Are you teaching Dracula and Beloved as part of A Level English? Do you want to have a base to work from when it comes to these texts? This revision min-scheme includes everything you need to consolidate knowledge and give an overview of the texts.
For Students
This is a eight lesson scheme of work that covers all of the key material needed to address Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ at A Level.
Lesson 1: Context
Lesson 2: Authorial Intent
Lesson 3: Connections and Differences
Lesson 4: Symbolism
Lesson 5: Key Moments and Theory
Lesson 6: Form
Lesson 7: Writing Introductions
Lesson 8: Planning an Essay
There is a key focus on vocabulary, exam-style writing and context. Everything is laid out in an easy digestible manner and the scheme includes time to read.
For Teachers
Each lesson includes helpful guiding question that are answered in the scheme to take the burden off of teachers. Alongside this, there is a scheme overview pack, dual coded quotes deck, recall questions and answers, and ten homework options. Each of these can be employed to gain a secure knowledge of the play before you start to teach.
Exam Focus
To secure student success, revision materials are embedded within the scheme. There is an exam mnemonic to help student writing and model answers with scaffolded questions.
This Pack Includes
Full scheme of work
Scheme overview/Revision Pack
Model Introductions
Homework Options
Dual Coded Quotes Deck
These worksheets break down the entire plot of Jekyll and Hyde through short excerpts of the novella coupled with leading questions. For example, a short extract from the first chapter, which described Mr Utterson coupled alongside questions such as “1. What does the above suggest about Mr Utterson? How does Stevenson characterize him?”
These worksheets are particularly useful for catching students up if they have missed large chunks of work or if they are struggling to understand the storyline of the play as a whole. Overall, they are broken down bychapter and provide short summaries of what is happening where necessary. The questions are specifically designed to prompt students to have insightful thoughts about Stevenson’s intention, the Victorian reader’s reaction, and the importance of crucial moments within the plot.
There is also a glossary of key terms.
This is a condensed revision pack that covers all of the key material needed to succeed in the Jekyll and Hyde GCSE (tailored to Edexcel, but the information is widely applicable).
This pack will walk students step-by-step through what they need to do to revise for their Jekyll and Hyde exam.
This pack includes:
Key Character List and Key Terms List (Slide 3-4)
Key Context Grid (Slide 5-6): A breakdown of The Gentleman, Manners and Etiquette, Victorian London, and Science and Experimentation, as well at Stevenson’s core message to the reader regarding each of these pieces of context.
Key Themes Grid (Slide 7-8): A breakdown of the key themes in the novel, key details of where these appear in the play, and a selection of linked quotes for each theme.
Model Answers for Question A and Question B: Modelled yet achievable high-level answers for Question A and Question B, as well as a step-by-step breakdown of how to answer these questions.
This is a condensed revision pack that covers all of the key material needed to succeed in the Macbeth GCSE (tailored to Edexcel, but the information is widely applicable).
This pack will walk students step-by-step through what they need to do to revise for their Macbeth exam.
This pack includes:
Key Character List and Key Terms List (Slide 3-4)
Key Context Grid (Slide 5-6): A breakdown of King James I, The Gunpowder Plot, The Divine Right of Kings, The Great Chain of Being, and Witchcraft, as well as what Shakespeare’s core message is to the audience regarding each of these pieces of context.
Key Themes Grid (Slide 7-9): A breakdown of the key themes in the play, key details of where these appear in the play, and a selection of linked quotes for each theme.
Model Answers for Question A and Question B: Modelled yet achievable high-level answers for Question A and Question B, as well as a step-by-step breakdown of how to answer these questions.
Do you want to teach John Donne?
For Students
This is a six week scheme of work that covers all of the key material needed to teach John Donne’s poetry at A Level. Over 24 lessons, students will learn to break down the poem, to write full-length answers to exam-style questions, and to successfully revise. There is a key focus on comprehension, context, style, craft, vocabulary, exam-style writing and revision. Everything is laid out in an easy digestible manner and the scheme includes time to read.
For Teachers
Each lesson includes helpful guiding question that are answered in the scheme to take the burden off of teachers. Alongside this, there is a scheme overview pack, a key terms glossary, a poetry timeline, and revision tools to helpfully summarise the key character journeys within the play. Each of these can be employed to gain a secure knowledge of the play before you start to teach.
Exam Focus
To secure student success, revision materials are embedded within the scheme. There are dual coded quotes that students can use to revise, an exam mnemonic to help student writing, model answers with scaffolded questions, and revision worksheets to catch up students who may have missed lessons or join the school year at a different time.
