Essay instruction sheet for essay on To Kill A Mockingbird with hints and tips - good half term hmwk or could be prepared in class as an exercise in essay planning.Question is: 'Explore the ways in which Harper Lee presents the development of Scout and Jem in the first section of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’.'

Find a quotation activity for chapters 4-6 on the main aspects of the chapters.

Chart to fill in on courage - includes quotes from Martin Luther King jr to start thinking, an overview of courage in the novel and a chart to fill in.

Two structured essay plans on 'An Inspector Calls' - could be cut up and offered to the students to organise and/or add quotations to... Then there's a third essay question scaffold for them to fill in themselves. Again, could be adapted and used in lots of creative ways.

An oldie but goodie - powerpoint talks students through what lonely hearts are, with examples, then provides instructions on how to write their own. Provides some amusing results and I really push mine to write in the style of character and try to apply some of Austen's irony.

Simple powerpoint with questions and thinking points for act 3 of The Crucible. Good for first reading in class and discussion - could be used as a starting point for a more extended piece of writing or a debate/discussion for speaking and listening.

Powerpoint contains some contextual overview and objectives, geared to OCR AS spec, prose for exam... but could be adapted to suit other specs. Explains the pre-reading activity and includes discussion of ways of reading. Extracts for students to apply their knowledge to. Can be done if they've read the novel but would work equally well as a pre-reading activity.

Lesson (fully explained in powerpoint) on Anglo Saxon poetry more generally (linked into Beowulf), with a focus on kennings. Homework activity uses modern kennings poem as a model and lets them have a go at writing their own. I used with year 7 but could be extended to year 8. Lots of fun!

A number of resources created for 'The Ruby in the Smoke'. Includes an essay plan for writing about character, synonym and antonym starter with words taken from book, a list of items to research for homework linked to b/ground of book and short descriptions of character from book, which could be used for analysis or to inspire own writing.

Printable handouts for Macbeth: decision tree and conversation analysis. First on is a checklist of conversation techniques (eg turn taking/ adjacency pairs), which you can use to analyse the Lady M and Macbeth scenes pre the murder of Duncan. Gets them thinking about the language of power, as well as the nature of spoken language. Resource two is a decision tree for students to fill in, exploring all the possibities and consequences facing Macbeth at the end of Act 1.

Copies of the poems, 'pike' by Ted Hughes and 'trout' by Seamus Heaney and a few charts/venns that allow them to compare these two. The powerpoint has pics of a pike - can be used a starter. Once we studied these, they wrote an essay, then a poem describing an animal of their own.

Unusual, yes, but I taught this in year 13 as a part of 'satire' texts in time module. Goes well with 1984 - book is interesint and scarily now, so students find loads to think about.

A complete, printable 'Wuthering Heights' revision guide designed for Y12... could be used/adapted for GCSE, although will need to be edited...

A scheme of work for Y13, comparing Milton's 'Paradise Lost&' and Marlowe&';s 'Dr Faustus&' using the OCR format. Challenging but very rewarding - lots of links for classicists too.

A scheme of work designed for the OCR AS spec- although 'Wuthering Heights' is off as an exam text from sept 2011, the scheme itself could be adapted for other stuff. There are also resources here that could help!

A glossary of useful terms for English and English literature - good for years 9, 10 and 11. perhaps even y12/13. Students to fill in throughout year or a good hmwk task.

Comparison chart to (best blown up to A3) to compare any two poems from 'The World's Wife&'. Includes aspects to focus on... works really well. Could be easily adapted to compare with other prose/poetry texts too.

All these resources build to writing an essay: 'How are Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio and Hero presented to the audience in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, up to Act 2, Scene 1?'. We looked at Elizabethan expectations of gender first, and how characters conform/rebel..then onto analysis. The powerpoint is an activity to get them thinking about individual word choice/close analysis (can print off and turn into a worksheet). The other stuff is to do with planning essay/ gathering ideas etc. There&'s also a scaffolded essay here for weaker students.

I created a learning objectives sheet/ key vocab and stretch/challenge targets for each act of 'An Inspector Calls'. Good sheets to give students at the beginning of each act- you can return to these as much as you like throughout study...simple...but work well!

I created a vocabulary glossary for the entire novel, containing words that may be unfamiliar to students. They have to find the definitions themselves- a good weekly homework task I think and could be used for spelling tests too... which students enjoy more than you might think!