English Literature AQA GCSE The Unseen Poetry Question Resources to teach a pair of poems - The Way through the Woods by Kipling and Echo by de la Mare. Includes annotated poems for display and discussion. Sample answers to be marked by the students in class. Ideas for comparison and sample answer to compare Form Structure and Language

William Shakespeare's The Tempest - a range of lessons to support the teaching of the play with focus on historical context and the use of language - particularly metaphors. Focus is on writing an essay on Prospero - is he a character obsessed with power?

A series of resources for classroom discussion based upon the poem Merlin and Vivien. Includes links to AOS for students to consider their relative skills in analysing form, structure and language. Background information on the historical context and questions to prompt discussion in 6th form groups.

Historical background to Oscar Wilde's Plays and poems- an exploration of the Aesthetic Movement illustrating the main features of the movement and its influences on literature of the age.

Posters for display in the classroom to support A Level teaching of Love through the AGES. Greek definitions of Love with illustrations.

A series of lessons designed to support students understanding of the character of Caliban in The Tempest by Shakespeare. Designed for a year 9 class with resources to help them appreciate Shakespeare's use of language and description to bring his characters to life.

A lesson designed to complement lessons on Treasure Island. Students have discussed and researched pirates and how they are stereotyped in Treasure island. In this extract a completely different type of pirate is presented. The extract and lesson is designed for students to focus on language used by the writer, and how pirates are presented in a completely different way to Treasure Island. Includes extract and model paragraphs for students to use to support their responses. Designed for LAP year 9 classes.

A range of lessons designed to help students create imaginative and detailed creative writing to describe. Uses an extract from Gerrald Durrell's writing "My Family and Other Animals." Range of photographs from around the world designed to stimulate interest from a Year 9 Classes. Also uses a range of ideas from the Maze-runner to support Descriptive writing.

A lesson designed to help students consolidate their learning and understanding of the play. Revisits the mark scheme and how the students need to construct a response to gain maximum marks. Gives a sample of text from the play and illustrates how students need to focus on the writer's techniques and historical context in addition to character's use of language to reach the top levels.

Uses extracts from "To Kill a Mockingbird" and John Steinbeck's biography to focus students techniques for Question 1 and 2- could be adapted for new spec.

Requested by a student- a lesson with questions for students to study and answer a series of questions on Tim Minchin's "Storm" poem. Can be used as unseen practice- an unusual choice of poem.

A range of resources to support the teaching of the Victorian period including the changes the steam train made to society and the impact of poverty. Uses extracts from Elizabeth Gaskell for discussion. Uses a range of Victorian art and cartoons to show the attitudes of the day.

AQA A Level post 1900 Poetry Wendy Cope- Waterloo Bridge A presentation to support the teaching of the poem from the Anthology with questions to stimulate class discussion.

AQA A Level Literature- Carol Ann Duffy The Love Poem- post 1900 poetry A presentation to use to support the teaching of the poem with images to illustrate the ideas in the poem. Also includes the full texts referenced in the poem.

AQA Unseen Poetry Exam. A lesson plan to introduce the sonnet of Spenser with two examples to be compared. Also includes two more comparable sonnets- Whoso lists to Hunt and Shakespeare's sonnets. Essay question and a copy of the sonnets included for students to try to answer an exam style question.

GCSE English Literature AQA An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley A detailed essay plan is included for student to use in a new style AQA answer to the question "How is responsibility shown in the play An Inspector Calls?

Tennyson's The Lotus Eaters Poem presentation including background information and questions for A Level students to consider uses of Form, Structure and Language Selection of the poem for Display and discussion. A Level Literature.

Lessons based on the popularity of the teenage dystopian novel at this time. Discussion points for the class to consider why the form is so popular today. What relevance does it have for today's teens? Also reading skills looking at alliteration in the first chapter and how other language devices can be recognised and used for effect by the writer. Sample paragraphs to model writing an extended response.

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde- ideas for discussion in the class including the meaning of the story. Also some punctuation exercises and ideas for approaching transformation of fairy tales such as Cinderella.

A series of lessons designed to support creative writing based upon exploring a haunted house and using the senses. Also includes lesson based upon a ghost story "The Haunting of Chas McGill" and creating your own monster.