This eight lesson scheme of work focuses on the Key Themes of Macbeth and is suitable for KS4 or KS5. The lessons are easy to follow and simple to deliver, and include PowerPoints, printable handouts, resources, and four lots of homework. The focus of the scheme is learning and revising the political and social context of Macbeth, as well as the key themes of the play. Lesson 1: Structure of the Play Lesson 2 Political Context of Macbeth Lesson 3: Social Context of Macbeth Lesson 4: Kingship and Loyalty Lesson 5: The Supernatural and Appearances vs Reality Lesson 6: Gender and Ambition Lesson 7: Guilt and Madness Lesson 8: Power and Fate vs Fortune Homework: Four flashcard making exercises, based on the lessons. Lesson 1: Serves as a general introduction to the play by defining key terms, giving an overview of the structure, and providing a summary of each act. Students are asked to summarise each act, learn key quotes, and then link these quotes to the main themes of the play. Lesson 2: Focuses on the political context of Macbeth. Students learn about King James I, Bonfire Night, Macbeth and Monarchy, and Macbeth and Equivocation. A handout allows students to keep track of the key information, how this links to Macbeth, and key quotes relevant to each piece of context. Students are asked to summarise learning at end of lesson throught structured task. Lesson 3: Focuses on the social context of Macbeth. Students learn about The Globe, Witchcraft, and Gender. A handout allows students to keep track of the key information, how this links to Macbeth, and key quotes relevant to each piece of context. Students are asked to summarise learning at end of lesson throught structured task. Lesson 4: Summarises the place of Kingship and Loyalty in the play by providing students with an overview of the key context, key quotes, and key scenes related to this theme. A revision clock is included. Lesson 5: Summarises the place of The Supernatural and Appearances vs Reality in the play by providing students with an overview of the key context, key quotes, and key scenes related to this theme. A breakdown worksheet and revision clock are included. Lesson 6: Summarises the place of Gender and Ambition in the play by providing students with an overview of the key context, key quotes, and key scenes related to this theme. A breakdown worksheet and revision clock are included. Lesson 7: Summarises the place of Guilt and Madness in the play by providing students with an overview of the key context, key quotes, and key scenes related to this theme. A breakdown worksheet and revision clock are included. Lesson 7: Summarises the place of Power and Fate vs Fortune in the play by providing students with an overview of the key context, key quotes, and key scenes related to this theme. A breakdown worksheet and revision clock are included.

These worksheets break down the entire plot of Macbeth through short excerpts of the play coupled with leading questions. For example, a short extract from Act 1, Scene 2 where Macbeth first encounters the witches coupled with questions such as “How does Macbeth react to the witches? What does this show about him? What is Shakespeare trying to highlight to the audience?” 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 by act and provide short summaries of what is happening where necessary. The questions are specifically designed to prompt students to have insightful thoughts about Shakespeare’s intention, the Jacobean audience’s reaction, and the importance of crucial moments within the plot. There are four worksheets in total: Macbeth (6 pages, 22 questions) Lady Mabceth (4 pages, 13 questions) Banquo (4 pages, 10 questions) Macduff (4 pages, 13 questions)

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.

This six week scheme of work focuses on Black Lives Matter in Britain and is suitable for KS3, KS4 or KS5 in PSHE or form time. The lessons are easy to follow and simple to deliver, and include PowerPoints, handouts, resources and homework. The focus of the scheme is discussion and understanding and the lessons contain a mix of starters, worksheets and videos to help navigate complicated subject matter. At the end of the scheme, students are asked to assess their own learning and show understanding through a roundup activity. Lesson 1: Black History Lesson 2 BLM Lesson 3: Black Music Lesson 4: Black Film Lesson 5: Black Literature Lesson 6: Anti-Racism and Solidarity Lesson 1 serves as a general introduction to black history in the United Kingdom, asking students to make predictions about when certain historical events occurred and then running through a timeline of key milestones. There are in-depth focuses on black Tudors, the slave trade, WW2 and the Brixton Uprisings. Lesson 2 focuses on BLM by defining key terms, prompting discussion about why BLM is necessary in the UK, clearing up common misconceptions and watching videos that highlight trans voices. Homework is a comprehension worksheet on racism in the UK. Lesson 3 allows students to get to grips with black music, exploring the different genres that black artists have helped create and shape. Alongside the next two lessons, there are lots of recommendations for music, books, film and television that students can enjoy. Lesson 4 asks students to consider black filmmaking. As well as showing positive depictions of black life in cinema, the lesson questions why it is important that we see black representation on screen. There is a homework task to create a fact file on a black director or filmmaker. Lesson 5 traces black literature in the UK, exploring the work of authors like Malorie Blackman and Kayo Chingonyi. There are multiple worksheets included focusing on Noughts & Crosses and the creation of blackout poetry. Lesson 6 unpacks anti-racism and solidarity, exploring how students can become engaged citizens and support their black peers. Students are asked to evaluate their learning at the end of the lesson, as well as provide answers to prove this.

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