A lesson exploring Chapter 7 with a specific focus on the mob mentality when Ralph joins in with the hunt and finds the desire the hurt ‘overmastering’.

Comparing Your Shoes with Superman and Paula Brown’s Snowsuit.

A range of differentiated resources for teaching students how to compare the writer’s perspectives in two non-fiction texts (Red Dust and Touching the Void).

Lesson that guides students through how to write an exam response about the character of Napoleon in Animals Farm. Includes detailed analysis of 6 quotations. Includes a planning sheet and useful quotations for tackling an exam style question on how Napoleon is presented in Animal Farm. Also includes a model response on Napoleon to an AQA style question. Also includes 20 speed-marking targets to show progress between a first and second draft.

A lesson aimed at teaching students how to write an informal article for Paper 2 Question 5 in a lively and compelling way. It uses the popular TikTok debate about wheels and doors to engage students in the the topic. Students read and annotate the two exemplar paragraphs for the techniques that are being used such as hyperbole, chatty phrases, withholding, parallelism, triplets, rhetorical questions. They then go on to write their own response in the same lively style as the exemplar - using the list of chatty phrases as a handy crib sheet, My students really enjoyed this lesson and produced some amazing work.

A highly detailed 31 slide lesson or series of lessons focused on challenging students to develop their own critical stance about Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire. Students start with an exam style question and are given asked a series of challenging questions to discuss and tasks to complete. They then go on to plan and write their own response and compare it to an A* example.

Full lesson PowerPoint guiding students through understanding Act 3 Scene 1 of The Tempest. This lesson is pitched at low-ability students.

Analyse language features in some famous slogans.

Lesson on The Soldier by Rupert Brooke for Eduqas GCSE 9-1

6 techniques to help students with Paper 2 Question 5.

A simple Paper 2 Question 5 revision activity for lower ability. Students read the modelled opening paragraph and have to try and write the next paragraph in a similar style. w

20 starters focused on technical accuracy

An extract and helpsheet for tackling Paper 1 Question 5 for Eduqas.

Worksheet for a cover lesson revising literary techniques.

Simple starter activity to help develop students’ inference skills.

A free 20 slide lesson covering suffixes.

Simple VCOP to help students produce a book review.

Fully resourced unit of 5 lessons which introduce the unseen prose element to A Level students. Can also work for high ability GCSE students as a transition/bridging to A Level. Extracts from 19th century classic are used to give students a grounding of themes within classic literature before the transition to post-1945 texts. Each lesson is focused on how to answer an exam-style theme question based on a short extract. Lesson 1: Great Expectations - Miss Havisham extract. Explore the significance of degeneration in this extract. Lesson 2: Frankenstein - Chapter 5 extract. Explore the significance of disappointment in this extract. Lesson 3: Jane Eyre - Extract about Bertha Explore the significance of restriction in this extract. Lesson 4: Jekyll and Hyde - Extract from Jekyll’s statement Explore the significance of duality in this extract. Lesson 5: The Catcher in the Rye - opening paragraph Explore the significance of cynicism in the extract.