This is an essay plan that pupils use to write about shock tactics use.

Poetry Scheme of Work AQA Cluster 2 poems Lesson This is a series of 10 lessons that, although using all of the poems from Cluster 2, can be used with any year group to teach analysis of poems - and could even be used as prep for the unseen poem in the new Lit spec. This is a series of 10 lessons uploaded separately.

AQA Lang Controlled Assessment Oliver Twist lsn This is a scheme of work that was used for coursework on the old spec. & it can now be adapted é changed for the teaching of Oliver Twist (pre 1914 prose). This was written to gather info. on how the state treated Oliver but can now be used for either identity or family, depending on the year of entry. All lesson powerpoints have been uploaded as separate lessons with the same heading above, so they can be easily searched for and resources that I have, are uploaded with the lessons too for ease of locating.

A slide that can be used for lots of purposes: for all lessons on spoting techniques, for diplay, for literacy across the curriculum - to pass on to ther departments as a tutorial.

Wondering how to include numeracy in the teaching of the novel? Add this little slide to any PP as the starter and you're away!

This is one of several revision lessons that I created for the novel, in readiness for the AQA lit exam last summer. This one covers the themes.

Can be added to any lesson - or used standalone

In order to support teaching poetry at key stage 4, we start with it in year 9 and use the AQA themes. This is a lesson that helps KS3 pupils to analyse the poem in relation to identity. Basically, it's a writing structure.

Literacy Starter – Holocaust textThis particular exercise is a reading comprehension style – This text is an extract about the holocaust

This is one of several tutorials that I use with pupils to get them to invesitigate an element of pre 1914 poetry so that they can present back to the class and teach the class. They create a lesson on the topic and the pp that I have uploaded is their guide to what they should be researching. Dual assessed as a speaking and listening activity. This one is on the history of the sonnet

This is a lesson powerpoint that is ready to teach for either English Speaking and Listening or for Drama. I've uploaded a series of 6 lessons that cna be taught togetehr for the final outcome or, quite easily as standalone lessons. This particular lesson covers the development of a scene for assessment.

A list of sentences on a worksheet and pupils have to identify the context - quicj handy starter / settler for a lesson start.

This is one of several resources that I have uploaded for the teaching of Pre1914 poetry. This is taught to develop pupils comparing skills and would be relevant to the AQA new specification for language and poetry. This particular resource is a starter for teaching the poem Elegy. Give pupils a card at the start fo the lesson and get them to pair up with their opposite word. Words are taken from the poem.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded on Media and Non Fiction Texts, ready to teach with it's resources. The lessons are contextualised in the remit of 'making a band'. You will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. They can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This one covers the skills of translating and moving information

This is a lesson powerpoint that is ready to teach for either English Speaking and Listening or for Drama. I've uploaded a series of 6 lessons that cna be taught togetehr for the final outcome or, quite easily as standalone lessons. This particular lesson gets pupils to reecreate a scene from a overview.

GCSE Old Spec. Exam Practise scheme lesson This is one lesson from a set of 9 that have all been uploaded separately. Although, the Old specification is no longer used for GCSE, I am aware of colleagues that still use past papers for teaching the skills for the new spec. Therefore, althout these lessons may not be relevant in the mainstream, they can be adapted and still used for revision purposes.

AQA New Spec Comparing Poetry Scheme lesson This is one fuly self contained lesson (with resources enclosed) of a scheme of work of 15 lessons that compare the poems Presents From My Aunts with Hurricane Hits England. It's for teaching on the new English specification question on comparing poems from other cultures.

This lesson sets up a mission for pupils to write imaginatively about how they would get their friends out with specific ingredients.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded on Media and Non Fiction Texts, ready to teach with it's resources. The lessons are contextualised in the remit of 'making a band'. You will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. They can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This one covers persuading each other who should be in the band. You will need to cretae 'band Members' for it.

This lesson is a ready to teach powerpoint - you may wish to make slight adaptations to it for your own context - designed to teach pupils what conventional is and what conventions are.