Everything you need for teaching travel writing. 90 slides that should take a class a month to complete - maybe longer, depending on your group. A comprehensive unit which builds all the necessary non-fiction skills for students approaching the new GCSE courses. Both modern and early 20th century travel writing texts are included. This unit covers traditional travel writing, complaints, comedy, journalism, television and online forums.This was written for year 9 but could slot in at any point in Key Stage 3. Writers included: Shackleton, Callahan, Palin, Bryson, Ffyona Campbell, Tony Hawks, and more. Includes 90 slides Students will analyse in detail how humour is created, critique the use of persuasive language to engage consumers, write creatively, imaginatively and produce complaint reviews.

This is a complete unit on the engaging text of ‘Mortal Engines’ for late primary or early secondary students. There are 260 slides here which is ideal for online learning with tasks and sample student answers to refer to. Students are encouraged to do both creative writing tasks, grammar and spelling tasks throughout and alongside the close reading of the book. Characterisation, setting, report writing, diary writing, letter writing, close analysis, writing a guide for the hunting ground, writing a scapheap challenge for making the Jenny Haniver…just some of the tasks. There is a lot of work here and should keep a class busy for at least six weeks, covering a great variety of English skills and targets.

This presentation is a very useful revision of all the contexts of the GCE AQA spec A pre 1900 poetry anthology. Slides ask students to identify aspects of the following periods: Renaissance, Restoration, Romantics, Victorian, Decadent movement and then to consider how love is typically reflected in poetry from each of those eras. Suggested answers are given in subsequent slides. I encourage students to see the poems as part of a period or movement and prompts discuss what is typical of the poems from each age.

Everything you need for a complete unit on speech writing suitable for any GCSE transactional writing requirement. This includes all clips to speeches, such as Ghandi, James Cordon, Obama etc and analyses the techniques in those speeches and provides suggested titles for students to write their own speeches and a step by step framework to follow, supporting them as they write.

A powerpoint covering the theme of race and in particular the contexts surrounding this and the 17th century attitude to ‘the other’.

Everything you need to teach a detailed unit of poetry at Key Stage 3. Texts range from Beowulf to contemporary poetry from today: covering War poems, Ballads, sonnets, Romantic…this is a really comprehensive unit with sections on caesura, enjambement, plosives, etc…

This presentation was made for the Edexcel English Literature spec and includes key ideas for an essay on how religion is presented in the play. It includes key quotations and critics and is available both as a pdf or a powerpoint.

The slides are arranged with some just containing the quotations for students to ponder and build an argument around and other ‘teacher’ slides padded out with more notes and ideas. Suitable for any A level spec, the essay plan follows the structure of the following key ideas: Aggression and physical dominance - manifested in violence, in order to subjugate the women and preserve his authority. Male pride/ego Sexual desire - manifested in animalistic behaviour, suggesting masculine sexuality is base and primal

Two detailed essay plans on ‘Othello’. These have been put together to aid the teaching of AQA’s spec A English Literature course ‘Love Through the Ages’ but would be suitable for any A level course or to support more able students at GCSE. The pdfs include the essay titles and the passage with suggested ideas on both the passage and elsewhere in the play.

Everything you need for covering the teaching of the Eduqas poetry: this first presentation has lessons on Heaney, Wordsworth (comparing them on childhood) then Valentine and Cozy Apologia (comparing them on relationships - finally adding on Manhunt as a bridge between relationships and the next collection I do will look at the war/conflict poems. The slides cover questions on the poems, detailed analysis of the poems, plus modelled essay structures, plus essay charts and assessment titles. Slides include highlighted annotations and links to relevant videos. 65 slides

Detailed essay questions, including passages for analysis with key quotations, analysis and links to context highlighted in yellow - some plans with written paragraphs as a model. Essay topics covered include: how Scrooge changes throughout the novel poverty community transformation supernatural

Very detailed slides on Miller’s presentation of both Catherine and Beatrice in ‘A View from the Bridge’. These were written to teach the iGCSE coursework essay but would be suitable for any GCSE - Note, there are not any references to context in these slides as the iGCSE coursework did not require it but all of the quotations and ideas are there.

This presentation is a very useful revision of all the contexts of the GCE AQA spec A pre 1900 poetry anthology. Slides ask students to identify aspects of the following periods: Renaissance, Restoration, Romantics, Victorian, Decadent movement and then to consider how love is typically reflected in poetry from each of those eras. Suggested answers are given in subsequent slides. I encourages students to see the poems as part of a period or movement and prompts discuss about what is typical of the poems from each age.

This resource has been edited and made more detailed. Three detailed essay plans on Lord of the Flies on the following titles: One of the themes in ‘Lord of the Flies’ is the corrupting influence of power. How does Golding present this theme. In your answer you should consider social, cultural and historical contexts. Consider Golding’s presentation of fear in ‘Lord of the Flies’. Consider social, cultural and historical context in your answer. How does Golding present the theme of conflict in his novel ‘Lord of the Flies’. In the course of your answer you should consider social, cultural and historical contexts.

This is a mini unit to enable students to improve their sentence structure. It can be used as part of the preparation for writing a narrative at GCSE.