This unit contains everything you need to teach Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan at KS3. This is a sequence of 21 Cirque du Freak lessons that aid KS3 students in developing their understanding of plot, character, language and structure through studying Darren Shan’s text. The unit of work includes: Lesson 1: Narrative Hooks Lesson 2: Initial impressions of Darren Lesson 3: Analysing characters Lesson 4: Comparing the boys Lesson 5: Describing setting Lesson 6: The Freakshow Lesson 7: Language to describe the snake Lesson 8: Vampire webquest Lesson 9: Steve and friendship Lesson 10: Forming a plan Lesson 11: The relationship between Steve and Darren Lesson 12: Building tension Lesson 13: Analysing Mr Crepsley Lesson 14: Writing a letter of application Lesson 15: Designing a vampire Lesson 16: Writing effective endings Lesson 17: Assessment Planning on Steve Lesson 18: Writing your assessment Lesson 19: Assessment feedback Lesson 20: Designing a front cover Lesson 21: The film The unit ends with an assessment that evaluates the character of Steve Leonard. It is supported with a feedback sheet, writing frames and exemplar answers to mark afterwards.

Encourage students to stand up for their rights, using their language skills to influence the world. This unit is ideally for KS3 students. It has been designed to teach the skills to write a formal letter of complaint by opposing the development of a theme park in the local area. There are 17 lessons which examine the layout of a letter as well as formal phrases to use. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, brochures, theme park maps, persuasive adverts and debate cards. Lesson 1: Language to advertise Lesson 2: Holiday brochures Lesson 3: Advertising theme parks Lesson 4: Descriptive Writing Lesson 5: Online holiday webquest Lesson 6: Holidays gone wrong! Lesson 7: Writing a letter of complaint Lesson 8: Writing an application letter Lesson 9: Evaluating a theme park leaflet Lesson 10: Evaluating a website Lesson 11: Designing a theme park Lesson 12: Theme park debate Lesson 13: Theme park poetry Lesson 14: Theme park letter of complaint Lesson 15: Theme park TV advert Lesson 16: Plan your assessment Lesson 17: Write your assessment

This scheme of work uses the superhero genre to engage lower achieving students, culminating in writing a formal film review. It works well with low to mid ability KS3 students and could appeal to boy heavy groups. The 14 lesson unit looks at the content and structure of a film review and supports their writing in the final assessment. It is fully resourced with superhero review exemplars, jigsaw readings, quizzes, crosswords and essay frames. Lesson 1: Designing your own superhero Lesson 2: Turning this into a comic strip Lesson 3: Making a superhero movie using online software Lesson 4: Superhero Origins Lesson 5: Designing a poster for your film Lesson 6: Film pitch planning Lesson 7: Pitching your film to the critics Lesson 8: Fantastic 4 Review Lesson 9: X-men review Lesson 10: Pirates of the Caribbean review Lesson 11-12: Watching and evaluating a superhero film Lesson 13: Writing your film review Lesson 14: Top Trumps

This unit of work is fantastic for stretching high ability students, by encouraging them to amalgamate context into their consideration of the fable. The unit contains 17 lessons covering the whole of the novel, focusing on writer’s use of language, how the writer uses structure, creative writing and the effect of rhetorical devices. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, chapter extracts, speech writing and dramatic activities. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Modern Classics Edition. The lessons include: Lesson 1: Lenin, Trotsky, Marx and Stalin Lesson 2: context games Lesson 3: the characters and their historical equivalents Lesson 4: analysis of Old Major’s speech Lesson 5: the animals Lesson 6: Napoleon vs Snowball vote Lesson 7: the revolution Lesson 8: flags as symbols Lesson 9: formulating a battle plan Lesson 10: political spin Lesson 11: propaganda and posters Lesson 12: leadership styles Lesson 13: review chapters 1-5 Lesson 14: Napoleon as a dictator Lesson 15: Scapegoats Lesson 16: the battle of the windmill Lesson 17: power and corruption Lesson 18: assessment preparation Lesson 19: assessment feedback There is an opportunity at the end of the unit to plan and write an assessment on Napoleon.

