Everything you need to teach unseen poetry at KS5. This unit of work includes 22 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. It covers poetry eras such as: Renaissance, Cavalier, Metaphysical, Romantic, Victorian, Modernist and The Beats. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level course but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: what makes a poem a poem? Lesson 2-3: poetry era research Lesson 4: scansion: rhythm, rhyme and meter Lesson 5: Family relationships in modern poetry Lesson 6: Male/female relationships in modern poetry Lesson 7: Loss in Renaissance and Romantic poetry Lesson 8: Romantic love in Edwardian and Victorian poetry Lesson 9: Romantic love in the Renaissance Lesson 10: The Cavaliers Lesson 11: Romantic love in Cavalier and Metaphysical poetry Lesson 12: Family relationships and regret in modern poetry Lesson 13: Family relationships in modern poetry Lesson 14: The Metaphysicals Lesson 15: Romantic love in Cavalier and Victorian poetry Lesson 16: Individual poet research Lesson 17: The use of satire in Restoration and Beat poetry Lesson 18: Hitting the assessment objectives Lesson 19: Breaking Up in modern poetry Lesson 20: Romantic Love in Modernist and Victorian poetry

This unit contains everything you need to teach Chronicle at IB level. It includes 22 lessons to help guide the students through the text, investigating Marquez’s use of magical realism and the detective genre. It ends with essay planning lessons to help them link the themes to other IB texts, and begin to consider a topic for their extended essays and oral presentations. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Books edition. Lesson 1: Designing context presentations Lesson 2: Sharing context with the group Lesson 3: Marquez’s style Lesson 4: Attitudes to the murder Lesson 5: Chapter 1 Review Lesson 6: Bayardo and Angela Lesson 7: Attitudes to marriage Lesson 8: Angela Vicario Lesson 9: Honour Lesson 10: The Vicario Brothers Lesson 11: Men and Women Lesson 12: Heroes and Villains Lesson 13: Who is the victim? Lesson 14: The Detective Genre Lesson 15: Reader suspicions Lesson 16: The end Lesson 17: Chapter 4-5 Review Lesson 18: The Trial of Santiago Nasar Lesson 19: Character Reviews Lesson 20: Overall text revision Lesson 21: Choose your activity Lesson 22: Class presentations on themes and links

Everything you need to revise Othello at KS5. This unit includes 14 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Desdemona Lesson 2: Who is responsible? Lesson 3: Literary Criticism Lesson 4: Hitting the assessment objectives Lesson 5: Past Paper Lesson 6: Film overview Lesson 7: Brabantio and Roderigo Lesson 8: Iago Lesson 9: Love and Hate Lesson 10: Iago and love Lesson 11: Past questions Lesson 12: Bradley vs Leavis Lesson 13: Revision guides Lesson 14: Love and Loyalty

