These PowerPoint lessons are focused on the play Whose Life is it Anyway? that explores the topic of euthanasia. The lessons are in no particular sequence and were originally designed to support the writing of coursework. The lessons can be adapted for work towards an examination. This would be an excellent introduction to writing about drama for a Year 9 class.

These resources were created to encourage a whole day speaking and listening event. Students were encouraged to discuss the evidence and then present the outcomes of the investigation. The whole scenario is set up in The Murder of Johnny Dogood document and there is no specified murderer. The idea is that students can seek inference and implication in the evidence provided by the different suspects.

This is a worksheet that guides the student through the poem Letters from Yorkshire by Moira Dooley. The worksheet guides the student to write a paragraph.

A worksheet that helps guide the student through study of The Farmers Bride by Charlotte Mew.

This worksheet guides the student through the poem Walking Away by C Day Lewis. It offers tips on how to write analytically about the poem.

This poem helps students work through the issues and ideas in Sonnet 29 I think of thee! by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The worksheet focuses on the form of the sonnet and the central extended metaphor in the poem.

This worksheet guides the student through the Heaney poem - it focuses on question building and moving the student through to an analysis of the overall message in the poem.

A worksheet to help students understand the poem. The sheet leads students towards writing a paragraph about the poem.

This is a worksheet that helps students puzzle out the overall concept behind Causley's poem.

The worksheet helps students to build on the initial questions that they ask about a poem by asking further questions, The focus is on drilling this skill and then selecting the best part of what is said.

This is a worksheet that talks students through a way of preparing for the comparison between two unseen poems.

A worksheet to guide a student through the process of annotating the poem, building an answer and how to revise this process.

This is a worksheet that helps students work through the process of identifying the techniques used and then writing these into a sentence that introduces the technique and the quotation.

This worksheet takes students through a series of steps that will help them understand how to build questions about poetry. The questions are how and why questions and encourage the students to focus on specific language choices.

This is a workbook that helps students through the process of studying and writing about an unseen poem. There is also a section on how to prepare to compare two unseen poems.

This is a worksheet aimed at guiding students through understanding the poem by Percy Shelley.

This is a scheme of work focused on the Shakespeare play A Winter's Tale. The focus of the unit is on the dramatization of a set scene: the scene were Hermione awakens from being a statue. The central concept is on directorial choices and how this changes the audience's reaction to the scene. This is an excellent unit to complete at the end of the year and there is a lot of fun to be had in creating lollipop puppets and performing the play as mini puppet shows.

This is a half term unit of work aimed at helping students to write a poem of their own. The principle of the unit is that students learn the techniques used by poets and use these techniques themselves, referring to themselves as a poet as they write. The theme is animals and all poems referenced can be found on the internet. It is wonderful, at the end of the unit, to publish the class's work as an anthology.

The lessons are not in a sequenced order but do offer different approaches to different points in the play. The main focus of the lessons is preparation towards an essay but the powerpoints can easily be adapted for preparation for your examination board.