An engaging lesson based on Act 1, Scene 3 of Macbeth. Features a contextual based starter (with links to the new English Language Paper Q1) where students must list four things they learn from an article about witchcraft. After reading the scene, students complete a worksheet where they find four key quotations and then explain the effect on the audience. Students must then write and script a YouTube style blog post where they detail Macbeth's thoughts and feelings after his encounter with the weird sisters. This engaging activity also encourages students to use key words from the text. The plenary involves students leaving 'comments' on their partner's blog posts. An up to date and engaging lesson.

This bespoke lesson guides students through the Romeo and Juliet AQA exam by helping them to annotate an extract and make clear links to other parts of the play. The lesson has an engaging starter which uses quotes to describe a character, a custom-made exam question, helpful annotations, language features to find, an example student response to the question and links to the AQA marking criteria. This lesson contains everything you need to guide students through the exam. Perfect for use before a mock or before the exam itself. Could also be used for an observation lesson as it shows clear progression from start to finish. This would easily stretch to 2-3 lessons.

An Ofsted 'Outstanding' lesson that allows students to explore the Act 1 Scene 7 in detail. Contains an engaging starter, main and plenary activity with exemplar answers for students to use to help them tackle an examination style question.

An lesson that allows students to explore the prologue in detail. Contains an engaging starter, main and plenary activity with exemplar answers for students to use to help them tackle an examination style question.

A six lesson scheme of work that covers the following AQA English Language Section writing styles: Describing (based on an image) Writing to argue Persuading These lessons all contain starters, mains and plenaries linking into the new 1-9 specification mark schemes. They feature sample responses for students to use and assess. Some lessons also contain video clips to use for inspiration and feature topics such as video games, binge drinking culture and TV.

A lesson that allows students to explore An Island Man in detail; lesson contains a starter, main, worked example and peer assessment style plenary linking into the new AQA marking criteria.

A lesson that allows students to explore Sonnet by John Clare in detail; lesson contains a starter, main, worked example and peer assessment style plenary linking into the new AQA marking criteria.

A research grid for students to complete that allows them look in detail at Elizabethan England which is perfect for adding in context for AO3.

A research grid for students to complete that allows them look in detail at Victorian Britain which is perfect for adding in context for AO3.

A research grid for students to complete that allows them look in detail at WW1 which is perfect for adding in context for AO3 for war poetry.

A lesson that helps students study the opening to the classic The Monkey's Paw in detail, with analysis, creative writing ideas, sample PEEs and AFL techniques. Easily stretchable to 2-3 lessons.

This lesson focuses on AQA English Language Paper 2. It helps students understand the requirements for the paper by breaking down exactly what is meant by a writer's viewpoint. It contains a small extract for students to annotate and look for explicit / implied meaning. Also features an example Q3 for students and helpful sentence starters. This lesson would ideally suit a less able to middle ability group but could be used as a refresher for top sets. Would also be ideal for Ofsted / Lesson observations as it shows clear progress.

A research grid for students to complete that allows them look in detail at Jacobean England which is perfect for adding in context for AO3.

A poster that focusses on the differing skill levels based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Perfect for use in classrooms to help students ask a range of higher-level questions.

An 'Easter egg' hunt type game where students must guess the author based on a series of clues. I usually hide these around the school on World Book Day and students are allowed out of class to 'hunt' the clues. The first team to bring back all the correct answers win a prize.

A slide-show with printable posters for classrooms; I usually use these at the start each year to remind students of important punctuation. I have used the slide-show as part of a whole-school assembly and then the challenge at the end is used as a reward scheme.

A double lesson pack to help students understand Hawk Roosting. The first lesson focusses on the theme of power and language analysis whilst the second lesson breaks the poem down into individual words that students use as a basis for a creative writing piece.

A poem that helps students understand how to respond to an unseen poem. It provides a step-by-step method of annotating the poem, key language features to look for, links to the mark scheme, example answer and an acronym for use in the exam itself. The poem used is Long Distance II.

A lesson based on the character 'Skellig' that helps prepares students for the English Language AQA Paper 1 Q2. This lesson has been designed to help transition students from KS3 to KS4 and to familiarise them with the techniques needed to annotate fiction texts. Features a subject term based starter, annotation notes, extract and sample question with example answer.

A lesson that introduces students to concept of a literary 'theme' and allows them to explore through animal imagery in Skellig. Features an engaging starter activity, example question, interesting main based on imagery and peer-assessment plenary.