Everything you need in one place! A four-part lesson with a range of visual, auditory and kinesthetic activities to keep the students engaged and connect with the themes and language of this beautiful poem. The development lesson guides students through the analysis of the poem in detail before setting an essay question on the characters and relationships. There are differentiated activities to match points, evidence and language features in a table to scaffold student answers. I have provided the CIE mark scheme for students before they write the full essay and I have also written and provided an example essay. The students could be given this essay in cut out paragraphs which they have to reorder, they could use different colour highlighters to work out how to structure their paragraphs and embed quotations, and they should read the essay, mark it and provide feedback. This is a lovely poem , excellent for Masculinist studies, on the themes of death, regret, emotions, communication and nature. One of the set texts from Songs of Ourselves in the CIE iGCSE, a mark scheme and outcomes have been provided for this course. These slides can simply be swapped for your own mark scheme if it is different. Enjoy!

A range of activities related to Emily Bronte's poem Remembrance, also known as "Cold in the earth", a repeated phrase in the poem. This poem deals with themes of grief, loss and death as well as hope. It is one of the poems in the anthology Songs of Ourselves in the CIE English Literature iGCSE, and the mark scheme relates to that exam, but of course you can replace these with your own exam board's mark scheme if it is different. The PowerPoint has everything you need for the lesson: a quiz, a spelling test, a language feature starter, questions to help students annotate the text, an activity on imagery within the poem which could allow students to bring in Drama or ICT, structured outcomes and a final plenary which helps them structure and self- or peer-assess their paragraphs writing about language in the poem. This could easily take place over a couple of lessons, depending on how much time you give students to feedback on their imagery projects. Best of luck to any teachers preparing for exams! I hope this saves you time and energy you sorely need for teaching and marking.

A surprisingly light-hearted poem on the subject of loss and how we can "master" the art! The biographical information should help students make links between her personal life and this poem. One Art is one of the poems for study on the Cambridge International Exam iGCSE English Literature Spec. I will be uploading a lesson on every poem, so please subscribe if you want to see more. There is a biography of Elizabeth Bishop to read and then a presentation to guide students through their reading. There are starters, outcomes, activities and plenaries so this is a complete lesson. No prep needed: walk in, teach, walk out!

I've designed this lesson to introduce poetry to KS4 students at GCSE, but it would work as well for KS3 too. It is an overview of what poetry is, building on what they already know. There are several games and activities which are linked to Songs of Ourselves, but easily adapted to any poetry you want to tackle with them. There is a poetry carousel as the main activity, so simply print the poems they will be studying or some poems about poetry for them to analyse. Enjoy!

An all-in-one poetry lesson on the poem For Heidi With the Blue Hair by Fleur Adcock. A fantastic poem for KS3 and 4, dealing with themes of teenage life: friendship, rules and rebellion at school, and bereavement as well as hair! It is simple enough for any class to understand and enjoy. The resource focuses largely on understanding the events of the poem and how the personas feel, but also asks a range of questions about language and structure and guides students through annotating the poem. There is a peer- or self-assessment checklist to help students gain higher grades and a message ranking activity at the end. This is a set text for the CIE Songs of Ourselves iGCSE English Literature. It's a lovely poem to study and students understand its relevance to them and their lives. Enjoy!

Book the ICT room, print these two sheets, done!

This scheme of work was created for my high ability KS3 group, but this would make a great introduction to the Romantics at any age. This scheme of work was taken on by my whole department and to a chain of academies which we led. There are several Romantic poets covered here: Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Blake, Coleridge, Keats, of course, but also fantastic female poets Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Charlotte Turner Smith who wrote passionately against slavery through the narrative voice of an angel. There are 9 packed lessons, all with starters, developments, analysis, outcomes, plenaries, homework....the lot! No preparation needed, no effort; just happy kids who learn a huge amount! Please rate and review this resource pack. I think you'll love it!

Several lessons which help students recap on the characters and plot of Spies by Michael Frayn and then some engaging activities to help students think more deeply about the text. There are slides to help with paragraph structure to ensure students are getting the level of detail required for an A grade and to help them self- or peer-assess their essay writing. As well as this there are some quizzes on spying and on memory to link in with another essay topic (available online). Best of luck to all the iGCSE students out there and to those tackling Spies for A level! Well done to all the teachers too! I hope this saves you some time and energy!

This resource pack is aimed at helping students analyse the text in close detail for a passage question and to structure that kind of response, and at students who will tackle a whole-book essay question. There are some activities which focus on Grenville herself and the information is provided for students along with some active reading challenges. This background information then links into a lesson helping students develop an empathetic response and a question on where our sympathies as readers lie. It succinctly takes them through the steps of structuring sentences, paragraphs and the whole response. There are clear objectives for each task, breaking down the C grade descriptors and A grade descriptors and helping students push themselves to the next grade. Best of luck to all of you guiding students through iGCSEs! I'm sure they will be a credit to you!

These resources focus on essay writing skills and revising knowledge of characters in an active game (though this could be done with students just writing notes on each character - feel free to adapt it to your needs). There is essay writing guidance including grade C and grade A mark scheme, colour-coding revision of essay paragraphs and an interactive plenary with a venn diagram for students to place themselves on. These are resources which will challenge every student to take part. They are easily adaptable for any essay question. These work really well in conjunction with the other resource packs I have for sale. The PowerPoint has been re-uploaded from the working copy I have.

