A collection or resources designed for Year 9 students to explore the levels of power in the play - between Prospero, Ariel and Caliban. The focus is on writing and improving an assessment entitled "Is Prospero a character obsessed by power- or is he a man of his age?" Includes paintings for discussion and extracts from the play for students to analyse. Slides focus their attention on use of language particularly imagery. Explores how the Elizabethans viewed other cultures.

A lesson designed to give students an introduction to the early development of the genre of love poetry with a focus on Ovid, Dante and Petrarch. Includes poems to consider and trace the themes.

Lessons to support the teaching of a range of short stories including "Hey you down there", The Monkey's Ear by Anthony Horowitz, and Your Shoes by Michele Roberts. Includes questions and lesson objectives with a focus on understanding the writer's creation of suspense and tension.

Lesson, extract from the play and scaffolding for students to help them improve an essay based upon the first appearance of Gerald in the play. Includes ideas for analysis, focus on improving writing by using Feedforward.

Simple break down of the new AQA English Literature and Language course for students to glue into the front of their books. Will save hours in questions being asked. (How many marks....?)

AQA A Level Poetry post 1900- One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings A presentation to support the teaching of the poem. Includes the contextual information on the poet and the poem with annotations to assist classroom discussions.

99 slides of lessons on a variety of poems from the old Literature Spec from AQA but would be useful for unseen practice. Includes (CHARACTER and VOICE) Clown Punk, Checkin out me History, Brendan Gallacher, Horse Whisperer, Medusa, Singh Song and To his Coy Mistress. Also includes a range of activities to teach the techniques necessary to explore meaning in poems.

Lesson plan and resources to support the teaching of the poem. Designed for the Legacy Spec of AQA poetry for the Anthology- would be useful for the unseen section of the new Spec. Also includes other poems - The hunchback in the Park, Alison- Case history, Give. Les Grandes Seigneurs, Portrait of a Deaf Man. Also includes activities to teach understanding of poetry.

AQA English Literature A Level Poetry Anthology Love through the Ages Information on the poets referred to by Duffy in the poem. Questions for class discussion Biographical information Copy of the poem for display in the classroom without and with annotations Suggestions for analysis

Lesson presents an introduction to the skills needed for the new English Language exam reading questions with an extract from a pirates novel. Students are given questions and sample responses are included for them to rate their own confidence. Questions 1-4 only - Paper 1 Creative Reading and Writing

A series of lessons based upon an introduction to the play for HPA GCSE students for their literature exam. Some focus for discussion on the theme of witchcraft and beliefs throughout the ages. Series of images for the main characters for students to create their own character files. Some resource notes for the focus of creating a GCSE essay How far can John Proctor be seen as a Tragic Hero in the play?

A range of lessons designed to introduce the novel to GCSE students HPA ability with a focus upon the characters and historical background (racism in the American South). Other resources designed to support students in their planning and creation of an essay based upon an exploration of the character of Atticus Finch.

An introduction to the novel with photographs from the era to prompt class discussion about the historical context and how the novel was inspired. Other lessons refer to racism of the age and how crooks represents the inherent racism in the USA. Other slides look at how to analyse a section from the novel with examples of how to look carefully at language use and link it to context.

Lessons focus on symbolism of the windows, shadows and darkness, Gothic imagery, creation of puzzles and how the end of the novel is prepared for. Includes extracts from the novel with activities and questions differentiated for students. Aimed at the new AQA English Literature Spec. Includes ideas for an essay question on the nature of good and evil.

Uses the art of Paul Nash and group work to enable students to create a vivid recreation of the battlefield conditions and emotions of the war. Uses a range of paintings and quotes from Nash to bring the realities of war into their creative writing.

A resource to prompt discussion about the active role played by women in the first two world wars. It leads to a class discussion about the role of women in the wars today around the world. Skills developed are reading and comprehension.

A resource to support the teaching of the two poems by Robert Frost and Micheal Symonds. Includes the poems with annotations, biography of the poets and questions to focus the discussion in class on requirements of the AOs.

A presentation for a lesson using MITSL to help students structure a response to the question, and how to answer the requirements of the exam. KS4 - includes details of the new AQA spec and the old. Will require copies of poems

A presentation to support teaching of the new AQA poems. Includes biographical information about the poet, his style and the poems from the collection with ideas for class discussion

Lesson with a focus on description- sensory details including colours scents, micro description to bring a scene to life. Includes example and a range of images to print off and use as stimulus.