A Christmas Quiz on the play ‘Othello’ which should also help students to learn quotations. The first letter of each answer is a clue to a final well-known Christmas carol. The team that also works out the carol could have extra points. Enjoy!

An essay title written for the AQA spec A Love Through the Ages paper 1 section A with a question onRead the passage from Othello, provided below, and respond to the following: • ‘In Othello, love makes women helpless victims’. • In light of this view, discuss whether Shakespeare presents women as victims in this passage and elsewhere in the play. • [25 marks] This includes an annotated extract to support teaching.

An essay plan on Jack in Lord of the Flies as follows: Consider the presentation of Jack in ‘Lord of the Flies’ and in the course of your answer comment on the social, cultural and historical context. This also includes all the quotations gathered ready for students to analyse.

This is a mini unit to enable students to improve their sentence structure. It can be used as part of the preparation for writing a narrative at GCSE.

Three powerpoints which are suitable for either GCSE or A Level. They introduce the novel and its contexts. Suitable for new GCSE courses or A Level

This powerpoint was written for the AQA spec A Love Through the Ages paper and addresses the AO3 requirement for context. However it is suitable for any A Level exam board where context is required.

A background presentation on the poet Owen Sheers for use when teaching Skirrid Hill to A Level.

A powerpoint on the presentation of desire in the play as deviant. This can be used to prepare the students for an essay on this theme - the extract and question are also included. The presentation covers: jealousy, homoerotic desire, homosocial desire, desire of the exotic and of the whore. The essay question is on slide 2.

A detailed powerpoint or pdf covering the comparison of The Great Gatsby and pre 1900 poems from the AQA English Literature specification. This includes context and ideas/close textual analysis for essay preparation on the theme of idealised love.

A very detailed presentation on the presentation of the minor characters in the play. This is available as pdf or a powerpoint and includes pointers, followed by teacher notes and critics’ quotations. It was produced for edexel but is suitable for other specifications

This is the last of a set of presentations covering the whole of Dracula for teaching it to A level for the Edexcel spec. It includes questions, exemplars, contexts, themes and builds across a total of 169 slides (see my other 3 in the set. Also, please see my Dorian Gray unit produced in the same way and the comparative essay plans which I have put together as a bundle.

A short essay plan comparing the gothic texts of Dracula and Dorian Gray looking at the theme of violence. This was produced for the Edexcel spec but could be useful for others teaching these texts for A level.

A detailed essay plan on the theme of fear and threat comparing the gothic texts Dracula and Dorian Gray. This was prepared for the Edexcel spec but would suit other A levels.

This was put together for the Edexcel spec but would work for other specs also. It is looking at the theme of doubles across the two gothic texts, Dracula and Dorian Gray.

This is a comparative essay plan I put together for the texts of Dracula and Dorian Gray looking at the theme of power. It was for the Edexcel spec but would work for other specs also.

This presentation was made for the Edexcel English Literature spec and includes key ideas for an essay on how religion is presented in the play. It includes key quotations and critics and is available both as a pdf or a powerpoint.

A series of A Level lessons on Wilde’s ‘Dorian Gray’ including the quotations and analysis from the text, covering such themes as Influence/gothic/Art and Aesthetics/doubles, dopplegangers and splitting/hereditry/flowers, colour and decadence/ context/women and gender. Some of these themes may be in these first two chapters or may be in subsequent chapters (also uploaded) or you may purchase all together as a bundle.

This is a powerpoint designed to guide the students through the AOs and how to hit them. It is linked to the sample question paper, ‘Compare how the authors of two texts you have studied present ideas about barriers to love.’ It includes exemplar paragraphs, illustrating how the AOs are being tackled.

This is a pack of material I put together for an Ofsted lesson which received an outstanding/1. The objective is to develop the students' ability to both provide an overview and to zoom in on the detail. The structure of the lesson is provided as well as all the materials. Particularly helpful is an essay grid to help students word their responses which I have found invaluable for other texts.