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 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

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 make The Great Gatsby fun, exciting and relevant to the students’ world. It includes 21 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Page numbers refer to the Wordsworth Classics edition. The lessons focus on a different chapter and aspect of Gatsby, such as: Lesson 1: The American Dream Lesson 2: Gatsby contextual research Lesson 3: 1920s research Lesson 4: Alternative titles and the epigraph Lesson 5: East Egg vs West Egg Lesson 6: A Superficial Society Lesson 7: Comparing Jordan, Daisy and Myrtle Lesson 8: The Outsider Lesson 9: Conspicuous Consumption Lesson 10: The Great Gatsby Debate Lesson 11: Illusion and Reality Lesson 12: Analysing structure Lesson 13: Themes, symbols and motifs Lesson 14: Idealism and Romanticism Lesson 15: James Gatz Lesson 16: Analysing Daisy Lesson 17: Daisy and Tom Lesson 18: Religious references Lesson 19: Gatsby’s funeral Lesson 20: The Ending Lesson 21: The Outsider Lesson 22: Desire

This unit works really well with a Year 7 or Year 8 group. They get really excited about the characters, especially The Artful Dodger! The unit consists of 17 lessons covering the whole of the play. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, newspaper articles, character descriptions, extracts and diary entries. The page numbers refer to the Heinemann Edition by Nigel Bryant. Lesson 1: Oliver’s feelings Lesson 2: The workhouse Lesson 3: Mr Bumble Lesson 4: Oliver’s diary Lesson 5: Apprenticeships Lesson 6: Crime and Punishment Lesson 7: Dodger and Fagin Lesson 8: Writing a newspaper article Lesson 9: Mr Brownlow Lesson 10: Creating settings Lesson 11: Designing Fagin’s hideout Lesson 12: Solving the mystery Lesson 13: Nancy Lesson 14: The End Lesson 15: Acting out the play Lesson 16: Writing your assessment Lesson 17: Assessment feedback

This unit contains everything you need to teach Mean Time at High School. It includes 17 lessons covering ‘Mean Time’ and allows ample opportunity to compare poems and themes. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Each lesson covers one of the poems, or gives the students the chance to reflect and build on previous learning by linking themes and style. Lesson 1: an introduction to poetry Lesson 2: rhyme, rhythm and meter Lesson 3: an introduction to Duffy Lesson 4: context research Lesson 5: context quiz Lesson 6: Captain of the 1964…. Lesson 7: Nostalgia Lesson 8: Before You Were Mine Lesson 9: Beachcomber Lesson 10: First Love Lesson 11: Valentine Lesson 12: Essay planning Lesson 13: The Biographer Lesson 14: Litany Lesson 15: Stafford Afternoons Lesson 16: The Cliche Kid Lesson 17: Small Female Skull Lesson 18: Never Go Back Lesson 19: Close Lesson 20: Mean Time

This unit is a great introduction to poetry from English speaking countries around the world. It includes 21 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar essays, past papers, mark schemes, quizzes and opportunities for self-assessment. It is focused on poetry skills, as well as comparing themes between two poems. The final assessment asks the students to compare cultural divisions in Nothing’s Changed and Two Scavengers in a Truck. Lesson 1: Poetic techniques Lesson 2: Cultural context Lesson 3: Limbo by Edward Kamu Brathwaite Lesson 4: The Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel Lesson 5: Island Man by Grace Nichols Lesson 6: Comparing Limbo and Night of the Scorpion Lesson 7: Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker Lesson 8: Nothing’s Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika Lesson 9: Two Scavengers in a Truck by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lesson 10: Comparing Nothing’s Changed and Two Scavengers Lesson 11: Assesment Feedback Lesson 12: Vietnam War context Lesson 13: What Were They Like? by Denise Levertov Lesson 14: Vultures by Chinua Achebe Lesson 15: Comparing Vultures and What Were They Like? Lesson 16: Mid term quiz Lesson 17: Search for my Tongue by Sujatta Bahat Lesson 18: Presents from my Aunts by Moniza Alvi Lesson 19: Comparing Presents and Search Lesson 20: Half Caste by John Agard Lesson 21: End of unit quiz

