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English GCSE and English KS3 resources by a lead practitioner. Everything I upload is tried and tested by both myself and my English Department. I always appreciate feedback, so please do leave a review if you get chance.
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Four Fred from A Christmas Carol posters with ten quotes from across the novel.
Includes:
Theme key
Theme symbols for each quote
Detailed analysis for each quote
Visually engaging graphics for display, homework, home learning, tutoring, intervention and more.
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FREE A Christmas Carol resources:
A Christmas Carol Quote Posters
Scheme of Work Document
The Ghost of Christmas Present Lesson
Stave Five Lesson
Stave Five Fully Annotated
Fan and Belle Quote Posters
An Inspector Calls 40 page cover pack designed for non-specialists to use in cover lessons to explore the plot, characters, themes, context, structure and exam approaches for JB Priestley’s play.
Includes:
Overview of the style of exam questions
Breakdown of the mark scheme and assessment objectives
Vocabulary and terminology embedded throughout
Introduction to social and historical context, as well as the writer
Quick plot summary
Detailed plot summary
Overview of themes
A variety of activities for exploring the plot
Activities for analysing themes and linking them to characters
Overviews of each character, including:
Mr. Birling (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Mrs. Birling (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Sheila Birling (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Eric Birling(including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Gerald Croft (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Inspector Goole (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Eva Smith/Daisy Renton (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Edna (The Maid) (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Exam practice questions and detailed ideas to include in their answers
Analysis of the play’s structure and how it can link to themes
Macbeth 51 page cover pack designed for non-specialists to use in cover lessons to explore the plot, characters, themes, context, structure and exam approaches for William Shakespeare’s play.
Includes:
Overview of the style of exam questions
Breakdown of the mark scheme and assessment objectives
Vocabulary and terminology embedded throughout
Introduction to social and historical context, as well as the writer
Quick plot summary
Detailed plot summary
Overview of themes
A variety of activities for exploring the plot
Activities for analysing themes and linking them to characters
Overviews of each character, including:
Macbeth (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Lady Macbeth (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Banquo (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
King Duncan (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Macduff (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Malcolm (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Minor characters (including graphics designed by a professional games designer, quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Exam practice questions and detailed ideas to include in their answers
Analysis of the play’s structure and how it can link to themes
A Christmas Carol top 10 quote posters
Ebenezer Scrooge - top 10 quotations plus analysis
Fred - top 10 quotes plus analysis
More to come soon!
Great for displays, intervention, homework, home learning, tutoring, tutor time, revision and more.
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All artwork is copyright EnglishGCSEcouk.
FREE A Christmas Carol resources:
A Christmas Carol Quote Posters
Scheme of Work Document
The Ghost of Christmas Present Lesson
Stave Five Lesson
Stave Five Fully Annotated
Fan and Belle Quote Posters
Unseen Poetry 40 page cover pack designed for non-specialists to use in cover lessons to explore the structure, messages, imagery, language and emotions of two unseen poems, that could be replicated for other unseen poems as well.
Includes:
Overview of the style of exam questions
Vocabulary and terminology embedded throughout
Exam practice questions and detailed ideas to include in their answers
Analysis of the poem’s structure and how it can link to messages and themes
Analysis of the imagery and how they link to messages
Analysis of the use of imagery in both poems and how they link to ideas
Analysis of the use of language and how it links in to ideas and messages
Scaffolded paragraphs with a model example to support students in writing their own analytical paragraphs
Analysis of the use of rhyme
Analysis of the form and structure of the poem, exploring elegies and odes
Exploration of caesuras and enjambment
Exploration of the poems’ titles
Exploration of the links between writers, speakers and readers, including the use of voice(s)
Power and Conflict 55 page cover pack designed for non-specialists to use in cover lessons to explore the structure, messages, imagery, language and emotions of two unseen poems, that could be replicated for other unseen poems as well.
