A lesson comparing Spenser's Sonnet 75 with Armitage's 'I am very bothered'. Designed for AQA English A Level, but could be adapted to suit your own purposes.

Two PowerPoint presentations outlining the context of the Romantic period and what came before. Teacher notes included on the notes page. Could culminate in an independent/group research task into the 'big six' Romantic poets.

Written with the new AQA specification in mind, this activity should cover an hour long lesson in which students work together to craft an effective section of a story.

Designed with the New AQA English Literature Specification in mind, this resource takes a detailed look at chapter 25 of 'The Help', the novel's opening and the ending, as well as including activities to guide students in exploring their own key moments. The resource sustains focus on examination skills and the assessment objectives for this paper. This is for the comparison between the modern novel with modern drama exam and includes some comparison tasks with 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. However, you could easily adapt these slides/activities to cover a different play, or miss them out altogether. There are a good 7-10 hours worth of lessons here (depending on your class and what you do with it). Homework is included, although is suggested in the notes section to give you the choice of class/homework. This is not a repetition of my other resources on 'The Help', but a resource in its own right. If you have found those resources helpful, this sequence of lessons would be a good follow-on, or vice versa.

This is a PowerPoint presentation going through the feedback from a mock exam I set my U6 students entered for the new AQA spec 7712/2B. It includes a question based around deceit and a breakdown of the assessment objectives. It includes some tasks and isn't just a long list of nags! You could set the essay first and then use the PowerPoint to feedback to the class on how to improve. The resource focuses upon 'The Help' with 'A Streetcar Named Desire', but minor tweaking would make it compatible with whichever texts you are using.

A couple of lessons exploring the dramatization of 2.1 and exploring the language used by Demetrius and Helena. I've used with a year 8 class, but you could use with older students too. Might need some adapting for KS4.

Three setting-based extracts from the novel presented on A3. Can be used as a carousel activity for students to annotate for language features, or as group annotation activity.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Includes a worksheet for students to complete who said what and when. Useful as a revision of many of the key quotes in the play. Created with the new closed-book examinations in mind.

PowerPoint taking your class through the ending of the novel by prompting discussion of key moments.

Created for the new AQA English Literature Specification 8702/1 Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel, this resource includes a sample examination question and a PowerPoint presentation guiding students in their response to the question. Includes modelling and opportunity for both pair work and independent writing.

A number of statements related to themes in the novel, which can be used for students to discuss their views on the topics. Could be revisited after reading the novel.

A 12 page selection of many of the key/interesting quotes from the novel. The pack includes two Word documents, one with the quotes in chronological order, the other with quotes grouped in themes. You could give this to students as a hand out, or as a cut and stick activity where they decide which themes the quotes belong to (many of them really belong to more than one category, but I've not duplicated them within categories to make the file more user-friendly). You could also just give students the quotes for a specific theme to aid them in essay writing, either as a starter or as the basis for an essay plan. If you like this resource, you might also like the display resource in my shop, which includes 16 of the quotes presented visually for display purposes.

A PowerPoint to use when teaching 4.1, includes link to Polanki's witches. Could be used as a whole class activity for each apparition, or could separate into groups and then offer whole class feedback.

A couple of resources focused on the ending of the novel and on 'The Split'. Opportunity to make links with the trial in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. Also looks ahead to 'Knife Edge' and serialisation.

A selection of extracts from the novel, which describe clothing in some way. Could be used as a starting point for exploring the presentation of class in the novel, or of symbolism. The resources are extracts only, use them as you like! I used for the old AQA A Level spec for teaching the Victorians, but could equally be used further down the school.

A task introducing students to the idea of the Great Exhibition, which outlines a research activity and a 'Great Exhibition' of their own. I have used as an introduction to 'The Ruby in the Smoke' by Philip Pullman, but could be used for any 19th century text. There is also some focus on the similarities and differences between society then and now, which is a gentle way in to the AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 based on Narrative Viewpoints and Perspectives. This activity took my students three lessons to introduce, to research and to present back.

Exploration of descriptive writing in Pullman's 'The Ruby in the Smoke', leading to students writing descriptively based on images (preparation for new GCSE English Language Specification AQA). A good hour, if not more, of lesson activities here.

An exam paper based on an extract from 'The Ruby in the Smoke' (Section A, Paper 1 GCSE English Language AQA new spec) Could be used with Key Stage 3 in preparation for GCSE or at KS4 as an accessible Language paper.