I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
This Unit of Work has been designed as a pathway through the Paris Anthology for AQAEnglish A-level Language and Literature. It contains over 33 lessons and covers all of the extracts, as well as lessons to compare the extracts using past papers. It is fully resourced with a linguistic toolkit, features of spoken language mini tests, word class worksheets, past papers, exemplar essays, opportunities for online research and homework tasks.
Lesson 1a: Introduction to The Anthology
Lesson 1b: Grammar and Lexis
Lesson 2: Stories Are Waiting - Eurostar Advert
Lesson 3: Mile by Mile by R Piggott
Lesson 4: Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
Lesson 5a: The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter
Lesson 5b: Comparing The Most Beautiful Walk with Neither Here Nor There
Lesson 6: Paris City Guide by Lonely Planet
Lesson 7a: An introduction to Spoken Language
Lesson 7b: Anna and Zara’s narratives
Lesson 8a: Breathless - Waiting for Goddard
Lesson 8b: Breathless - Roommates
Lesson 9a: Around the World in 80 Dates by Jennifer Cox
Lesson 9b: Writing Guide
Lesson 10: What do you wish… by Trip Advisor
Lesson 11: Visiting Paris conversation: Mike and Sophia
Lesson 12: Rick Steves’ Walking Tour of the Louvre
Lesson 13: French Milk by Lucy Knisley
Lesson 14: Understanding Chic by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni
Lesson 15: Memories of Places in Paris: Isabelle and Sophia
Lesson 16: Encore Une Fois by Just Another American in Paris
Lesson 17: 18 Months Later by Just Another American in Paris
Lesson 18: Comparing Encore Une Fois and The Most Beautiful Walk
Lesson 19: Traveling to Paris by Gransnet
Lesson 20: Paris for Children by The Rough Guide
Lesson 21-24: NOT FOR PARENTS by Klay Lamprell
Lesson 25a: Hemmingway research
Lesson 25b: On Paris by Ernest Hemmingway
Lesson 26: Foreign Correspondent by Peter Lennon
Lesson 27: Paris Riots 1968 by British Pathe
Lesson 28: The Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne
Lesson 29: Letters from France by Helen Maria Williams
Lesson 30: Fine French Food by Lonely Planet
Lesson 31: The Sweet Life by David Lebovitz
Lesson 32: Eating in Paris: Isabelle, Mike and Sophia
Lesson 33: Comparing Eating in Paris and The Sweet Life
This unit contains everything you need to teach transactional writing (letters, speeches, articles, essays, reviews and leaflets) at IGCSE. This unit of work is focused on Pearson Edexcel Paper 1 for English language and teaches the students how to argue, advise and persuade. It includes 25 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson Powerpoints, exemplar answers, newspaper articles, leaflets, essays, reviews and speeches.
Lesson 1: Introduction to transactional writing
Lesson 2: Coronavirus response
Lesson 3: How to counter-argue
Lesson 4: Tough love
Lesson 5: Raising children
Lesson 6: Travel Writing
Lesson 7: Charity speech
Lesson 8: Letter of application
Lesson 9: Write your letter of application
Lesson 10: Technology
Lesson 11: Fame
Lesson 12: English teacher application
Lesson 13: Health leaflet
Lesson 14: Mobile phones
Lesson 15: Parents are over-protective
Lesson 16: Who would you vote for?
Lesson 17: Film censorship essay
Lesson 18: Writing your essay
Lesson 19: Protecting the countryside
Lesson 20: Virgin Atlantic complaint letter
Lesson 21: Meghan and Harry
Lesson 22: Writing your opinion
Lesson 23: Foreign holidays
Lesson 24: Writing a film review
Lesson 25: Writing a book review
This unit contains everything you need to teach Chronicle at IB level. It includes 22 lessons to help guide the students through the text, investigating Marquez’s use of magical realism and the detective genre. It ends with essay planning lessons to help them link the themes to other IB texts, and begin to consider a topic for their extended essays and oral presentations. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Books edition.
