A lesson guiding students through reflective time on literature paper one exam for AQA. The questions were: ‘How is the theme of social responsibility shown in An Inspector Calls’ or ‘How does Priestley use the character of the Inspector to show how society shoudl change’. 'Compare the ways the poets present ideas about loss and absence in ‘Kamikaze’ and one other poem In ‘Autumn’ how does the poet present the effect of the season of autumn?’

A revision psotcar enabling students to revise the character of Macbeth in the first part of the play. Ideal for KS4 students as pre essay revision. Created with the AQA markscheme in mind.

A few lessons based on William Blake's Little boy lost and Little boy found poems. Comparison tasks based on new AQA GCSE scheme

A lesson and some resources to support the answering of Q3

a word search for key words in dracula and the gothic genre

A simple A3 sheet with an extract from the opening of Terry Pratchett’s Shepherd’s Crown and 4 questions in the style of AQA’s language paper 1. Ideal as revision or an independent task for KS4 students.

A mini mock for a beautiful extract from Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘The Marriage Portrait’

A simple A4 organiser that goes through Key Characters, Plot, and some context. Aimed at KS3 and includes a gap fill activity to help them engage with the plot.

Very simple a selection of potential essay titles for AQA’s literature paper one using the extract-whole basis. Also includes a selection of key quotations that can be cut up and used as flashcards for revision.

A basic worksheet for identifying the Genre, Audience and Purpose of two texts for comparison. Aimed at GCSE students for language paper two. But could easily be used for KS3

Using the Dracula play script as stimuli this is a lesson for lower ability students to improve their own writing style and abilities.

A simple set of 20 quiz quiz trade questions helping students to revise the content of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Ideal for KS4

3 differentiated advent calendars. Getting students to complete small tasks every day, focusing on recal and knowledge based questions. Uses Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls and Power & Conflict Poetry as a basis for questions.

A multi-sensory lesson incorporating videos to improve background knowledge of life in WW1 trenches. This lesson links into a SOW I've done with Y7s on War Horse, it is loosely based around the theme of freedom for the 2017 national poetry day.

A simple worksheet allowing students to think about how analysis is put together and encouraging them to build their own analysis. Aimed at lower ability Y9 Uses the format of AQA’s literature paper 2 to help with GCSE transition

A sheet designed for KS3 in order to introduce them to the scene, the character's attitudes to each other and elements of language. Promotes independence and engagement with the text

A lesson aimed at lower ability KS3 guiding them through reading Dracula and beginning to analyse the character of Renfield

A board game designed for Y7 studying Dracula as a playscript. Students roll die to determin which task the complete. They either give a response verbally or record answers in their books.

A lesson aimed at KS3 working on events of the novel, character of Lennie and beginning to focus on essay writing skills as part of the new GCSE AQA requirements

aimed at lower ability Y7s