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I teach English at an academically successful school in Berkshire. I only publish resources that I have personally used in the classroom and always aim for maximum visual and interactive impact.
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I teach English at an academically successful school in Berkshire. I only publish resources that I have personally used in the classroom and always aim for maximum visual and interactive impact.
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Ode to Psyche by John Keats
A full lesson covering (lots of) context, form and structure, tone and pace, language and interpretations of the poem.
Bright Star by John Keats
The lesson takes students through some key aspects of context, including some of the language of the letter Keats wrote to Fanny Brawne which sheds light on the themes of this sonnet. There are slides containing comprehension questions designed to get students talking about Keats’s use of the sonnet form and comprehension questions which engage with the main imagery of the poem. The final part of the lesson provides questions to prompt comparisons with other poems by Keats.
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
A full lesson on Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, covering context, form and structure, themes and language.
Ode on Melancholy by John Keats
A lesson which focuses mainly on building students discussion of AO2 (language analysis) through group work. Therefore, I have included no context and only a little reference to structure. My students seemed to really enjoy the lesson.
The cover image and another image in the resource were created using AI.
Half-Past Two by U. A. Fanthorpe
A full lesson designed to lead students through the poem Half-Past Two by U. A. Fanthorpe which appears on the Edexcel IGCSE Literature specification.
The visually-pleasing resource includes: a choice of starter activity; an ‘exploding’ quotations activity with detailed exemplar; guided language analysis with questions on key lines; a PETAL paragraph writing frame to support students in writing a response to an exam-style question.
The cover image was created by AI and is included in the resource.
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Edexcel A Level Poetry: John Keats (Volume 2)
A bundle of lessons that follows Edexcel’s A level specification for the poetry of John Keats. There is one lesson for each poem.
Included in this bundle are the second 7 lessons in the sequence, in the order that they are listed in the exam board specification.
To Sleep
Ode to Psyche
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on Melancholy
Bright Star
To Autumn
Bundle
Edexcel A Level Poetry: John Keats (Volume 1)
A bundle of lessons that follows Edexcel’s A level specification for the poetry of John Keats. There is one lesson for each poem of Keats’s.
Included in this bundle are the first 7 lessons in the sequence, in the order that they are listed in the exam board specification.
‘O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell’
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
On The Sea
‘In drear-nighted December’
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’
The Eve of St Agnes
O Solitude by John Keats
An updated version of this lesson, now containing a web quest and group tasks on the form and structure, and imagery in John Keats’s O Solitude. The lesson is designed for A level students studying Edexcel English Literature.
It is highly visual and engaging. At the end of the PowerPoint are the previously used slides containing key contextual information, which are useful for reference and revision.
Of Mice and Men Display Material and Quote Banks
Contained in this resource are a PDF document and PowerPoint version of display material and quote banks for each major character in Of Mice and Men.
The quote banks are divided into four sections according to some of Steinbeck’s main themes and feature a small AI-generated image of the relevant character in the top right. Students can then populate the quote banks with key quotations for each character as they relate to the key themes.
Please note: the quote banks are blank for students to fill in.
The last slides/pages of the resource contain much larger versions of the AI images (one example can be seen in the cover image), which can be printed in colour and used for display.