Are you teaching Myths, Legends, Fables and Fairy Tales? This unit will help you teach folktales and traditional tales, and it will save you hours of preparation! This unit of work includes 10 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar answers, quizzes and the classical stories. The unit includes: Lesson 1: The Norse World Lesson 2: Analysing settings Lesson 3: Asgard Lesson 4: Thor, Loki and Odin Lesson 5: Comparing Thors Lesson 6: Loki’s children Lesson 7: Hel Lesson 8: Thor and The Frost Giants Lesson 9: Ragnarok

If you are teaching Frankenstein, this unit contains everything you need to allow students to connect an 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 KS4. It contains over 25 lessons that take you through the text chapter by chapter. It is fully resourced with context readings, theme discussions, chapter analysis, persuasive writing opportunities, online research on The Romantics, example essays, critical articles and opportunities to practice extract into essay writing. The page numbers refer to the Penguin Classics edition. Lesson 1: an introduction to the themes of Frankenstein Lesson 2: context: grave robbers, Gothic horror and Mary Shelley Lesson 3: the Epistolary opening Lesson 4: Victor and Elizabeth as character foils Lesson 5: good and evil in Frankenstein Lesson 6: foreshadowing Lesson 7: the importance of setting Lesson 8: the creature comes to life! Lesson 9: extract analysis Lesson 10: the role of women in Frankenstein Lesson 11: the psychology of child killers Lesson 12: acting out Justine’s trial Lesson 13: the Gothic and the Romantic Lesson 14: Romantic poet research Lesson 15: Romanticism on the ice field Lesson 16: the importance of parenting Lesson 17: education and influences Lesson 18: serial killers Lesson 19: appearance vs reality Lesson 20: revenge Lesson 21: revolting monsters Lesson 22: comparing Victor and his creature Lesson 23: the dangers of science Lesson 24: who is the real monster? Lesson 25: the trial of Victor Frankenstein

This scheme of work is ideal as an introduction to classic poetry at KS3. It gives the students an insight into classic poets like Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost and WH Auden. There are 11 lessons focusing on analysing poems, giving students the skills to annotate poems and comment on the effect of poetic devices. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, quizzes, match ups, terminology definitions and activities that act as a gateway to the poems. This is perfect for early AQA Unseen Poetry preparation. Lesson 1: Revising poetic techniques Lesson 2: You Being Born by Brian Jones Lesson 3: Mirror by Sylvia Plath Lesson 4: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Lesson 5: Adolescence by Rita Dove Lesson 6: The Loner by Julie Holder Lesson 7: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Lesson 8: Stop All the Clocks by W. H. Auden Lesson 9: Stop All the Clocks assessment Lesson 10: Assessment feedback Lesson 11: How to compare poems

This unit of work is designed as a pathway through the text Wild Boy at KS3. The unit contains 21 lessons and looks at areas such as plot structure, character relationships, aspects of a detective novel, the author’s use of pathetic fallacy and more. It is fully resourced with an extract assessment, descriptive language worksheets, plot quizzes, contextual information and assessment writing frames. Page numbers refer to the Walker Books edition. Lesson 1: The Prologue Lesson 2: The Circus: setting the scene Lesson 3: Fairground characters Lesson 4: Clarissa Everett Lesson 5: The author’s use of animal imagery Lesson 6: Creating mystery Lesson 7: Character foils: Clarissa and Wild Boy Lesson 8: Escape through the sewers Lesson 9: Designing a WANTED poster Lesson 10: Use of pathetic fallacy Lesson 11: Analysing the murder scene Lesson 12: Discovering the hidden room Lesson 13: A Victorian Workhouse Lesson 14: The Church Lesson 15: How the writer builds tension Lesson 16: The Machine Lesson 17: Circular Structure Lesson 18: The Suspects Lesson 19: The Finale Lesson 20: Planning your assessment Lesson 21: Writing your assessment

This Unit of Work has been designed as a way through the novel ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. It contains 19 lessons and is designed to exploit areas like descriptive writing, writing a summary, analyzing characters, constructing the plot, the format of a letter, how writers build tension and designing a film storyboard. It also contains two assessment opportunities on Stanley Yelnats and the significance of the title. The page numbers refer to the Bloomsbury edition. Lesson 1: An introduction to Holes Lesson 2: Chapters 1-3: Camp Green Lake Lesson 3: Chapters 4-6: Impressions of Stanley Yelnats Lesson 4: Chapters 7-9: Use of flashback in literature Lesson 5: Creating a factfile Lesson 6: Survival guide poster and plot quiz Lesson 7: Chapters 10-12: Writing a letter home Lesson 8: Chapters 13-15: The Warden Lesson 9: Chapters 16-18: Kate Barlow’s lipstick Lesson 10: Chapters 19-21: Building tension Lesson 11: Chapters 22-24: Using flashbacks Lesson 12: Chapters 25-28: Kissin’ Kate Barlow Lesson 13: Chapters 29-30: Using pathetic fallacy Lesson 14: Chapters 31-33: Zero’s escape Lesson 15: Chapters 34-36: Comparing Stanley and Zero Lesson 16: Chapters 37-39: Climbing Big Thumb Lesson 17: Chapters 40-43: Formulating an escape plan Lesson 18: Chapters 44- 47: Buried treasure Lesson 19: Chapters 48-50: The End

