<p>Objective: Understand how texts present a viewpoint or attitude about their subject …. Exam prep for an unseen text perhaps or intro to writing own analytical piece… Self-explanatory if you open powerpoint, Also contains a fun bingo starter… enjoy</p>

Lesson plan and resource uses John Agard's poem, &'Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster&';, to teach students about etymology in a fun and engaging way. It also ties in with poems from other cultures. Could be used as a stand-alone 'fun&' lesson, or to tie in with teaching about the origins of the English language. If you have a lively class, you can get a great performance at the end... it also produces some great display work if you get students to type their work up. Enjoy :)

I made this last year when teaching 'Frankenstein&' at AS for the OCR English literature spec (although could be adapted).\n\nI kept it to myself for a year but I think it&';s time to share the love. It's very detailed - could give to students as there are loads of activities but also would be useful if you&'re tackling the text for the first time - as a PGCE/NQT in particular, as many bits could be adapted into lesson activities.\n\nFly free, Frankenstein.... into the &';darkness and distance'!

Encourages students to critically engage with ways of reading 'The Handmaid's Tale' as well as re-familiarizing them with general critical positions.It also contains my 'coathanger' method which helps them to use critics' quotes PU

A detailed revision powerpoint, outlining the AQA modern texts exam (although this could be removed/ changed to fit your board) and lots of slides on context, complete with questions encouraging students to make links to the novel.\n\nFinal slide suggests they get into groups and come up with essay plans to past exam questions.

I created a learning objectives sheet/ key vocab and stretch/challenge targets for each act of 'An Inspector Calls'. Good sheets to give students at the beginning of each act- you can return to these as much as you like throughout study...simple...but work well!

For new iGCSE anthology, nothing existed on this poem so I created it. Copy of poem attached.

A number of introductory resources for Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. The comparative text used was John Milton's Paradise Lost.

<p>A self explanatory powerpoint and accompanying resources. Aim is to help students develop inference and empathy skills… good for students sitting an unseen text paper or just to help sharpen up reading skills in general..</p>

I am doing Wilfred Owen with my English lit group and this is something I am going to use with them as an introduction to the topic in order to get them thinking about war. It contains two sets of extracts, war themed. The class will be split into two groups and each has to present what they have found out from the extracts ALONE. Almost as if they were an alien from another planet, what would these extracts tell them about the relation between humans and war- idea is to get them to start thinking critically about texts. Could also use extracts for lots of other purposes…

<p>A lesson designed to help students write about character succesfully- either for an unseen text or for any text studied in class. . The powerpoint should be self explanatory but the starter activity is matching adjectives to definitions then there is a longer extract there to explore for main, The powerpoint should make what to do clear- for you and them.(ESPECIALLY GOOD FOR BOYS WHO CAN SOMETIMES STRUGGLE WITH EMPATHY BASED TASKS) :)</p>

So, I have no life... and created a digested read of 'Of Mice and Men'. - Give students whole document: they highlight themes in different colours - Copy and paste for your own resource - Cut up and group - thematically or ref. to Steinbeck's style. Please post suggestions for using it!

As with the others the powerpoint is pretty self-explanatory, but the aim of this lesson is to help students understand how meaning is made and be able to write succesfully about it in exams. Overarching objective is to explore techniques used to analyse the way in which writers create particular effects. The extract used is a James Lee Burke one, so quite exciting :) in an englishy way!

A range of worksheets/activities for some of the texts in the EdExcel English iGCSE anthology for the exam. Texts include Chinese Cinderalla, Climate Change, Explorers or Boys Messing About, and A Passage to Africa. There are also two film articles to discuss compare for unseen non fiction. Fairly straightforward but hopefully useful stuff.

All these resources can be used flexibly, building up to writing an essay: 'How are Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio and Hero presented to the audience in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, up to Act 2, Scene 1?'. We looked at Elizabethan expectations of gender

Developed for AQA lit controlled assessment with a focus on gender (compared with 'The Taming of the Shrew&')

<p>A good way of practicing cloze reading skills. A selection of openings to novels can be used to develop cloze reading skills; discussion and when beginning a novel with a particular effect.

An introduction to revenge tragedies and research task for students. I was teaching Hamlet and the Duchess of Malfi but could be easily adapted...

Comparison chart to allow students to compare any two poems from 'The World's Wife'. Includes aspects to focus on... works really well. Could be easily adapted to compare with other prose/poetry texts too.

Simple powerpoint with questions and thinking points for act 3 of The Crucible. Good for first reading in class and discussion - could be used as a starting point for a more extended piece of writing or a debate/discussion for speaking and listening.