A full lesson, including a ‘do now’ activity as students settle, an overarching session question, detailed context, scaffolded guided questions for analysis of sound, language, figurative language, structure and form. Includes a Massolit llecture link, but your school will have to have a subscription to access it (lbut the lesson is still complete without it!) EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature Paper 3: Poetry, Section B: The Romantics

LO1 to consider the role of patriarchy in the early 1600s (AO3) LO2 to analyse evidence of the impact of patriarchy on Emilia and Desdemona (AO2) LO3 to plan an essay response about ‘dominance and submission’ in Othello (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO5) Extension and stretch and challenge activities are embedded throughout; the lesson has an overarching question which encourages the development of higher order thinking. Opportunities for paragraph writing and peer assessment are also utilised. AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare

LO1 to complete notes on how class has been presented and dramatised (AO1, AO3) LO2 to read, analyse, and evaluate critical perspectives (AO5) LO3 to plan a response to a class question, using context and critics (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO5) Extension and stretch and challenge activities are embedded throughout; the lesson has an overarching question which encourages the development of higher order thinking. Opportunities for paragraph writing and peer assessment are also utilised. AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare

This session overviews Julia Kristeva’s ‘Abjection’ from her ‘Powers of Horror’. The session then encourages learners to apply the theory to Frankenstein, The Handmaid’s Tale and Never Let Me Go. This session is part of a ‘Stretch and Challenge’ series I designed to run in my institution. The sessions are targeted at learners who are achieving at the very top of the cohort.

An scaffolded introduction to using critical lenses using Angela Carter’s ‘The Werewolf’. Theories explored Formalism Marxism Gender Studies Psychoanalysis Eco-criticism Postcolonialism

An Introduction to Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005). Genre, terminology, and scaffolded questions for Chapter 1. Key Terminology First person unreliable limited intradiegetic protagonist Narratee Epistolary form Non-linear Foreshadowing ‘The Other’ (AO3/5) Nominalisation & Euphemism (link to genre Sci-fi/New Realism – AO3) Pathos Ecriture feminine Fictive autobiography Flashback Fragmented narrative Metanarrative **EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+. Paper 2: ‘Science and Society’. **

An Introduction to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ( 1831 ed.). Genre, terminology, context and scaffolded questions for Chapter 1-3. **EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+. Paper 2: ‘Science and Society’. **

A full lesson which takes a psychoanalytical focus to Chapters 2 and 3 of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005). **EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+. Paper 2: ‘Science and Society’. **

A lesson which explores key structural features of drama texts using a very short one act play. Key content a comparison of script for stage and script for radio a recap of Freytag’s Pyramid Aristotle’s Thee Unities Key terminology explained: peripietia, hamartia, hubris, dues es machina, anagnorisis, catharsis a comparison of drama to poetry and prose scaffolded options for a creative editing task

A lesson for this year’s National Poetry Day 2020, on the theme of ‘Vision’. Encourages students to writer and perform a poem.

A flipped learning introduction to narrative voices and postmodern elements in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986). An introduction to postcolonial texts, used as a coursework focus point. AS/A English Literature 2015+

A flipped learning introduction to symbols and motifs in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986). An introduction to postcolonial texts, used as a coursework focus point. AS/A English Literature 2015+

A full lesson which guides student to closely consider Chapters 9, 10 and 11 of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005). **EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+. Paper 2: ‘Science and Society’. **

A flipped learning introduction to J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986). AS/A English Literature 2015+

A full lesson which guides student to closely consider Marxist and Neo-marxist readings of Chapters 4 and 5 of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005). Key content: Discussion of Bentham’s Panopticon A Neo-marxist reading of the Sales and Exchanges Concept checking questions for both chapters Guided essay practice, and self assessment activity **EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+. Paper 2: ‘Science and Society’. **

A full lesson, suitable for flipped learning, on Chapters 16-19 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (ed. 1831). This 17 slide lesson guides students to explore the creature’s reasoning for an ‘Eve’, Victor’s journey to the Orkney Islands ( with extracts from Southey and Carlyle for context), and an examination of the ‘Gothic Hero-Villain’ with a Fin de Siècle Gothic research task, along with concept checking qestions and detailed close text analysis of the four chapters. AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 2: Prose Comparision, 'Science and Society

A complete lesson on Chapters 11 and 12 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ( 1831 ed.). The lesson explores the Creature’s first interactions with the world by introducing Rousseay, Locke, Empiricism, stages of learning, as well as looking at the chinese box narrative structure concept checking questions for Chapters 11 and 12. **EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+. Paper 2: ‘Science and Society’. **

A complete lesson on Chapters 20 and 21 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ( 1831 ed.). The lesson explores the destruction of the female monster, using Anne K Mellor’s ‘Possessing Nature: the female in Frankenstein’ as a basis for a scaffolded paragraph task. **EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+. Paper 2: ‘Science and Society’. **

A full lesson on the poem ‘The Deliverer’ by Tishani Doshi. Poems of Decade, Forward Poetry (2011) Edexcel AS/A English Literature, 2015+

A full lesson on the poem Ros Barber’s ‘Material’ Poems of Decade, Forward Poetry (2011) Edexcel AS/A English Literature, 2015+