Lesson 1: Designing context presentations
Lesson 2: Sharing context with the group
Lesson 3: Marquez’s style
Lesson 4: Attitudes to the murder
Lesson 5: Chapter 1 Review
Lesson 6: Bayardo and Angela
Lesson 7: Attitudes to marriage
Lesson 8: Angela Vicario
Lesson 9: Honour
Lesson 10: The Vicario Brothers
Lesson 11: Men and Women
Lesson 12: Heroes and Villains
Lesson 13: Who is the victim?
Lesson 14: The Detective Genre
Lesson 15: Reader suspicions
Lesson 16: The end
Lesson 17: Chapter 4-5 Review
Lesson 18: The Trial of Santiago Nasar
Lesson 19: Character Reviews
Lesson 20: Overall text revision
Lesson 21: Choose your activity
Lesson 22: Class presentations on themes and links
This unit includes everything you need to teach Mockingbird at KS4 and it will save you hours of preparation time! It is focused on essay writing skills for English Literature, but covers themes such as prejudice, segregation, bravery and innocence along the way. It includes 25 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, assessment questions, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts, context cards, theme cards and opportunities for online research. Page numbers refer to the Orange Faber and Faber edition with an introduction by Ian Gregor.
Lesson 1: Context research
Lesson 2: An introduction to Maycomb County and Alabama
Lesson 3: A Southern Education
Lesson 4: Miss Caroline extract practice
Lesson 5: The relationship between Atticus and Scout
Lesson 6: Atticus and Bravery
Lesson 7: Miss Maudie Atkinson
Lesson 8: How Harper Lee builds tension
Lesson 9: Growing Up
Lesson 10: Creative Writing and The Fire
Lesson 11: The rabid dog
Lesson 12: Ms Dubose and Southern Belles
Lesson 13: Segregation
Lesson 14: Aunt Alexandra
Lesson 15: Lynch Mobs and the KKK
Lesson 16: The Trial
Lesson 17: How Harper Lee creates mood and atmosphere
Lesson 18: The Verdict
Lesson 19: Character Foils: Bob and Atticus
Lesson 20: The Missionary Ladies
Lesson 21: Role Models
Lesson 22: The attack on Scout and Jem
Lesson 23: The Aftermath
Lesson 24: The Ending
Lesson 25: Chapter Revision Guides
Everything you need to revise Jane Eyre at KS5. This unit includes 8 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the World Classics edition.
Lesson 1: Oppression
Lesson 2: Essay Writing
Lesson 3: Religion
Lesson 4: Integrating context
Lesson 5: Integrating critics
Lesson 6: Love
Lesson 7: Freedom
Lesson 8: Essay feedback
If you are teaching Frankenstein, this unit contains everything you need to allow students to connect a 19th century Romantic novel with the great issues of today, such as the environment, artificial intelligence and what makes us human.
This unit has everything you need to teach Frankenstein at KS3. It contains 25 lessons that take you through the text using differentiated extracts. It is fully resourced with context readings, theme discussions, extract analysis, persuasive writing opportunities, online research on The Romantics, critical articles and opportunities to practice extract into essay writing. Please note this unit does not look at the whole text, it analyses key extracts from the novel.
Lesson 1: an introduction to plot and context
Lesson 2: Walton’s letters
Lesson 3: C1 Victor and Elizabeth
Lesson 4: C4 University Life
Lesson 5: C5 The Creature
Lesson 6: C6 Elizabeth’s letter
Lesson 7: C7 Child killers
Lesson 8: The Trial of Justine
Lesson 9: C8 The Gothic and The Romantic
Lesson 10: Romantic Research
Lesson 11: C10 The Ice Field
Lesson 12: C11 The Creature’s Tale
Lesson 13: C15 The Importance of Appearances
Lesson 14: C16 Revenge
Lesson 15: C17 The Bride of Frankenstein
Lesson 16: C19 The Orkney Islands
Lesson 17: C20 The Dangers of Science
Lesson 18: Who is the real monster?
