This is a fourteen slide Power-Point lesson that introduces students to Animal Farm and the context around the text. The lesson builds towards helping students to gain a good understanding of language and how to attempt question two from paper one, Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing.

This is a full lesson that takes students through question one and two of paper 1 Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The lesson breaks down how to approach question two, how to break-down quotations and how to structure a an exam-style response.

This is the first in a series of lessons I am doing to help students to become write effective descriptive writing. It helps them to recap the key language techniques used and shows them how to plan and write properly.

A lesson looking at the character of Gerald in the play, An Inspector Calls.

A revision lesson for Act One of Macbeth. The lesson starts with a quiz on the prophecy is for Macbeth and which one is for Banquo.

A lesson that looks into the conditions facing children who are forced to be slaves and the impact this has on their childhood.

A lesson to help students prepare for their GSCE exam on the play Macbeth. The lesson goes through how to write a response to an exam-style question.

A two-hour lesson looking at Dahl’s novel, “Boy,” and what it is like to go through a first day at school.

A lesson looking at one of the key characters within Roald Dahl’s book, “Boy”.

A full lesson looking at the start of a collection of stories called Tales of Terror. The lesson helps students to understand how to make detailed inferences about a text and understand the importance of language within a text.

This lesson looks at the opening of a Gothic story and helps students to understand how the writer has used language to create a sense of tension.

A lesson that looks at how tension is created in Stave two of A Christmas Carol.

A lesson that focuses on the juxtaposition and how it has been used within classic literature. This lesson can be extremely helpful for students who are studying Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing.

A lesson to help students to consolidate their understanding of travel writing.

A lesson that helps students to construct their own piece of travel writing. This is a good lesson to help students to get used to a difficult form of writing.

The lesson goes over the language techniques that are needed to write a good piece of travel writing. The lesson then moves on to help students to construct their own piece of travel writing based upon their perfect location.

The lesson explores the purpose of travel writing and the conventions that are expected in this type of writing. There are tasks to get students to start thinking about the AFOREST techniques and how to identify them within a text.

A lesson that helps students to explode quotations from the poems that are in the Power and Conflict cluster. A computer room or laptops will be required for this lesson.

A worksheet that helps students to consolidate their knowledge from the Power and Conflict cluster on the poem Remains.

This is a lesson that I used for an interview to introduce students to war poetry. The lesson helps students to gain an understanding of one of the most important war poems and helps them to learn skills to gain a deeper understanding of the language used.