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.

This is a detailed presentation with close analysis of both Prayer Before Birth and La Belle, with an essay plan comparing the two poems. This is for the Pearson Edexcel iGCSE poetry anthology question.

A detailed plan with quotations, ideas, and context for a study of how Priestley presents society in An Inspector Calls.

This is a brilliant book covering lots of thoughtful issues around friendship, grief and it is also utterly magical and enchanting. This unit of work contains over 170 slides covering comprehension skills, reading implicit meaning, punctuation, report writing, descriptive writing, speech writing to name a few. It was used for year 8 students but could be used for top primary as well as early secondary. Lots of consolidated work here, fun and enough to keep students busy for at least a term.

Two powerpoints to guide students in how to hit the AOs

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 the first two chapters or may be in subsequent chapters. Some lessons also include essay frameworks. This was written for the Edexcel new spec but is generic enough for any A level course.

This is a detailed analysis of the poem with alternate readings. There are also slides with notes on the analysis of techniques.

Two essay titles with all the appropriate quotations gathered together for students to analyse: Why do you think it is important that Golding portrays the natural world as a character with malevolent characteristics? How does Golding establish a contrast between the two boys in the first five pages?

Poetry often manages to engage our interest in issues and characters which we do not necessarily like or admire. How far would you support this remark? A detailed essay plan on ‘The Wife of Bath’ with quotations

An essay on Jack in Lord of the Flies. How does the character of Jack develop throughout the novel? In your answer you should refer to events in the novel and its social, cultural and historical context. The context is highlighted for students to see. Also a sheet with context is supplied

This test provides you with quotations from the text and invites students to make links to relevant contexts. A filled in version is supplied for the teacher.

A detailed powerpoint looking at the text from a feminist perspective.

A useful sheet of critic’s quotations suitable to support the study of The Wife of Bath.

This was a really useful task which invited students to visualise the town of Maycomb and to answer the question: How does Harper Lee use the settings of Maycomb to reflect aspects of life in 1930s America. I’ve included my filled in version for teacher use.

A presentation covering the various plot narratives students could choose from when planning a short story. Towards the end are a series of detailed questions helping students to think about their own characters and how to create jeopardy and therefore a plot.

An Eduqas style paper built around an old paper that has been adapted to fit the new spec. The resources included two detailed powerpoints that help students to annotate the text and frame the wording of their answers to address the questions 3 and 4

A mini unit on writing a Gothic chapter or scene. This includes material suitable for key stage 3. There are prompts within the tasks as well as scaffolded sheets.

A useful powerpoint showing students how to create more tension in your their stories.