Hamlet Revision: Thinking Quilt on Characters and Relationships Students explore how key quotes can be multi-functional for describing a character based on what they say or what is said about them as well as a relationship between different characters. By applying symbols/patterns and colours they can visulaise how quote can overlap. I’ve provided a sample answer as well to see how it’s done.

Sample Answer - Exam Q ‘Sing Street’

One Sheet Revision: ‘Romeo and Juliet’

A list of important quotes from the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ - Act One has been completed and the worksheet is designed for students to complete in groups to test their understanding of important quotes from other key scenes.

Leaving Cert Paper One Booklet

A booklet to use as guided watching when viewing the film version of a studied novel. This integrates retrieval practice of the studied novel as well as film studies.

One Sheet Revision: ‘The Importance of Being Ernest’

Thinking Quilt: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Relationships)

Thinking Quilt: Romeo and Juliet (Themes)

Class PowerPoint: The Merchant of Venice (Act One) Prompt Qs for analysing scenes Retrieval Practice Qs Some creative tasks Used in conjunction with a portfolio and watching the play on Digital Theatre Plus

‘The Merchant of Venice’ Exam Q with Sample Answer

A list of important quotes from the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ - Act One has been completed and the worksheet is designed for students to complete in groups to test their understanding of important quotes from other key scenes.

A collection of six PowerPoints analyzing six poems by Eavan Boland as are prescribed for the Leaving Certificate. Child of Our Time, This Moment, Love, The Famine Road, The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave Me and the Pomegranate. Each lesson provides a PPT with an analysis of the poem as well as points on language and theme for each.

A collection of editable notes on “Foster” by Claire Keegan which are a compilation of my own and some found online. The booklet focuses on relationships and social setting with key quotes for each. Some information has been adapted from https://vinhanley.com/2017/12/19/study-notes-on-foster-by-claire-keegan/

A worksheet showing the format of a formal letter with some guiding vocabulary included.

A basic workbook to use for guided reading or revision. Scene summaries with space for students to choose key quotes as well as specific spaces for students to enter in notes on key soliloquies.

A PPT for teaching five of Gerard Manley Hopkin’s Leaving Certificate poems - Spring, Inversnaid, God’s Grandeur, Pied Beauty and Felix Randal.

A booklet of worksheets for comparing the novel of TRASH by Andy Mulligan to its film adaptation.

A PowerPoint presentation giving a detailed description of John Keats’ poem “Ode to a Nightingale”.

A PowerPoint presentation giving a detailed description of John Keats’ poem “Ode to Autumn”.

A set of worksheets to use in comparing the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee to its film adaptation.