This is a lesson planned for a middle-ability Year 8 class looking at the role of female children and the Red Room in ‘Jane Eyre’. Pupils will debate the role of children before looking at the extract where Jane is forced into the red room. There is support provided to help pupils annotate the extract through group work and sentence starters to write a response about it. This lesson is easily adaptable for any KS3 class of any ability.

This is an A3 worksheet for KS4 classes studying Romeo and Juliet. It allows them to write key examples from the play where fate is explored to make it easier to track its importance.

This is a short lesson focusing on question 1 of the English Language Paper 2 exam. It introduced the exam briefly to the students, before requiring them to look at an extract from the Daily Mail on Alison Hammond’s weight loss. The worksheet includes an extract from the article and a grid containing 8 statements. The lesson also allows pupils the opportunity to word their own 8 statements and to practice with their peers.

This is a lesson for a middle-ability Year 8 class who were looking at Gothic literature. This lesson carries on from looking at an extract in ‘Jane Eyre’ where Bertha is finally revealed to the reader (see other Bertha lesson uploaded). The lesson requires pupils to imagine they are Bertha and write a diary entry detailing one of the days where she is locked inside the house/attic. There is an active activity where pupils can initially create a mime of Bertha, before they then plan and write their diary entry. Sentence starters are included to support pupils in their writing. This is easily adaptable for any KS3 or KS4 class.

This is a lesson for a middle-ability Year 8 class who were looking at Gothic literature. This lesson focuses on an extract from ‘Jane Eyre’ where Betha is finally revealed to the reader. The lesson requires pupils to look at initial quotes and explore their interpretations before then reading the extract, annotating it and writing an analytical paragraph on the extract. The extract is included in this resource and sentence starters using the PEACE structure are also included to support students. This is easily adaptable for any KS3 or KS4 class.

This is a GCSE lesson revision different types of conflict that the AQA Power and Conflict poetry cluster explores. The lesson features a range of activities that you can pick and chose from to suit your class. They range from pupils create tables to identify what poems link to different types of conflict; there is also a model text of the beginning of a comparison essay that pupils can highlight to identify the AOs and use to support their own writing.

This resource consists of two lessons focusing on a GCSE-style assessment. This has been planned for a middle-ability Year 9 class. The lesson focuses on the idea of whether Macbeth is truly a victim or not and requires pupils to consider a GCSE-style question on this where they must analyse an extract but also comment on other parts of the play. The first lesson focuses on them exploring the extract and planning a response (planning sheet included focusing on a PEACE structure) and the second lesson is more brief, allowing them plenty of time to write their assessment. This resource is easily adaptable for any KS3 or KS4 class of any ability.

This is a lesson planned for a middle-ability Year 8 class. It is a continuation lesson from a previous Harry Potter lesson where pupils looked at descriptions of Diagon Alley shops (see TES profile for this lesson). Pupils are now going to write a description imagining they have gone to Diagon Alley themselves and have visited a particular shop. There are images to help pupils gain initial ideas and a clip is included to help them begin to form descriptions. Group work is involved in the planning stages and roles of team leaders are available to pupils of a higher ability in the class. Worksheets are also included showing images of various shops. Each group can receive a set of images of one shop to focus their description on. This lesson is easily adaptable to any KS3 class of any ability. Shops included: Gringotts Flourish and Blotts Ollivander’s Wand Shop Eeylop’s Owl Emporium Madam Malkin’s Robes for all Occasions

This is a lesson planned for a middle ability Year 8 class. It introduces pupils to fantasy worlds but initial discussing the worlds they know and based on this, what they think they key features of a fantasy world should be. There is then a brief example of an opening description of a fantasy world for them to discuss before they then have a extended writing task of writing their own opening. There are sentence starters to support pupils with their writing and level descriptions to aid them in their writing and the self-assessment task. This lesson can be easily adapted for a KS3 class of any ability.

