This lesson takes a class through writing a poem using the ‘Golden Shovel’ technique. Uses ‘Essential Beauty’ by Larkin as the starting poem.

This is a series of writing prompts to stimulate descriptive writing

This creative writing lesson encourages students to write rhyming poetry through building up a word bank and then knitting words together

The balcony scene A2 s2 with a focus on Juliet teaching Romeo not to be such a posing courtly lover.

For use with lesson 6 of my scheme of work, the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, divided into sections

The balcony scene with place to annotate elements of courtly love.

I’ve summarised the play Measure for Measure for teacher notes and included a cast list

Some ideas for essay planning for Measure for MEasure

This lesson finishes off the play and suggests some analytical title formats for students to plan

This very simple lesson leads students through writing about the way love is spoken about in Act 2, scene 4 of Twelfth Night.

This is the third lesson of my scheme of work on Twelfth Night, on fools.

This handy resource sets out the fake letter ‘from’ Olivia to Malvolio as letter in one column and Malvolio’s thoughts in another. Could be a useful start to a drama game or way for students to use voices and actions to characterise Malvolio.

A Level lesson on Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ with a focus on illness. Context, research, Bronte family illness and the way that physical and mental health are presented in the novel are covered. There are also some suggested links in one slide to ‘Mrs Dalloway’, which is a potential comparative text on the Edexcel prose paper.

A Level lesson on education and parents in Wuthering Heights. Includes extracts from the novel as well as discussion questions. Also refers to ‘Mrs Dalloway’, one of the potential comparison texts if WH is being studied for Edexcel.

To go with lesson 17 of my scheme of work on ‘Wuthering Heights’, Bronte’s poetry can help students understand context.

As part of my scheme of work on Wuthering Heights, this selection of Wordsworth’s ‘Lucy’ poems can add to students’ understanding of context for the novel.

There’s lots to choose from here. Nominally 8 lessons but elastic depending on your group and how long you want to spend on individual sonnets or activities. Starting with a look at love lyrics in modern songs and moving to sonnets, with information about context, where sonnets came from, structure and meaning. There are activities on analysing and comparing poems and the focus is analytical, with an end of unit essay.

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 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.