This is a fully annotated version of ‘Afternoon With Irish Cows’ that incudes line by line analysis of imagery, language, structure, tone etc. It also includes a helpful student handout to support study (pre annotation) that gives an overview, key structural / form observations and a suggested division of the poem into topics.

This is a poetry podcast in support of ‘Stormcock in Elder’ - currently on offer as part of Stories of Ourselves on the CIE English Literature specification. It is a great resources for both teachers as students alike. It includes detailed analysis of the entire poem, a suggested division into main topics / paragraphs and some suggested personal responses.

This is a poetry podcast in support of ‘Coming’ - currently on offer as part of Stories of Ourselves on the CIE English Literature specification. It is a great resources for both teachers as students alike. It includes detailed analysis of the entire poem, a suggested division into main topics / paragraphs and some suggested personal responses.

This is a poetry podcast in support of ‘In Praise of Creation’ - currently on offer as part of Stories of Ourselves on the CIE English Literature specification. It is a great resources for both teachers as students alike. It includes detailed analysis of the entire poem, a suggested division into main topics / paragraphs and some suggested personal responses.

This is a poetry podcast in support of ‘The Caged Skylark’ - currently on offer as part of Stories of Ourselves on the CIE English Literature specification. It is a great resources for both teachers as students alike. It includes detailed analysis of the entire poem, a suggested division into main topics / paragraphs and some suggested personal responses.

This is a poetry podcast in support of ‘The Buck in the Snow’ - currently on offer as part of Stories of Ourselves on the CIE English Literature specification. It is a great resources for both teachers as students alike. It includes detailed analysis of the entire poem, a suggested division into main topics / paragraphs and some suggested personal responses.

This is a poetry podcast in support of ‘London Snow’ - currently on offer as part of Stories of Ourselves on the CIE English Literature specification. It is a great resources for both teachers as students alike. It includes detailed analysis of the entire poem, a suggested division into main topics / paragraphs and some suggested personal responses.

This is an annotated version of ‘Long Distance / Long Distance II’ (PDF) which includes suggested starter / discussion, personal responses, topics, structure / form observations etc. Note: This is only a subjective suggestion created by a teacher (I am only human!). I would have loved to have this at the release of the poems, and I sincerely hope that it helps and supports your delivery of the poem! (COMPLETE booklet of ALL poems annotated and in Word available in my ‘shop’!)

This is a poetry podcast in support of ‘Afternoon with Irish Cows’ - currently on offer as part of Stories of Ourselves on the CIE English Literature specification. It is a great resources for both teachers as students alike. It includes detailed analysis of the entire poem, a suggested division into main topics / paragraphs and some suggested personal responses.

This is a poetry podcast in support of ‘Cetacean’ - currently on offer as part of Stories of Ourselves on the CIE English Literature specification. It is a great resources for both teachers as students alike. It includes detailed analysis of the entire poem, a suggested division into main topics / paragraphs and some suggested personal responses.

A straightforward and easy to use lesson plan / scaffold to help in the teaching of Journey’s End. This resource focuses on the opening of the play (pp. 2-8) and encourages the students to consider how military leaders are portrayed and how Stanhope is characterised through the eyes of Osborne and Hardy. I include a screen shot of the first slide / page as PDFs and ActivInspire Flipcharts do not always show up on pre-views.

This resource draws upon pp. 42-46 of Journey’s End to get pupils to develop their understanding of the day-to-day life of a soldier in the trenches. It also leads on to a descriptive task and encourages students to reflect on how to create an effective descriptive response. I include a screen shot of the first slide / page as PDFs and ActivInspire Flipcharts do not always show up on pre-views.

This resource uses pp. 47-49 of Journey’s End to develop students’ ability to infer meaning as well as their ability to articulate how they have come to their conclusions in an analytical manner.

This resource focuses on whether the audience ought to feel sympathy for Hibbert and then structures a debate about the issue using the evidence from the play. I include a screen shot of the first slide / page as PDFs and ActivInspire Flipcharts do not always show up on pre-views.

This resource analyses the relationship between Osborne, Stanhope and Raleigh in detail using p. 80 as a focus for analysis. I include a screen shot of the first slide / page as PDFs and ActivInspire Flipcharts do not always show up on previews.

This resource fouses on how the audience’s perception of and attitude towards Stanhope is affected in light of his actions and behaviour towards Hibbert. This resource also provides some scaffolded sentence / paragraph structures to help develop the analytical detail of pupils’ writing. I include a screen shot of the first slide / page as PDFs and ActivInspire Flipcharts do not always show up on previews.

This is a larger resource with more focus on the crucial relationship between Stanhope and Osborne in the play - particularly focusing on pp. 27-31 of Journey’s End.

This resource focuses on how Osbourne is characterised and what the audience are intended to infer in pp. 60-64 of Journey’s End. I include a screen shot of the first slide / page as PDFs and ActivInspire Flipcharts do not always show up on pre-views.

This resource is a podcast on The Crucible (page numbers correspond to the Oxford University Press Version) that analyses the language in detail. It can be used by teachers to develop their own annotations and understanding of the text or set as homeworks for the pupils in order for them to annotate their own texts / write detailed notes. Some of the scenes selected in this series of podcasts are most suitable for homeworks as that leaves extended lesson time to focus on the most important scenes in the play. This podcast focuses on the scene where Hale enter’s John and Elizabeth Proctor’s home - interrupting their argument - and continues until Cheever’s entrance.