A short scheme of work examining Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley’s poems also containing creative lessons on poetry as well.

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

A lesson which covers staging terms as well as poses questions on tension and superstition with a sample response.

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.

Introductory unit on Poetry. Poems used include Flanders Fields and Exposure.

This lesson covers the following techniques: Anaphora Pathos Holophrase Synecdoche Metonymy Semantic Field This can be used as a linguistic lesson or just a fun creative wriiting activity.

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.

Comprises of a couple of lessons on representations of childhood in Victorian England and 20C. Language based lesson with questions, activities based around Ragged Schools pamphlet.

Each device includes questions and activities to help pupils learn and apply the techniques. Devices covered include: Simile Metaphor Analogy Imagery Motif Hyperbole Alliteration Allegory Anecdote Onomatopoeia Assonance Juxtaposition Symbolism Pathetic Fallacy Personification Repetition

Three to four lessons on Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter. Aimed at KS3 and includes a fun trial of Mary Maloney.

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.

A KS3 lesson designed to get pupils thinking about how punctuation shapes meaning. The main activity is based around Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.