Lesson on Chapter 10 of Animal Farm. Includes learning outcomes, starter, differentiated plenary, comprehension questions and a main activity involving comparing Orwell’s ending with the ending in two film versions (links to the films are included). This is useful for exploring how the films attempt to rewrite history by changing the endings to suit the target audience.

Differentiated lesson looking at an extract from Chapter 5 of Frankenstein - when the creature comes to life. For higher ability there is a PowerPoint with annotations and model exemplars to stretch the more able. For lower ability students there is a structured worksheet: Task 1: Draw images to demonstrate understanding. Task 2: Find the meaning of difficult words. Task 3: Find contrasting phrases of beauty and ugliness in the poem. Task 4: Plan some PEE paragraphs. Task 5: Write up an analytical answer.

Lesson analysing key quotations from Chapter 3 to guide students with annotating the text. Includes a starter, chapter summary and an extension task.

Resources to teach ‘To Scavengers in a Truck’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Includes help sheets, questions, writing frames and a model essay to help with responding to feedback.

Complete lesson on Chapter 4 which guides students through the annotation of 17 key quotations from the chapter. Includes a starter and various extension tasks to deepen understanding of the main symbols in the chapter.

Lesson and resources to help students produce a high quality response on the character of Eva Smith. Eva Smith essay planning sheet with answers for AQA 1-9 An Inspector Calls style question. The planning sheet contains perceptive points with carefully selected quotations and space for students to make deeper insights into language and theme. This is aimed at students with a target grade of 7-9. There is also a PowerPoint version aimed at students with a target grade of 4-5.

An Inspector Calls: Revision Activity on 5 character and 5 theme questions for AQA and EDUQAS. Complete the tables using the revision guides to plan responses to exam questions.

An Inspector Calls: differentiated vocabulary activity for AQA 1-9 3 worksheets for 3 levels of differentiation: tough, tougher and toughest.

Lesson that guides students through Act 3 Scene 1 of Macbeth with a scene summary, detailed annotations followed by comprehension questions to test understanding of the annotations.

Lesson analysing the opening scene. Includes annotations and a range of comprehension activities to explore the importance of the scene.

A complete ready to teach lesson containing a starter activity, 6 pages of line by line annotations of Act 4 Scene 1 followed up with various extension activities to test students’ understanding of this scene. Ends with students completing an analytical paragraph on the scene. Includes a modelled example.

Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth soliloquy with modern translation and writing frame for lower ability.

A worksheet on apostrophes ideal for a 20 minute intervention session.

A revision grid contains notes for all 15 poems on the themes of power, conflict as well as notes structure and context. The activity asks students to engage with the revision grid in order to look for discriminating comparisons. After finding a pair, students write comparative sentences. Another way of using this revision sheet is to colour code the poems that go well together.

This 44 page PowerPoint collates my carefully selected annotations for each poem onto one 44 page powerpoint. The annotations are animated to appear on the mouse click so you can go over them one by one. The revision lesson asks students to make 3 mind maps by grouping the poems into 3 themes: Power of nature: Tissue, Storm on the Island, Kamikaze, Prelude, Ozymandias, Effects of war: Bayonet Charge, Exposure, War Photographer, Charge of the Light Brigade, Poppies, Remains Conflict with identify: London, Emigree, Checking out my History, My Last Duchess Also includes an A3 revision sheet containing key notes on each poem. Also includes a test with 5 questions on every poem. I do have other power and conflict resources available: Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-11626301 Model answers: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-grade-9-model-essays-12213236 Revision cards: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049

Resources for 2 lessons or 1 lesson and a homework based on music for ensemble (jazz and blues). Students must define terminology associated with jazz and blues and then categorise this onto a summary sheet (answers on the pp). There are also 3 listening questions with answers with you tube links on the pp. One of these is based on the longer answer format and firstly ask students to make notes on each section (a hint sheet is available) and then put this into continuous prose to be marked according to a SAMS mark scheme. Differentiated tasks are including for all stages of the lesson.

A lesson that invites students to explore comparisons between compatible poems in the EDUQAS anthology by looking for subtle and discriminating comparisons.

Lesson introducing Death of a Naturalist to a mid to low ability group for Eduqas 9-1. Includes guided annotations, questions, key quotations and some context.