Includes:
Overview of the style of exam questions
Vocabulary and terminology embedded throughout
Exam practice questions and detailed ideas to include in their answers
Analysis of the poem’s structure and how it can link to messages and themes
Analysis of the imagery and how they link to messages
Analysis of the use of imagery in poems and how they link to ideas
Analysis of the use of language and how it links in to ideas and messages
Scaffolded paragraphs with a model example to support students in writing their own analytical paragraphs
Analysis of the use of rhyme
Analysis of the form and structure of the poem
Exploration of caesuras and enjambment
Comparisons in structure activities
Comparing rhyme in two poems activities
Exploring beginnings and endings in poems
Exploring caesuras and enjambment
Analysing messages in poems
Analysing the use of imagery in poems
Analysing the use of language in poems
Comparing language in anthology poems
Exploring the emotions in different pieces
Analysing tone
Perfect for revising The Emigree, Tissue, My Last Duchess, Storm on the Island, Exposure, Bayonet Charge, Charge of the Light Brigade, War Photographer, The Prelude, London, Kamikaze, Checking Out Me History, Poppies, Ozymandias.
Romeo and Juliet 58 page cover pack designed for non-specialists to use in cover lessons to explore the plot, characters, themes, context, structure and exam approaches for William Shakespeare’s play.
Includes:
Overview of the style of exam questions
Vocabulary and terminology embedded throughout
Introduction to social and historical context, as well as the writer
Quick plot summary
Detailed plot summary
Overview of themes
A variety of activities for exploring the plot
Activities for analysing themes and linking them to characters
Overviews of each character, including:
Romeo (quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Juliet (quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Lord and Lady Montague (quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Lord and Lady Capulet (quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Tybalt (quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Friar Lawrence / Laurence (quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
The Nurse (quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Mercutio (quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Benvolio (quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Minor characters (quotes, summary, links to context and significance of the character)
Exam practice questions and detailed ideas to include in their answers
Analysis of the play’s structure and how it can link to themes
Cousin Kate Christina Rossetti lesson that covers messages, imagery, language and emotions in the poem. It includes differentiated activities that are perfect for adaptive learning approaches. We compare the structure of this poem with the structure of The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron.
Designed for the Edexcel Conflict poetry anthology, the lesson includes worksheets (white sheets on the PowerPoint), detailed student and teacher notes and visually engaging slides to make the poem relevant and interesting for KS4 GCSE English Literature students.
Catrin Gillian Clarke lesson that covers messages, imagery, language and emotions in the poem. It includes differentiated activities that are perfect for adaptive learning approaches. We explore the use of caesuras and enjambment in the poem before comparing it to Poppies by Jane Weir.
Designed for the Edexcel Conflict poetry anthology, the lesson includes worksheets (white sheets on the PowerPoint), detailed student and teacher notes and visually engaging slides to make the poem relevant and interesting for KS4 GCSE English Literature students.
AQA English Language Paper 1 35 page cover pack and revision guide that covers all four Section A question. We explore a fiction text on rugby and its impact on the narrator, and look in detail at the skills and timing needed for these opening questions of the exam for the 2025 summer.
The lesson includes worksheets, differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, revision tips, timings, success criteria and more.
A really useful way of revising these questions in time for the Paper 1 exam in May 2025.
AQA English Language Paper 2 39 page cover pack and revision guide that covers all four Section A question. We explore two non-fiction texts on travelling, and look in detail at the skills and timing needed for the 4 Section A questions of the exam for the 2025 summer.
The lesson includes worksheets, differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, revision tips, timings, success criteria and more.
A really useful way of revising these questions in time for the Paper 2 exam in May 2025.
A Poison Tree by William Blake lesson that covers structure, messages, imagery, language and emotions in the poem. It includes differentiated activities that are perfect for adaptive learning approaches.
