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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.
Keats bundle
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Keats bundle

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There is lots of useful context throughout these lessons, putting it between the poems in the order in which they were written. The general tone presumes that the students and teacher can work out what the poems mean but suggests themes and allusions to Keats’ letters and journal which help to illuminate the poems. This bundle includes lessons on most of the poems in the Edexcel A Level selection (not Autumn or Melancholy though): O solitude On first looking into Chapman’s Homer On the Sea In Drear Nighted December On sitting down to read King Lear once again When I have fears that I may cease to be The Eve of St Agnes To Sleep Bright Star Psyche Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Nightingale I also drew a lovely time-line which I hope you enjoy. By a quirk of my own idiocy, there is no lesson 5 - don’t worry, it’s not missing!
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 Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
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L11 Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

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This lesson presumes that your students can work out the meaning of ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ themselves but suggests themes and context to link to and gives an essay question.
L10 Keats exam technique
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L10 Keats exam technique

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This lesson focuses on writing essays on Keats in the Edexcel English A Level exam. It includes planning tips, mark schemes, suggestions about essay structure, using a line of argument, including context, and exemplars from the exam board with the examiner’s report about them. It’s big, hence the price!
L9 Keats Psyche and letters
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L9 Keats Psyche and letters

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This lesson explores more Keats context and the poem ‘Ode to Psyche’. There’s a selection of Keats’ writing from his letters which includes all his well-known concepts like negative capability, life being a vale of soul-making, life being a mansion of many apartments etc.
L8 Keats final sonnets
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L8 Keats final sonnets

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This lesson includes context on Keats’ life as well as slides for annotating To Sleep and Bright Star. There’s a little quiz too.
L7 Keats St Agnes part 2
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L7 Keats St Agnes part 2

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This lesson examines the second half of the Keats poem ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ with a focus on consciousness. There’s an essay question to try too.
L6 Keats Eve of St Agnes
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L6 Keats Eve of St Agnes

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This lesson looks at the first half of The Eve of St Agnes as well as suggesting it’s all about states of consciousness. There’s a selection of critical comments on the poem which can help inform students’ opinions.
L4 Keats Lear and Fear
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L4 Keats Lear and Fear

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This lesson includes more Keats context and slides for annotating ‘On sitting down to read King Lear once again’ and ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’. It has suggestions for research and wider reading.
L3 Keats Negative Capability
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L3 Keats Negative Capability

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This lesson gives some context about Keats’ life and has slides for annotating ‘On the Sea’ and ‘In Drear nighted December’. There’s a resource on negative capability too.
Keats L2 first sonnets and life
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Keats L2 first sonnets and life

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This lesson has an overview of how the Edexcel A Level’s requirements work for Keats as well as looking at Keats’ early life and the first 2 sonnets on the Edexcel list: O Solitude and On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer. I’ve also written a summary of what to expect from a sonnet and put all the Keats sonnets in a Word Doc.
Keats L1 intro to Romanticism
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Keats L1 intro to Romanticism

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This lesson gives an over-view of Romanticism and contains a time-line of the Romantic writers and what else was going on at the time.
Scheme of work on 'The Catcher in the Rye'
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Scheme of work on 'The Catcher in the Rye'

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This scheme of work gets students to work towards writing an analytical essay, with a paragraph every couple of lessons building into an essay which includes context and critical comment from other writers. It also has a creative task writing in a teenager-idiom and a poster-making activity based on Holden’s perambulations around New York. There are 8 lessons, each starting with about 10 minutes of reading as a class and then about an hour of activities. Lesson areas are: schools, teenagers, characterisation, travel poster, symbolism, Bildungsroman, catcher of children, critics and finishing the essay.
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.