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

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

This unit contains everything you need to teach dystopian Fiction at KS3 in an engaging and dynamic way. It includes 9 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, extracts, short stories, quizzes and assessment opportunities. This unit works well with a boy heavy group interested in texts like Brave New World, Hunger Games and War of the Worlds. There is an assessment opportunity at the end of the unit for the students to analyse an extract from Children of Men. This is supported with essay frames and exemplar answers. Lesson 1: Dystopias in Literature Lesson 2: Comparing dystopian worlds Lesson 3: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Lesson 4: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Colins Lesson 5: The Red Weed from War of the Worlds Lesson 6: 1984 by George Orwell Lesson 7: Assessment: Children of Men by PD James Lesson 8:Writing your assessment Lesson 9: Assessment feedback Lesson 10: Dystopia quiz

This unit of work is fantastic for stretching high ability students, by encouraging them to amalgamate context into their consideration of the fable. The unit contains 17 lessons covering the whole of the novel, focusing on writer’s use of language, how the writer uses structure, creative writing and the effect of rhetorical devices. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, chapter extracts, speech writing and dramatic activities. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Modern Classics Edition. The lessons include: Lesson 1: Lenin, Trotsky, Marx and Stalin Lesson 2: context games Lesson 3: the characters and their historical equivalents Lesson 4: analysis of Old Major’s speech Lesson 5: the animals Lesson 6: Napoleon vs Snowball vote Lesson 7: the revolution Lesson 8: flags as symbols Lesson 9: formulating a battle plan Lesson 10: political spin Lesson 11: propaganda and posters Lesson 12: leadership styles Lesson 13: review chapters 1-5 Lesson 14: Napoleon as a dictator Lesson 15: Scapegoats Lesson 16: the battle of the windmill Lesson 17: power and corruption Lesson 18: assessment preparation Lesson 19: assessment feedback There is an opportunity at the end of the unit to plan and write an assessment on Napoleon.

Everything you need to revise Lord of the Flies at KS4. This unit includes 17 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA GCSE, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Jack Lesson 2: Ralph Lesson 3: The Beast Lesson 4: Essay planning Lesson 5: Symbols Lesson 6: Simon Lesson 7: Essay question planning Lesson 8: Exam overview Lesson 9: The fire Lesson 10: The extract question Lesson 11: Assemblies Lesson 12: Jack extract Lesson 13: Group presentations Lesson 14: Piggy Lesson 15: Revision cards Lesson 16: Final revision Lesson 17: Character overview

This unit contains everything you need to teach Paper 1 reading at IGCSE. This unit of work teaches the students how to answer questions on the writer’s thoughts and feelings, describing events, perspective and writer’s use of language and structure . It includes 16 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, newspaper articles, speeches, autobiographies, travel writing and two past papers for practice. Lesson 1: Introduction to non-fiction reading Lesson 2: Perspective Lesson 3: Thoughts and feelings Lesson 4: Perspective Lesson 5: Gervase Finn Lesson 6: Language Lesson 7: Structure Lesson 8: Thoughts and feelings Lesson 9: Language and structure Lesson 10: Perspective Lesson 11: Boomers vs Millennials Lesson 12: Analysing JFK’s speech Lesson 13: Leonardo DiCaprio’s UN Speech Lesson 14: Muhammad Ali’s speech Lesson 15: Malala Yousafzai’s speech Lesson 16: Emma Watson’s speech on equality

Are you looking to teach Gothic Horror at KS3, but don’t want to spend hours preparing? Then you have come to the right place! Develop greater understanding of the conventions of Gothic literature and the horror genre Analyze how famous authors of Gothic literature used characterization, description, and various literary devices that are consistent with the horror genre The texts covered are extracts and short stories from: Twilight, Great Expectations, The Werewolf, The Evil Priest, The Woman in Black, Tell Tale Heart and more Please note, for "The Darker Side of St Ives" lesson you will need to buy a copy of Shanty Baba’s CD, which is available online. Lesson 1: An introduction to gothic horror Lesson 2: Creating vampires Lesson 3: The gothic in Great Expectations Lesson 4: The Darker Side of St Ives Lesson 5: The Werewolf by Angela Carter Lesson 6: Creating school ghost tales Lesson 7: Performing your tale to the group Lesson 8: Gerunds and adverbial phrases in The Evil Priest Lesson 9: The Woman in Black Lesson 10-11: Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Shakespearean language. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as the writer’s use of language and structure, an introduction to famous plays and extract analysis. Each unit of work comes with 7 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: How to embed context Lesson 2: Attitudes in Taming of the Shrew Lesson 3: Analysing staging on Othello Lesson 4: Form, rhythm and rhyme in Sonnet 130 Lesson 5: Rhythm in Macbeth Lesson 6: Forming a hypothesis in Hamlet Lesson 7: Analysing persuasive devices in Henry V

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as writer’s use of language and structure, how to open a story, narrative tenses and scanning for detail. It contains a workbook for students to work thought alongside the lesson PowerPoints. Lesson 1: Unique voice in Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens Lesson 2: Creative writing using a unique voice Lesson 3: How to write an effective opening Lesson 4: Verb changes in Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Lesson 5: Skimming and Scanning Lesson 6: Show don’t tell Lesson 7: How to create characters Lesson 8: How to start your descriptive sentences

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Victorian Literature. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as writer’s use of language and structure, extract analysis and embedding context. There is a workbook for the students to use alongside the lesson PowerPoints. Lesson 1: How to create characters with depth Lesson 2: Narrative Voice in Sherlock Holmes Lesson 3: Planning and writing a detective story Lesson 4: How the writer creates mood and atmosphere in Hard Times Lesson 5: Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times Lesson 6: Victorian context webquest Lesson 7: The Ghosts in Christmas Carol

