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Lucy's English lessons

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I write schemes of work for English literature as well as English language and creative writing. My lessons have all been used to teach my classes and have been adapted to work well. I teach in a school which uses its own GCSE-level literature qualification, so I have some lessons on unusual texts. I've also got lessons on many of the Edexcel A Level texts. I've taught AQA, Edexcel GCSE and iGCSE, so have a range of useful resources to share.

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I write schemes of work for English literature as well as English language and creative writing. My lessons have all been used to teach my classes and have been adapted to work well. I teach in a school which uses its own GCSE-level literature qualification, so I have some lessons on unusual texts. I've also got lessons on many of the Edexcel A Level texts. I've taught AQA, Edexcel GCSE and iGCSE, so have a range of useful resources to share.
4 lessons on Keats' Hyperion: a fragment
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4 lessons on Keats' Hyperion: a fragment

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I worked really hard to write these lessons and then the exam board took the poem off the syllabus! So, here they are for free for now, just in case anyone teaches them for some other exam board.
L11 the recycling room
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L11 the recycling room

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This is a fun lesson, especially if you can spread it across a few rooms where you put up posters of the texts for students to read. Print out lots of extracts from various texts and send students round to read them and steal bits. They then re-work what they’ve stolen along with their own ideas into something new.
My Last Duchess presentation
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My Last Duchess presentation

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This 29 minute recording gives detailed annotation on ‘My Last Duchess’. It is geared to AQA GCSE conflict cluster but will also work for general study of the poem.
3 resources for teaching literary devices
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3 resources for teaching literary devices

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My mnemonic for the most commonly used poetic techniques is Shampoo Traces and here is a table of the devices as well as some definitions, examples and potential effects. You can follow it up with the powerpoint (answers are in the notes on each slide) and the answer sheet.
Lesson on literary context around women in 19th century literature
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Lesson on literary context around women in 19th century literature

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This lesson uses the way women are portrayed in Vistorian art as well as Coventry Patmore’s poem ‘The Angel in the House’ to give some background to the way modern readers encounter portrayals of women in literature. This is part of my mini scheme of work on ‘The Story of an Hour’
Lesson on prose structural features: NESTS
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Lesson on prose structural features: NESTS

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This is my mnemonic for prose structural features - NESTS This lesson and the table that goes with it explain sentence types, narrative voices, 5 act structure, event order and time phrases. It’s pretty dry as an actual lesson but it’s got lots of very useful information in a condensed and clear format.
Romeo and Juliet short scheme of work
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Romeo and Juliet short scheme of work

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This scheme of work covers the top bits of Romeo and Juliet and gives an overview about courtly love vs the reality. It’s only 8 lessons though, so misses a few bits out. Great as a gap-filler.