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

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 contains everything you need to teach the Songs of Ourselves anthology and will save you hours of preparation! It is focused on the CIE IGCSE Paper for English Literature. It includes 26 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar essays, context research, mark schemes, quizzes and opportunities for self-assessment. It is extremely thorough and allows the students multiple points for reflection to ensure they are confident of what themes to explore in their exam. Lesson 1: An introduction to poetry Lesson 2: Poetic techniques Lesson 3: Scansion: rhythm, rhyme and meter Lesson 4: Techniques review Lesson 5: Sonnet 18 Lesson 6: Love Armed Lesson 7: A Married State Lesson 8: The Chimney Sweeper Lesson 9: An Essay on Man Lesson 10: Quiz review Lesson 11: Carpet Weavers, Morocco Lesson 12: Before the Sun Lesson 13: Storyteller Lesson 14: Lament Lesson 15: Lament essay Lesson 16: Romantic research Lesson 17: Report to Wordsworth Lesson 18: Quiz review Lesson 19: A Different History Lesson 20: Hunting Snake Lesson 21: Hunting Snake Essay Lesson 22: The Cockroach Lesson 23: Where I Come From Lesson 24: Follower Lesson 25: Quiz review Lesson 26: Revision cards Lesson 27: National Poetry Day

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 contains everything you need to teach Streetcar at KS5 for AQA A-level English Language and Literature. It includes over 20 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Each lesson targets a scene in the play, a theme, a character or an exam extract. I have used it for the last 5 years to teach top students who have gone on to achieve A* grades and study English Literature at Oxford and Cambridge. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Modern Classics edition. This scheme of work has been designed for the AQA A level course. It looks at areas like: Lesson 1: Naturalist and Expressionist theatre Lesson 2: Context research on the deep south, the civil war, post WW2 immigration, 1940s New Orleans, The Southern Gothic and Tennessee Williams’ family Lesson 3: Context presentations Lesson 4: Impressions of Blanche Lesson 5: Past Paper on “bitterness” Lesson 6: The significance of Belle Reve Lesson 7: Williams’ use of staging Lesson 8a: The Poker Game and Sonnet 43 Lesson 8b: Past Paper on “loneliness” Lesson 9: Blanche and The Southern Belle Lesson 10: The allure of aggressive men Lesson 11: Comparing Blanche and Stella Lesson 12: The Southern Gent and Shep Huntleigh Lesson 13a: Violence in Streetcar Lesson 13b: Past Paper on “anxieties” Lesson 14: Essay writing Lesson 15a: Fantasy and self-deception Lesson 15b: Past Paper on “tension” Lesson 16: Elia Kazan’s influence Lesson 17: Is Stan a victim or a villain? Lesson 18: The relationship between Blanche and Mitch Lesson 19a: Essay marking Lesson 19b: Past Paper on “anger” Lesson 20: Sherman’s march through Georgia

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

This unit of work has been designed to support students who are preparing for their AQA individual speaking and listening presentation. There are 12 lessons which take students through the brainstorming, structure, planning, writing and speaking stage. There is an emphasis on stress and intonation so students speak naturally, use sophisticated language and access the ‘distinction’ band. Lesson 1: An introduction to public speaking Lesson 2: How to grade a speech: pass, merit or distinction? Lesson 3: How to plan your speech Lesson 4: Online research Lesson 5: How to write an introduction Lesson 6: How to write the main body of the speech Lesson 7: Editing the main body of the speech Lesson 8: How to end with a BANG! Lesson 9: Using body language, stress and intonation Lesson 10: Using cue cards Lesson 11: Practising and giving peer to peer feedback Lesson 12: Delivering your speech to the class

This scheme of work focuses on The Handmaid’s Tale at A-level. It contains 28 lessons that allow slow progression through the text, allowing opportunities for analysis and critical thinking. It is fully resourced and comes with worksheets, videos, notes, example essays and critical articles. It is particularly in depth for high achieving students, looking at post-modern concepts such as metafiction and the unreliable narrator. Each lesson focuses on different aspects of the text such as: why Gilead could come true the epigraphs identity feminist arguments the irony of Serena Joy class hierarchy rebellion oppression the role of the mother in society the female body use of colour imagery masculinity the role of religion

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

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

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.

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.