Are you looking to teach Gothic Horror at KS3, but don’t want to spend hours preparing? Then you have come to the right place! Develop greater understanding of the conventions of Gothic literature and the horror genre Analyze how famous authors of Gothic literature used characterization, description, and various literary devices that are consistent with the horror genre The texts covered are extracts and short stories from: Twilight, Great Expectations, The Werewolf, The Evil Priest, The Woman in Black, Tell Tale Heart and more Please note, for "The Darker Side of St Ives" lesson you will need to buy a copy of Shanty Baba’s CD, which is available online. Lesson 1: An introduction to gothic horror Lesson 2: Creating vampires Lesson 3: The gothic in Great Expectations Lesson 4: The Darker Side of St Ives Lesson 5: The Werewolf by Angela Carter Lesson 6: Creating school ghost tales Lesson 7: Performing your tale to the group Lesson 8: Gerunds and adverbial phrases in The Evil Priest Lesson 9: The Woman in Black Lesson 10-11: Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

This scheme of work is ideal as an introduction to classic poetry at KS3. It gives the students an insight into classic poets like Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost and WH Auden. There are 11 lessons focusing on analysing poems, giving students the skills to annotate poems and comment on the effect of poetic devices. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, quizzes, match ups, terminology definitions and activities that act as a gateway to the poems. This is perfect for early AQA Unseen Poetry preparation. Lesson 1: Revising poetic techniques Lesson 2: You Being Born by Brian Jones Lesson 3: Mirror by Sylvia Plath Lesson 4: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Lesson 5: Adolescence by Rita Dove Lesson 6: The Loner by Julie Holder Lesson 7: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Lesson 8: Stop All the Clocks by W. H. Auden Lesson 9: Stop All the Clocks assessment Lesson 10: Assessment feedback Lesson 11: How to compare poems

Everything you need to revise Blood Brothers at KS4. This unit includes 13 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and essay structure. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA GCSE, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Comedy and tragedy Lesson 2: Sympathy Lesson 3: Character posters Lesson 4: Context Lesson 5: Mrs Johnstone and motherhood Lesson 6: Who is responsible? Lesson 7: The narrator Lesson 8: Remembering key quotes Lesson 9: Act 1 review Lesson 10: Act 2 review Lesson 11: Mrs Johnstone as a strong character Lesson 12: Linda Lesson 13: Planning your answer

Do your students need last minute prep for their exam? This 11 lesson unit is designed for students who have studied a Christmas Carol, but need two weeks intensive revision before their exam. The unit covers a number of characters and themes such as: Lesson 1: plot and characters Lesson 2: essay planning and context Lesson 3: the role of the ghosts Lesson 4: the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come Lesson 5: Scrooge’s transformation Lesson 6: revision guides Lesson 7: useful quotes Lesson 8: context bidding Lesson 9: Staves 1-2 review Lesson 10: Staves 3-4 review Lesson 11: final revision

This unit includes everything you need to teach Mockingbird at High School for the IGCSE, and it will save you hours of preparation time! It is focused on essay writing skills for Cambridge IGCSE, but it could be easily adapted for other exam boards. It includes 23 lessons; each lesson covers a chapter of the novel. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, assessment questions, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts for analysis, online research, opportunities for creative writing, context cards and a revision workbook. The page numbers refer to the Orange Faber and Faber edition with an introduction by Ian Gregor. Chapter 1: An introduction to Maycomb County and Alabama Chapter 2: A Southern Education, Miss Caroline extract practice Chapter 3: The relationship between Atticus and Scout Chapter 4: Atticus and Bravery Chapter 5: Miss Maudie Atkinson Chapter 6: How Harper Lee builds tension Chapter 7: Growing Up Chapter 8: Creative Writing and The Fire Chapter 10: The rabid dog Chapter 11: Ms Dubose and Southern Belles Chapter 12: Segregation and Calpurnia’s church Chapter 13: Aunt Alexandra Chapter 14: Exam practice Chapter 15: Lynch Mobs and the KKK Chapters 16-21: The Trial Chapter 17: How Harper Lee creates mood and atmosphere Chapter 21: The Verdict Chapter 23: Character Foils: Bob and Atticus Chapter 24: The Missionary Ladies Chapter 25: Role Models Chapter 28: The attack on Scout and Jem Chapters 29-30: The Aftermath Chapter 31: The Ending

