A full SOW for Russell’s ‘Blood Brothers’. A five week scheme over 129 slides which include: contextual information about the world of the play, analysis of key scenes/character/themes, a diverse range of activities to help students engage with the content links between the themes of the play and the modern world (particularly in terms of: poverty, class, education, opportunity) embedded YouTube videos of the songs (please understand that this scheme is a few years old and that some of the links may now be dead. However the slides will give you a clear indication of where each song appears if you want to use them in your teaching).

A three lesson sequence including independent response, an exploration of the nature of success and collaborative student led annotation of the poem.

A full SOW for Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’. 163 slides which include: contextual information about Shakespeare and his world, analysis of key scenes/character/themes, tasks and annotation prompts with clear page references, PEA analysis grids focussed on most of the central characters, integration of performance through varied YouTube clips, 10 practice questions (5 extract/ 5 whole text) based closely on past papers from Cambridge.

A two lesson sequence including vocabulary building, group analysis and an exam style essay question.

A full SOW for Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’. 115 slides which include: contextual information about the world of the novel, analysis of key scenes/character/themes, a diverse range of activities to help students engage with the content lessons clearly marked by chapter and resources included within the PPT chapter recaps to ensure that students have remembered and understood key information Please understand that this scheme is a few years old and that some of the YouTube links may have gone.

A three lesson sequence complete with printable resources, independent work, student-led quotation explosion and an exam style writing prompt on the poem.

A full SOW for Shelagh Stephenson’s ‘An Experiment with an Air Pump’. 160 slides which include: contextual information for the play, analysis of key scenes/character/themes, tasks and annotation prompts with clear page references, a quotation bank and 10 practice questions (5 extract/ 5 whole text) based closely on past papers from Cambridge.

This is a SOW for a sequence of lessons introducing some of the key text types studied in English B. There is 30 lessons worth of content here covering - speeches, reviews, blogs, pamphlets/leaflets/brochures and a few others that students prepare and present themselves. This scheme includes student led activities with a new text type presented each week. The pattern followed is generally: introduce the text type and check students’ prior knowledge. look at and analyse some examples of the text type focussing on key features. Either independently or collaboratively produce a version of the text type displaying the key conventions clearly. I designed this sequence for HL students who would benefit from a little more freedom and experimentation. It is not content heavy and depends on a class who are willing to work collaboratively and are comfortable presenting ideas in front of their peers. Please message me with any questions of queries. If you have found my resources useful please leave a positive review.

A three lesson sequence containing vocabulary building, contextual information, student-led quotation analysis and a creative response to the poem.

A clearly formatted, ready to print booklet containing every selected Donne poem in the current (2021-23) Cambridge A Level syllabus.

A template that can be used to provide whole class feedback after an assessment. Obviously you would want to replace what I’ve written with points that are relevant to your group.

A selection of five questions in the style of the English B HL writing paper. These were generated using AI and you can find a sequence of lessons in my shop (for free) if you are interested in learning how to do this yourself.

This is a short sequence of lessons showing you how to train ChatGPT to produce questions in the style of IB exam papers. There are different lessons (and prompts) devoted to the writing, reading and listening papers. This can be used to encourage academic independence in students but equally you could use it yourself if you’re curious about AI but uncertain of where to start. I am providing this resource for free for a couple of reasons: it will take a fair bit of input from you so isn’t necessarily ‘ready to go’ as I would expect from a paid resource. I’m genuinely eager to get feedback from other people to see if this can be as useful to them as it is to me (please leave a comment!). It isn’t perfect but I am surprised how much this has helped my teaching over the past year.

A brief introduction to the IB English B HL Writing Paper. Use this resource to help students know how they will be assessed and how to start planning a response.