Lesson 19: C23 Elizabeth
Lesson 20: C24 The End
Lesson 21: Extract analysis on ‘Regret’
Lesson 22: Walton’s Letters
Lesson 23: The Trial of Victor Frankenstein
Lesson 24: End of unit quiz
This unit of work has been designed to prepare A-level students for their AQA Paper 2 Unseen Prose exam. The students have to incorporate context into their answers, so the unit contains 13 lessons ranging from Victorian Literature to more modern, multi-cultural texts like White Teeth. Each lesson will take you about an hour to prepare their answer and a further hour to write an essay if you wish to do so. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoint lessons, exemplar essays, guidance on how to write introductions and conclusions, extracts, and examiner advice. The lessons include extracts from:
The Heart of Darkness
I am Charlotte Simmonds
Brick Lane
Digging to America
White Teeth
Gone with the Wind
Catcher in the Rye
Revolutionary Road
Everything I Never Told You
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
I have used this unit with very high achieving A-level students who have gone on to study English Literature at Oxford and Cambridge, so it is definitely targeted towards the top end.
This unit contains everything you need to teach Jane Eyre at KS5 and will save you hours of preparation! It includes 32 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Each lesson is designed to look at a different chapter and aspect of Jane Eyre. The page numbers refer to the World’s Classics edition with an introduction by Margaret Smith.
Lesson 1: Applying context
Lesson 2: Jane Eyre’s childhood
Lesson 3: The significance of the red room
Lesson 4: Chapter summaries
Lesson 5: Jane’s education
Lesson 6: Freedom Past Paper
Lesson 7: Coming of Age
Lesson 8: Helen Burns
Lesson 9: Thornfield
Lesson 10: Male and Female
Lesson 11: Victorian Women
Lesson 12: The significance of the paintings
Lesson 13: Rochester and Jane
Lesson 14: Gothic Romance
Lesson 15: Ice and Fire
Lesson 16: Mystery in Chapter 17
Lesson 17: Blanche Ingram
Lesson 18: The Fortune Teller
Lesson 19: Gateshead
Lesson 20: The paintings
Lesson 21: Pathetic fallacy
Lesson 22: The Jane Eyre debate
Lesson 23: Dreams and reality
Lesson 24: Thornfield
Lesson 25: Bertha Mason
Lesson 26: Bertha Past Paper
Lesson 27: The struggle for the self
Lesson 28: The role of religion
Lesson 29: The Rivers
Lesson 30: Critical Readings
Lesson 31: Return to Thornfield
Lesson 32: The Ending
Everything you need to teach unseen poetry at KS5. This unit of work includes 22 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. It covers poetry eras such as: Renaissance, Cavalier, Metaphysical, Romantic, Victorian, Modernist and The Beats. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level course but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications.
Lesson 1: what makes a poem a poem?
Lesson 2-3: poetry era research
Lesson 4: scansion: rhythm, rhyme and meter
Lesson 5: Family relationships in modern poetry
Lesson 6: Male/female relationships in modern poetry
Lesson 7: Loss in Renaissance and Romantic poetry
Lesson 8: Romantic love in Edwardian and Victorian poetry
Lesson 9: Romantic love in the Renaissance
Lesson 10: The Cavaliers
Lesson 11: Romantic love in Cavalier and Metaphysical poetry
Lesson 12: Family relationships and regret in modern poetry
Lesson 13: Family relationships in modern poetry
Lesson 14: The Metaphysicals
Lesson 15: Romantic love in Cavalier and Victorian poetry
Lesson 16: Individual poet research
Lesson 17: The use of satire in Restoration and Beat poetry
Lesson 18: Hitting the assessment objectives
Lesson 19: Breaking Up in modern poetry
Lesson 20: Romantic Love in Modernist and Victorian poetry
Make public speaking fun and interactive! Help your students conquer their fear of standing up by getting them to explore subjects they love, and are desperate to tell the world about!
This unit of work would suit Grade 7 or Grade 8. There are 10 lessons covering a variety of speeches and rhetorical devices, as well as a final activity for students to write their own inspirational speech. It is fully resourced with ppts, contextual information to illuminate understanding, extracts and activities to promote positive body language. This is perfect for early Speaking and Listening preparation.
