An A3 sheet designed for students to annotate and analyse Old Major’s speech.

Students need to complete the timeline of Eva Smith’s life in ‘An Inspector Calls’.

-An A3 revision sheet for Wordsworth’s Extract from the Prelude. -An annotated copy of the poem. -A student version of the above with boxes to complete.

A completed character-theme table for Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’. It’s an excellent revision resource which can be adapted as a classroom activity (for students to complete) or provided to students to prepare for their examination.

A GCSE lesson to scaffold an essay on the presentation of Mr Birling in Act 1. It contains a full PowerPoint, a scaffolding table for students to complete, and a model intro / body paragraph / conclusion.

A series of 5 overview sheets, each one covering an Act of Othello. The students complete them to amalgamate the key ideas, quotations, and aspects of character-development that take place across the play. I provided them as homework but they could also be a classroom activity.

A PowerPoint containing annotations for Jane Weir’s ‘Poppies’ (It is to be used for the Power and Conflict GCSE Anthology.)

A KS3 Scheme of Work to cover Aristotle’s three strands of rhetoric. This was originally designed for Year 9 but has since been used with Years 7 and 8 as well. Each lesson goes through a famous speech and analyses in relation to ethos, pathos and logos. Lessons are fully-resourced and easy for the teacher to follow.

A detailed PowerPoint to prepare students for a question on morality in Act 1. The resource include 2 versions of student planning sheets and a model introduction, body paragraph and conclusion.

Designed for Year 7 (but adaptable), the lesson is about introducing students to What/How/Why - or PEE). Students need to match up 3 PEE burgers and then write their own paragraph.

A Scheme of Work studying Steven Spielberg’s film ‘Minority Report’. This was taught to a middle-ability Year 10 group. Things covered include: -Understanding of plot, -Understanding of character, -Analysis of individual scenes including mise-en-scene, costume, lighting, camera angles and shots, -A model essay, -A scaffolded coursework essay outline -Teacher versions of student sheets.

A detailed PowerPoint (and resources) to scaffold an essay on the theme of men and women in the play. Included within the lesson: A context quiz which covers some of the key parts of AO3 A scaffolded essay table for high ability students An alternative version for lower ability pupils A teacher version containing detailed recommended answers A model introduction and conclusion.

A copy of the inspector’s final speech in J.B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. Contains key questions for students to answer. It is designed to guide students’ own annotations of the speech.

A PowerPoint lesson that goes through foreshadowing and dramatic irony in Mr Birling’s speech at the start of Act 1. A detailed model paragraph is included.

A complete lesson pitched at a Yr 8 or Yr 9 class. It could be used for lower ability Yr 10 also. It begins with revision of language features, tasks are differentiated and there is a body paragraph also.

Mini-essay scaffolding for the question: How Does Dickens Present Social Responsibility in this Extract? This resource includes: -A very short extract -A differentiated version with key questions -A teacher version with key annotations -A scaffolding table for students to complete.

A table for students to complete which scaffolds an essay about the presentation of Scrooge in Staves 1 and 2. An answer sheet for the teacher is included.

A lesson designed for Year 7 or Year 8 but easily adapted to a primary group.

Mr. Birling’s speech in Act 1, annotated with questions.

An annotated copy of the poem.