KS4/GCSE English Teaching Resources: The History Boys by Alan Bennett (131 slide PowerPoint and 12 worksheets) This KS4/GCSE teaching resource explores Alan Bennett’s award winning play in detail and covers the following areas of study: - An introduction to Alan Bennett - The play’s context – 1980s: Educational change and attitudes to sexuality - Structure and form as used by Bennett in The History Boys - Character study – Hector, Irwin, Lintott, Dakin, Headmaster, Posner and Rudge - How to embed quotes into an answer - Key themes of The History Boys – history, education sex and sexuality - Alan Bennet’s use of language - Role play – hot seating characters - Essay questions - Links to external materials for The History Boys

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - KS3 Unit of Work (22-lesson unit of work with 374-slide PowerPoint presentation and 53 worksheets) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Unit of Work contains a 374-slide PowerPoint presentation, 53 PDF worksheets and 22 lessons. This scheme of work explores the novel chapter by chapter in incredible detail, analysing the book’s plot, characters, themes and language through a range of engaging activities. This unit of work’s contents include: Comprehension tasks including questions and discussion Chapter by chapter ‘Gold’, ‘Silver’ and ‘Bronze’ differentiated activities Research - learning about autism and Asperger’s Syndrome Exploring and discussing themes in detail Close character analysis of Christopher, Christopher’s father (Ed Boone), Christopher’s mother (Judy Boone), Mrs. Shears, Roger Shears Understanding and analysing how Mark Haddon uses language in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Developing inference and deduction skills Puzzles, games and quizzes based on the novel’s plot, characters and themes Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for popular KS3 novels: Boys Don’t Cry Cirque Du Freak Face Holes Noughts and Crosses Skellig Stone Cold The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The Demon Headmaster The Silver Sword

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a complete 14 lesson scheme of work with a 149 slide PowerPoint presentation and a 32 page booklet of worksheets. It includes: Analysis of the characters of Bruno, Father, Gretel and Lieutenant Kotler Extension activities Starter and plenary activities Historical context understanding research activity Developing inference and deduction skills through The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Empathetic writing - a letter to Grandmother and Bruno’s diary Hotseating to develop character knowledge and understanding Analysing John Boyne’s use of language and contrast in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Speaking and Listening tasks - Bruno and Shmuel’s conversations Writing a book review for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

CHARLOTTE’S WEB ELA Teaching Resources: Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White (Unit of work, 147-slide PowerPoint and 20 worksheets) This teaching resource explores the popular children’s novel Charlotte’s Web in detail and covers the following areas of study: Developing inference and deduction skills Developing debate skills Character study and creating character profiles How to use embedded quotations in a response Exploring plot, themes and language Individual, pair and group activities Think, pair, share activities Story boards and hot seating Create a quiz and a newspaper front page story Writing a book review

English Teaching Resources: AQA 9-1 Poetry Anthology Power and Conflict Pack contains 15 detailed PowerPoint presentations (a whopping 582 slides!) and 75 worksheets to help you teach every poem from the AQA 9-1 Power and Conflict poetry cluster. The poems analysed are: Ozymandias (Shelley) London (Blake) Extract from the Prelude: Stealing a Boat (Wordsworth) My Last Duchess (Browning) The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson) Exposure (Owen) Storm on the Island (Heaney) Bayonet Charge (Hughes) Remains (Armitage) Poppies (Weir) War Photographer (Duffy) Tissue (Dharker) The Emigree (Rumens) Kamikaze (Garland) Checking Out Me History (Agard) Each poem is the focus of an in-depth PowerPoint analysis and comes with numerous accompanying worksheets.