A lesson introducing students to sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) as as well as sentence types (imperative, declarative, exclamative and interrogative.

This is a lesson introducing pupils to structure through the notion of story mountains (they have the opportunity to create their own) as well as a look at Todorov’s Narrative Theory before moving on to analysing an extract from Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder.

Focussing on Mercutio and Tybalt fight scene with gifs, images and chunked text and targted differentiated questions.

Lesson includes context and work sheet to support pupils study the poem.

This lesson introduces pupils to reviewing and crafting their writing in response to films. Main activity involves a film review in response to Pixar’s Paperman with modelled examples.

A look at the perception of motherhood in Blood brothers with an essay question and sample response.

A look at different types of structure in Blood Brothers with a modelled response. Foreshadowing Analepsis Juxtaposition Repetition Cyclical structure Motif Focus Prolepsis

This is a lecture that I delivered for third year undergraduates at the University of Leicester on various approaches to Oscar Wilde. This lecture takes a historicist perspective so there’s lots of raw primary material on Wilde and the various editions of The Picture of Dorian Gray. You can use this for A-LEVEL pupils, or University graduates.

A handout with all cultural and contextual references together with an answer sheet to support pupils studying the play at GCSE.

20 questions on Blood Brothers.

Group activity directing to key characters and events in the play.

feedback lesson using pupils’ work to feedback best and worst.

Lesson on propositions with creative writing activity based on Pixar’s Alma.

Targeted at KS3 pupils to learn about inference and deduction in literature.

Mini activities on point of view, descriptions and explanations. Questions based on H G Wells The Red Room.