This Unit of Work has been designed as a pathway through the Paris Anthology for AQAEnglish A-level Language and Literature. It contains over 33 lessons and covers all of the extracts, as well as lessons to compare the extracts using past papers. It is fully resourced with a linguistic toolkit, features of spoken language mini tests, word class worksheets, past papers, exemplar essays, opportunities for online research and homework tasks. Lesson 1a: Introduction to The Anthology Lesson 1b: Grammar and Lexis Lesson 2: Stories Are Waiting - Eurostar Advert Lesson 3: Mile by Mile by R Piggott Lesson 4: Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson Lesson 5a: The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter Lesson 5b: Comparing The Most Beautiful Walk with Neither Here Nor There Lesson 6: Paris City Guide by Lonely Planet Lesson 7a: An introduction to Spoken Language Lesson 7b: Anna and Zara’s narratives Lesson 8a: Breathless - Waiting for Goddard Lesson 8b: Breathless - Roommates Lesson 9a: Around the World in 80 Dates by Jennifer Cox Lesson 9b: Writing Guide Lesson 10: What do you wish… by Trip Advisor Lesson 11: Visiting Paris conversation: Mike and Sophia Lesson 12: Rick Steves’ Walking Tour of the Louvre Lesson 13: French Milk by Lucy Knisley Lesson 14: Understanding Chic by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni Lesson 15: Memories of Places in Paris: Isabelle and Sophia Lesson 16: Encore Une Fois by Just Another American in Paris Lesson 17: 18 Months Later by Just Another American in Paris Lesson 18: Comparing Encore Une Fois and The Most Beautiful Walk Lesson 19: Traveling to Paris by Gransnet Lesson 20: Paris for Children by The Rough Guide Lesson 21-24: NOT FOR PARENTS by Klay Lamprell Lesson 25a: Hemmingway research Lesson 25b: On Paris by Ernest Hemmingway Lesson 26: Foreign Correspondent by Peter Lennon Lesson 27: Paris Riots 1968 by British Pathe Lesson 28: The Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne Lesson 29: Letters from France by Helen Maria Williams Lesson 30: Fine French Food by Lonely Planet Lesson 31: The Sweet Life by David Lebovitz Lesson 32: Eating in Paris: Isabelle, Mike and Sophia Lesson 33: Comparing Eating in Paris and The Sweet Life

Everything you need to teach the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE Anthology. This unit of work is focused on Paper 1 non-fiction texts . It includes 12 lessons, but the amount of material could easily cover 22 lessons with 2 lessons per extract. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar answers, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts and opportunities for online research. Lesson 1: An introduction to non-fiction reading Lesson 2: The Danger of a Single Story Lesson 3: Passage to Africa Lesson 4: The Explorer’s Daughter Lesson 5: Explorers or boys messing about? Lesson 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place Lesson 7: Young and Dyslexic? Lesson 8: A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat Lesson 9: Beyond the Sky and Earth Lesson 10: H is for Hawk Lesson 11: Chinese Cinderella Lesson 12: Revision activities

Do you want to study a novel that teaches students about both the allure and the dangers of gangs? This unit of work works well with mid to high ability Year 8 or 9 students, and could serve as a basic introduction to the American Literature canon. It comes resourced with PowerPoints, worksheets, contextual information, IWB activities, character analysis, opportunities for creative writing and ideas for an assessment. Lesson 1: Gang culture Lesson 2: How Hinton creates character Lesson 3: Hinton’s use of stereotypes Lesson 4: How writers build tension Lesson 5: The Socs and The Greasers Lesson 6: Using inference Lesson 7: Narrative perspective Lesson 8: Robert Frost “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Lesson 9: Analysing the character of Ponyboy Lesson 10: Writing a newspaper article Lesson 11: Dual narratives Lesson 12: Use of foreshadowing to build tension Lesson 13: Building tension in “The Rumble” Lesson 14: Character foils: Jonny and Dally Lesson 15: Analysing the character of Ponyboy Lesson 16: Formal speeches in The Courtroom

This unit of work has been designed to prepare A-level students for their AQA Paper 2 Unseen Prose exam. The students have to incorporate context into their answers, so the unit contains 13 lessons ranging from Victorian Literature to more modern, multi-cultural texts like White Teeth. Each lesson will take you about an hour to prepare their answer and a further hour to write an essay if you wish to do so. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoint lessons, exemplar essays, guidance on how to write introductions and conclusions, extracts, and examiner advice. The lessons include extracts from: The Heart of Darkness I am Charlotte Simmonds Brick Lane Digging to America White Teeth Gone with the Wind Catcher in the Rye Revolutionary Road Everything I Never Told You Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit I have used this unit with very high achieving A-level students who have gone on to study English Literature at Oxford and Cambridge, so it is definitely targeted towards the top end.

