This lesson gives students the chance to act out the final fight and then consider what the aftermath of the action might be with a selection of creative tasks to choose from.

This lesson focuses on Act 5 of Macbeth as the armies advance. Drama and analytical focus.

This lesson focuses on Act 5 scene 1 - Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking mad scene. Analytical focus.

This lesson has fun activities on the witches’ scene in act 4 - drama, creative tasks.

This lesson works with the way ghosts were seen and how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth express their emotions through animal imagery. There’s also an activity based on the ghost at the feast.

This lesson stimulates ideas about portents and gives some context on the electing of kings in medieval Scotland.

This lesson has activities on choral reading as well as analysis and creative writing.

This lesson looks at Act 1 of Macbeth with a focus on prophesies and the relationship between Macbeth and his wife. It ends with a drama activity on imagining breakfast with the Macbeths.

This lesson starts with reading as a form of memorising and leads into considering staging and costumes for the first scene of Macbeth.

Summarise the whole of Macbeth in one lesson with a Whoosh. Fun classroom drama activity useful for doing at the beginning of a unit on the play.

This lesson works with the extract where Darcy rejects Lizzie at the ball. It’s got some analytical tasks and then a creative task on the conversation Lizzie had after the ball with her sisters on social media.

This double page has a summary of ways to write a good creative writing assessment as well as a couple of tasks. It produced great work.

This lesson guides students through the way early novels were titled and imitated travellers’ tales. There’s a comprehension exercise on an extract and a creative task.

This very long lesson / 2 lessons includes lots of examples of the kinds of literature which existed before novels. It aims to show students quite how dull most literature was and why the conditions arose for the birth and growth of the novel as a genre. It’s pretty context heavy and perhaps a bit dry unless you get students to come and read out some of the pre-novel literature reproduced on the slides - pompous and long winded speeches, religious tracts, sermons to young women on how they should behave, religious poetry, translations of the Classics etc etc. By contrast, novels seem modern, insightful and emotionally mature. I’ve put suggestions in the ‘notes’ section of each slide.

This lesson focuses on how to write the Q4 analytical task on one of the Edexcel iGCSE exam anthology texts. It suggests strategies and uses ‘Young and Dyslexic? You’ve got it going on’ as the example text.

This lesson works with a GCSE-style transactional writing tasks with the subject of boarding schools. I’ve written quite a lot of exemplar material for it and it includes a bit on proof-reading.

This has 3 suggested speech-writing exam tasks. No frills.

This lesson is aimed at GCSE/iGCSE students and has a choice of writing tasks. One of them is a bit silly (writing to granny about your potential inheritance) but the other is a realistic GCSE style question. It has all the basics of letter writing.

This lesson suggests how to write a leaflet for a transactional writing task. The final slide has the Edexcel iGCSE mark scheme but the lesson works fine if you’re with a different exam board.

This lesson suggests ways for students to improve transactional writing through considering the audience, intended structure, varied vocabulary and punctuation and sentence types. Students need a previous piece of work to edit for the lesson.