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

Do you need your students to have an overview of English Literature canon? From Beowulf to The Bard? This unit of work is dedicated to the progress of language from Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare and The Romantics to modern day speakers like Muhammad Ali and Malala Jusef . This unit works well with mid to high ability KS3 students, and could serve as a basic introduction to language change. It is fully resourced with extracts, gap fills, cartoon strips, timeline sorts, games and drag and drop activities. Lesson 1: Timeline of English Literature Lesson 2: The origins of English Lesson 3: English pronunciation Lesson 4: The Romantics Lesson 5-7: Beowulf Lesson 8: The Magna Carta Lesson 9: The Wife of Bath by Chaucer Lesson 10: Write your own Canterbury Tale Lesson 11: Shakespearean Language Lesson 12: The Witches in Macbeth Lesson 13: The Great Fire of London Lesson 14: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Lesson 15: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Lesson 16: JFK speeches Lesson 17: Muhammad Ali speeches Lesson 18: I am Malala Lesson 19: Emma Watson’s speech on feminism

This unit contains everything you need to teach War Poetry at KS3. It gives a balanced view of patriotic poems that glorify war (Brooke and Pope) with more realistic poems from the front line (Sassoon and Owen). This unit of work is focused on preparing students for a final poetry assessment, whilst fostering a love of poetry. It includes 17 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, original redrafts and opportunities for online research. Lesson 1: Context reading Lesson 2: Poet online research Lesson 3: Rhythm and rhyme in poetry Lesson 4: Poetic techniques Lesson 5: Techniques review Lesson 6: Write your own war poem Lesson 7: Anthem for Doomed Youth Lesson 8: The Charge of the Light Brigade Lesson 9: Base Details Lesson 10: A Remembrance Tale Lesson 11: Dulce et Decorum Est Lesson 12: The Hero Lesson 13: Who’s for the game? Lesson 14: The Soldier Lesson 15: Explosure Lesson 16: Assessment Preparation Lesson 17: Write your assessment

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

Encourage students to stand up for their rights, using their language skills to influence the world. This unit is ideally for KS3 students. It has been designed to teach the skills to write a formal letter of complaint by opposing the development of a theme park in the local area. There are 17 lessons which examine the layout of a letter as well as formal phrases to use. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, brochures, theme park maps, persuasive adverts and debate cards. Lesson 1: Language to advertise Lesson 2: Holiday brochures Lesson 3: Advertising theme parks Lesson 4: Descriptive Writing Lesson 5: Online holiday webquest Lesson 6: Holidays gone wrong! Lesson 7: Writing a letter of complaint Lesson 8: Writing an application letter Lesson 9: Evaluating a theme park leaflet Lesson 10: Evaluating a website Lesson 11: Designing a theme park Lesson 12: Theme park debate Lesson 13: Theme park poetry Lesson 14: Theme park letter of complaint Lesson 15: Theme park TV advert Lesson 16: Plan your assessment Lesson 17: Write your assessment

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

This scheme of work uses the superhero genre to engage lower achieving students, culminating in writing a formal film review. It works well with low to mid ability KS3 students and could appeal to boy heavy groups. The 14 lesson unit looks at the content and structure of a film review and supports their writing in the final assessment. It is fully resourced with superhero review exemplars, jigsaw readings, quizzes, crosswords and essay frames. Lesson 1: Designing your own superhero Lesson 2: Turning this into a comic strip Lesson 3: Making a superhero movie using online software Lesson 4: Superhero Origins Lesson 5: Designing a poster for your film Lesson 6: Film pitch planning Lesson 7: Pitching your film to the critics Lesson 8: Fantastic 4 Review Lesson 9: X-men review Lesson 10: Pirates of the Caribbean review Lesson 11-12: Watching and evaluating a superhero film Lesson 13: Writing your film review Lesson 14: Top Trumps

This unit contains everything you need to teach Midsummer Night’s Dream at KS4. It is focused on essay writing skills, analyzing extracts for English Literature and bringing the play to life. It includes over 25 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extract analysis and opportunities for online research. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. Each lesson is focused on a scene from the play, so you can easily cut this unit down to focus specifically on a key scene and a theme from the play. Lesson 1: Context Lesson 2: Online research Lesson 3: The Globe Lesson 4: Character research Lesson 5: Language Lesson 6: Plot and characters Lesson 7: Act out the play Lesson 8: A1S1 Theseus and Hippolyta Lesson 9: A1S2 The Mechanicals Lesson 10: A2S1 Puck Lesson 11: A2S1 Oberon and Titania Lesson 12: A2S1 Demetrius and Hermia Lesson 13: Language Lesson 14: A2S2 The love potion Lesson 15: A3S1 The rehearsal Lesson 16: A3S1 Bottom and Titania Lesson 17: A3S2 Oberon and Puck Lesson 18: A3S2 The lovers Lesson 19: A3S2 Young love Lesson 20: A4S1 Bottom Lesson 21: A4S1 Explanations Lesson 22: A5S1 The play Lesson 23 A5S1 The end Lesson 24: Blockbusters review game Lesson 25: Revision cards

