PowerPoint presentation with a sequence of lessons for the novel Storm (also known as Dangerous Skies) by Suzanne FIsher Staples. The tasks in this SOW vary, including a range of creative and analytical focuses.

A lesson exploring motifs in the play and how they reflect key ideas about Nora.

Missing words activity for over 20 quotations from book 9 of Paradise Lost. This activity is useful for helping students to memorise quotations and to generate discussion about the language choices Milton makes.

A PowerPoint containing key quotations for book 9. These are identified by theme. The notes section for the slides contain helpful notes of analytical ideas you could discuss.

This lesson explores the power of word choices poets make. It begins by looking at The Red Wheelbarrow, using pictures to demonstrate the significance of seemingly trivial words. The lesson then moves on to Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy, with a creative task used so that students can experience the power word choices can have. It concludes with a reflective task, analysing their own writing and Duffy’s.

This resource is designed as a model for the Edexcel IGCSE English Language coursework task for Poetry and Prose. It consists of a clear introduction and conclusion, as well as analytical paragraphs about Still I Rise and The Necklace.

A model paragraph, written with a standard level IB class in mind.

This lesson is designed for GCSE students who will have to write argumentatively in the English Language exam. Although designed with an Edexcel IGCSE class in mind, the lesson has been designed to develop skills and arguments, rather than focusing closely on exam criteria so can be applied to a range of specifications. Strategies for arguments and model writing is included in this PowerPoint.

This lesson supports students in understanding, identifying and using personification. It was designed for KS3, but could also be used with KS2 classes. You will need a copy of Judith Nicholls poem “Winter” to accompany this lesson.

A brief description of the features of each of these styles of writing, with some explanation as to why Shakespeare uses prose.

This lesson explores original expectations of the police force (Peelian principles), considering how these apply to inspector Goole. It then offers some other interpretations of what Goole may represent, before finishing with an analytical task, applying this contextual knowledge.

A range of activities, encouraging analysis of characterisation and language, as well as engagement with critical ideas and literary context.

Each of these PowerPoint presentations support students when using a range of methods for describing characters. These are primarily suitable for KS3 classes, although with the correct class they could be useful at KS2 and KS4.

This lesson was originally designed for a lower set KS4 class. It would be suitable at both KS3 and KS4. This lesson begins with activities revising similes, before using visual prompts to support students to describe a scene in detail.

This is a resource designed for A level literature students who are studying King Lear. It is designed as a lesson, which takes the hypothesis that Lear's character is changeable near the start of the play, to the extent that we can identify each of the 7 ages of a man Shakespeare himself identifies in As You Like It. It is a tool for analysing character development.

Originally designed as an A level resource, this lesson includes contextual information about paganism and James I, which is useful when considering the portrayal of Gloucester in the first Act of the play.