This is a 22 slides ppt with 2 lessons on How to Analyse the Character from “An Inspector Calls” play (1 lesson) + How to analyse the character of SHEILA (2nd lesson - in 6 paragraphs). You can use this teaching pupils how to write 6 paragraphs essay on analysing a character or just as revision. The lessons are targeted at AQA, but can also be used for Edexel exams.

These are 2 lessons on The Charge of The Light Brigade poem from Edexcel CONFLICT cluster, focusing on CONTEXT and ANALYSIS. I hope you like them.

These are 3 lessons on the poem of WAR PHOTOGRAPHER, about Context, Analysis and the ideas of Power and Conflict. Lessons are aimed at GCSE level after the new exam specification.

This is a 34 slides ppt with the poem BLESSING by Imtiaz Dharker, taught as an Unseen Poem. It follows AQA exam board. You have group work included.

These are 2 ppt for Act 1, scene 5 of MACBETH, where we meet Lady Macbeth. You can spread this in 2-3 lessons, depending on the ability of your class. You have the various extracts to print embedded in the powerpoints. I hope you’ll like it.

This is a lesson for year 7, to get to know them better and to create a first class display. You will need some A5 coloured paper for the neat version of what they have to write and you can display it later on shaped like a cloud… I hope you’ll like it, as my pupils are loving it.

These are 3 ppt that can be taught in 3-4 lessons, depending on the class ability: Context & Structure, Language Analysis and Power and Conflict ideas. There is one extra ppt slide for homework. Unfortunately, I could not save my annotations, as we are using Clevertouch boards here, but I’m sure the pupils will find these straight forward. I hope you’ll like them, too.

This homework booklet has 15 tasks on the following topics: Victorian Literature Horror Writing A Christmas Carol It has been created for year 8, but can be used for upper years, too, as some tasks have a high degree of difficulty, therefore challenging.

This is a lesson’s worth of work after the initial reading of Chapter 9 in Jekyll & Hyde novel. The pupils will have the opportunity to re-visit parts of the chapter and evaluate ideas using PEED paragraphs.

This is a PPT helping KS4 students to write a Compare & Contrast type of essay (eg. for poetry). There is a preparatory lesson to understand what types of essay can be used for this Compare & Contrast task, with an explanatory video, but also with the acknowledgement of the Block Method using the Temple of Knowledge formula (from 5 paragraphs, downgraded for KS3 to only 4). The second lesson, they will have to start focusing on completing a Venn diagram, which will then be reflected in their PEEL paragraphs, following the Block Method. I hope you will find it useful.You can spend a number of 3-4 lessons using this PPT for writing the essay.

This is a 5 lessons ppt (52 slides) showcasing the Reading Skills for AQA exam on English Language, focused around AO1 - AO4. The main topic is applied to is BUGS, like snails. Two of the lessons have opportunity for Reading Assessment. You can run these lessons with year 10, as a first encounter with AQA style of questions. If you want a Writing Assessment around the topic of bugs, like snails, please see my Snails creative writing ppt in the shop.

These are 2 full lessons (28 slides) introducing the exam with several examples of speeches embedded in the slides, as well as exam examples applied to the mark scheme.

A S&L lesson on Severn Suzuki use of structural and language devices.

This is a bundle for the poem DEATH OF A NATURALIST by Seamus Heaney, with separate powerpoints for Context, Structure and Analysis. Death of a Naturalist (context) - 21 slides Death of a Naturalist (structure) - 24 sides Death of a Naturalist (analysis) - 22 slides You can use this lessons as part of Nature Poetry modules or as an unseen GCSE poem to analyse, etc.

This is a lesson that goes hand in hand with my Narrative Perspective lesson, as the students work with the same picture stimulus. I would do this lesson before the Narrative Perspective lesson.

This is a lesson about how to prepare for writing a Dual Narrative for the PAPER 1, Question 5 of AQA GCSE exam (the creative writing task!). This is a 10 slides lesson, where pupils will work in pairs, then in groups of 4. I hope it will help them understand what a dual narrative is and how to go about creating one.

This is a lesson focused on Second Person Narrative, as this is the most challenging for pupils to create for their creative writing task of GCSE exam. This is a 10 slides ppt and there is an extract attached, which is one short story written in second person. Pupils have a short exercise to change the narrative voice, then analyse the use of some interesting devices, then an application to a picture, which for this example is from An Inspector Calls.

This is a complete lesson (8 slides) where students will practice various narrative perspectives, using a picture stimulus. They first work with an exemplar photo and aim to identify all possible perspectives, then they have a go at one picture of their choice and write a description using a character’s perspective. They can peer assess at the end. You can use this for the Creative Writing task of your GCSE exam qualification.

AQA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Writing SOW from September 2015 onwards (linear exam). All lessons are incorporated in the PPT for 5 weeks of study. Further resources are added: Story Openings with Picture Stimulus or Narrative and Descriptive Task.

This folder contains a complete SOW for the module ORIGINS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE targeted at KS3 year 7 & 8. There are 20 complete lessons with PPT, worksheets and video files, as well as a Reading Assessment in lesson 11 (Middle English) and a Creative Writing assessment, which the pupils will really enjoy. I have run these lesson as part of our online learning time during lockdown 2020 and they are created to keep the students focused all the time, with short tasks expanding into longer ones… The content of the lessons will go from the Evolution of English Language to Middle English and a focus of a few lessons on Chaucer, as well as the Reading Assessment, and later to Michael Rosen and Language Evolution, as well as Semantics, Idiolect, Sociolect, Degrees of Formality, and Accents and Dialects. I hope you will find them useful, if you are teaching this module.