A lesson guiding students through the murder of the Macduffs. Includes language analysis, recap of previous scenes, visual quotes, themes and comparison of key events. PPT is designed on a dyslexia friendly back ground in order to allow access by all students. Ideal for GCSE students studying the text for the new AQA specification. Includes an additional creative writing task, allowing student to intrinsically develop their creative writing skills for AQA Lang P2.

This lesson guides students through features of the Gothic including that of the Damsel in Distress. Encourages students to think independently about the novel and their interpretations. Has challenging vocab throughout to stretch the most able. Includes silent debate tasks in order to make students think critically and refine their communication skills.

A lesson introducing students to the key themes, ideas and plot of Romeo and Juliet. Includes contextual information, introductory videos and comprehension tasks. Geared towards AQA assessment objectives.

A selection of four extracts and questions ideal for revision, independent tasks or cover work at KS4.

Challenge your students with the emotive lesson looking at The Emigree. Perfect for KS4 with opportunities to develop personalised responses and critical thinking. Tailored to the AQA Power and Conflict GCSE Unit

A wide variety of resources looking at the character and change in Lady Macbeth Ideal for KS4 with plenty of opportunities to test knowledge and promote a personalised response. Uses the AQA specification as a basis for learning.

A series of work sheets designed to support students with their understanding and confidence with the text and develop their critical understanding of the context, language and content. Ideal for GCSE preparation or independent revision. I made this with the AQA literature specification in mind. Sheets are formatted to be printed on A3 I hope this supports your students as much as it has helped mine.

These lessons are designed for KS4 to remind them of different features of written language. These are ideal as an accompaniment to AQA English Language Papers 1&2 Section B. It includes writing challenges and published extracts of work in order to model what successful fiction writing looks like.

A fully differentiated lesson focusing on the contrast between Holmes and Jones. Lesson develops students’ inference and writing skills, inspired by the AQA GCSE framework Ideal for KS4, low-mid ability lesson can easily be differentiated upwards to support those who need it.

A lesson looking at the events of the ball scene and Romeo’s first encounter with Juliet. Introduces students to analytical writing and using quotations to support their ideas. Ideal for KS3 or lower ability KS4

This lesson goes through the contextual information of Thomas Malthus, deserving and undeserving poor and how this influenced Dickens. Includes an assessment style task in the form of extract-whole, in line with the AQA GCSE.

These lessons guide students through inferences about the title of the novel, looks at the key events of the British Empire and builds to a timeline activity. Knowledge and research is consolidated through creatively writing a tour guide leaflet to Victorian London Ideal for mid-high set KS3

This lesson guides students through the core context (AO3) topics relating to Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This round robin task gives students the chance to act in an investigation, enhancing their knowledge through a fun activity. This is then consolidated using a writing task based around skills needed for AQA’s GCSE

This lesson guides students through a Napoleonic marching song, looking at it from a poetic perspective. An interesting poem when thinking about patriotism as well as looking at the implications of war over time. Aimed at KS3 but easily adapted for KS4 when thinking about unseen poetry.

This lesson guides students through the poem Marching Men, encouraging them to think about how soldiers were viewing in WW1. This the leads to an extended piece of creative writing, using visual stimuli to enhance ideas. Ideal for KS3 but could be used to challenge KS4 for unseen poetry or fictional writing

3-4 hours of work looking at Poe’s Gothic poem The Raven. Includes creative activities as well as opportunties to model and demonstrate analysis.

A lesson focusing on AO3 (Context) for Romeo and Juliet. Looks at attitudes to love and marriage in Shakespeare's England. Gives opportunity for discussion and analysis and understanding of the events of the play. Leads students towards a language analysis activity (AO1) before embarking on a creative writing piece. Accompanying worksheet can be set as additional homework.

An extract and set of questions preparing students for AQA language paper one. There is a detailed and differentiated lesson focusing on Question 2 language skills. Ideal for stretching and challenging students to think outside the box and introduce psychological concepts. Ideal for male KS4 students especially when used in conjunction with film clips. Includes starter questions to help students think about language features and techniques. Possibly useful for mock exams, includes a question 5/section B writing to describe task.

A lesson guiding students through the understanding and reading of Chapter 4. Uses the AQA GCSE specification as framework for AOs. Includes essay style analysis of language and works to evoke personal responses from students using images as well as the text itself. To make life easy I've included the extract required for the essay style question. Ideal for KS3

A lesson aimed at KS3 looking at the character of Don John, his role as a villain and an introduction into analytical writing - complete with essay structure support and model paragraph. Ideal for mid ability groups. Lesson is based on the AQA AOs