Full Scheme of work for Unseen poetry- targeted towards the new AQA specification. Includes lessons on: Introduction to poetic terms with snowball starter. The moment annotation and analysis 3 What lips annotation and analysis 4 Ninetieth birthday compared to My Grandmother annotation and analysis Home compared to *Emigree Nettles compared to Poison Tree annotation and analysis 7 Still I Rise compared to The Rose that Grew from Concrete* 7 lessons which can be taught over 11/12 lessons. Each lesson has the poem with questions to encourage analysis and annotations. Model answers using the SMILE technique and opportunities for peer and self assessment are included. Resources allow students to achieve higher grade 8/9, and differentiated writing frames allow lower ability pupils to access the poems effectively.

Comprehensive complete scheme of work for Lord of the flies. Targeted for use with KS4 pupils, but can also be used with a top set KS3 class. Set of 32 lessons- everything you will ever need to teach Lord of the Flies!

Complete Gothic writing SOW includes 26 lessons and 51 resources in total! Everything you need for teaching Gothic reading and writing skills to KS3 and KS4 pupils. The SOW includes: 1. Assessment on horror posters- focusing on language and presentational devices. 2. Features of horror writing- extracts of texts which pupils analyse and then use to create their own. 3. Horror openings- extracts of openings which pupils analyse and then use to create their own. 4. The Man with the Yellow Face- series of 4 lessons looking at: The opening and narrative hooks, sentence length to create tension, and how Horowitz uses devices to create tension. 5. The Monkey’s Paw- series of 4 lessons looking at: Tension and structure in the opening, sentence length and devices to create tension and comprehension questions. All building up to a reading assessment. 6. 2 creative writing lessons looking at using devices, narrative hooks and sentences to create tension. Applying and consolidating everything learnt so far. 7. The Tell Tale Heart- 4 lessons looking at how Poe uses language, sentence structure, senses and punctuation to create tension. Reading assessment provided with peer assessment. 8. 4 lessons on The Red Room looking at character, plot and tension. Consolidates all learning so far. A really comprehensive SOW that is all you need to teach Gothic Horror!

Series of 26 extensive lessons covering A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Includes worksheets, hand-outs, quotes sheets, reading and writing tasks, PEEDL tasks, S&L drama activities, and a homework project that covers the whole term. Can be used for a top or bottom set (I have both and planned it as such) as there are lots of differentiated resources. Can also be used as an access into the text at GCSE as addresses the new grades system. Comes with an end of term assessment on ‘Moral significance’, but this SOW can also be used to explore Scrooge’s characterisation. Lesson 1- A very Victorian Christmas. Lesson 2- Context and Dickens’ life. Lesson 3- What Christmas means to me. Lesson 4- Analysing Scrooge Stave 1. Lesson 5- Higher level reading targets. Lesson 6- Scrooge characterisation. Lesson 7- Scrooge Stave 1. Lesson 8- Extra lesson- Scrooge’s character. Lesson 9-Writing to persuade (Stave 1) Lesson 10- Marley’s ghost techniques. Lesson 11- Marley’s ghost pathetic fallacy. Lesson 12- Marley’s ghost drama. Lesson 13- Scrooge in Stave 2. Lesson 14- Tension graph Marley’s ghost. Lesson 15- End Stave 1 recap. Lesson 16- Stave 2. Lesson 17- Stave 2 continued. Lesson 18- PEEDL Crachit Stave 3. Lesson 19-Stave 3- the ghosts. Lesson 20-Stave 3- Ignorance Vs. Want. Lesson 21- Servants. Lesson 22- Servants/ Scrooge characterisation. Lesson 23- Assessment- Moral significance in A Christmas Carol. Extra lessons x 3- Hot seating, character names and setting.

Complete scheme of work for Stone Cold. Aimed at middle ability KS3 classes. Series of 14 lessons. Includes tasks on: discursive writing tasks, PEED paragraphs, narrative style and voice, dual narrative, dramatic irony, speaking and listening, persuasive writing, creating a leaflet, empathetic writing, non fiction, creating and predicting tension, foreshadowing and prediction, character analysis, newspaper writing, and debates. Includes models and writing frames for differentiation. Two lessons have also been fully differentiated for lower ability classes.

