Originally designed for my Year 10 to work through over the summer, it has since been a useful revision work booklet for other Year 11 students to use. The booklet helps students to track through the novella in a chronologically order, encouraging students to make notes on plot, character, theme and context. The final page gives students a space to generate some critical and evaluative responses to the text too.

The booklet offers students the chance to develop their vocabulary range through a range of English Language reading and writing tasks. Towards the back of the booklet, there are worksheets that allow students to apply the vocabulary to Literature texts such as An Inspector Calls, Macbeth and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Additionally, I have put in the assessment criteria for both language and literature, as well as an exemplar response to Jekyll and Hyde for students to peer assess. Admittedly, the booklet is aimed at the Eduqas exams but the questions and skills are not too dissimilar to other exam boards. The final page of the booklet is a quick writing reminder to students called The High-Five, which prompts students to cover a wide range of sentences, techniques and punctuation marks (The learning mat can be found in my other resources). Pages/Activities Included: - Vocabulary lists - Reading tasks using short excerpts and linked writing tasks (narrative and transactional) - Literature revision sheets for 'Macbeth', 'Jekyll and Hyde' and 'An Inspector Calls'. - Assessment Criteria -Peer assessment of exemplar responses for literature - H5 recap and short exemplar illustrating effective inclusion of all features.

A resource I designed to support Year 11 students in revising key quotations from ‘Macbeth’ by exploring the theme of evil. All quotations have been tracked throughout the entire play and have been colour-coded to encourage students to explore the wider range of themes presented in the play. There are also some tracking phrases, evaluative adverbs and varied verbs to prompt students in their composition. I would recommend printing the sheets on A3 as there are a lot of analysed quotations. I hope that your GCSE groups find the resource just as useful as mine. If so, please review positively. Thanks! (There is also a similar revision sheet on Macbeth’s soliloquies).

The aim of the lesson was to launch a short story competition across our school using the character of Matilda as a starting point. As (with reference to The Guardian) the character Matilda, from the novel of the same name, turned 30 last year, I thought it would be a great idea to have students reimagine their favourite child character as an adult too. In this lesson students explore the suggested ideas put forward by other writers in the article ‘Matilda at 30’ from The Guardian, begin to gather evidence around Matilda’s character from the film adaptation, and then students begin their writing towards the end of the lesson. There is also a reading comprehension for students to complete. Please do bear in mind that I teach double lessons so you may need to consider the timings of tasks. I have also attached a lesson on considering how to create an effective character, which would work well as a follow-up lesson to support students with redrafting their work. This is a great way to encourage both reading and writing in KS3 students.

A revision sheet that tracks Macbeth’s soliloquies through the whole play. Each quotation is commented on and colour-coded by theme to support students in exploring language, form and structure across the entire text. Year 11 have found this particularly useful in the run up to exams; therefore, if your GCSE groups find it useful too, please leave a positive review.

The file tracks Macduff’s character throughout the entire play, "Macbeth’. It includes a wide range of key quotations with some analytical comments. The purpose of the document is that it is not exhaustive but acts as a point of revision for students.

This is a simple but effective learning mat that encourages students (particularly at GCSE) to incorporate a wide range of writing techniques into their transactional writing. The High-Five Includes: Sentences, Punctuation, Language Techniques, Tone and Structure.

The bundle includes a series of 17 (double) lessons on the GCSE English Literature 19th Century novella 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. The lessons were produced for the teaching of the Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Specification, with the aim of encouraging criticality and a personal response to the text. Although some of the lessons are set at a higher level to encourage discourse and pupil autonomy, my mixed ability group have risen to the challenge. I have also included any additional resource sheets that accompany the lessons where possible.

A lesson designed to support GCSE students with their revision of the theme of place in the Eduqas Poetry anthology. The lesson also encourages students to complete independent revision as well as a practice question for the William Blake poe ‘London’.

The booklet was designed to support the rapid teaching of the Shakespeare play, ‘Macbeth’, in response to lost time during the pandemic. It includes an overview of the play; the whole text with prompt annotations (some scenes skipped); act evaluation sheets with Key Learning Questions; a knowledge organiser; a homework tracker, and additional tasks.

This planning sheet encourages students to plan more effectively, reminding students to consider how they might develop their ideas, as well as stressing th link between the process of writing and the Bloom’s Taxonomy.

A revision lesson exploring the theme of time in the Eduqas Poetry anthology. There is also a practice paper for the poem ‘A Wife in London’ for the theme of time. Each poem includes a focus on key quotations, language, structure and context.

The revision lesson encourages students to explore a range of love related poems in the anthology through the use of context. Each of the poems included have at least 5 points of context, 5 quotations and 5 points.

I created this booklet to help my Year 7 students keep tarck of accurate spellings after responding to feedback in their books. I simply hole punch and treasury tag them at the back of their exercise books. My students have found it very useful as it also includes a list of some commonly misspelled words and allows students to independently develop their spelling accuracy.

I created this assessment objectives mat for an A Level English Literature group as a colourful reminder of how they were being assessed. The images also remind students of the key images within the text.

A supportive guide for students who struggle to comment on mood and atmosphere in plays such as ‘Macbeth’ and ‘An Inspector Calls’, or novels like ‘Jekyll and Hyde’. As those are the texts I teach, it is the example I have provided. Feel free to adapt this to suit your units of study.