This unit contains everything you need to teach ‘Remains’ at Key Stage 5, and will save you hours of preparation time! It includes 26 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, essays, quizzes and opportunities for extract analysis. The page numbers refer to the Faber and Faber edition. This unit of work has been designed for the IB but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Introduction to ‘Remains’ Lesson 2: Context Lesson 3: Plot Review Lesson 4: The Prologue Lesson 5: Great Houses Research Lesson 6: Introduction to Mr Stevens Lesson 7: Stevens’ journey Lesson 8: Englishness Lesson 9:Essay planning Lesson 10: Stevens and his father Lesson 11: Miss Kenton’s letter Lesson 12: Stevens’ father Lesson 13: The Conference Lesson 14: Mortimer’s Pond Lesson 15:Guilt and Delusion Lesson 16: Denials and Excuses Lesson 17: Mis Kenton and Mr Stevens Lesson 18: Comparing Key Scenes Lesson 19: Democracy and Autocracy Lesson 20: Stevens confronts reality Lesson 21: Appearance and Reality Lesson 22: Mrs Benn Lesson 23: The End Lesson 24: Stevens’ memories Lesson 25: End of Unit Quiz Lesson 26: Interview with Ishiguro

This unit contains everything you need to teach the Songs of Ourselves anthology and will save you hours of preparation! It is focused on the CIE IGCSE Paper for English Literature. It includes 26 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar essays, context research, mark schemes, quizzes and opportunities for self-assessment. It is extremely thorough and allows the students multiple points for reflection to ensure they are confident of what themes to explore in their exam. Lesson 1: An introduction to poetry Lesson 2: Poetic techniques Lesson 3: Scansion: rhythm, rhyme and meter Lesson 4: Techniques review Lesson 5: Sonnet 18 Lesson 6: Love Armed Lesson 7: A Married State Lesson 8: The Chimney Sweeper Lesson 9: An Essay on Man Lesson 10: Quiz review Lesson 11: Carpet Weavers, Morocco Lesson 12: Before the Sun Lesson 13: Storyteller Lesson 14: Lament Lesson 15: Lament essay Lesson 16: Romantic research Lesson 17: Report to Wordsworth Lesson 18: Quiz review Lesson 19: A Different History Lesson 20: Hunting Snake Lesson 21: Hunting Snake Essay Lesson 22: The Cockroach Lesson 23: Where I Come From Lesson 24: Follower Lesson 25: Quiz review Lesson 26: Revision cards Lesson 27: National Poetry Day

This unit is designed to approach the AQA GCSE Paper 2 in an original way. It is a journalism unit that teaches the reading and writing skills the students need for Paper 2 without getting bogged down in past papers. It comes fully resourced with articles, discussions, PowerPoints, exemplar answers, readings and reviews. It focuses on more than Paper 2 tests, such as music reviews, reports and website design, so you could skip these lessons if you are pushed for time. Lesson 1: News Values Lesson 2: The Structure of a Newspaper Lesson 3: Website Design Lesson 4: Website Analysis Lesson 5: Analysing Perspective for Q4 Reading Lesson 6: Point of view in ‘Snack Attack’ Lesson 7: Writing a Report Lesson 8: Writing a Film Review Lesson 9: Travel Writing Lesson 10: Planning a Job Application Letter Lesson 11: Writing a Job Application Letter Lesson 12: Identifying Bias Lesson 13: Informal Language for Tabloids Lesson 14: Formal Language for Broadsheets Lesson 15: Analysing Perspective in Jamie’s Dream School Lesson 16: Writing a Music Review Lesson 17: Writing a health Article Lesson 18: Tarot Cards Lesson 19: Writing Original Headlines Lesson 20: Writing to Advise Lesson 21: Influencers and Fame