Everything you need to teach Science Fiction at KS3. This unit of work includes 14 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, quizzes, stories and a descriptive assessment . It is geared towards boys, with extracts from Ray Bradbury, Mars missions and The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This is useful as an early introduction to the skills needed for English Language GCSE Paper 1. Lesson 1: Introduction to Science Fiction Lesson 2: The rise of Artificial Intelligence Lesson 3-4: A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Lesson 5: Colonising Mars Lesson 6: Write a Mars Speech Lesson 7: All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Lesson 8: Designing a Science Fiction Trailer Lesson 9: The Time Machine by HG Wells Lesson 10: Virus and future pandemics Lesson 11: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Lesson 12: The Veldt by Ray Bradbury Lesson 13: Writing a Doctor Who script for TV Lesson 14: Describing an alien planet from Star Wars

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

Everything you need to revise Streetcar at KS5. This unit includes 12 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 Penguin Modern Classics edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: The American South Lesson 2: Tragedy as a genre Lesson 3: Structure of the scenes Lesson 4: Style and idiolect Lesson 5: betrayal and desire Lesson 6: social class Lesson 7: Stella Lesson 8: men and women Lesson 9: Stella and Stan Lesson 10: Steve and Eunice Lesson 11: Belle Reve Lesson 12: Gone With The Wind

Everything you need to teach this fantastic novel! Ideally for Years 7-9, this unit has 20 lessons covering the whole of the text, focusing on writer’s use of language, evaluating a character statement and creative writing. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information on Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, chapter extracts and IWB activities. This is perfect for developing early English Literature essay skills. Page numbers are based on the 2004 Vintage edition. The lesson themes focus on: Lesson 1: Autism research Lesson 2: How to produce Chris’s style Lesson 3: Understanding emotions Lesson 4: Character profiles Lesson 5: Habits and rituals Lesson 6: The Monty Hall Problem Lesson 7: Splitting up Lesson 8: Chris’ mother Lesson 9: The letters Lesson 10: Running away research Lesson 11: Chris runs away Lesson 12: Eidetic memories Lesson 13: Interpreting dreams Lesson 14: Analysing Chris’ mother Lesson 15: Designing a front cover Lesson 16: Writing an extra chapter Lesson 17: Character profiles Lesson 18: Book reviews Lesson 19: Describing a train journey Lesson 20: Questions to the author There is also an opportunity for assessment on Chris’s dad with feedback and a marking sheet.

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.

A unit of work dedicated to poetry that explores the natural world. It includes 19 lessons with activities to help students comment on the effect of language techniques, comparison and contextual research opportunities on the British poets. It is fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes, support notes, essay frames and creative writing opportunities. The lessons cover a range of subjects such as poetic techniques, rhythm and rhyme in conjunction with with poems by: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lord Tennyson, William Blake and many more. Lesson 1: Poetic techniques Lesson 2: Poetic techniques review Lesson 3: How poets use rhythm Lesson 4: The Eagle by Tennyson Lesson 5: The Jaguar by Ted Hughes Lesson 6: The Tyger by William Blake Lesson 7: The Hyena by Edwin Morgan Lesson 8: View of a Pig by Ted Hughes Lesson 9: Sonnet by John Clare Lesson 10: Spring by Hopkins Lesson 11: Daffodils by William Wordsworth Lesson 12: Inversnaid by Hopkins Lesson 13: Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare Lesson 14: Seamus Heaney research Lesson 15: Death of a Naturalist by Heaney Lesson 16: Blackberry Picking by Heaney Lesson 17: Planning your assessment Lesson 18: Writing your assessment Lesson 19: Assessment feedback

This unit of work is fantastic for introducing the crime genre and detective stories to KS3 students. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, activities to exploit drama, debates, creative writing opportunities and short stories. This works well with a boy heavy group, who get very excited when they use the clues to solve the crimes before the ending is given away! Lesson 1: An introduction to crime Lesson 2: How writers use narrative hooks Lesson 3: Crime Scene Investigation Lesson 4: Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens Lesson 5: Using Voice in Captain Murderer Lesson 6: Writing feedback Lesson 7: About His Person by Simon Armitage Lesson 8: Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl Lesson 9-11: The Darkness Out There by Penelope Lively Lesson 12: The Trial of Mrs Rutter Lesson 13: Perform and peer assess Lesson 14: The Red Room by HG Wells Lesson 15: Planning your own detective story Lesson 16: Writing your own detective story Lesson 17: Writing feedback and improvement Lesson 18: Who killed Vic Timberlake?