Do you want to study a novel that teaches students about both the allure and the dangers of gangs? This unit of work works well with mid to high ability Year 8 or 9 students, and could serve as a basic introduction to the American Literature canon. It comes resourced with PowerPoints, worksheets, contextual information, IWB activities, character analysis, opportunities for creative writing and ideas for an assessment. Lesson 1: Gang culture Lesson 2: How Hinton creates character Lesson 3: Hinton’s use of stereotypes Lesson 4: How writers build tension Lesson 5: The Socs and The Greasers Lesson 6: Using inference Lesson 7: Narrative perspective Lesson 8: Robert Frost “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Lesson 9: Analysing the character of Ponyboy Lesson 10: Writing a newspaper article Lesson 11: Dual narratives Lesson 12: Use of foreshadowing to build tension Lesson 13: Building tension in “The Rumble” Lesson 14: Character foils: Jonny and Dally Lesson 15: Analysing the character of Ponyboy Lesson 16: Formal speeches in The Courtroom

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 KS3 . It is focused on essay writing skills, analyzing extracts for English Literature and bringing the play to life. It includes 30 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. Lesson 1: Writing Elizabethan context quizzes Lesson 2: Shakespearean language Lesson 3: The main characters Lesson 4: Acting out the play Lesson 5: Plot and key lines Lesson 6: The prologue and sonnets Lesson 7: Masculinity in A1S1 Lesson 8: Romeo’s masculinity in A1S1 Lesson 9: Our first impressions of Mercutio in A1S4 Lesson 10: Staging A1S5 Lesson 11: Courtly love in A2S2 Lesson 12: Friar Lawrence’s advice in A2S3 Lesson 13: Review of Acts 1-2 Lesson 14: Character discussion and debate Lesson 15: The death of Mercutio in A1S1 Lesson 16: Who is to blame for Mercutio’s death? Lesson 17: Conflict in A3S1 Lesson 18: Juliet’s growing independence in A3S2 Lesson 19: Impressions of Lord Capulet in A3S5 Lesson 20: Act 3 Review Lesson 21: Juliet’s equivocation in A4S1 Lesson 22: Soliloquys in A4S3 Lesson 23: Staging A4S3 Lesson 24: Juliet fakes her death in A4S5 Lesson 25: The role of the Apothecary in A5S1 Lesson 25: Staging A5S3 Lesson 26: The End Lesson 27: The Trial of Friar Lawrence Lesson 28: How Juliet develops as a character Lesson 29: Plan your Juliet assessment Lesson 30: Write your Juliet assessment

Everything you need to teach Coraline at KS3. This 16 lesson unit has been designed as a read through the text, with a focus on evaluating a statement, and includes an assessment on how Gaiman creates tension. It is fully resourced with extracts, quizzes, assessments and worksheets. Lesson 1: Gothic Horror Lesson 2: C1 Setting the scene Lesson 3: C2 Foreshadowing Lesson 4: C3 Alternative realities Lesson 5: C4 How Gaiman creates characters Lesson 6: C5 Evaluating Coraline Lesson 7: C6 What is bravery? Lesson 8:C7 Interpreting clues Lesson 9: C8 The children in the mirror Lesson 10: C9 How Gaiman creates mystery Lesson 11: C10 Horror and Mystery Lesson 12: C11 The Final Battle Lesson 13: C12-13 Evaluating the Ending Lesson 14: Planning the assessment Lesson 15: Writing the assessment Lesson 16: The Film

Everything you need to revise Jane Eyre at KS5. This unit includes 8 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 World Classics edition. Lesson 1: Oppression Lesson 2: Essay Writing Lesson 3: Religion Lesson 4: Integrating context Lesson 5: Integrating critics Lesson 6: Love Lesson 7: Freedom Lesson 8: Essay feedback

This unit works really well with a Year 7 or Year 8 group. They get really excited about the characters, especially The Artful Dodger! The unit consists of 17 lessons covering the whole of the play. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, newspaper articles, character descriptions, extracts and diary entries. The page numbers refer to the Heinemann Edition by Nigel Bryant. Lesson 1: Oliver’s feelings Lesson 2: The workhouse Lesson 3: Mr Bumble Lesson 4: Oliver’s diary Lesson 5: Apprenticeships Lesson 6: Crime and Punishment Lesson 7: Dodger and Fagin Lesson 8: Writing a newspaper article Lesson 9: Mr Brownlow Lesson 10: Creating settings Lesson 11: Designing Fagin’s hideout Lesson 12: Solving the mystery Lesson 13: Nancy Lesson 14: The End Lesson 15: Acting out the play Lesson 16: Writing your assessment Lesson 17: Assessment feedback

