AQA Post 1900 Poetry Anthology- Love through the Ages- Robert Frost- Love and a Question A lesson plan and resource for students to explore the poem. Includes background information on the poet, a brief introduction to American Modernism, the Ballad form, and the annotated poem. Questions are included to prompt classroom discussion for A Level students.

A lesson plan for students to identify creative writing techniques using extracts from "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter. They will then use these techniques to create their own dark fairy tale based upon the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Includes some extracts from the stories.

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?

AQA A Level Poetry Anthology - Love through the Ages. A Quoi Bon Dire- by Charlotte Mew. A presentation to support the teaching of the poem including the poem and questions to prompt creative thinking by a group of students. Notes to support the teaching of the poem. A sample essay on the poem for students to annotate and use to support their writing.

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.

Lessons for year 9 including ideas for creating character and sensory writing based upon extracts from writing based upon the First World War.

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 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.

A complete lesson plan using autumn poetry and music to stimulate creative ideas. You may want to use some real leaves as well to help the class understand the use of the senses. Includes a copy of the poem by Keats and a sample of A* writing.

A series of lessons to introduce students to the idea of love across time- with information about each era and a selection of writers they might encounter. There is then an introduction to Chaucer, the Medieval world and the Franklin's Tale is used as an example of early Literature of Love.

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.

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....?)

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 powerpoint lesson to teach the differences between diary writing and memoirs. Introduces the life of Edith Cavell from Norfolk and her life and death. Prompts support accurate writing including sentence variety and vocabulary choices. Includes slide for assessment and DIRT improvements.

Designed originally to support the teaching of a controlled Assessment the presentation includes detailed explanation and illustrations of metaphors used in the play, the language of love and dramatic devices. Suitable for GCSE students to appreciate the levels of meaning in Shakespeare's language.

A resource designed to help my students understand the 20th century context of the selected poems. A grid designed for flexibility - for the students to complete and add as they wish with any relevant historical events, poetic and literary movements and the dates of famous writers. In addition- the poets from the Anthology are placed on the timeline so that students can more clearly understand the contextual background to the poems. Students found this very helpful.

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 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

A series of lessons which focus on the dramatization of the FIRST WORLD WAR. Uses Journey's End and Blackadder extracts to reveal the use of black humour to students. Drama activity included. Students encouraged to write their own World War One script in the style of selected pieces and to perform.