Two detailed lessons exploring Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Soldier’ 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 Lord Byron’s ‘She Walks in Beauty’ from the Relationships 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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnet 43’ 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 Ted Hughes’ ‘Hawk Roosting’ 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 Philip Larkin’s ‘Afternoons’ 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 William Wordsworth’s ‘Excerpt from The Prelude’ 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!

A revision lesson (or lessons if you want to do more with the initial card revision activity) for the Eduqas poetry anthology question for GCSE English Literature. Students will use the enclosed resources to briefly revise the poems from the cluster before identifying the four or five key poems they should revise for the examination. This encourages analytical and evaluative connections. This is best used once the students know the poems well and understand the requirements of this question. Included: Blank revision cards for a starter activity which can be extended into a whole lesson activity (with one card modelled) Poem linking and choice grid with ten example exam questions Lesson PowerPoint with 17 slides Lesson plan with guidance as to how to adapt this activity across two lessons Check out my individual Eduqas anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-poetry-anthology-lesson-bundle-18-poems-and-36-lessons-13046922

A grid template which allows students to make links between the 18 poems from the Eduqas poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures. Check out my individual Eduqas anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-poetry-anthology-lesson-bundle-18-poems-and-36-lessons-13046922

A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Eduqas poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature. Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Check out my individual Eduqas anthology poem lesson PowerPoints here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-poetry-anthology-lesson-bundle-18-poems-and-36-lessons-13046922

Two detailed lessons exploring William Blake’s ‘London’ 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!

Two detailed lessons exploring William Blake’s ‘London’ from the Power and Conflict 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!

Two detailed lessons exploring Robert Browning’s ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’ 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!

Two detailed lessons exploring Edward Thomas’ ‘Adlestrop’ 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!

This planning and revision document can be used to revise William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Simply print off copies (preferably in A3) and have students complete the boxes. The first question has been completed for them. It was made for the Edexcel specification, however it could easily be adapted for any other examination board.

Two detailed lessons exploring 'The Emigrée’ by Carol Rumens from the Power and Conflict Cluster of 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!

Two detailed lessons exploring 'The Émigrée’ by Carol Rumens 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 'In Wales, wanting to be Italian’ by Imtiaz Dharker 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 'Us’ by Zaffar Kunial 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 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! 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 Analysing Spoken Language Child Language Acquisition - Speech Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing

Two detailed lessons exploring 'I Remember, I Remember’ by Thomas Hood 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!