A slideshow with detailed definitions, examples, historical context and lots of good images. Ideal for anyone studying or teaching Jekyll and Hyde, Dracula, Frankenstein...any Gothic texts.

A good set of questions of Act One, enough to fill a lesson and set rest for homework. Great for helping students get their grip on the play and practise finding quoted examples.

Full PowerPoint presentation which covers all the main three ways in which Shylock is viewed by academics, with textual examples and supporting analysis for each stance. Lots of detail. Makes ideal characterand play revision.

Ideal resource to help students master the play and understand the need for detailed supporting quotations. The resource has many quoted examples to support different paragraphs of its argument, all reinforced with act and scene references

Aimed at GCSE students, this pack of 23 of the 'most likely' scenes zooms in on the key contextual background, suggests key cross-scene links, analyses language, character, theme and also related out to wider contexts such as witchcraft, religion or treason. Basically, these are 23 key revision scenes with 8 mini essay revision notes on the first 8 speeches. Handy if you are sitting Monday's exam and haven't a clue where to start revision!

Really handy and effective Act by Act revision resource, covering all the best and most important quotations for each stage of the play.

This is a clear handout designed to support the essay question : 'More sinned against than sinner.' Is this a fair assessment of Shylock? You might like to also buy the three views of Shylock presentation I made which reinforces this handout.

Clear and varied presentation which engages the students and gives them clear facts and points on the playwright's life. The objectives are to give rhe students a historical overview, trigger questions from them, and to test them on on key facts at the end. It establishes a knowledge base for them.The slide with Elizabeth I's Armada portrait is very helpful as there are many images on the pairing that the students can talk about. Ask them: how is the painter of this picture portraying Elizabeth as a powerful queen? Expect lots of varied answers. The presentation is a good differentiator and triggers great classroom discussions whilst enabling the students to have a better grasp of Shakespeare's own life and contextual background. Ideal for any secondary age. I've used it at KS3, GCSE, IGCSE and A level. Bargain!

Thorough and clear revision pack for the play with overviews, scene and Act summaries, points on staging and focus questions.

A good varied set of revision questions, designed to test students’ knowledge of a range of plot, character and language features.

Focused questions to ensure that students understand the first Act of this great play

A really flexible pack. Aimed mainly atcovering the Paper 3 skills for IGCSE Language students, but much of this pack would work with other Language GCSE courses too, such as the AQA syllabus. Simply add in some images to help focus the kids on this aspect of the AQA exam. The theory is the same. I have also used this pack with able year 8 and 9 students seeking extension activities to help improve their writing skills. It also works with children aiming for Common Entrance exams and ensures that they are confident with the two different types of creative compositions. Packed with 'meme-like' cartoons, quotations from famous writers and checklists of terms to keep bored boys and fidgety girls on task!

Funky mat I designed with entertaining cartoons and colourful images of the key marks that children need to now. I am happy for this to be shared on a school licence so that lessons can have the file on the screen. You can print these out, laminate them and give them to the students. You can set them a homework of learning all the marks, or writing their own sentences. I also find this helps a great deal if you have booked the I.T room for the students to do a continuous writing task - if in doubt, they just log on and pull out my learning mat file, then start to work out the punctuation for themselves. Time efficient!

Useful resource for those teaching this great story. Helps build confident student readers.

This activity can be done in class or set as homework. It was inspired by 'Skellig' and a good opening idea is to show the students David Almind's opening description of the garage. However, it works fine as an independent task. Students have to imagine they are Michael, the lonely and isolated boy described walking through the family's old garage at the start of the novel. The task develops language range ad descriptive skills. Suitable for junior ages and also as extension work for those taking entrance or end of year exams. Could also work well for AQA GCSE students ending to perfect their descriptive skills.

This PowerPoint is a bit different as it allows students of all ability levels to take control of the task. They see different images from the play and are invited to choose the odd one out - interesting discussion starter! They then work through varied tasks on the characters. Good way to share and discuss a mix of ideas at a fast pace.

Everything you ever wanted to know about this dark strand of Shakespeare's play but were too afraid to ask. It's all here. Lots of supporting images and some historical context to stretch the most able. A good springboard for students to then link some of the information here to key scenes and quotations.

I created this lesson for an observed lesson and it covers both poems in depth and offer them wider contextual points to enrich their answers. Ideal preparation for the comparative skills section of the AQA poetry exam, and for revising Blake. The 'odd one out' activity differentiates by outcome and gets students thinking carefully about the city and what it might represent. Lots of extension tasks and homework opportunies. Over 16 slides and structured to take a lesson.

This is a short 6 slide PowerPoint with useful summaries of the context to Gothic. Ideal for able younger students aged 11 and up, or as a simple recap for mixed ability GCSE students. It also offers students the chance to think about what generic features are and to complete a fun activity where they imagine as many examples as they can. Handy starter with a task!