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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!
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.
Keats revision resources
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Keats revision resources

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This bundle includes 3 revision lessons for the Keats Edexcel anthology, notes on context for each poem, essay questions asked so far (as of May 2023) and some questions that could come up.
Measure for Measure Donne death worksheet
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Measure for Measure Donne death worksheet

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This goes with lesson 8 of my scheme of work on Measure for measure. Drawing parrallels between Donne’s ‘Death be not proud’ and the way the friar argues for death being just fine.
Measure for Measure lesson 8 death
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Measure for Measure lesson 8 death

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In this lesson the characters’ attitudes to death are explored. There’s a comparison to be made with Donne’s sonnet ‘death be not proud’ and the lawyer-ly way in which preachers (and law-trained Donne) convince people about death.