Lesson 1: persuasive devices
Lesson 2: debating
Lesson 3: Emma Watson’s speech at the UN
Lesson 4: George Bush’s defense of America after 9/11
Lesson 5: using body language and voice
Lesson 6: your future ambitions
Lesson 7: how to spend money on your school
Lesson 8: analyzing persuasive speeches in movies
Lesson 9: planning a speech
Lesson 10: writing and performing a speech to go to Mars
This unit contains everything you need to teach Rime of the Ancient Mariner at IB Standard or Higher level, but it could easily be adapted for GCSE and A-level. It includes 16 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual research, poetic devices revision, gothic extracts, Romantic research and vocabulary support.
Lesson 1: Gothic and Romantic
Lesson 2: Poetic rhyme, rhythm and meter
Lesson 3: Poetic devices research
Lesson 4: The Plot
Lesson 5: Part 1
Lesson 6: Part 1 Revision
Lesson 7: Part 2
Lesson 8: Part 3
Lesson 9: Part 4
Lesson 10: Part 5
Lesson 11: Part 6
Lesson 12: Part 7
Lesson 13: Parallel Research
Lesson 14: Themes and Symbols
Lesson 15: Links to crime genre
Lesson 16: Exam questions to plan
Everything you need to revise Unseen Poetry at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 12 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, IWB interactive resources using SMART Notebook, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and examiner advice. This unit is best if you have already taught the skills for Unseen Poetry and are revising just before the exam.
Lesson 1: Analysing a Child’s Sleep by Carol Ann Duffy
Lesson 2: Comparing A Child’s Sleep with The Night Feed by Evan Bolan
Lesson 3: Analysing Rejection by Jenny Sullivan
Lesson 4: Comparing Rejection with Years Ago by Elizabeth Jennings
Lesson 5: Analysing Tramp by Rupert Loydell
Lesson 6: Comparing Tramp with Decomposition by Zulfikar Ghose
Lesson 7: Analysing I See You Dancing, Father
Lesson 8: Comparing I See You Dancing with Coat
Lesson 9: Analysing Woman Work by Maya Angelou
Lesson 10: Comparing Woman Work with County Sligo by Gillian Clarke
Lesson 11: Analysing Yew Tree Guest House by Phoebe Hesketh
Lesson 12: Comparing Yew Tree with Goodwill Store by Ted Kooser
This unit is designed to give Year 9 students an introduction to Charles Dickens and other Victorian Writers at KS3. It includes extracts from Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and more. This is perfect for introducing KS3 students to the skills they will need for their GCSE course and the context for Victorian Literature. The 14 lessons are fully resourced with extracts, contextual information, quizzes, gap fills and exemplar answers.
Lesson 1: The plot of Dombey and Son
Lesson 2: Analysing an extract
Lesson 3: Formative assessment
Lesson 4: Language to describe Victorian London
Lesson 5: The Dining Hall in Oliver Twist
Lesson 6: Victorian Women
Lesson 7: Lowood in Jane Eyre
Lesson 8: Miss Temple from Jane Eyre
Lesson 9: Mr Creakle from David Copperfield
Lesson 10: Describing characters
Lesson 11: Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights
Lesson 12: Comparing childhoods in Wuthering Heights and David Copperfield
Lesson 13: Comparing teachers in Jane Eyre and David Copperfield
Lesson 14: Assessment
Everything you need to teach Coraline at KS3. This 16 lesson unit has been designed as a read through the text, with a focus on evaluating a statement, and includes an assessment on how Gaiman creates tension. It is fully resourced with extracts, quizzes, assessments and worksheets.
Lesson 1: Gothic Horror
Lesson 2: C1 Setting the scene
Lesson 3: C2 Foreshadowing
Lesson 4: C3 Alternative realities
Lesson 5: C4 How Gaiman creates characters
Lesson 6: C5 Evaluating Coraline
Lesson 7: C6 What is bravery?