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3. Each unit of work is specialised to target a specific area of the KS3 curriculum such as writing to persuade, advise and argue. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: Creating characters with depth Lesson 2: Writing to argue Lesson 3: Writing a film review Lesson 4: Writing a letter of complaint Lesson 5: How to structure a story Lesson 6: Writing to advise

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to help students who need extra support at KS3 with their grammar. It gives an overview of the skills needed to access the curriculum. Each lesson is specialised to target a specific area such as grammar, language or context. This unit works well with small support groups and comes with an easy-to-follow workbook. Lesson 1: Using apostrophes Lesson 2: Being ambitious with vocabulary Lesson 3: Describing an alien planet Lesson 4: Using your imagination Lesson 5: Narrative hooks Lesson 6: Punctuation Lesson 7: Holiday writing

Do your students need last minute prep for their exam? This 11 lesson unit is designed for students who have studied a Christmas Carol, but need two weeks intensive revision before their exam. The unit covers a number of characters and themes such as: Lesson 1: plot and characters Lesson 2: essay planning and context Lesson 3: the role of the ghosts Lesson 4: the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come Lesson 5: Scrooge’s transformation Lesson 6: revision guides Lesson 7: useful quotes Lesson 8: context bidding Lesson 9: Staves 1-2 review Lesson 10: Staves 3-4 review Lesson 11: final revision

This Literacy Support unit has been created to support students who need extra help at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as creating characters and structuring stories. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens Lesson 2: Creating an original voice Lesson 3: How writers set the scene Lesson 4: Zooming in and out in descriptive writing Lesson 5: Using metaphor and similes Lesson 6: Creating original characters

This Literacy Support unit has been created to support students’ spelling and grammar at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills needed to be successful at KS3. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: Using capital letters Lesson 2: Writing a summary Lesson 3: Improving your vocabulary Lesson 4: Similes and metaphors Lesson 5: Using persuasive devices Lesson 6: Writing to argue

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3. This unit of work is specialised to target travel articles and diaries, with both reading and writing skills, and works well with small support groups.

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support with poetry at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes needed, such as writer’s use of language and voice, poetic techniques and rhythm. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: Poetic techniques Lesson 2: Synonyms in Autumn by John Keats Lesson 3: Rhythm in Sonny’s Lettah by Linton Kwesi Johnson Lesson 4: Voice in Hitcher by Simon Armitage Lesson 5: Style in Kid by Simon Armitage Lesson 6: Originality in Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Romeo and Juliet. It gives an overview of the skills and themes needed to access Shakespeare. Each unit of work is specialised to target a specific area of the KS3 curriculum such as Shakespearean language and context. Each unit of work comes with 8 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: Accessing Shakespeare’s language Lesson 2: Costume design Lesson 3: Plot and key quotes Lesson 4: Exploring parent and child relationships Lesson 5: Writing a magazine article on the Capulet Ball Lesson 6: Evaluating who is to blame Lesson 7: Plot quiz Lesson 8: Grammar

This unit is a great way to teach summary, language and perspective skills at KS4. It is focused on AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2. It prepares students for Q2 summarise the differences, Q3 writer’s use of language and Q4 perspective and point of view. It includes 24 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, exemplar answers, online research and historical articles . Page numbers refer to the Arrow Books edition. Lesson 1: Context research online Lesson 2: C1 Maycomb County Lesson 3: C2 Education Lesson 4: C2 Analysing Miss Caroline Lesson 5: C3 Comparing Atticus’ and Scout’s point of view Lesson 6: The Case of Ruby Bridges Lesson 7: C4 Analysing Atticus Finch Lesson 8: C5 Analysing Miss Maudie Atkinson Lesson 9: C6 Building tension Lesson 10: C7 Scout’s understanding of the world Lesson 11: C8 The Fire Lesson 12 C10 The Rabid Dog Lesson 13: Analysing Miss Dubose Lesson 14: C12 Race relations Lesson 15: C13 Comparing Aunt Alex with Ms Dubose Lesson 16: C15 The Lynch Mob Lesson 17: C16-21 Summarising the trial Lesson 18: C21 The Verdict Lesson 19: C23 Comparing Bob and Atticus Lesson 20: C24 Analysing the Missionary Ladies Lesson 21: C25 Racism and Prejudice Lesson 22: C28 The Attack on Jem and Scout Lesson 23: C29 The Aftermath and Boo Radley Lesson 24: C31 The Ending

Private Peaceful is a fantastic way to teach students about the realties of war, at a time when politicians seek to glorify it. This unit is ideally for Year 7 or mid ability Year 8. 18 lessons covering the whole of the text, focusing on writer’s use of language, how the writer uses structure, character analysis and creative writing opportunities. The unit of work is fully resourced with ppts, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, chapter extracts and more. This is perfect for early exam preparation as well as fostering English Literature skills. Page numbers refer to the Harper Collins Edition. Lesson 1: Introduction to WW1 Lesson 2: First day at school Lesson 3: Older brothers Lesson 4: Creating characters Lesson 5: Grandma Wolf Lesson 6: Siblings Lesson 7: Describing a plane crash Lesson 8: Parent-child relationships Lesson 9: Diary Writing Lesson 10: Life in the army Lesson 11: Analysing character motivation Lesson 12: War propaganda Lesson 13: Use of setting Lesson 14: Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen Lesson 15: Describing a gas attack Lesson 16: Letter writing Lesson 17: Assessment Lesson 18: Assessment feedback