This is one whole lesson for a middle- ability Year 9 class focusing of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plotting to kill King Duncan. The lesson focuses on a short extract from the scene and requires students to consider gender stereotypes during the Shakespearian era and how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth subvert them. The tasks are split into sections to make them more manageable and sentence starters are provided to support pupils in their writing. The extract for the lesson is also included and the lesson can be easily adapted to a KS3 or KS4 class of any ability.

This is one whole lesson for a middle- ability Year 9 class focusing on the characterisation of Lady Macbeth. The lesson focuses on a short extract and requires students to consider gender stereotypes during the Shakespearian era and how Lady Macbeth subverts them. The tasks are split into sections to make them more manageable and sentence starters are provided to support pupils in their writing. The extract for the lesson is also included and the lesson can be easily adapted to a KS3 or KS4 class of any ability.

This is one lesson for a middle-ability Year 9 class looking at the scene where Macbeth and Banquo first meet the Witches. The lesson predominantly focuses on the prophecies the Witches provide and the significance of these. The initial reactions of Macbeth and Banquo are also explored with supporting questions to answer. A model text of a paragraph responding to a GCSE-style question is also included, as well as the extracts of Macbeth and Banquo’s reactions. This can easily be adapted for any KS3 or KS4 class.

This is a middle-ability Year 9 lesson focusing on the characterisation of Macbeth and Shakespeare’s use of symbolism through a dagger. The short ‘Is this a dagger I see before me?’ soliloquy is explored in the lesson (the extract is included). It has been divided into sections to make it more manageable for pupils to identify language techniques used and the consider the effect they create. Also included, is a short video of the Patrick Stewart performance to help pupils understand how the scene would be played out and to help them with their understanding of Macbeth. Sentence starters are also provided to support them with their writing. This lesson is easily adaptable for a KS3 or KS4 class of any ability.

This is a middle-ability Year 9 lesson exploring the madness of Lady Macbeth. The extract of the crucial scene is included and pupils are required to consider how Lady Macbeth is presented in the scene and how they respond to her madness. T make it more manageable, a table has been provided that requires pupils to find evidence in the extract to support statements made and they will also need to identify language techniques used. There are also sentence starters provided to support pupils in writing an analytical response. This lesson is easily adaptable to a KS3 or KS4 class of any ability.

This is a middle-ability Year 9 lesson exploring how madness is presented in Macbeth. The banquet scene (extract included) is explored in the lesson and pupils will consider the level of guilt Macbeth is experiencing and the effect it is now having on him. A video clip is also included showing the banquet scene from the Michael Fassbender adaptation (to allow them to see the scene played out and understand the extent of madness Macbeth is experiencing). The tasks relating to the extract have been broken down into manageable tasks and a model text is also included to support pupils in beginning to write a GCSE-style response. This lesson is easily adaptable to a KS3 or KS4 class of any ability.

This is a middle-ability Year 9 lesson focusing on the final scene of Macbeth and his downfall. Pupils will need to consider who they think is responsible for the downfall of Macbeth and they will consider why they think the play ends with his death and why Shakespeare may have done this. The tasks are split into manageable activities that allow pupils to analyse key language techniques and the effects and meanings they create. A debate activity is also included to allow pupils to practice supporting an argument and this will also support them in then writing GCSE-style paragraph(s) exploring alternative arguments and interpretations. This lesson is easily adaptable to a KS3 or KS4 class of any ability.

This is a GCSE lesson revision focusing on memory and the AQA Power and Conflict poetry that explores this. The lesson features a range of activities that you can pick and chose from to suit your class. They range from a model text for pupils to annotate and identify the AOs in; to a planning sheet to support them in structuring a comparison essay. This is easily adaptable for a KS4 class of any ability. Planning sheet and model text copies are included.

This is a lesson for a middle-ability Year 8 class focusing on fantasy worlds. This lesson looks at extracts describing key building in Diagon Alley. Pupils have a broken-down task of identifying key language devices in each extract. There is then a GCSE-style (English Language) question for pupils to write a paragraph responding to. There is a model paragraph to support pupils in writing their own. This lesson is easily adaptable for any KS3 class of any ability.