An easily accessible lesson encouraging students to recap the novel and revise the key themes. Suitable for all abilities and can be differentiated easily. Effective visual prompts for learners. Leads up to an extended writing task with sentence starters.

Lesson on Gothic creative writing, exploring the key word ‘morbid’ and recapping ideas about the conventions of Gothic writing Learning objective: to understand how writers can use language to create a morbid atmosphere Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced with model pieces of writing. Total of 10 slides Designed for G8 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

Two paired lessons on an extract from ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’, focussing on the White Witch Learning objective: All will understand how the White Witch is presented in the extract Some will be able to explain how Lewis’s presentation of the White Witch uses traditional stereotypes of witches To analyse how Lewis presents the White Witch as powerful Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced. Total of 6 and 5 slides Designed for G6 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

Lesson on the history of witches in Britain, non-fiction text Learning objective: be able to identify some facts about witchcraft in Britain and summarise them Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced. Total of 4 slides Designed for G6 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

Lesson on an extract from Roald Dahl’s ‘The Witches’ Learning objective: Understand how synonyms and intensifiers can be used for emphasis Be able to explain how Roald Dahl uses them to present the witches Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced. Total of 13 slides Designed for G6 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

Lesson analysing the theme of fear in ‘The Woman in Black’ Learning objective: To be able to analyse how a writer creates tension Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. There are challenge activities and sentence starters for differentiation. The main activity analyses a short extract, which is included. Total of 8 slides Designed for G7 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting! CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 3 LESSON BUNDLE *

Lesson studying the role of the Gothic literature in ‘The Woman in Black’ Learning objective: To be able to explain why ‘The Woman in Black’ is an example of Gothic literature Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. There are challenge activities and sentence starters for differentiation. This lesson has a focus on oracy skills. Total of 8 slides Designed for G7 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting! CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 3 LESSON BUNDLE *

2x lesson series on ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins, fiction reading and analysis Learning objectives: * To understand the opening to ‘The Hunger Games’ * To be able to explain how the writer crates a dystopian world * To be able to analyse how the writer creates tension Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced and with a video embedded. Total of 8 and 5 slides Designed for G7/ KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

2x lesson series on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood, fiction reading and analysis Learning objectives: To understand the opening of the novel To explain how Atwood uses language to create a dystopian world To be able to explain the key characteristics of the society of Gilead Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced and with an explanatory video. Total of 7 and 8 slides Designed for G7/ KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

Lesson analysing the opening of the dystopian novel ‘The Hunger Games’ Learning objectives: To understand the opening to ‘The Hunger Games’ To be able to explain how the writer creates a dystopian world Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. There are challenge activities and sentence starters for differentiation. The main activity analyses a short extract, which is included. Total of 8 slides Designed for G7 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting! CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 2 LESSON BUNDLE *

3x lesson series on ‘The Woman in Black’ by Susan Hill, fiction reading and analysis Learning objectives: To be able to explain how description of a setting can create tension To be able to explain why ‘The Woman in Black’ is an example of Gothic literature To be able to analyse how a writer creates tension Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced. Total of 7, 8 and 8 slides Designed for G8 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

A scheme of work on Macbeth. Lessons clearly labelled that take students through the play, with a range of different activities designed to ensure maximum understanding of events, themes, characters, context and plot.

Fully resourced and differentiated lesson on the prologue from ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Worksheet with the prologue and detailed comprehension questions. Differentiated learning objectives, model answers and sentence starters.

PDF resource for supporting a G7/Y8/KS3 unit on Dystopian literature - can be bought together with a series of corresponding lessons as a bundle for a good price Extracts from ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘Farenheit 451’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘1984’ 19 pages so can be printed easily as a booklet Contains helpful images and vocabulary to support students

PDF resource for supporting a G8/Y9/KS3 unit on Gothic literature - can be bought together with a series of corresponding lessons as a bundle for a good price Extracts from ‘The Woman in Black’, ‘The Raven’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ 20 pages so can be printed easily as a booklet

Fun lesson to do around Christmas time. Looks at media techniques, genre conventions and applies these to three trailers of Christmas films.

These 4 worksheets contain questions relating to the following aspects of grammar: Word classes Vocabulary Subject and object Simple sentences Fragments Punctuation They are very easily accessible and make an effective homework or starter task.