Two detailed lessons exploring Emily Dickinson’s ‘I started Early - Took my Dog’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring Sophie Hannah’s ‘Postcard from a Travel Snob’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 71 slide PowerPoint, 10 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language Discourses and a summary terminology and theory sheet.The following are covered and taught as part of the unit: self-representation of the writer; positioning of the audience; evaluating and challenging discourses; applying different linguistic levels; context and genre; comparison. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered: Definition of language discourses Descriptivism and prescriptivism Sticklerism – Robert Lane Greene (2011) Eats, Shoots & Leaves – Lynne Truss (2003) Declinism – Robert Lane Greene (2011) Crumbling Castle, Infectious Disease and Damp Spoon – Jean Aitchison (1996) Standard and Non-Standard English Complaint Tradition – James and Lesley Milroy (1987) Complaint Tradition – John McWhorter (2013) The Language Wars – Henry Hitchings (2011) Verbal Hygiene – Deborah Cameron (1995) David Crystal – A Sea of Language Change The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources. Check out my other English Language A Level resources! Check out my other English Language resources: Language and Gender Language and Region Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Analysing Spoken Language Child Language Acquisition - Speech Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing

Two detailed lessons exploring Grace Nichols’ ‘Hurricane Hits England’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with thorough annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring Elizabeth Jennings’ ‘Absence’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Lines Written in Early Spring’ by William Wordsworth from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

A revision lesson (or lessons if you want to do more with the initial card revision activity) for the AQA Worlds and Lives cluster question for GCSE English Literature. Students will use the enclosed resources to briefly revise the poems from the cluster before identifying the four or five key poems they should revise for the examination. This encourages analytical and evaluative connections. This is best used once the students know the poems well and understand the requirements of this question. Included: Blank revision cards for a starter activity which can be extended into a whole lesson activity (with one card modelled) Poem linking and choice grid with ten example exam questions Lesson PowerPoint Lesson plan with guidance as to how to adapt this activity across two lessons Please check out my individual PowerPoints for each of the poems in the Worlds and Lives Cluster: Worlds and Lives Individual PowerPoints

An extract analysis booklet which contains 20 examination-length extracts from A Christmas Carol and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording). Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage. This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.

An extract analysis booklet which contains 23 examination-length extracts from The Merchant of Venice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B). Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage. This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.

An extract analysis booklet which contains 24 examination-length extracts from The Tempest and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording). Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage. This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified. You could also use the booklet as an A Level teaching resource for retrieval practice and development of analysis skills.

A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 67 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language and Social Groups (with lots of work on Language and Age) and a summary terminology and theory sheet. Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered: Idiolect, dialect, sociolect and ethnolect Communication Accommodation Theory (Convergence, Divergence, Interpersonal & Intergroup Communication) – Giles (1971) Communities of Practice – Lave and Wenger (1991 and 1998) Social Network Theory Belfast Study – Milroy (1975) New York Study & Martha’s Vineyard Study – Labov (1966 and 1963) Follow up to Martha’s Vineyard Study – Blake and Josey (2003) Reading study and ‘Age and Generation-specific use of language’ – Cheshire (1982 and 2006) Emerging Adulthood in Sociolinguistics – Bigham (2012) Trends in Teenage Talk – Stenström, Andersen and Hasund (2002) Age in Sociolinguistics – Eckert (1997) Age identity in Japan and the US – Ota, Harwood, Williams and Takai (2000) Teenage Talk – Eckert (2003 and 1989) Teenage language in West Yorkshire – Ives Bolton Study – Moore (2010) Teenage Slang – de Klerk (1997) and Zimmerman (2009) Teenage Talk - Stenström (2014) The Language of British Teenagers - Martínez (2011) Use of tags – Berland (1997) ‘Like’ as a discourse maker – Odato (2013) Creative linguistic processes in teenage slang – Fajardo (2018) Elaborated and Restricted Code – Bernstein (1964 and 1971) Criticisms of Bernstein – Rosen and Labov (1972) and Ivinson (2017) Discourse Community – Swales (1990) There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 56-64. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question. The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources. Check out my other English Language A Level resources! Language and Gender [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12983005] Language and Region [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12973238] Language and Power and Occupation [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12975755] Language and Global and World Englishes [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12993850] Language Change [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13003463] Language and Technology [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13012666] Language and Ethnicity [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13018720] Language Discourses… [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13035534]

Two detailed lessons exploring Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Valentine’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Living Space’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnet 43’ from the Relationships cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring Emily Dickinson’s ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology. The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

A detailed A3 knowledge organiser for the GCSE and A Level English Literature text, The Merchant of Venice. Useful for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas. I have also included a blank copy for students to fill in. I would suggest giving students the blank copy before providing the populated version.

A detailed A3 knowledge organiser for the GCSE and A Level English Literature text, Jane Eyre. Useful for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas. I have also included a blank copy for students to fill in. I would suggest giving students the blank copy before providing the populated version.

This is a visual and creative resource for planning the creative/narrative/descriptive writing question for GCSE English Language. The document encourages students to focus on the key assessment foci. It can be used early in the topic or as a revision resource. Lesson plan included!