This Pack Includes
Full scheme of work
Scheme overview/revision pack
Key terms glossary and model answers
Poetry timeline
The Poems Covered
The Flea
Woman’s Constancy
Love’s Alchemy
Song (Catch a Falling Star)
A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy’s Day
The Apparition
The Funeral
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness
Batter My Heart
This is my play’s…
At the round earth’s….
The Good Morrow
The Sun Rising
Air and Angels
The Canonization
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
A Valediction of Weeping
Death Not Be Proud
Thou Hast Made Me
Spit In My Face, You Jews
To His Mistress Going to Bed
Song (Sweetest Love)
The Anniversary
Twicknam Garden
Love’s Growth
The Relic
I Am A Little World
Goodfriday, Riding Westward
A Hymn To God the Father
The Ecstasy
The Ecstasy
This 1-2 week set of lessons focuses on creative writing. By the end of the lessons, all students will have produced a plotted story.
The focus of the lessons is building an imaginative writing story as a class, rather than as an individual. Instead of developing their own stories, students all write the same story in their own style. This allows for students to focus on the detailed skills of writing, rather than plotting, and build their confidence with sentence structure, punctuation, and figurative language. It also reduces impact on the teacher and puts the emphasis on students to think critically and creatively about their writing.
Lesson 1 (Can be two lessons): Setting.
Introduction to the Homework Thief story, in which a student has their first day at school and their homework is stolen. All students will read extracts from richly detailed novels, then use these as inspiration to write their own school setting. This process is heavily scaffolded and broken down using grids and peer feedback.
Lesson 2 (Can be two lessons): Character.
Continuation of Homework Thief story. All students will watch clips of teachers and bullies, then use these as inspiration to write their own characters for their story. This lesson has a focus on class discussion and oracy. The process is heavily scaffolded and broken down using grids and peer feedback.
Lesson 3 (Can be two lessons): Action.
Conclusion of the Homework Thief story, in which students review their process so far (allowing ill or missing students to catch up), carefully replotting their writing with the help of a grid. By the end of the lesson, students will have created tension through action and formed a solid conclusion. he process is heavily scaffolded and broken down using grids and peer feedback.
Lesson 4 (Can be two lessons): Feedback
Students will critically evaluate their work through redrafting. Peer and self-assessment is used throughout to improve stories on a granular level. This lesson includes feedback on sentence structure, punctuation, and vocabulary. At the end, students are encouraged to read out their redrafted work and give peer praise.
Welcome to The Empress Predicted and Practice Papers pack for 2025. This pack contains three key question sets that have not previously been set for the Edexcel English Literature exam. It is very important to note that these are meant to supplement your revision. Any character or theme from The Empress could come up and it is important to revise widely. Due to this, you also gain access to a The Empress Revision Pack when purchasing these papers.
Read the introduction slide that explain how to structure an answer
Read the practice questions and choose which you think is easiest
Use the grids and information tables provided to help you plan an answer. Make sure to read the vocabulary pack, this will help guide your thinking
Write a model answer to your chosen question. Afterwards, check the mark scheme to see how your answer fits with what the mark scheme might ask for
Are you revising for Macbeth at GCSE? Are you teaching the text?
This is a comprehensive, dual coded quote deck that will allow students to revise all the most important quotes for the play. There are two decks included here, a standard version for easy revision and an expanded version for top level revision.
Each quote deck contains:
Quotes for Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, Macduff, The Witches
Matching pictures with each quote to help students memorise them
Blank and filled in versions of each quote to help students revise
This is a condensed revision pack that covers all of the key material needed to succeed in the T. S. Eliot portion of the A-Level exam (tailored to Edexcel, but the information is widely applicable).
This pack will walk students step-by-step through what they need to do to revise for their Eliot exam.
This pack includes:
Key Vocabulary
• A list of key vocabulary that can be used to dissect the poems, broken down by theme and covering the breadth of Eliot’s work. Allows students to enhance their essay writing with higher level language.
Understanding the Poems
• Poem Groupings: Poems grouped by theme and date.
• Essential Arguments: A breakdown of Eliot’s essential arguments put forward in regards to futility and meaninglessness, war and conflict, duty, agency, and repetition, the body, the city and the urban, moral decline, spirituality and alienation, faith and redemption, journeys and quests
• Argument and Style
• Literary Influences: A breakdown of all his major allusions and intertexts.
• What is Eliot’s point? Sentence stems organised by argument, breaks down his key arguments and how they are posed.
• Craft: Sentence stems organised by theme that allow for in depth exploration of Eliot’s craft, compares to their wider body of work and the Modernist era.
• Key Context: All of the overarching key context that relates Eliot’s poetry, dual coded and organised into a grid.
Exam Technique
• How to Approach an Exam-Style Question
• What if I Need Support? How to Break Down a Poem