A simple but effective sheet on which students can analyse their own analysis to enable them to see what points on the mark scheme they are hitting. I have used this successfully in my lessons for a number of years, photocopying the sheet on to A3 and ensuring the students stick their essays in the middle before annotating their own analysis. This can be used for Love and Relationships too.

A useful revision resource for the main themes in ‘A Christmas Carol’. I’ve used it with my classes for homework and in lessons. It can also be a handy cover lesson too.

A few lessons that can be used for the start of the play.

Two short activities directing students to create scripts about events in ‘The Tempest’ based on a BBC news report and The Jeremy Kyle Show.

You can use this as a PowerPoint or a wall display. Each slide/sheet is a key word that students can misspell in examinations and generally in their everyday writing.

A visual representation of the extremes of politics to help students understand the reasons why Orwell created the novel, ‘Animal Farm’. There is also a list of key vocabulary with definitions.

A fantastic quiz for all Roald Dahl lovers. There are four rounds of ten questions. Round 1 focuses on book covers. Round 2 looks at characters. Round 3 requires a good knowledge of famous Dahl quotations from his books, while the fourth and final round is a set general knowledge questions about Dahl’s life and works.

PowerPoint analysing ‘England to her Sons’ an early WW1 jingoistic poem by WN Hodgson. This poem is a part of the ‘Up the Line to Death’ poetry anthology and is used extensively in AQA’s English literature A-level, WW1 and Its Aftermath. I have used this with many classes over the years. This resource also includes a knowledge organiser I have made for the poem with references to The Wipers Times for the 2023 examination.

A comparative revision clock for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ comparing the two families. Useful for a homework assignment or for a revision lesson.

A quick revision sheet focusing on the character of Osborne from the play Journey’s End.

A handy grid of themes for revision on the play Journey’s End. There are ten themes covered.

A quick PowerPoint retrieval activity with 15 quotations from Act 1 of the play. Useful for revision or when you start studying the play with your class.

This is based on the AQA 2019 English Literature Paper 1 exam. It is aimed at higher ability students There is a ‘do now’ activity, an assessment of the mark scheme and a model paragraph. Handy for last minute exam revision.

A simple but effective sheet on which students can analyse their own analysis to enable them to see what points on the mark scheme they are hitting. I have used this successfully in my lessons for a number of years, photocopying the sheet on to A3 and ensuring the students stick their essays in the middle before annotating their own analysis.

A simple but effective sheet on which students can analyse their own analysis to enable them to see what points on the mark scheme they are hitting. I have used this successfully in my lessons for a number of years, photocopying the sheet on to A3 and ensuring the students stick their essays in the middle before annotating their own analysis.

A simple but effective sheet on which students can analyse their own analysis to enable them to see what points on the mark scheme they are hitting. I have used this successfully in my lessons for a number of years, photocopying the sheet on to A3 and ensuring the students stick their essays in the middle before annotating their own analysis.

A 15 slide PowerPoint on Love and Relationships. Each question targets a different poem, but many of the themes and ideas are covered in these questions.

A detailed knowledge organiser for My Boy Jack, scenes 1 and 2. Ideally for AQA English literature A-Level WW1 and its aftermath option 3.

Ideal for a cover lesson, homework or a creative writing lesson, this is a four task autobiography creative writing challenge. Students have four writing activities to complete about their lives: a newspaper article, a television series, a letter and a blog.

A full lesson based on Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol and the extract running from ‘They left the high-road, by a well-remembered lane…’ to ‘The Ghost smiled thoughtfully, and waved its hand: saying as it did so, “Let us see another Christmas!”’ The learning objective focuses on adding context to a student response. There is a do now quiz based on the text and an example paragraph analysing the text in response to this exam question: Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present loneliness and isolation in ‘A Christmas Carol’? The lesson follows the ‘I do/We do/You do’ structure. There is an exemplar paragraph analysing this section of the text, with a clear contextual comment. There is an extra activity at the end based on a spelling test of key words in the text. This lesson has been successfully used in GCSE English literature lessons for a number of years.