Exciting scheme of work for KS3 classes on Moving Image. Takes pupils through media terminology in the first section and then allows them to apply what they have learnt to Casino Royale. Lesson 1- Introduction to the Media. Lesson 2- Audience. Lesson 3- Genre. Lesson 4- Signifiers and connotations. Pupils analyse a Casino Royale film poster and then create their own. Lesson 5- Connotation and denotation. Lesson 6- Stereotypes. Lesson 7- Soundtracks. Diegetic and non-diegetic sound. Lesson 8- Camera angles. Lesson 9- Writing up an essay. Lesson 10- Stereotypes in Casino Royale. Lesson 11- Camera angles in Casino Royale. Lesson 12- Writing up stereotypes and signs in Casino Royale. Lesson 13- Writing up camera angles and sound in Casino Royale. Lesson 14- Extension lesson for top-sets on Representation in the Media. Includes writing frames, model answers and builds up to an end of term assessment on Moving Image in Casino Royale.

Complete Scheme of Work/ Learning- War and Conflict. Aimed at KS3 year 8/9. Higher and lower ability- fully differentiated with separate lessons, models, sentence starters, success criteria and activities. Includes 18 lessons on: Images of war and key vocabulary. 2 and 3- Propaganda posters. Writing PEEDL. 4- Jessie Pope ‘Who’s for the Game?’ poetry analysis. Includes structure strips for pupils to structure their PEEDLs effectively. 5 and 6- 2 lessons on Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est.’ Introductory lesson to the SHC, PEEDL lesson includes full higher ability PEEDL model, success criteria and sentence starters. 7- Using Owen’s poem as a springboard for pupils to create their own war poem. 8- Comparison lesson- comparing and contrasting Owen and Pope’s poems. Designed to prepare pupils for the Power and Conflict AQA poetry analysis in KS4. 9- Hardy ‘The Man he Killed’ poetry analysis lesson. 10- Saving Private Ryan cinematography lesson: How does Steven Spielberg convey war in the opening twenty minutes of ‘Saving Private Ryan’? Analysing camera angles and shots. Pupils storyboard their own war film opening. 11- Descriptive writing. 12- Zulu War- analysing ‘Rourke’s Drift’. 13 and 14- End of term assessment- Nothing’s Changed (higher ability) Nettles (Lower ability). Extra lessons: 15- Vietnam blog lesson. 16- S&L lesson. 17- Letters from the front lesson. 18- WW2 Non-Fiction lesson. All lessons are fully differentiated for both higher and lower ability. Lessons include: Try this activity, starter, main, plenary, teacher models, structure strips, sentence starters and success criteria. Each lesson is to observation standard. Also includes a higher and lower ability homework project.

Complete scheme of work covering the entire play of Macbeth. I use this with my KS3 class, but can also be used with KS4 as it builds up to an AQA GCSE style assessment question on Lady Macbeth. Lesson 1- Context carousel. Lesson 2- Act 1 Scene 1 Witches. Lesson 3- Act 1 Scene 2 The character of Macbeth. Lesson 4- Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth meets the witches. Lesson 5- Act 1 Scene 4/4 Lady Macbeth. Lesson 6- Act 1 Scene 6 Dramatic irony. Lesson 7- Act 1 Scene 1 Dagger of the mind. Lesson 8- Act 2 Scene 2 The murder. Lesson 9-Act 3 Scene 4 The banquet. Lesson 10- Act 5 Scene 1 Lady Macbeth. Lesson 11- Act 5 Scene 5. Macbeth’s final soliloquy. Extra lessons- Plot, Act 2 Scene 2, Act 3 Scene 1. Includes a takeaway homework.