Make public speaking fun and interactive! Help your students conquer their fear of standing up by getting them to explore subjects they love, and are desperate to tell the world about! This unit of work would suit Grade 7 or Grade 8. There are 10 lessons covering a variety of speeches and rhetorical devices, as well as a final activity for students to write their own inspirational speech. It is fully resourced with ppts, contextual information to illuminate understanding, extracts and activities to promote positive body language. This is perfect for early Speaking and Listening preparation. Lesson 1: persuasive devices Lesson 2: debating Lesson 3: Emma Watson’s speech at the UN Lesson 4: George Bush’s defense of America after 9/11 Lesson 5: using body language and voice Lesson 6: your future ambitions Lesson 7: how to spend money on your school Lesson 8: analyzing persuasive speeches in movies Lesson 9: planning a speech Lesson 10: writing and performing a speech to go to Mars

This unit contains everything you need to teach Streetcar at KS5. It includes 22 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Each lesson targets a scene in the play, a theme or a character. I have used it forthe last 5 years to teach top students who have gone on to achieve A* grades and study English Literature at Oxford and Cambridge. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Modern Classics edition. This scheme of work has been designed for the AQA A level course. It looks at areas like: Lesson 1: Naturalist and Expressionist theatre Lesson 2: Context research on the deep south, the civil war, post WW2 immigration, 1940s New Orleans, The Southern Gothic and Tennessee Williams’ family Lesson 3: Context presentations Lesson 4: Impressions of Blanche Lesson 5: Intertextuality with Ulalume Lesson 6: The significance of Belle Reve Lesson 7: Williams’ use of staging Lesson 8: The Poker Game and Sonnet 43 Lesson 9: Blanche and The Southern Belle Lesson 10: The allure of aggressive men Lesson 11: Comparing Blanche and Stella Lesson 12: The Southern Gent and Shep Huntleigh Lesson 13: Violence in Streetcar Lesson 14: Essay writing Lesson 15: Fantasy and self-deception Lesson 16: Elia Kazan’s influence Lesson 17: Is Stan a victim or a villain? Lesson 18: The relationship between Blanche and Mitch Lesson 19: Essay marking Lesson 20: Sherman’s march through Georgia Lesson 21: Blanche’s lament for the South Lesson 22: Themes and critics

This unit contains everything you need to teach the Love and Relationships anthology and will save you hours of preparation! It is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 23 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, examplar essays, past papers, introduction examples, 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 which poems to compare on which themes when they sit their GCSE English Literature. Lesson 1: An introduction to poetry Lesson 2: Poetic techniques Lesson 3: Scansion: rhythm, rhyme and meter Lesson 4: When We Two Parted by Lord Byron Lesson 5:Love’s Philosophy by Percy Shelly Lesson 6: Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning Lesson 7: Sonnet 29 by Elizabeth Browning Lesson 8: Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy Lesson 9: Letters from Yorkshire by Maura Dooley Lesson 10: Quote quiz Lesson 11: The Farmer’s Bride by Charlotte Mew Lesson 12: Comparing Farmer’s Bride with Porphyria’s Lover Lesson 13: Walking Away by Cecil Day-Lewis Lesson 14: Eden Rock by Charles Causley Lesson 15: Comparing Walking Away and Eden Rock Lesson 16: Follower by Seamus Heaney Lesson 17: Mother any distance by Simon Armitage Lesson 18: Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy Lesson 19: Comparing Before You Were Mine and Walking Away Lesson 20: Winter Swans by Owen Sheers Lesson 21: Singh Song! by Daljit Nagra Lesson 22: Climbing My Grandfather by Andrew Waterhouse Lesson 23: Which poems compare well

Are you teaching Myths, Legends, Fables and Fairy Tales? This unit will help you teach folktales and traditional tales, and it will save you hours of preparation! This unit of work includes 10 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar answers, quizzes and the classical stories. The unit includes: Lesson 1: The Norse World Lesson 2: Analysing settings Lesson 3: Asgard Lesson 4: Thor, Loki and Odin Lesson 5: Comparing Thors Lesson 6: Loki’s children Lesson 7: Hel Lesson 8: Thor and The Frost Giants Lesson 9: Ragnarok

This unit of work is designed as a pathway through the text Wild Boy at KS3. The unit contains 21 lessons and looks at areas such as plot structure, character relationships, aspects of a detective novel, the author’s use of pathetic fallacy and more. It is fully resourced with an extract assessment, descriptive language worksheets, plot quizzes, contextual information and assessment writing frames. Page numbers refer to the Walker Books edition. Lesson 1: The Prologue Lesson 2: The Circus: setting the scene Lesson 3: Fairground characters Lesson 4: Clarissa Everett Lesson 5: The author’s use of animal imagery Lesson 6: Creating mystery Lesson 7: Character foils: Clarissa and Wild Boy Lesson 8: Escape through the sewers Lesson 9: Designing a WANTED poster Lesson 10: Use of pathetic fallacy Lesson 11: Analysing the murder scene Lesson 12: Discovering the hidden room Lesson 13: A Victorian Workhouse Lesson 14: The Church Lesson 15: How the writer builds tension Lesson 16: The Machine Lesson 17: Circular Structure Lesson 18: The Suspects Lesson 19: The Finale Lesson 20: Planning your assessment Lesson 21: Writing your assessment

