A complete lesson on Mickey and Edward's relationship in Blood Brothers and how it changes. This is very much formatted to ensure success at GCSE in the Eduqas exam for English Literature. The lesson begins with a Do Now, before practicing skills for the springboard essay where students are given an extract and need to complete an essay using the whole text. This lesson guides students to find key quotes from other parts of the play as well as annotating the extract given. Students are then given a mock exam question to practice. All success criteria, learning objectives and resources needed are within the PowerPoint.

To engage students I created a Nando's style homework menu. This one targets key stage 4 and assists teaching of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 19th century text often studied for GCSE. There are 25 homework tasks already planned, differentiated by 'spice'. Since using these menus, where the students pick for themselves, the amount and quality of homework has improved in my classes, as well as regularity.

A complete lesson on Mickey and Linda's relationship in Blood Brothers and how it changes. This is very much formatted to ensure success at GCSE in the Eduqas exam for English Literature. The lesson begins with a Do Now, before practicing skills for the springboard essay where students are given an extract and need to complete an essay using the whole text. This lesson guides students to find key quotes from other parts of the play as well as annotating the extract given. Students are then given a mock exam question to practice. All success criteria, learning objectives and resources needed are within the PowerPoint.

A range of resources and a lesson on Marxist Criticism and how to apply it to an analysis of A Christmas Carol for GCSE. Students learn the basics of Marxist criticism and use this to improve close analysis of key scenes in A Christmas Carol. Great for top band students looking to boost their performance in essays and exams.

A set of revision cards that cover the entire play scene by scene with key quotes, key terminology and the major themes. Each slide is cut into 4 pocket sized cards that can be hole punched and put on a key ring to make a set of flip cards helping students with every aspect of the play. The last 4 cards cover the popularity of the play, the context, about the author and the key characters in the play. An incredibly useful revision resource for students needing to 'get to grips' with Macbeth ready for their exams.

To assist students with exam practice, exam writing style and 20th Century fiction I have created an exam style paper for Eduqas English Language Component 1 using One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest by Ken Kasey. Component 1 consists of: Section A (20%) – Reading Understanding of one prose extract (about 60-100 lines) of literature from the 20th century assessed through a range of structured questions Section B (20%) – Prose Writing One creative writing task selected from a choice of four titles.

I have created a replica of the Eduqas Component 2 paper, where students need to analyse 19th and 21st century non fiction texts. This particular paper looks at child labour. This will enable our students to understand the way in which the exam is set out to prepare for their GCSE English Exam

A set of revision cards that cover the entire play scene by scene with key quotes, key terminology and the major themes. Each slide is cut into 4 pocket sized cards that can be hole punched and put on a key ring to make a set of flip cards helping students with every aspect of the play. The last 3 cards cover the context, about the author and the key characters in the play. An incredibly useful revision resource for students needing to 'get to grips' with Blood Brothers ready for their English Litearture exams.

A full lesson including powerpoint, learning objectives, success criteria and resources. A fun and engaging way of exploring the cratchits in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The lesson starts with a 'Christmas Carol Crossword' where they need to identify and recall the family members' names, before moving on to extract analysis. The first extract is modelled already on the powerpoint, but this can easily be removed and embedded timers are on the slides already. Think, Pair, Share opportunities are in the lesson too, with students needing to match up the quote to the description of how Bob Cratchit feels (slide 6 and 7-this will need printing). I have taught this lesson to three different classes and all classes have showed rapid progress and a real engagement in the lesson.

A lesson analysing the presentation of Scrooge in the beginning of the novella. This lesson is perfect for low ability or C/D borderline students. The lesson begins with a Do Now activity looking at different images and how the represent Scrooge, before moving on to an extract analysis task that can be completed independently or as a class. Included in the lesson is a worksheet with the three extracts on, including teacher modelled annotations on the smaller extract. Students finish the lesson by writing a PEE analysis of the presentation of Scrooge, which is again modelled and differentiated for weaker students.

A 95 slide display covering a range of literary features used within English - useful for both analysis of text, poetry, language, media and creative writing. A lot of the slides use Harry Potter, Macbeth and popular films to demonstrate what the feature is, as well as a simple explanation of what each device is. A nice way to decorate your English classroom.

A complete lesson analysis including copy of the poem. A youtube link to a recording of the poem is useful as images of Mumbai slums are shown as well. Students are given a range of tasks to help analysis of poem. Part of Eduqas poetry anthology.

A fun and engaging lesson helping students improve speaking and listening, debating, justification and reasoning skills. YouTube clip, resources and success criteria are all on powerpoint. Suitable for all ages and easily adaptable.

A fun lesson where students practice their writing skills, creating a first person narrative set in a dystopian setting. The lesson has learning objectives and success criteria clearly laid out, as well as a complete lesson with all tasks and resources in the one powerpoint. Useful for both year 8, 9 and 10. Easily adaptable.

I have created a replica of the Eduqas Component 2 paper, where students need to analyse 19th and 21st century non fiction texts. This particular paper is about workhouse conditions, comparing it to a modern article about living conditions for Sports Direct staff. This will enable our students to understand the way in which the exam is set out to prepare for their GCSE English Exam.

A set of revision cards that cover the entire play scene by scene with key quotes, key terminology and the major themes. Each slide is cut into 4 pocket sized cards that can be hole punched and put on a key ring to make a set of flip cards helping students with every aspect of the play. The last 4 cards cover the popularity of the play, the context, about the author and the key characters in the play. An incredibly useful revision resource for students needing to 'get to grips' with A Christmas Carol ready for their exams.

Exam style paper comparing Sylvia Plath’s ‘Cut’ with Emily Dickenson’s ‘I felt a funeral in my brain’. Included in the resource is: the exam question; both poems; teacher notes including assessment objectives and mark scheme; student notes (including a key terminology tick list and a breakdown of what is needed to get maximum marks when answering the question). A great revision tool and an excellent way of helping the students get to grips with expectations in the exam

A set of playing cards with key quotes from Lady Macbeth split in half for students to play 'pairs' memory games with. Students are able to revise for their literature exam in a fun and informative way. Especially useful with students who struggle with memorising quotes- very effective.

For Eduqaas GCSE years 10 and 11. A homework booklet that covers both contextual tasks, poetry analysis, revision help and tasks. All of the poems are there alongside an analysis and annotation box. Very useful when avoiding sending the anthology home with students.

A complete lesson (or 2 depending on group) analyzing an extract of A Christmas Carol and focusing on The Cratchit family. This lesson will encourage students to closely analyse texts and identify language, as well as authors intention and presentation of main characters. A great revision tool as well as a useful assessment for classes. Suitable for all KS4 classes. This sheet was used with a low ability set, but questions are easily altered.