This is a 15-part course aimed at GCSE and A-level and IB students. The course examines the whole novel and includes context, language, characters, themes, links to external content to support lessons and secondary reading material for various levels. I am currently using it to support my teaching of the English A Literature course for the IBDP.

KS3 Reading, writing and research resource for English. The booklet has a range of activities that are supported by the Old Bailey Archive website. The booklet contains the transcript from a petty treason trial, some key terms about crime in 18th century, with space to add more. Some contextual notes on gender and crime and a summary of 3 novels that support the scheme of work. The extracts are from Sarah Waters’ Fingersmiths, Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five.

An 8 page workbook for Of Mice and Men, with tasks to work through before a final exam style essay question at the end. This is aimed at medium ability and/or year 10 students with plenty of scaffolding to enable independent work.

This is a full colour, 20 page revision guide, designed to complement teaching The Namesake for CIE iGCSE English Literature. There are both passage based and wider novel essay questions; tasks to aid recall about the characters and themes; and useful revision prompts to guide students.

This is the first in a series of documents aimed at students learning how to write academic essays. The document contains a detailed breakdown of essay structure and techniques designed to be used by English Literature students at A-level or degree level.

An activity designed to compare the traits of the characters with the seven deadly sins. Match quotes with the sin for a useful revision tool.

A range of tips to apply to the creative writing section of the GCSE English Language exams with examples.

A worksheet for persuasive writing which asks students to fill in definitions of persuasive terms set out in FORESTRY acronym. Followed by a persuasive writing task in the GCSE style.