This Unit of Work has been designed as a way through the novel ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. It contains 19 lessons and is designed to exploit areas like descriptive writing, writing a summary, analyzing characters, constructing the plot, the format of a letter, how writers build tension and designing a film storyboard. It also contains two assessment opportunities on Stanley Yelnats and the significance of the title. The page numbers refer to the Bloomsbury edition. Lesson 1: An introduction to Holes Lesson 2: Chapters 1-3: Camp Green Lake Lesson 3: Chapters 4-6: Impressions of Stanley Yelnats Lesson 4: Chapters 7-9: Use of flashback in literature Lesson 5: Creating a factfile Lesson 6: Survival guide poster and plot quiz Lesson 7: Chapters 10-12: Writing a letter home Lesson 8: Chapters 13-15: The Warden Lesson 9: Chapters 16-18: Kate Barlow’s lipstick Lesson 10: Chapters 19-21: Building tension Lesson 11: Chapters 22-24: Using flashbacks Lesson 12: Chapters 25-28: Kissin’ Kate Barlow Lesson 13: Chapters 29-30: Using pathetic fallacy Lesson 14: Chapters 31-33: Zero’s escape Lesson 15: Chapters 34-36: Comparing Stanley and Zero Lesson 16: Chapters 37-39: Climbing Big Thumb Lesson 17: Chapters 40-43: Formulating an escape plan Lesson 18: Chapters 44- 47: Buried treasure Lesson 19: Chapters 48-50: The End

Do you need your students to have an overview of English Literature canon? From Beowulf to The Bard? This unit of work is dedicated to the progress of language from Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare and The Romantics to modern day speakers like Muhammad Ali and Malala Jusef . This unit works well with mid to high ability KS3 students, and could serve as a basic introduction to language change. It is fully resourced with extracts, gap fills, cartoon strips, timeline sorts, games and drag and drop activities. Lesson 1: Timeline of English Literature Lesson 2: The origins of English Lesson 3: English pronunciation Lesson 4: The Romantics Lesson 5-7: Beowulf Lesson 8: The Magna Carta Lesson 9: The Wife of Bath by Chaucer Lesson 10: Write your own Canterbury Tale Lesson 11: Shakespearean Language Lesson 12: The Witches in Macbeth Lesson 13: The Great Fire of London Lesson 14: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Lesson 15: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Lesson 16: JFK speeches Lesson 17: Muhammad Ali speeches Lesson 18: I am Malala Lesson 19: Emma Watson’s speech on feminism

This unit contains everything you need to teach War Poetry at KS3. It gives a balanced view of patriotic poems that glorify war (Brooke and Pope) with more realistic poems from the front line (Sassoon and Owen). This unit of work is focused on preparing students for a final poetry assessment, whilst fostering a love of poetry. It includes 17 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, original redrafts and opportunities for online research. Lesson 1: Context reading Lesson 2: Poet online research Lesson 3: Rhythm and rhyme in poetry Lesson 4: Poetic techniques Lesson 5: Techniques review Lesson 6: Write your own war poem Lesson 7: Anthem for Doomed Youth Lesson 8: The Charge of the Light Brigade Lesson 9: Base Details Lesson 10: A Remembrance Tale Lesson 11: Dulce et Decorum Est Lesson 12: The Hero Lesson 13: Who’s for the game? Lesson 14: The Soldier Lesson 15: Explosure Lesson 16: Assessment Preparation Lesson 17: Write your assessment

Everything you need to teach Science Fiction at KS3. This unit of work includes 14 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, quizzes, stories and a descriptive assessment . It is geared towards boys, with extracts from Ray Bradbury, Mars missions and The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This is useful as an early introduction to the skills needed for English Language GCSE Paper 1. Lesson 1: Introduction to Science Fiction Lesson 2: The rise of Artificial Intelligence Lesson 3-4: A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Lesson 5: Colonising Mars Lesson 6: Write a Mars Speech Lesson 7: All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Lesson 8: Designing a Science Fiction Trailer Lesson 9: The Time Machine by HG Wells Lesson 10: Virus and future pandemics Lesson 11: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Lesson 12: The Veldt by Ray Bradbury Lesson 13: Writing a Doctor Who script for TV Lesson 14: Describing an alien planet from Star Wars

