A lesson on the poem ‘The Prelude’ by William Wordsworth. Useful for the GCSE AQA Power and Conflict anthology. The lesson has a ‘do now’ activity, context section, summary of the poem and then each line and stanza is broken down and analysed in depth. At the end of the lesson there are some review resources and exemplar essay questions.

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

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.

Here are four checklists for the AQA English language paper 1 Reading section of the paper. Each checklist gives guidelines for the four reading questions to help students process what they have to do in the exam. At the top of each resource is an overview of the question and then there is a step by step guide of how to tackle the question.

**Here are individual checklists for the five different types of writing AQA have stated could be on English Language Paper 2. There is a checklist and three exemplar questions for an article, essay, leaflet, letter and speech. Each checklist is at least one lesson’s worth of resources. **

Two revision checklists for questions 1 and 2 on AQA English language paper 2.

A checklist of how to write a leaflet, together with a checklist of more general features to include in all creative writing. Also includes three mock exam questions based on leaflets. Aimed at the AQA English language paper 2 exam.

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

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.

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

A lesson on PowerPoint helping students understand the concept of comparison in poetry.

Two slides of a PowerPoint that shows the political spectrum and how the play’s characters fit into it.

A collection of ‘Othello’ mock exam questions for the AQA English literature A-Level paper 1 exam.

Ten mock exam questions for AQA English literature A-Level Spec A, Paper 2 Option 3 - My Boy Jack and Up the Line to Death.

Two author studies - a generic author study and a study based on the Romantic poets which can help to prepare students for their GCSE English literature poetry anthologies. There are 13 activities in total - four extended activities for the generic study and nine activities for the Romantic poets study.

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.