Everything you need to revise Jane Eyre at KS5. This unit includes 8 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the World Classics edition. Lesson 1: Oppression Lesson 2: Essay Writing Lesson 3: Religion Lesson 4: Integrating context Lesson 5: Integrating critics Lesson 6: Love Lesson 7: Freedom Lesson 8: Essay feedback

This unit contains everything you need to revise unseen poetry for your A level exam. This unit of work includes 8 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information and exemplar material. It covers poetry eras such as: Metaphysicals, Cavaliers, Renaissance, Tudor and more modern poems. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level course, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. The scheme of work includes: Lesson 1: Metaphysical revision of Donne, Marvell, Herbert and Crashaw Lesson 2: Comparing Cavalier and Metaphysical attitudes to love Lesson 3: How to approach an unseen poem Lesson 4: Romantic love in Victorian and modern poetry Lesson 5: Motherhood in modern poetry and WW2 Lesson 6: Romantic love in 3 modern poems Lesson 7: Loss in Tudor and Renaissance poetry Lesson 8: Analysing poems for the influence of context using Kahoot

Everything you need to revise Lord of the Flies at KS4. This unit includes 17 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA GCSE, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Jack Lesson 2: Ralph Lesson 3: The Beast Lesson 4: Essay planning Lesson 5: Symbols Lesson 6: Simon Lesson 7: Essay question planning Lesson 8: Exam overview Lesson 9: The fire Lesson 10: The extract question Lesson 11: Assemblies Lesson 12: Jack extract Lesson 13: Group presentations Lesson 14: Piggy Lesson 15: Revision cards Lesson 16: Final revision Lesson 17: Character overview

This unit contains everything you need to teach Lady Windermere’s Fan at KS5. It includes 22 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. The page numbers refer to the New Mermaid’s edition. Each lesson focuses chronologically on a different scene and analyses a different aspect of the play. Lesson 1: Plot and characters quiz Lesson 2: Context research Lesson 3: Context presentations Lesson 4: The aesthetic movement Lesson 5: Expectations of Victorian women Lesson 6: Socialism Lesson 7: Marriage Lesson 8: Society and morality Lesson 9: Fin de siecle Lesson 10: Comparing the female roles Lesson 11: The importance of marriage Lesson 12: The “new” woman Lesson 13: DVD and plot lesson Lesson 14: Mrs Erlynne Lesson 15: The Dandy Lesson 16: Comparing the male characters Lesson 17: the moral messages of the play Lesson 18: A “good” woman Lesson 19: Secrets and lies Lesson 20:Reputations Lesson 21: Character reviews Lesson 22: Extract practice

This unit contains everything you need to teach the Songs of Ourselves anthology and will save you hours of preparation! It is focused on the CIE IGCSE Paper for English Literature. It includes 26 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar essays, context research, mark schemes, quizzes and opportunities for self-assessment. It is extremely thorough and allows the students multiple points for reflection to ensure they are confident of what themes to explore in their exam. Lesson 1: An introduction to poetry Lesson 2: Poetic techniques Lesson 3: Scansion: rhythm, rhyme and meter Lesson 4: Techniques review Lesson 5: Sonnet 18 Lesson 6: Love Armed Lesson 7: A Married State Lesson 8: The Chimney Sweeper Lesson 9: An Essay on Man Lesson 10: Quiz review Lesson 11: Carpet Weavers, Morocco Lesson 12: Before the Sun Lesson 13: Storyteller Lesson 14: Lament Lesson 15: Lament essay Lesson 16: Romantic research Lesson 17: Report to Wordsworth Lesson 18: Quiz review Lesson 19: A Different History Lesson 20: Hunting Snake Lesson 21: Hunting Snake Essay Lesson 22: The Cockroach Lesson 23: Where I Come From Lesson 24: Follower Lesson 25: Quiz review Lesson 26: Revision cards Lesson 27: National Poetry Day

