Two detailed lessons exploring ‘The Gun’ by Vicki Feaver from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'Please Hold’ by Ciaran O’Driscoll from the Poems of the Decade section of the Edexcel A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content and an accompanying unseen poem for the A Level Paper 3 component. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring ‘Love and a Question’ by Robert Frost from the Love Poetry Through the Ages anthology for AQA A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring ‘I, being born a woman and distressed’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay from the Love Poetry Through the Ages anthology for AQA A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring ‘One Flesh’ by Elizabeth Jennings from the Love Poetry Through the Ages anthology for AQA A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring ‘À quoi bon dire’ by Charlotte Mew from the Love Poetry Through the Ages anthology for AQA A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring ‘Wild Oats’ by Philip Larkin from the Love Poetry Through the Ages anthology for AQA A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring ‘Talking in Bed’ by Philip Larkin from the Love Poetry Through the Ages anthology for AQA A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring ‘Meeting Point’ by Louis MacNeice from the Love Poetry Through the Ages anthology for AQA A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

Two detailed lessons exploring ‘For My Lover, Returning to His Wife’ by Anne Sexton from the Love Poetry Through the Ages anthology for AQA A Level English Literature. The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, form and structural information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question - there are options for both AS and A Level complete with indicative content. The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades. Lesson plan included!

This is a planning document for AQA A Level English Language Paper 2 Question 4. This colourful A3 worksheet will help students to produce a plan and then write an article as part of the Discourses section of the examination. Lesson plan included! Check out my other English Language resources: Language and Gender Language and Region Language and Power and Occupation Language and Global and World Englishes Language Change Language and Technology Language and Ethnicity Language and Social Groups Language Discourses Child Language Acquisition - Speech Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing AQA Language Discourses - Paper 2 Question 3 AQA Language Discourses - Paper 2 Question 4 Language Levels Bundle Lexis and Semantics Grammar Phonetics, Phonology and Prosodics Pragmatics Discourse - Spoken Language Graphology

A comprehesive 15 slide Powerpoint which takes students through both scenes of Act V. Included: The Merchant of Venice audit document Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for the scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.

This resource is comprised of a 32 slide Powerpoint with four lessons on Scene One from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. The resource is aimed at A Level English Literature, but could also be used as a starting point for English Language and Literature. The slides cover: Contextual background to New Orleans at the time the play is set Discussion of the epigraph (Hart Crane’s ‘The Broken Tower’) Guided close analysis of key sections of the text with reference to key terminology, e.g. ‘motif’ and ‘in media res’ Teaching questions for each section of the first scene Learning objective slides and homework tasks for each lesson This resource will stretch and challenge more confident students and support those less confident. It was not created with any particular exam board in mind so can be used with any specification.

A fourteen page revision workbook for students to revise Lord of the Flies for GCSE (for any specification). This workbook focuses on analysis rather than knowledge recall and is perfect for those aiming for very high grades. The booklet can be used in class or for independent revision. Enclosed are: A question activity to encourage students to think perceptively about ideas in the text. A quotation gathering template with half the quotations given. An AO3 focused table where students write up an analytical link between context, quotations and links to language form and structure (one example modelled and all contextual points given). A table which encourages deeper exploration of effects, with an extract and one example modelled. An exercise where students identify and analyse ambitious literary terminology. An effects table encouraging a What How Why approach to writing about effects. A follow up activity where students then make contextual links with their analysis. A set of questions, introductions and topic sentences. A modelled introduction and main paragraph with a follow up activity for students to write their own. Two guides to essay structure. A modelled full response to a question. The booklet is designed to be used by students with knowledge of the text and is perfect for use in the run up to examinations. There is scaffolding but also appropriate stretch and challenge for those who are aiming for the highest grades. This booklet works well with my knowledge organiser and A3 quotation posters which can be downloaded for free here: [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12835151] and [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12836254]

A comprehesive 25 slide Powerpoint which takes students through both scenes of Act IV. Included: An Act IV Scene i ‘chunked’ resource to use as a pre-reading activity Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for each scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.

A comprehesive 33 slide Powerpoint which takes students through all five scenes of Act III. Included: Contextual background to the play Analysis and discussion questions for each scene Modelled textual analysis Longer exam-style questions Extension questions for higher ability students This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.