Complete lesson designed to help students to write more original and thoughtful similes. Uses the writing of Raymond Chandler as inspiration. Suitable for both KS3 and KS4.

Complete lesson focussing on the theme of equivocation and the context of the Gunpowder Plot. Allows students to make links to specific quotations from the play.

A noise level display for English Classrooms.

A descriptive writing lesson inspired by the director Steven Spielberg. Suitable for KS3 or KS4.

A challenging context lesson that introduces the theory of the four humours. The lesson explores the question ‘why does Lady Macbeth die?’ using medical theories from the sixteenth and seventeenth century. 23 slides including vocabulary tasks, writing frames and contextual information.

Two challenging lessons introducing students to the context of manners and etiquette. Students analyse links between restrictive and oppressive cultural norms and the character of Edward Hyde. Contains vocabulary tasks, academic reading, modeled responses and detailed scaffolding.

Two challenging lessons analysing the context and symbolism of fog in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Jekyll and Hyde. The lessons contain contextual information on London’s notorious pea-soupers, vocabulary tasks, exemplar paragraphs, recall quizzes and links to an extract from the text.

Two challenging lessons, focusing on analysing Shakespeare’s use of the motif of hands across the play Macbeth. The lessons include recall of key quotations, vocabulary tasks, and contextual information about ‘The Royal Touch’; a form of laying on of hands used to cure subjects of disease. Links are made to an extract from Act Four of the play, and model answers are included.

Two lessons focusing on the context of Darwinian Evolution, which allow students to make detailed links to the novel. Lessons include contextual information, vocabulary tasks, recall quizzes, worksheets and model answers. 45 slides in total.

A revision lesson for AQA English Literature B, Elements of Crime. The lesson focusses on key quotations which link to the pastoral features and settings of Atonement, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Browning’s Poems. It invites students to analyse how each texts subverts elements of the pastoral genre. Contains vocabulary tasks, exemplar responses and information on the pastoral genre.

Who studied English and why?

A revision lesson intended to help students make fluid connections between the extract and the whole text. Introduces the definition of the term motif, and a number of important motifs in A Christmas Carol. Contains an example exam question and answer, as well as a related homework task.