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.

This is just a cut and paste list of all the Keats exam questions asked since June 2017.

Info and research sheet for Romeo and Juliet and sonnets

This lesson looks in detail at the palmers palm sonnet and explains the pilgimage allusions.

This lesson guides students through sections of Act1 S5 of Romeo and Juliet.

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.

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.

In this first lesson of my scheme of work for high grade GCSE on Measure for Measure, Students are asked to read the whole play together over 2 or 3 lessons with minimal explaining. Then they discuss the knotty problem of whether Juliet and Claudio were allowed to have sex or not.

Act 5 scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet

The reality of Juliet’s situation in Act 3 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet

This focuses on how the law is interpreted in Measure for Measure. You’ll need access to EMC and a recording (my timings are Audible Gieldgud) to get the most from this lesson.

This lesson focuses on the Duke and Angelo in Measure for Measure A1S3 &4. If you have the Audible Gielgud version there are prompts in the notes for timings to listen to.

Detailed examination of Act 1 S2 of Measure for measure

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

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

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