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I am an English teacher with over 16 years' experience. My high quality resources will save you time and offer creative and purposeful activities for your students.
For commissions, questions or feedback, please e-mail me at jpresourcesuk@gmail.com
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Lines Written in Early Spring’ by William Wordsworth from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Jane Eyre and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
A complete set of six ‘Learning Checkpoint’ sheets for A Level Edexcel English Literature.
Included are templates for every section of each exam paper and for the NEA.
The sheets allow you to set a short task or paragraph response with pre-filled lines for students to write on. Students write in their own graded target. All you need to do is to tick the appropriate box as to whether they met their target and highlight or underline any of the pre-populated targets appropriate for that task or response.
You can easily mark a class set of responses in 10 to 20 minutes and students quickly receive appropriate targets/feedback. I use these every other lesson in the run up to mocks or exam season and they are a game changer.
Easily adaptable for your own targets, these low stakes templates will reduce your workload.
Two detailed lessons exploring Thomas Hardy’s ‘A Wife in London’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring William Blake’s ‘London’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Jamaican British’ by Raymond Antrobus from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'We Refugees’ by Benjamin Zephaniah from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
This bundle comprises eighteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Eduqas Poetry Anthology: ‘A Wife in London’; ‘Afternoons’; ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’; ‘Cozy Apologia’; ‘Death of a Naturalist’; ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’; ‘Excerpt from the Prelude’; ‘Hawk Roosting’; ‘Living Space’; ‘London’; ‘Mametz Wood’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘She Walks in Beauty’; ‘Sonnet 43’; ‘The Manhunt’; ‘The Soldier’; ‘To Autumn’; and ‘Valentine’.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able.
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource (from the Edexcel specification), ‘Island Man’
Contains 15 short quotation cards from Lord of the Flies for student analysis. One card completed for modelling purposes. Instructions for analysis attached and the activity can take a whole lesson. These are quotations which can be easily learned for the examination.
Includes a follow up analysis grid to build on student understanding in a subsequent lesson. Lesson plan with suggestions and learning objectives included.
Suitable for Edexcel, AQA and Eduqas GCSE English Literature specifications.
Two detailed lessons exploring John Davidson’s 'In Romney Marsh’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Pride and Prejudice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
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 detailed A3 knowledge organiser for the GCSE English Literature text, Lord of the Flies. Useful for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas. I have also included a blank copy for students to fill in. I would suggest giving students the blank copy before providing the populated version.
This is a quick and easy poetry worksheet resource to encourage students to focus on the effects of poetry quotations rather than just feature spotting. After an initial focus on ‘My Last Duchess’, students consider a set of quotations, one from each poem in the cluster, in response to a prompt. Lesson plan included!
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Power and Conflict cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Power and Conflict cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Time and Place cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Time and Place cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
An A3 sheet detailing small flash cards for all fifteen poems from the ‘Time and Place’ cluster from the Edexcel Poetry anthology.
The cards encourage students to revise key details. One card is completed for modelling purposes and the rest are blank so that students can complete these as part of their revision.
This can be completed as students work through their anthologies or as an end of unit task. Especially useful for students aiming for grade 7+.