Lesson 8:C7 Interpreting clues
Lesson 9: C8 The children in the mirror
Lesson 10: C9 How Gaiman creates mystery
Lesson 11: C10 Horror and Mystery
Lesson 12: C11 The Final Battle
Lesson 13: C12-13 Evaluating the Ending
Lesson 14: Planning the assessment
Lesson 15: Writing the assessment
Lesson 16: The Film
Ideally for KS3 students, this unit of work has been designed to teach students the skills to analyse a variety of texts, and form an opinion on different topics that affect teenagers. There are 16 lessons which allow students to explore topics such as: perceptions of teenagers, graffiti, school shootings, anti social behaviour orders, gang violence, computer games and negative press coverage. It is fully resourced with ppts, articles, podcasts, storyboards and assessment opportunities.
Lesson 1: Perceptions of youth culture
Lesson 2: Is graffiti a form of art?
Lesson 3: School shootings
Lesson 4: anti social behaviour orders - do they work?
Lesson 5: gang violence
Lesson 6: the influence of computer games
Lesson 7: fighting back through charity work
Lesson 8: negative stereotypes in the press
Lesson 9: YouTube challenge
Lesson 10: writing a speech on knife or gun crime
Lesson 11: Fallout
Lesson 12: an open letter by Lennie James to stop the violence
Lesson 13: Gang violence in The Outsiders
Lesson 14: Designing an anti violence poster
Lesson 15: Writing your commentary
Lesson 16: Panorama video reward
This scheme of work contains everything you need to teach Imaginative Writing at IGCSE and will save you hours of preparation! It is focused on Paper 3 coursework, but can easily be adapted for Paper 2 exam preparation. It includes 24 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, short stories and extracts, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, writing checklists and activities to exploit drama. Each lesson targets a different area of the mark scheme for the students to master.
Lesson 1: An introduction into imaginative writing
Lesson 2: How to structure a story using a story mountain
Lesson 3: How to write an effective opening
Lesson 4: Using connectives
Lesson 5: Creating characters with depth
Lesson 6: Writing about a party
Lesson 7: Focus on punctuation in ‘The Hero’
Lesson 8: Avoiding cliche in “The 100% perfect girl”
Lesson 9: Using dialogue
Lesson 10: Multiple narrative voices in “Not My Best Side”
Lesson 11: Writing a story using a unique voice
Lesson 12: Structure in ‘The Fugitive’
Lesson 13: A Day in the Life of a Nobody
Lesson 14: Writing a personal response
Lesson 15: Creating titles
Lesson 16: Expanding and planning
Lesson 17: Topic sentences
Lesson 18: Openings and endings
Lesson 19: Endings
Lesson 20: Narratives and dialogue
Lesson 21: Opening lines
Lesson 22: Creating a sense of place
Lesson 23: Show don’t tell
Lesson 24: Narrative Tenses in The Beach
Are you a TEFL teacher with an elementary level class? Or maybe your students have EFL needs? If so these resources should be helpful. There are around 46 worksheets covering basic grammar and speaking, as well as mid-unit and end of unit tests. They are not stand alone lessons, but could serve as effective support for students struggling with their English in the classroom. There are a number of speaking, grammar and writing activities based around:
adverbs of frequency
articles
classroom language
comparative adjectives
superlative adjectives
daily routines
family
jobs
present simple
past simple
present continuous
prepositions
holidays
transport
Everything you need to revise Othello at KS5. This unit includes 14 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications.
Lesson 1: Desdemona
Lesson 2: Who is responsible?
Lesson 3: Literary Criticism
Lesson 4: Hitting the assessment objectives
Lesson 5: Past Paper
Lesson 6: Film overview
Lesson 7: Brabantio and Roderigo
Lesson 8: Iago
Lesson 9: Love and Hate
Lesson 10: Iago and love
Lesson 11: Past questions
Lesson 12: Bradley vs Leavis
Lesson 13: Revision guides
Lesson 14: Love and Loyalty
Everything you need to teach AQA Power and Conflict Poetry at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper2 for English Literature. It includes 20 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and exemplar essays.
Everything you need to teach Blood Brothers at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts and opportunities to exploit online research. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama Edition edited by Jim Mulligan.