Everything you need to teach the new AQA Specification for Language Paper 1. Reading. 2017. Full SOW which has enough lessons to run over a full term. Contains 42 lessons on 12 different texts. Each lesson includes: sentence starters to assist pupils in structuring their responses; annotated extracts, models written at all levels (this SOW can be used for both a top and bottom set); mark schemes for each question, and opportunities for self and peer assessment. You can also use some of the texts as mock exams and use the mark schemes and exemplar answers provided to ensure pupils can independently assess their work. Save yourself hours of planning! I have used this SOW with both my year 10 and 11 top and bottom sets and both classes achieved really good results in their mock exams.

Complete scheme of work which includes a lesson for each chapter. Contains 46 resources- lessons, activities, revision guides, homework activities. Also includes a wall display to assist your GCSE pupils with their revision. Everything you need to teach Heroes at GCSE

An extensive, full scheme of work for ‘An Inspector Calls’ tailored to fit the new AQA GCSE specification. 59 resources including 14 whole lessons, supporting resources and homework activities to run over a 7 week term. The SOW includes a series of 14 lessons and additional resources leading up to an exam style question at the end of the scheme. Each character is analysed in detail as well as key themes and issues as well as the social and historical context. Each lesson has a lesson plan and homework activities as well as tasks for extension and differentiation. Also included is information on how to achieve the AOs when tackling an exam question, exemplars and detailed success criteria teaching up to level 9. Everything you need for teaching the text ‘An Inspector Calls’.

Series of 16 lessons which takes you though all of the poems in the new AQA Power and conflict cluster. 50 resources in total which are extensive and include GT stretch. Each poem is fully annotated and animated to take pupils though each poem a line at a time and there are opportunities for the pupils to explore the poems before the teacher takes them through the annotations. Each poem has a question sheet to extend pupils’ learning at home and a revision worksheet to aid with exam preparation. The SMILE technique is applied to each poem and reference is made to the new 1-9 levels. Also included are poetry terminology worksheets to remind pupils of what they need to look for in poems and also resources to aid with the unseen poetry exam.

A 218 slide PowerPoint covering the Macbeth section on Literature Paper 1. New specification. This SOW includes annotated scenes, exam questions, homework opportunities, extension activities, comprehension questions, group work and differentiated activities. I have used this resource with my top and bottom set year 10 and both classes could access the work and make progress. Lesson 1- The plot. Comprehension questions to consolidate understanding. Lesson 2- The social and historical context- a carousel lesson. Lesson 3- Consolidation of the SHC. Lesson 4- Act 1 Scene 1. Annotated analysis of the witches. Lesson 5- Act 1 Scene 2. Character analysis of Macbeth- includes annotations, exam question, mark scheme and a modelled answer. Lesson 6- Act 1 Scene 3. Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches- includes annotations and exam question. Lesson 7- Act 1 Scene 4. Looking at Macbeth’s soliloquy. Lesson 8- Act 1 Scene 5. First impressions of Lady Macbeth- includes annotated scene and exam question. Homework opportunity discussing how Lady Macbeth compares to a typical 16th century woman. Lesson 9- Act 1 Scene 6. Exploring dramatic irony. Lesson 10- Act 1 Scene 7. Annotated scene and comprehension questions. Lesson 11- Act 2 Scene 1. Dagger scene- quotation match up and questions for discussion. Lesson 12- Act 2 Scene 2. The murder- annotated scene and exam question focusing on the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Includes a success criteria and differentiated quotation grids with model answers. Lesson 13- Act 3 Scene 1. Activity which includes highlighting and annotating the text. Exam question with AQA mark scheme. Lesson 14- Act 3 Scene 4. Banquo’s ghost- annotated scene and exam question with differentiated modelled answers. Also includes comprehension questions which can be set for homework. Lesson 15- Act 4 Scene 1. Activity and comprehension questions. Lesson 16- Act 5 Scene 1. Sleepwalking scene- annotated scene with exam question. Differentiated homework activities. Lesson 17- Act 5 Scene 3. Match up quotation activity. Comprehension questions. Lesson 18- Act 5 Scene 5. Cloze activity on plot. Lesson 19- Act 5 Scene 5. Annotated scene- An idiot’s tale. Comprehension questions to provoke discussion. Lesson 20- The rise and fall of Macbeth- tracking his character through the play. Lesson 21- Key themes in Macbeth.