Includes powerpoint slides, poem and planning grid for a full lesson introducing a poetry module or topic. Intended for Year 9, but easily adapted for either Key stage 3 or 4. Uses the poem ‘Introduction to Poetry’ by Billy Collins and includes a starter game and analysis of the poem.

Lesson powerpoint and plan to accompany a reading of The Soldier from the WJEC Eduqas anthology. Focus on themes and exam expectations.

Guides students through a reading of the poem with a focus on comparison with other love poems in the WJEC Eduqas anthology.

Guides students through the poem for the WJEC Eduqas anthology, with key questions worksheet to help with analysis.

Guides students through the poem with an emphasis and visual stimuli of life in the slum setting of the poem. WJEC Eduqas focus, with differentiated question options for analysis task.

Powerpoint with guiding questions for the poem. Largely requires independent analysis from students in groups.

Introductory lesson to poetry anthology, with specific focus on Sonnet 43. Example question included.

Intended to begin to allow students to independently interpret and analyse poetry from the WJEC Eduqas anthology. Includes contextual information resource

Powerpoint to accompany the ending of A Christmas Carol and guide students through Scrooge’s complete transformation.

Powerpoint to accompany Stave Four of A Christmas Carol and guide students through an understanding of Scrooge’s transformation up to this point.

Lesson guiding students through a comparison of the characters of Fezziwig and Scrooge, with a class comparison activity and a guided peer assessment resource.

Lesson focusing on the second half of Stave Two of A Christmas Carol, with a writing task requiring students to imitate Dickens’ writing style. Extract and writing tips resource included.

Lesson focusing on Stave Two of A Christmas Carol and leading students to consider the impact this ghost has on Scrooge. Hotseating activity and focus on key quotations.

Introduces the novel with an analysis of different versions of the front cover and a diamond nine con text activity.

A booklet useful for collating all notes and key ideas relating to the novel, with a summary of WJEC Eduqas exam requirements at the beginning. Includes key theme analysis, space for summary of each stave and tasks to analyse key characters.

Multiple resources for use with Jekyll and Hyde, including chapter summary worksheets, key quote lists and analysis sheet, contextual information tasks and potential exam-style questions.

Complete quiz used on a school trip to London, with four rounds: London, General Knowledge, English Subject-Specific and a picture round of famous authors. Answer sheets included.

Used to accompany a school trip to London. Includes tasks linked to current GCSE specifications, including poetry analysis, fiction and non-fiction writing and a focus on 19th century context. Activities and a photo challenge for a trip to Shakespeare’s Globe, the Tate Modern art gallery and general sightseeing.