A lesson on the poem ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Useful for the GCSE AQA Power and Conflict anthology. The lesson has a ‘do now’ activity, context section, summary of the poem and then each line and stanza is broken down and analysed in depth. At the end of the lesson there are some review resources and exemplar essay questions.

A lesson on the poem ‘The Prelude’ by William Wordsworth. Useful for the GCSE AQA Power and Conflict anthology. The lesson has a ‘do now’ activity, context section, summary of the poem and then each line and stanza is broken down and analysed in depth. At the end of the lesson there are some review resources and exemplar essay questions.

A quick PowerPoint retrieval activity with 15 quotations from Act 1 of the play. Useful for revision or when you start studying the play with your class.

A handy grid of themes for revision on the play Journey’s End. There are ten themes covered.

This is a full lesson based on an extract from Stave 5. There is a ‘do now’ activity and a model what/how/why paragraph based the the extract. Useful for revision. I’ve used it today and have told my Year 11s this is my prediction for the the real AQA English literature paper 1 exam.

A quick revision resource for An Inspector Calls. A revision clock looking at the the Inspector’s involvement in the play. Ideal for a lesson or a homework activity.

A quick revision resource for Blood Brothers. This revision clock looks at some of the important elements of the play and is ideal for a homework activity, a lesson activity or a last minute activity before an exam. I have used this with my classes on a regular basis.

A comparative revision clock for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ comparing the two families. Useful for a homework assignment or for a revision lesson.

Ideal for a cover lesson, homework or a creative writing lesson, this is a four task autobiography creative writing challenge. Students have four writing activities to complete about their lives: a newspaper article, a television series, a letter and a blog.

A full lesson based on Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol and the extract running from ‘They left the high-road, by a well-remembered lane…’ to ‘The Ghost smiled thoughtfully, and waved its hand: saying as it did so, “Let us see another Christmas!”’ The learning objective focuses on adding context to a student response. There is a do now quiz based on the text and an example paragraph analysing the text in response to this exam question: Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present loneliness and isolation in ‘A Christmas Carol’? The lesson follows the ‘I do/We do/You do’ structure. There is an exemplar paragraph analysing this section of the text, with a clear contextual comment. There is an extra activity at the end based on a spelling test of key words in the text. This lesson has been successfully used in GCSE English literature lessons for a number of years.

This is a useful lesson on answering a question on how deception is presented in an extract from Act 3, Scene 2 of Much Ado About Nothing. There is a recall ‘Do Now’ activity at the start with a lesson objective that can easily be adapted to suit your school. There is a model paragraph based on the extract in the I do/You do/We do format with a second paragraph in the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint as a guide for teachers.

Updated 2025: This is a knowledge orgainser for the poem ‘England to Her Sons’ by WN Hodgson. This is a part of the ‘Up the Line to Death’ poetry anthology that is used for the AQA A-level English Literature paper ‘WW1 and its Aftermath’ Option 3 which is compared to ‘The Wipers Times’ by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It’s an excellent resource for revision and has been used several times by myself.

Ten thinking and linking retrieval grids for scenes in ‘Macbeth’. These are very useful in the run up to the exams to get students thinking about how key ideas in the play can link together. These are useful for lesson starters or as revision activities. Easily adaptable for other texts.

A two page document that has eight prompts for students to revise and analyse the character of Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing. I’ve used this resource many times and it is useful for students revising the play before their exams.

A full lesson I have used with my Year 11 class. There is a ‘do now’ activity, an exam question based on kingship, with the extract coming from Act 1, Scene 4, a PowerPoint with an annotated extract, model paragraph and a revision clock based on kingship. The main activity is based on an ‘I do/We do/You do’ strategy using a model paragraph that can be easily adapted for your class and their ability.

A revision clock for the theme of deception in Much Ado About Nothing. Adaptable and useful for a homework activity, lesson activity or for a revision session before the exams.

A revision activity based on the characters in the play. This is a revision clock with 12 sections based on all the main characters, plus the minor characters. This is useful for a revision activity in class, a do now activity or a homework task.

**Here are individual checklists for the five different types of writing AQA have stated could be on English Language Paper 2. There is a checklist and three exemplar questions for an article, essay, leaflet, letter and speech. Each checklist is at least one lesson’s worth of resources. **

A quick revision activity in which students can consider what Beatrice and Benedick require as their perfect partner on the Elizabethan dating website GreatCatch.com!