This unit of work is focused on Paper 1 IB for English Language and Literature. It includes an abundance of resources and examples of the 18 different non-fiction forms for the Paper 1 non fiction unseen exam. These resources do not work as stand alone lessons, but they contain everything you need to make your own. Lesson 1: Adverts Lesson 2: Articles Lesson 3: Magazine Covers Lesson 4: A letter of complaint Lesson 5: Letters Lesson 6: GQ Magazine covers Lesson 7: Adverts Lesson 8: Scientific Journals Lesson 9: Webpages Lesson 10: Opinion Columns Lesson 11: Recruitment Campaigns Lesson 12: Charity Appeals Lesson 13: Speeches Lesson 14: Newspaper Articles Lesson 15: Cartoons Lesson 16: Opinion Columns Lesson 17: Interviews Lesson 18: Infographics Lesson 19: Scientific Articles Lesson 20: News Reports Lesson 21: Diaries Lesson 22: Self Help Guides Lesson 23: Children’s stories The bundle also contains 14 practice past papers, exemplar answers, a flashcard building activity and opportunities to do independent research on the different forms.

This unit contains everything you need to teach transactional writing (letters, speeches, articles, essays, reviews and leaflets) at IGCSE. This unit of work is focused on Pearson Edexcel Paper 1 for English language and teaches the students how to argue, advise and persuade. It includes 25 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson Powerpoints, exemplar answers, newspaper articles, leaflets, essays, reviews and speeches. Lesson 1: Introduction to transactional writing Lesson 2: Coronavirus response Lesson 3: How to counter-argue Lesson 4: Tough love Lesson 5: Raising children Lesson 6: Travel Writing Lesson 7: Charity speech Lesson 8: Letter of application Lesson 9: Write your letter of application Lesson 10: Technology Lesson 11: Fame Lesson 12: English teacher application Lesson 13: Health leaflet Lesson 14: Mobile phones Lesson 15: Parents are over-protective Lesson 16: Who would you vote for? Lesson 17: Film censorship essay Lesson 18: Writing your essay Lesson 19: Protecting the countryside Lesson 20: Virgin Atlantic complaint letter Lesson 21: Meghan and Harry Lesson 22: Writing your opinion Lesson 23: Foreign holidays Lesson 24: Writing a film review Lesson 25: Writing a book review

This scheme of work contains everything you need to teach Imaginative Writing at IGCSE and will save you hours of preparation! It is focused on Paper 3 coursework, but can easily be adapted for Paper 2 exam preparation. It includes 24 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, short stories and extracts, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, writing checklists and activities to exploit drama. Each lesson targets a different area of the mark scheme for the students to master. Lesson 1: An introduction into imaginative writing Lesson 2: How to structure a story using a story mountain Lesson 3: How to write an effective opening Lesson 4: Using connectives Lesson 5: Creating characters with depth Lesson 6: Writing about a party Lesson 7: Focus on punctuation in ‘The Hero’ Lesson 8: Avoiding cliche in “The 100% perfect girl” Lesson 9: Using dialogue Lesson 10: Multiple narrative voices in “Not My Best Side” Lesson 11: Writing a story using a unique voice Lesson 12: Structure in ‘The Fugitive’ Lesson 13: A Day in the Life of a Nobody Lesson 14: Writing a personal response Lesson 15: Creating titles Lesson 16: Expanding and planning Lesson 17: Topic sentences Lesson 18: Openings and endings Lesson 19: Endings Lesson 20: Narratives and dialogue Lesson 21: Opening lines Lesson 22: Creating a sense of place Lesson 23: Show don’t tell Lesson 24: Narrative Tenses in The Beach

