The Influences powerpoint presents pupils with key concepts, events or literary precedents. Pupils make notes on the 'notes' pages. The third document, 'context' already has the key ideas/influences, so you can use it for an 'EMC-style' 'zones of proximity' activity. Cut up (and laminate) the cards. Enlarge extracts from the text, and ask pupils to place the context cards around the extract according to their relevance (if v relevant, place next to a line, or move further away if it's not essential knowledge). Alternatively, give pupils 1 or 2 of the context cards, and tell them to find extracts or lines from the play that illustrate this contextual influence.

Pupils can work through it individually as a cover lesson/homework/flipped learning or be guided by a teacher. The powerpoint introduces some key concepts of Romanticism and introduces pupils to Coleridge, Keats and Wordsworth. There's a 'spot the poet' consolidation task at the end and a plenary designed to make the main ideas more memorable.

This lively presentation offers images to analyse and asks pertinent questions about Ibsen's portrayal of Nora and Torvald. Pupils will also consider the impact of Krogstad's arrival. There are opportunities for empathic writing, annotation and dramatic exploration too!

This presentation encourages careful close reading of the text as it explores Shelley's presentation of Victor and the creature by examining names, punctuation, tone, etc. There are shorter class tasks to complete, an annotation activity that prepares pupils for sharing ideas during a dramatic reading of the key passage and a kinaesthetic activity to explore power shifts - key questions to be answered at the end.

The Word document is a plain worksheet containing probing tasks that introduce pupils to the drama of the text by exploring stage directions, title and language. Then, this lively and varied presentation on Act II takes students through some key ideas in the Act. There are opportunities to discuss critical views of past productions, explore ways of staging scenes, engage in dramatic explorations and building useful revision notes.

These lessons focus on parties in the novel, asking pupils to consider the way Fitzgerald presents each party and what it reveals about character and context. The lesson 1 notebook is just a general introduction to the novel and its themes. Then the pupils research the 1920s and are assigned a character from whose perspective they might do their research. They all bring in food to the next lesosn, you play some jazz and pupils have to discuss the topics they've researched - they can use the cue cards in the party-question document for help. There's a smartboard presentation on party analysis in the book so all the pupils' ideas can be drawn together. I threw in the language and character presentations/lessons as a bonus!

This is a whistlestop tour of the play, keeping students focused on key scenes for study that is as lively as this (at times dark) quick-witted comedy. Documents that include a fun, dramatic exploration of the text. Most of the documents include condensed scripts for pupils to work with, as well as writing and drama tasks pupils can complete individually, as a class or in groups for collaborative learning. For revision there's a list of significant lines per Act - pupils can analyse the language or annotate them to show who said the line and when; there's a revision activity document for pupils to complete and there's a copy of a production programme - pupils can use this to add to their notes or to write their own programme, using knowledge of the text at the end of the unit. To ensure pupils are familiar with the mark scheme and to reflect on their own work, there is a sample empathy task and sample passage-based essay for pupils to peer mark.