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

The Importance of being Ernest- context lessons looking at Victorian attitudes in art and society- then some ideas for an essay question based upon the drama by Oscar Wilde

Lesson exploring how to write an answer on an unseen poem called "AT SEA". Suggests techniques for students to identify and provides the poem with questions for the board and a sample PEE answer to model for students

A series of detailed lessons and resources to support mostly revision of the play. Includes how to analyse language uses and literary devices. Aimed at Higher ability students.

Detailed powerpoint lessons and resources to focus skills based upon AO's needed to achieve success on the Higher Paper. Includes DIRT tasks and sample responses from A* students. Requires recent papers.

A simple worksheet with PEE structure and prompts using the witches first scene and Lady Macbeth's "unsex me here" speech to structure an answer with ideas for quotes and explantions

Presentations with lesson plans and activities for AS students to consider some short extracts from The Princess by Tennyson. Includes Tears, Idle Tears and Come Down o Maid. Includes poems and images to consider. Questions for students to support their discussion. Sample essay questions are also included.

A series of lessons to support year 9 teaching of the poem To the West Wind by Shelley (first stanza only - as a sonnet). Includes close analysis of the poem, history of the poet and visual prompts to support interpretation of metaphors in the poem. Also includes possible plans for a response from students and sample answers to mark.

A lesson resource including background contextual material about the poet and his style. Questions and activities to help Year 12 students respond to the poem. From the Poetry since 1900 section of the new AQA AS English Literature Course.

A lesson resource using Anzacs from the First World War and an extract from Somme Mud (not provided, but any extract from an appropriate novel or autobiography could be adapted to reveal the sounds of the battlefield being brought to life) Includes links to sound effects and scenes from the War to help students imagine the experiences and uses these techniques successfully in their writing.

Presentation to support lesson on the teaching of the poem by Keith Douglas- Vergissmeinnicht. Includes contextual information and questions to focus students thinking using the AO's.

From the new AQA English Literature Love and Relationships Cluster. Neutral Tones provides the poem with annotations to help the students focus their ideas. It provides questions to help the students unpick the emotions and provides a comparison grid to link the poem to "When we First Parted" by Byron

A plan for Year 7 to construct their writing of an eyewitness account of the experience of seeing Black Shuck - the demon dog of East Anglia. Includes plan of ideas to use in each paragraph and a checklist to follow to ensure that their account is accurate and interesting. Includes some additional information about the folktales of East Anglia to support students

Some historical background to the poet and his environment- Scotland and an examination of what Burn's night is and why it is celebrated all over the world. Students are to read the poem in the Scottish dialect (a challenge) and then write a PEE analysis. Includes a copy of the poem.

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.

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.

GCSE English Literature for AQA Love and Relationships Anthology Detailed Lesson Plan including biographical information about Browning. Copy of poem with annotations for classroom display and discussion. Worksheet accompanies lesson with notes and a sample essay to be marked and annotated. Notes on Browning's use of language, form and structure.

Presentation to support the teaching of the short story "Hey You Down There!" by Harold Rolseth. This includes a range of questions on the story and areas for group discussion. Designed for KS3 year 8 and 9 classes.

Lesson resources to enable students to construct a powerful, effective and persuasive argument. Includes reminders about where and how to use paragraphs effectively. Gives a suggested question for an argument to be constructed and criteria for success. Designed for KS3 Year 8 classes.

Resource which explores the Romantic background and the influence of this upon Byron. Some biographical information which considers the attitude towards love and women in the selected two poems. Text of the two poems: "She Walks in Beauty like the Night" and "When we First Parted" with annotations and areas for discussion and questions to focus the students ideas.