This unit contains everything you need to teach Jane Eyre at KS5 and will save you hours of preparation! It includes 32 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Each lesson is designed to look at a different chapter and aspect of Jane Eyre. The page numbers refer to the World’s Classics edition with an introduction by Margaret Smith. Lesson 1: Applying context Lesson 2: Jane Eyre’s childhood Lesson 3: The significance of the red room Lesson 4: Chapter summaries Lesson 5: Jane’s education Lesson 6: Freedom Past Paper Lesson 7: Coming of Age Lesson 8: Helen Burns Lesson 9: Thornfield Lesson 10: Male and Female Lesson 11: Victorian Women Lesson 12: The significance of the paintings Lesson 13: Rochester and Jane Lesson 14: Gothic Romance Lesson 15: Ice and Fire Lesson 16: Mystery in Chapter 17 Lesson 17: Blanche Ingram Lesson 18: The Fortune Teller Lesson 19: Gateshead Lesson 20: The paintings Lesson 21: Pathetic fallacy Lesson 22: The Jane Eyre debate Lesson 23: Dreams and reality Lesson 24: Thornfield Lesson 25: Bertha Mason Lesson 26: Bertha Past Paper Lesson 27: The struggle for the self Lesson 28: The role of religion Lesson 29: The Rivers Lesson 30: Critical Readings Lesson 31: Return to Thornfield Lesson 32: The Ending

This unit includes everything you need to teach Mockingbird at High School for the IGCSE, and it will save you hours of preparation time! It is focused on essay writing skills for Cambridge IGCSE, but it could be easily adapted for other exam boards. It includes 23 lessons; each lesson covers a chapter of the novel. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, assessment questions, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts for analysis, online research, opportunities for creative writing, context cards and a revision workbook. The page numbers refer to the Orange Faber and Faber edition with an introduction by Ian Gregor. Chapter 1: An introduction to Maycomb County and Alabama Chapter 2: A Southern Education, Miss Caroline extract practice Chapter 3: The relationship between Atticus and Scout Chapter 4: Atticus and Bravery Chapter 5: Miss Maudie Atkinson Chapter 6: How Harper Lee builds tension Chapter 7: Growing Up Chapter 8: Creative Writing and The Fire Chapter 10: The rabid dog Chapter 11: Ms Dubose and Southern Belles Chapter 12: Segregation and Calpurnia’s church Chapter 13: Aunt Alexandra Chapter 14: Exam practice Chapter 15: Lynch Mobs and the KKK Chapters 16-21: The Trial Chapter 17: How Harper Lee creates mood and atmosphere Chapter 21: The Verdict Chapter 23: Character Foils: Bob and Atticus Chapter 24: The Missionary Ladies Chapter 25: Role Models Chapter 28: The attack on Scout and Jem Chapters 29-30: The Aftermath Chapter 31: The Ending

If you are teaching Frankenstein, this unit contains everything you need to allow students to connect a 19th century Romantic novel with the great issues of today, such as the environment, artificial intelligence and what makes us human. This unit has everything you need to teach Frankenstein at KS3. It contains 25 lessons that take you through the text using differentiated extracts. It is fully resourced with context readings, theme discussions, extract analysis, persuasive writing opportunities, online research on The Romantics, critical articles and opportunities to practice extract into essay writing. Please note this unit does not look at the whole text, it analyses key extracts from the novel. Lesson 1: an introduction to plot and context Lesson 2: Walton’s letters Lesson 3: C1 Victor and Elizabeth Lesson 4: C4 University Life Lesson 5: C5 The Creature Lesson 6: C6 Elizabeth’s letter Lesson 7: C7 Child killers Lesson 8: The Trial of Justine Lesson 9: C8 The Gothic and The Romantic Lesson 10: Romantic Research Lesson 11: C10 The Ice Field Lesson 12: C11 The Creature’s Tale Lesson 13: C15 The Importance of Appearances Lesson 14: C16 Revenge Lesson 15: C17 The Bride of Frankenstein Lesson 16: C19 The Orkney Islands Lesson 17: C20 The Dangers of Science Lesson 18: Who is the real monster? Lesson 19: C23 Elizabeth Lesson 20: C24 The End Lesson 21: Extract analysis on ‘Regret’ Lesson 22: Walton’s Letters Lesson 23: The Trial of Victor Frankenstein Lesson 24: End of unit quiz

Everything you need to teach AQA Power and Conflict Poetry at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper2 for English Literature. It includes 20 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and exemplar essays.

Everything you need to teach Blood Brothers at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts and opportunities to exploit online research. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama Edition edited by Jim Mulligan.