A comprehensive lesson that looks at the narrator’s role with questions, essay question and a sample response with key extracts from the play.

An interactive way to learn and apply inference skills based on Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder. This lessons also contains The Simpson’s appropriation of the plot to help lower abilty pupils understand the Bradybury’s plot.

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

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

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

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.

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

This is a whole lesson on skimming and scanning for a mid ability ks3 group. There is a video clip that tests pupils’ skimming and scanning skills as well as multiple questions (you can pick and choose which ones you wish to do depending on ability).

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

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

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

A few lessons on comparative poetry skills focusing on WW1 poetry.

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

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.