Everything you need to revise Streetcar at KS5. This unit includes 12 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 Penguin Modern Classics edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: The American South Lesson 2: Tragedy as a genre Lesson 3: Structure of the scenes Lesson 4: Style and idiolect Lesson 5: betrayal and desire Lesson 6: social class Lesson 7: Stella Lesson 8: men and women Lesson 9: Stella and Stan Lesson 10: Steve and Eunice Lesson 11: Belle Reve Lesson 12: Gone With The Wind

A unit of work dedicated to poetry that explores the natural world. It includes 19 lessons with activities to help students comment on the effect of language techniques, comparison and contextual research opportunities on the British poets. It is fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes, support notes, essay frames and creative writing opportunities. The lessons cover a range of subjects such as poetic techniques, rhythm and rhyme in conjunction with with poems by: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lord Tennyson, William Blake and many more. Lesson 1: Poetic techniques Lesson 2: Poetic techniques review Lesson 3: How poets use rhythm Lesson 4: The Eagle by Tennyson Lesson 5: The Jaguar by Ted Hughes Lesson 6: The Tyger by William Blake Lesson 7: The Hyena by Edwin Morgan Lesson 8: View of a Pig by Ted Hughes Lesson 9: Sonnet by John Clare Lesson 10: Spring by Hopkins Lesson 11: Daffodils by William Wordsworth Lesson 12: Inversnaid by Hopkins Lesson 13: Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare Lesson 14: Seamus Heaney research Lesson 15: Death of a Naturalist by Heaney Lesson 16: Blackberry Picking by Heaney Lesson 17: Planning your assessment Lesson 18: Writing your assessment Lesson 19: Assessment feedback

This unit contains everything you need to teach Owen Sheer’s Pink Mist at IB level. It includes 22 lessons and worksheets to help guide the students through the text, investigating Sheer’s use of Bristol as a setting, context, dramatic techniques and the use of several narrative viewpoints. It also includes non fiction work on the British Army Recruitment Campaign “This is Confidence”, which serves well as a comparative body of work for their Individual Oral. The page numbers refer to the Faber and Faber Edition. Lesson 1: Introduction to the IB Lesson 2: Pink Mist Research Lesson 3: Army Recruitment Adverts Lesson 4: Mametz Wood Lesson 5: After Before Lesson 6: After Before Revision Lesson 7: Had’s Story Lesson 8: Remains Lesson 9: Taff’s Story Lesson 10: Pink Mist Analysis Lesson 11: Arthur’s Story Lesson 12: Home to Roost Lesson 13: Chapter Presentations Lesson 14: Review Lesson 15: Banksy Lesson 16: Past Paper and Exemplar Lesson 17: Ronn Cobb Cartoons Lesson 18: Army Poster Lesson 19: Adverts Presentation Lesson 20: This is Confidence Lesson 21: Violence Article Lesson 22: Cartoon and UN Leaflet

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

This unit has been designed for teaching the ‘Mean Time’ option for the AQA poetry section C for A-level English Language and Literature. It has 20 lessons and covers every poem in the anthology. It is fully resourced with past papers, exemplar answers, poetic technique quizzes, mark schemes and notes on the poems. Lesson 1: An introduction to poetry Lesson 2: Rhyme, rhythm and meter Lesson 3: An introduction to Carol Ann Duffy Lesson 4: Context reading and research Lesson 5: Context quiz Lesson 6: Captain of the 1964… Lesson 7: Nostalgia Lesson 8: Before You Were Mine Lesson 9: Beachcomber Lesson 10: First Love Lesson 11: Valentine Lesson 12: Planning an essay Lesson 13: The Biographer Lesson 14: Litany Lesson 15: Stafford Afternoons Lesson 16: The Cliche Kid Lesson 17: Small Female Skull Lesson 18: Never Go Back Lesson 19: Close Lesson 20: Mean Time

This scheme of work contains everything you need to teach Descriptive Writing at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 1 for English language. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson ppts, exemplar essays, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, fiction extracts and opportunities to exploit online research. It focuses on tense changes, structure, linking paragraphs, grammar and different approaches to tacking the question. Lesson 1: Using ‘On The Road’ to describe a desert Lesson 2: How to create characters with depth Lesson 3: Describing a beach with sophisticated language Lesson 4: Describing place in ‘Lord of the Rings’ Lesson 5: Describing a funfair with a focus on structure Lesson 6: Writing ‘An Ode to Christmas’ Lesson 7: Changing Narration to Description Lesson 8: Sustain, develop and contrast your paragraphs Lesson 9: Focus on grammar Lesson 10: Using metaphors to describe a school canteen Lesson 11: Describing a playground with a focus on language Lesson 12: Describing an old person with originality Lesson 13: How to choose a question Lesson 14: Describing a mansion with flashbacks Lesson 15: Describing Paris through ‘Perfume’ Lesson 16: Describing a market with ‘Game of Thrones’ Lesson 17: Vocabulary Challenge Lesson 18: Focus on punctuation