Are you looking for a fresh and creative way to teach Romeo and Juliet? I recently studied for my Certificate for Teaching Shakespeare at the RSC in Stratford and it has revolutionized the way I teach the bard. This unit contains everything you need to teach Romeo and Juliet at KS4. It is focused on essay writing skills, analyzing extracts for English Literature and bringing the play to life. It includes 31 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extract analysis and opportunities for online research. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. Each lesson is focused on a scene from the play, so you can easily cut this unit down to focus specifically on a key scene and a theme from the play. I have designed this unit to make it relevant to teenage audiences, so we look at themes like: the role of women, both then and now expectations of masculinity in men the role of the theatre why set it in Verona? toxic masculinity in Act 1 Scene 1 the role of a father suppression and rebellion violence role models and much more…

This scheme of work contains everything you need to teach Imaginative Writing at IGCSE and will save you hours of preparation! It is focused on Paper 3 coursework, but can easily be adapted for Paper 2 exam preparation. It includes 24 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, short stories and extracts, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, writing checklists and activities to exploit drama. Each lesson targets a different area of the mark scheme for the students to master. Lesson 1: An introduction into imaginative writing Lesson 2: How to structure a story using a story mountain Lesson 3: How to write an effective opening Lesson 4: Using connectives Lesson 5: Creating characters with depth Lesson 6: Writing about a party Lesson 7: Focus on punctuation in ‘The Hero’ Lesson 8: Avoiding cliche in “The 100% perfect girl” Lesson 9: Using dialogue Lesson 10: Multiple narrative voices in “Not My Best Side” Lesson 11: Writing a story using a unique voice Lesson 12: Structure in ‘The Fugitive’ Lesson 13: A Day in the Life of a Nobody Lesson 14: Writing a personal response Lesson 15: Creating titles Lesson 16: Expanding and planning Lesson 17: Topic sentences Lesson 18: Openings and endings Lesson 19: Endings Lesson 20: Narratives and dialogue Lesson 21: Opening lines Lesson 22: Creating a sense of place Lesson 23: Show don’t tell Lesson 24: Narrative Tenses in The Beach

Everything you need to revise Othello at KS5. This unit includes 14 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Desdemona Lesson 2: Who is responsible? Lesson 3: Literary Criticism Lesson 4: Hitting the assessment objectives Lesson 5: Past Paper Lesson 6: Film overview Lesson 7: Brabantio and Roderigo Lesson 8: Iago Lesson 9: Love and Hate Lesson 10: Iago and love Lesson 11: Past questions Lesson 12: Bradley vs Leavis Lesson 13: Revision guides Lesson 14: Love and Loyalty

This unit contains everything you need to teach transactional writing (letters, speeches, articles, essays, reviews and leaflets) at IGCSE. This unit of work is focused on Pearson Edexcel Paper 1 for English language and teaches the students how to argue, advise and persuade. It includes 25 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson Powerpoints, exemplar answers, newspaper articles, leaflets, essays, reviews and speeches. Lesson 1: Introduction to transactional writing Lesson 2: Coronavirus response Lesson 3: How to counter-argue Lesson 4: Tough love Lesson 5: Raising children Lesson 6: Travel Writing Lesson 7: Charity speech Lesson 8: Letter of application Lesson 9: Write your letter of application Lesson 10: Technology Lesson 11: Fame Lesson 12: English teacher application Lesson 13: Health leaflet Lesson 14: Mobile phones Lesson 15: Parents are over-protective Lesson 16: Who would you vote for? Lesson 17: Film censorship essay Lesson 18: Writing your essay Lesson 19: Protecting the countryside Lesson 20: Virgin Atlantic complaint letter Lesson 21: Meghan and Harry Lesson 22: Writing your opinion Lesson 23: Foreign holidays Lesson 24: Writing a film review Lesson 25: Writing a book review

