Article useful for use in teaching GCSE or A-Level tragedies, including Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet.

Article to be used in conjunction with GCSE A Christmas Carol Full SOW.

Texts used in conjunction with the Gothic Literature SOW.

Article to be used in conjunction with GCSE A Christmas Carol Full SOW. Taken from Daily Mail.

Grid designed for KS5 students to order information on each chapter of The Great Gatsby. Useful for flipped learning - students read chapter prior to lesson as homework.

Assessment style questions and playscript uploaded here due to copyright.

Worksheet to support students’ comprehension and revision of A Christmas Carol for GCSE English Literature study.

Differentiated walkthrough of a response in AQA Literature Paper 1. I have used A Christmas Carol as the focus of examples but is adaptable to all texts on both parts of the paper due to their identical mark scheme. Tried and tested with two classes, who found it very useful.

Mini scheme of work aimed at Y6,Y7,Y8 for writing poetry. 8 lessons cover writing haiku, ballad, sonnets, free verse, and analysis of ballad and sonnet. Assessment is spoken word reading of one of their chosen poems.

Here you’ll find two presentations that lead students through tackling Section A of both GCSE papers. They are neutral, so can be applied to any specimen or exam paper, and offer the students tips and clues rather than answering the question for them or providing a formulaic response. Timings and sounds are added to transitions. Tried and tested with two mixed ability KS4 classes who found it useful.

A collection of 4 lesson resources covering study and annotation of most scenes in Act 5 of Macbeth. Activities differ between lessons. Includes independent and group work, with scaffolded questions for support. Tasks and questions to stretch and challenge most able are included in purple. One set of activities cover differentiated essay paragraph writing. Definition of a tragic hero article required for final lesson - downloadable for free in shop.

A collection of 7 lessons covering study and annotation of all scenes in Macbeth Act 1, except scene 6. Differing activities and lesson structure for different scenes. Activities include independent and group work, with scaffolded questions for support. Tasks and questions to stretch and challenge most able are included in purple.

A collection of 4 lessons covering study and annotation of all scenes in Act 2 of Macbeth. Activities differ between lessons. Includes independent and group work, with scaffolded questions for support. Tasks and questions to stretch and challenge most able are included in purple.

A collection of 4 lesson resources covering study and annotation of all scenes in Act 4 of Macbeth. Activities differ between lessons. Includes independent and group work, with scaffolded questions for support. Tasks and questions to stretch and challenge most able are included in purple.

A collection of 7 detailed lessons covering study and annotation of all scenes in Act 3 of Macbeth. Activities differ between lessons. Includes independent and group work, with scaffolded questions for support. Tasks and questions to stretch and challenge most able are included in purple.

A full half term scheme of work aimed at year 9 students, covering analysis, discussion, and writing of Gothic literature. Independent activities are differentiated by target levels, and there is stretch and challenge throughout for most able/gifted and talented students. There are points of self and peer assessment within the SOW. Teaching points of the sublime and uncanny literary concepts support most able to consider Gothic elements in 19th century texts at GCSE. SOW ends with an extended writing task, to be marked in detail by teacher, and includes potential targets to be given to students to develop writing skill and support progression.

Scheme of work aimed at mixed ability Year 9 students. 27 lessons to cover a term, including homework sheet and scaffolding worksheets to support less able. Skills Covered: Language analysis Structure analysis Evaluation Non-fiction creative writing Characterisation analysis Assessment style questions uploaded separately.

GCSE Scheme of Work of 23 lessons for A Christmas Carol, targeted at AQA specification, but adaptable to others. Each stave is covered in detail, including exam technique lessons, and links to AQA Language Paper 1. Resource also includes references to AO3 (context) with lessons on Biblical influences, and Victorian history.

24 lesson SOW based on Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, aimed at Year 7 students. Independent reading as homework required, but SOW includes quizzes to check reading has taken place. Group/class reading opportunities throughout. Reading skills covered are analytical paragraphs of short extracts, and comparative writing. Some descriptive writing opportunities, and a range of transactional writing skills covered. End of unit assessment could be either analytical, comparative, or transactional writing. Final few lessons cover some speech writing.

GCSE revision unit of work, focusing on key themes: family, authority, and love. Scenes tackled are (1.2, 1.3, 4.5); (1.1, 1.5, 3.5); (1.1, 1.5, 2.1, 3.5, 5.3). This unit would work well for the final weeks before the GCSE exam, but easily adaptable to first time teaching. Included in the unit of work are mini quizzes, example questions, extracts, and example answers based on the AQA specification, however easily adaptable to Edexcel or OCR.