerman and West’s Dominance Theory - lasts 2-3 hours.

A game with 70 slides containing key terminology relevant to AS Level English language (multiple specs). Game is easy to play and only requires a couple of students. Excellent revision tool.

Lesson designed for high-ability students. Students are taught 6 persuasive writing techniques and then have to use them in a letter to Santa persuading him NOT to visit them this year. I used this as an interview lesson and received an ‘outstanding’.

2 festive lessons that would be great for any KS4 group (or higher ability KS3 group!). The first is a reading lesson based on a Christmas extract from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; this is followed by a series of reading questions in the style of the new Edexcel Language paper 1 questions. The second is a creative writing lesson based on a clip from Home Alone, which encourages students to write in the third person using a range of sentence structures. These festive lessons can be enjoyed by all ages and require no extra planning.

EDEXCEL CONFLICT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - 9-1 SPEC Each sheet contains 15-20 thoughtful analysis questions for students to answer on these poems. This would make an excellent revision task, homework task or consolidation of learning task.

A 40/40 essay answering the following Animal Farm question: ‘Explore the significance of Snowball throughout the novel’. This has not yet appeared as an exam question, so a great exemplar to use with groups, especially those you are challenging to achieve grades 8 and 9.

This is a series of two lessons teaching students how to approach questions 1-4 on the Edexcel Language Paper 1 exam. The first lesson focuses primarily on analysing language and structure, whereas the second lesson teaches students how to evaluate properly (without over-using adverbs like “successfully”).

This 12 page PDF acts as a scheme of work for Key Stage Three classes studying Animal Farm (ideally used with Y8 or Y9). For every chapter there is vocabulary work, 10-20 thoughtful comprehension questions (designed to highlight the moments that students will want to write about when it comes to their GCSE years) and an extension task requiring higher-level thinking and more critical analysis. After using this resource, your students will know the plot, characters and themes very well, setting them up for GCSE study later.

An intervention lesson focusing on the transactional writing question on the GCSE English Language paper. This lesson teaches students how to craft an engaging and effective opening and includes a model.

A complete 3-week scheme of work to help your students to revise for the new Macbeth extract and whole-text questions on the Edexcel Literature exam. This scheme of work consists of 12 lessons (though may take up to 15 hours of class time) and is fully resourced. There are regular references to the exam success criteria, model answers and assessment opportunities built into every lesson. The scheme of work also allows students to revise plot, characters and themes in an engaging way.

Seven mock papers for the Edexcel Conflict Poetry cluster question.

Here are eight practice papers for the Macbeth questions on the new Edexcel English Literature 9-1 GCSE.

This resource contains three lessons for a low ability KS4 group focusing on Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade (Edexcel 9-1 Conflict Cluster).

This lesson walks students through how to answer an extract-based question on Jekyll and Hyde. We follow the Edexcel English Literature spec. This lesson guides students through how to approach an extract, choosing which features to write about, asks students to explore a model answer and then write their own The extract in question is from chapter one - The Story of the Door. It explores the moment Hyde tramples on the young girl. I used this with high ability Y9 - aiming for grade 4s and 5s. It would be equally suitable for a low/mid ability Y10 or Y11 group. The focus is on aimings for 4s and 5s.