This unit contains everything you need to teach Chronicle at IB level. It includes 22 lessons to help guide the students through the text, investigating Marquez’s use of magical realism and the detective genre. It ends with essay planning lessons to help them link the themes to other IB texts, and begin to consider a topic for their extended essays and oral presentations. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Books edition. Lesson 1: Designing context presentations Lesson 2: Sharing context with the group Lesson 3: Marquez’s style Lesson 4: Attitudes to the murder Lesson 5: Chapter 1 Review Lesson 6: Bayardo and Angela Lesson 7: Attitudes to marriage Lesson 8: Angela Vicario Lesson 9: Honour Lesson 10: The Vicario Brothers Lesson 11: Men and Women Lesson 12: Heroes and Villains Lesson 13: Who is the victim? Lesson 14: The Detective Genre Lesson 15: Reader suspicions Lesson 16: The end Lesson 17: Chapter 4-5 Review Lesson 18: The Trial of Santiago Nasar Lesson 19: Character Reviews Lesson 20: Overall text revision Lesson 21: Choose your activity Lesson 22: Class presentations on themes and links

Everything you need to teach the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE Anthology. This unit of work is focused on Paper 1 non-fiction texts . It includes 12 lessons, but the amount of material could easily cover 22 lessons with 2 lessons per extract. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar answers, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts and opportunities for online research. Lesson 1: An introduction to non-fiction reading Lesson 2: The Danger of a Single Story Lesson 3: Passage to Africa Lesson 4: The Explorer’s Daughter Lesson 5: Explorers or boys messing about? Lesson 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place Lesson 7: Young and Dyslexic? Lesson 8: A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat Lesson 9: Beyond the Sky and Earth Lesson 10: H is for Hawk Lesson 11: Chinese Cinderella Lesson 12: Revision activities

Everything you need to teach non fiction texts at SL or HL. This unit of work is focused on Paper 1 IB for English Language and Literature. It includes 13 lessons and is fully resourced with exemplar answers, past papers, workbooks and key aspects of each genre. Lesson 1: Analysing comics Lesson 2: Analysing graphic novels Lesson 3: Reviewing comics Lesson 4: Graphic novel revision Lesson 5: Analysing ‘The Arrival’ Lesson 6: How Adverts Persuade Us Lesson 7: How To Read a Photograph Lesson 8: Analysing Speeches Lesson 9: Understanding Photographs Lesson 10: Analysing Websites Lesson 11: Fighting Back Past Paper and Exemplar Answer Lesson 12: McDonalds Exemplar and Past Paper Lesson 13: Key Features of the Genre

This unit contains everything you need to teach Rime of the Ancient Mariner at IB Standard or Higher level, but it could easily be adapted for GCSE and A-level. It includes 16 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual research, poetic devices revision, gothic extracts, Romantic research and vocabulary support. Lesson 1: Gothic and Romantic Lesson 2: Poetic rhyme, rhythm and meter Lesson 3: Poetic devices research Lesson 4: The Plot Lesson 5: Part 1 Lesson 6: Part 1 Revision Lesson 7: Part 2 Lesson 8: Part 3 Lesson 9: Part 4 Lesson 10: Part 5 Lesson 11: Part 6 Lesson 12: Part 7 Lesson 13: Parallel Research Lesson 14: Themes and Symbols Lesson 15: Links to crime genre Lesson 16: Exam questions to plan