A handout to guide learners through an effective peer review, in line with Edexcel’s A Level English Literature 2015+.

Planning sheets to help A Level English Literature students structure effective pargraphs.

A scaffolded lesson introducing students to different narrative structures using film stills and Kate Chopin’s ‘Story of an Hour’. Key content Freytag’s Pyramid Kurt Vonnegut’s Story Shapes Linear structure In medias res circular structure open structure closed structure framed narrative Chinese box structure Conflict

A full lesson on the poem ‘The Gun’ by Vicki Feaver. Poems of Decade, Forward Poetry (2011) Edexcel AS/A English Literature, 2015+

A scaffolded lesson introducing Hemingway’s Iceberg theory using his short story ‘Hills Like White Elephants’.

An introduction to genre and dystopian fiction, using Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’. Key terms genre convention motif/trope theme intertextuality genrebending dystopia speculative fiction apocalyptic fiction antithesis antagonist conflict analogy

A revision session which looks at the Narrative Voice and Structure in Frankenstein. This session overviews the structure of Edexcel’s Paper 2: Prose Comparison, provides a list of key prose terminology and key quotes from the novel as well as talks through three different ways we can look at the structure of the novel. The plenary asks learners to make initial connections between the narrators and structure between this novel and Never Let Me Go, but can easily be edited for any other text. Edexcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+ Paper 2: Prose Comparison

An introduction to AS/A Edexcel English Literature Coursework, including a week by week student friendly SOW, CW script and marking criteria. Suitable for flipped delivery. Edexcel AS/A English Literature (2015+)

A lesson for this year’s National Poetry Day 2020, on the theme of ‘Vision’. Encourages students to writer and perform a poem.

A full lesson, including a ‘do now’ activity as students settle, an overarching session question, detailed context, scaffolded guided questions for analysis of sound, language, figurative language, structure and form. EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature Paper 3: Poetry, Section B: The Romantics

A flipped learning introduction to narrative voices and postmodern elements in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986). An introduction to postcolonial texts, used as a coursework focus point. AS/A English Literature 2015+

A flipped learning introduction to symbols and motifs in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986). An introduction to postcolonial texts, used as a coursework focus point. AS/A English Literature 2015+

A flipped learning introduction to J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986). AS/A English Literature 2015+

A lesson which explores key structural features of drama texts using a very short one act play. Key content a comparison of script for stage and script for radio a recap of Freytag’s Pyramid Aristotle’s Thee Unities Key terminology explained: peripietia, hamartia, hubris, dues es machina, anagnorisis, catharsis a comparison of drama to poetry and prose scaffolded options for a creative editing task

A revision session for Edexcel’s AS/A Level English Literature Paper 2: Prose, which revises some forty terms suitable for most prose texts, and includes two highly developed model examples which focus on the integration of terminology. There are two online activities - a mentimeter warmer and a padlet final task, which can easily be set up/restarted by teachers. Edexcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+ Paper 2: Prose

A complete lesson on Chapters 9 and 10 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ( 1831 ed.). The lesson recaps earlier concepts covered on the course, such as the Sublime, the Romantic protagonist and the Gothic. An exploration of allusions, such as P. B. Shelley’s poem ‘Mutability’ and Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667), and theory, such as the Gothic double, doppelgangers, and Julia Kristeva’s ‘Abjection’ are included, alongside concept checking questions and close analysis of extracts from Chapters 9 and 10. **EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+. Paper 2: ‘Science and Society’. **

A full lesson on ‘An Easy Passage’ by Julia Copus. Resource updated July 2020, responding to feedback in comments. Poems of Decade, Forward Poetry (2011) Edexcel AS/A English Literature, 2015+

A full lesson on the poem ‘To My Nine-Year-Old Self’ byHelen Dunmore. Poems of Decade, Forward Poetry (2011) Edexcel AS/A English Literature, 2015+

A full lesson on the poem ‘Look We Have Coming to Dover!’ by Daljit Nagra. Poems of Decade, Forward Poetry (2011) Edexcel AS/A English Literature, 2015+

A full lesson on the poem ‘On Her Blindness’ by Adam Thorpe. Poems of Decade, Forward Poetry (2011) Edexcel AS/A English Literature, 2015+