With a focus on Heathcliff, his character and how he has been portrayed, this A Level lesson is the 9th in my SoW on Wuthering Heights. Suggestions for research and reading for students and analysing the language used about Heathcliff. Extracts from what Charlotte Bronte said about her sister’s creation as well. Includes an exam essay question.

Essay on illness and how it is treated in ‘Wuthering Heights’. Goes with lesson 8 and notes in my Scheme of work on the novel.

Discussion and analysis of boundaires like doors, windows, walls and their structural and metaphorical meanings in ‘Wuthering Heights’. Includes several extracts from the novel featuring boundaries.

The 12th lesson in my SoW for Wuthering Heights, focusing on the way characters show their grief.

A fun lesson on the complicated relationship Heathcliff and cathy have. With a focus on creative writing, empathy and role play, this is the 11th lesson in my Scheme of Work on ‘Wuthering Heights’ for A Level.

Start of A Level course for the Edexcel prose paper. Lesson focuses on starting reading ‘Wuthering Heights’ (with references to ‘Mrs Dalloway’)

This powerpoint and the hand-out which duplicates it give students detailed notes about which contextual ideas they should use for each of the poems in exam essays. The powerpoint is designed as a traditional lecture from which students can take notes. Later the teacher can give out the word version so they have full details. I’ve suggested that students take notes from the powerpoint in a way which makes them focus on something specific like - what they didn’t know before or key details, rather than attempting to take detailed notes.

This lesson stimulates students to consider what exam questions might be asked (you might need to have all the exam questions asked so far ready for them) and reminds them of how to plan and write an essay to fit the mark scheme for the Edexcel A Level. I’ve written some exemplar paragraphs for them to critique too.

This lesson encourages students to revise their knowledge of the Keats poems on the Edexcel A Level syllabus. There’s a poster-making activity as well as a ‘guess the exam question’ activity (as of May 2023)

This lesson gives students the chance to imagine how they would see a park if they have just killed someone. Lots of descriptive possibilities

creative writing with personified emotions

Using five act structure to help creative writing

A great lesson which stimulates students to think about words, names and their meanings as well as use them in their creative writing

Various writing prompts to stimulate creative writing

writing prompts to help students make the transition from a true story to a fictional one that sounds true

Lesson with a focus on the senses. Uses several classic texts as stimuli

Lesson with freewriting and longer exercises, finishing with some picture prompts for writing description

Start a class off with freewriting and using it to build their work

This lesson teaches the basics of rhythm and encourages students to write poetry using rhyme and rhythm.