Designed for the Edexcel Conflict poetry anthology, the lesson includes worksheets (white sheets on the PowerPoint), detailed student and teacher notes and visually engaging slides to make the poem relevant and interesting for KS4 GCSE English Literature students.
Belfast Confetti Ciaran Carson lesson that focuses on the context of the poem to understand its messages and themes, and a focus on the tone of this poem and making comparisons to others in the Conflict anthology. It includes differentiated activities that are perfect for adaptive learning approaches.
Designed for the Edexcel Conflict poetry anthology, the lesson includes worksheets (white sheets on the PowerPoint), detailed student and teacher notes and visually engaging slides to make the poem relevant and interesting for KS4 GCSE English Literature students.
The Class Game Mary Casey lesson that focuses on the context of the poem to understand its messages and themes, and a focus on the themes of this poem and making comparisons to Half-caste by John Agard from the anthology. It includes differentiated activities that are perfect for adaptive learning approaches.
Designed for the Edexcel Conflict poetry anthology, the lesson includes worksheets (white sheets on the PowerPoint), detailed student and teacher notes and visually engaging slides to make the poem relevant and interesting for KS4 GCSE English Literature students.
Carole Satyamurti War Photographer lesson that focuses on the use of enjambment in the poem to convey key messages and emotions. It includes differentiated activities that are perfect for adaptive learning approaches. We explore the use of cenjambment in the poem before comparing it to The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy.
Designed for the Edexcel Conflict poetry anthology, the lesson includes worksheets (white sheets on the PowerPoint), detailed student and teacher notes and visually engaging slides to make the poem relevant and interesting for KS4 GCSE English Literature students.
No Problem Benjamin Zephaniah lesson that focuses on the context of the poem to understand its messages and themes, and a focus on the themes of this poem. We also write analytical paragraphs and peer assess via success criteria. It includes differentiated activities that are perfect for adaptive learning approaches.
Designed for the Edexcel Conflict poetry anthology, the lesson includes worksheets (white sheets on the PowerPoint), detailed student and teacher notes and visually engaging slides to make the poem relevant and interesting for KS4 GCSE English Literature students.
Edexcel Conflict comparing poems lesson that explores ways of making comparisons between two similar or two different poems from the anthology. Students analyse The Destruction of Sennacherib by Byron before making comparisons with another poem of their choice. Includes differentiated activities and is useful for students preparing for GCSE English Literature Paper 2 or for KS3 students developing their essay skills.
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Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a fantastic piece that conveys ideas of patriotism, bravery and heroism. This fully differentiated and resourced ‘ready to go’ lesson on Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, one of the poems in the Edexcel Conflict Poetry Anthology, with the lesson ideally suited for both KS3 and KS4 students, includes activities to help students engage with the themes and perspectives in the poem, but also allows students to start making comparisons between this poem and Thomas Hardy’s The Man He Killed.
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Unseen Poetry model answers.
Includes:
2017 - Autumn by Alan Bold and Today by Billy Collins
2018 - On Aging by Maya Angelou and Jessie Emily Schofield by Judy Williams
2019 - The Richest Poor Man in the Valley by Lindsay Macrae and Nobody by Michael Laskey
2020 - I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca and The sun has burst the sky by Jenny Joseph
2021 - A London Thoroughfare, 2 AM by Amy Lowell and November Night, Edinburgh by Norman MacCaig
2022 - Shoulders by Naomi Shihab Nye and Choices by Tess Gallagher.
2023 answers
2024 essays - The washing is never done (Jaan Kaplinski) and A Day in Autumn (R S Thomas)
May 2019 Unseen Poetry model answer for BOTH questions on The Richest Poor Man in the Valley by Lindsay Macrae and Nobody by Michael Laskey.
This model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 2. Includes two answers that weaves together language and structure analysis, relevant comparisons how and why the two writers present their poems in relation how to live your life.
Please note that due to copyright restrictions, the actual question is not included in this resource, but it is available from the AQA website.