FIVE different activities to help students refresh their memories of the characters, events and quotations from The Secret River. These could be spread out over several lessons or combined into a couple. Students should have their own copies of the books, but there is no specific need for them here. I would suggest using these in the first week of revision. They are enjoyable, engaging, team activities with a bit of something for every learning style. Some notes on using the resources: Answers are provided for all of the quizzes on the same PPT. Cut up the dominoes beforehand because they are currently in the correct order. The pictures are taken from the TV mini-series, but should be obvious even if the students haven't seen it. The only ones who seem a little nondescript are Dan and Ned. Enjoy!

A baker's dozen of revision creative tasks and activities. Little to no preparation time needed. These are student-focused, varied for different abilities and to keep students engaged. These make the student work hard, not you. These would form either the main focus of a lesson or part of a carousel of activities which students tackle over the lesson. They could also be set as homework tasks with opportunity to feedback in the following lesson. These are revision tasks, so students should have already read the book and discussed the themes and issues.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED!! This is a lesson-by-lesson scheme of work with EVERY SINGLE WORD of the ENTIRE book covered in a sequence of 19 lessons. Every lesson has objectives designed to help your students not only understand the characters, themes, events and messages but to make excellent PROGRESS in manageable steps. A range of activities including group work, speaking and listening, essay writing and extract analysis, Q&A, quizzes, games, wider reading, webquests and active reading strategies to help your students stay ENGAGED. Starters and plenaries to hook the students and then help them reflect on the progress they've made. Structured examples of how to get to a C grade and an A grade and how to self- and peer-assess their writing. 10 different homework tasks, none of which are "read pages blah blah to blah blah". This is a must-have resource if you're teaching Cry, the Beloved Country and will save you hours of time and energy which you can put into the teaching! If you have any requests for additional CtBC resources, or resources for any other topic, please contact me. And if you love this resource, please review it to help others. Thank you :)

A range of games and activities to make students work on their vocabulary. These work fantastically with any group from EAL KS3 to KS5. They can all be done independently, in pairs or in teams and most have a competitive element. I use these as starters in English lessons, but my school used to have a Literacy Form Time every Monday when we would play one of these. Most don't require any printing but can be adapted into a more physical resource if this suits your group. These always make fun and engaging links into creative writing lessons or literacy lessons. My students love them! I even caught some of my year 7s playing the Alphabet Game at lunch! I hope your students enjoy them just as much.

This all-in-one PowerPoint has everything you could need for an excellent lesson: just add YOU! I usually spend two lessons analysing the poem in some depth, but you could use this as a taster lesson for KS3 or 4 with great success as well. The activities are varied and include activities relevant to every student from EAL year 7s to KS4: just pick the ones that are right for your class. There is little to no preparation or photocopying required, but I have included some photocopiable activities which will add some extra kinaesthetic options. The lessons focus on the vocabulary, themes and background which lead students to an understanding of the poem. There are a range of outcomes and differentiated tasks to show clear progress. I have taught it in units of work on conflict, power and authority, poems about art and Egyptians. I hope you enjoy teaching this beautiful and thought-provoking poem.

A great couple of high-quality cover lessons or mini-SOW for Romantic poetry or poetry from the 18th century. Everything you need is here: the poems, questions for different abilities, differentiated outcomes, differentiated tasks, a vocabulary quiz, in-depth self-assessment plenary and some fun games to do with rhyming. No planning required and possibly no printing. There are also differentiated assessments on two unseen poems for upper and lower abilities. The responses to these can be peer-assessed by students first to help them understand how to respond to literature questions. Enjoy!

This sequence of lessons spanned about 10 weeks but these were the powerpoints I used to structure the first 6 lessons. After this, rehearsal took on a larger role. These 6 PowerPoints include starters relevant to the dramatic skills the students should practice, introductions and with clear objectives and activities to develop students’ abilities and play with the text. There are also plenaries beyond just comparing themselves to the objectives. I performed this version of the script (the pdf is included for your ease here. It is not my work but is freely available) with year 7 and it has more than enough drama with none of the swearing or racism. The lessons themselves have activities for a range of abilities and ages and would be easily adapted to any other text. They work on voice, showing status through body language, symbolism, memorizing lines, teamwork and characterization, among other topics. This play is for 14 students, so we had understudies for each part and they teamed up to work on characterisation (though some decided to perform in contrasting ways) . The narrators took on a character each, other itinerant travelers in our case, but we discussed making them cats or dogs, birds or even angels. Break a leg!!

A great 20 minute activity for students to practice their listening skills. Makes a great introduction to learning about Brazil or to practice their English comprehension skills. You will need to download the 6 Minute English podcast on Brazil to go with these questions. Answers are provided and the students are asked to give top tips to improve their scores at the end. Ideas for top tips include using the correct units of measurement and changing the grammar of an answer to fit the question (i.e.: Portugal, not Portuguese for A3.) Enjoy!

A listening quiz to go along with the BBC's 6 Minute English podcast on Superheroes. Useful for building vocabulary for a range of different abilities. Suitable for ESL EAL students and fluent English speakers.