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

Everything you need to teach this fantastic novel! Ideally for Years 7-9, this unit has 20 lessons covering the whole of the text, focusing on writer’s use of language, evaluating a character statement and creative writing. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information on Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, chapter extracts and IWB activities. This is perfect for developing early English Literature essay skills. Page numbers are based on the 2004 Vintage edition. The lesson themes focus on: Lesson 1: Autism research Lesson 2: How to produce Chris’s style Lesson 3: Understanding emotions Lesson 4: Character profiles Lesson 5: Habits and rituals Lesson 6: The Monty Hall Problem Lesson 7: Splitting up Lesson 8: Chris’ mother Lesson 9: The letters Lesson 10: Running away research Lesson 11: Chris runs away Lesson 12: Eidetic memories Lesson 13: Interpreting dreams Lesson 14: Analysing Chris’ mother Lesson 15: Designing a front cover Lesson 16: Writing an extra chapter Lesson 17: Character profiles Lesson 18: Book reviews Lesson 19: Describing a train journey Lesson 20: Questions to the author There is also an opportunity for assessment on Chris’s dad with feedback and a marking sheet.

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 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

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

This unit contains everything you need to teach non-fiction writing (letters, speeches, articles, essays, reviews and leaflets) at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 1 for English language and teaches the students how to argue, advise and persuade. It includes 23 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson Powerpoints, exemplar answers, newspaper articles, leaflets, essays 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

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 dystopian Fiction at KS3 in an engaging and dynamic way. It includes 9 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, extracts, short stories, quizzes and assessment opportunities. This unit works well with a boy heavy group interested in texts like Brave New World, Hunger Games and War of the Worlds. There is an assessment opportunity at the end of the unit for the students to analyse an extract from Children of Men. This is supported with essay frames and exemplar answers. Lesson 1: Dystopias in Literature Lesson 2: Comparing dystopian worlds Lesson 3: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Lesson 4: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Colins Lesson 5: The Red Weed from War of the Worlds Lesson 6: 1984 by George Orwell Lesson 7: Assessment: Children of Men by PD James Lesson 8:Writing your assessment Lesson 9: Assessment feedback Lesson 10: Dystopia quiz

This unit of work is fantastic for introducing the crime genre and detective stories to KS3 students. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, activities to exploit drama, debates, creative writing opportunities and short stories. This works well with a boy heavy group, who get very excited when they use the clues to solve the crimes before the ending is given away! Lesson 1: An introduction to crime Lesson 2: How writers use narrative hooks Lesson 3: Crime Scene Investigation Lesson 4: Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens Lesson 5: Using Voice in Captain Murderer Lesson 6: Writing feedback Lesson 7: About His Person by Simon Armitage Lesson 8: Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl Lesson 9-11: The Darkness Out There by Penelope Lively Lesson 12: The Trial of Mrs Rutter Lesson 13: Perform and peer assess Lesson 14: The Red Room by HG Wells Lesson 15: Planning your own detective story Lesson 16: Writing your own detective story Lesson 17: Writing feedback and improvement Lesson 18: Who killed Vic Timberlake?

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 contains everything you need to teach Jane Eyre at KS5 and will save you hours of preparation! It includes 32 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Each lesson is designed to look at a different chapter and aspect of Jane Eyre. The page numbers refer to the World’s Classics edition with an introduction by Margaret Smith. Lesson 1: Applying context Lesson 2: Jane Eyre’s childhood Lesson 3: The significance of the red room Lesson 4: Chapter summaries Lesson 5: Jane’s education Lesson 6: Freedom Past Paper Lesson 7: Coming of Age Lesson 8: Helen Burns Lesson 9: Thornfield Lesson 10: Male and Female Lesson 11: Victorian Women Lesson 12: The significance of the paintings Lesson 13: Rochester and Jane Lesson 14: Gothic Romance Lesson 15: Ice and Fire Lesson 16: Mystery in Chapter 17 Lesson 17: Blanche Ingram Lesson 18: The Fortune Teller Lesson 19: Gateshead Lesson 20: The paintings Lesson 21: Pathetic fallacy Lesson 22: The Jane Eyre debate Lesson 23: Dreams and reality Lesson 24: Thornfield Lesson 25: Bertha Mason Lesson 26: Bertha Past Paper Lesson 27: The struggle for the self Lesson 28: The role of religion Lesson 29: The Rivers Lesson 30: Critical Readings Lesson 31: Return to Thornfield Lesson 32: The Ending

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

If you are teaching Frankenstein, this unit contains everything you need to allow students to connect a 19th century Romantic novel with the great issues of today, such as the environment, artificial intelligence and what makes us human. This unit has everything you need to teach Frankenstein at KS3. It contains 25 lessons that take you through the text using differentiated extracts. It is fully resourced with context readings, theme discussions, extract analysis, persuasive writing opportunities, online research on The Romantics, critical articles and opportunities to practice extract into essay writing. Please note this unit does not look at the whole text, it analyses key extracts from the novel. Lesson 1: an introduction to plot and context Lesson 2: Walton’s letters Lesson 3: C1 Victor and Elizabeth Lesson 4: C4 University Life Lesson 5: C5 The Creature Lesson 6: C6 Elizabeth’s letter Lesson 7: C7 Child killers Lesson 8: The Trial of Justine Lesson 9: C8 The Gothic and The Romantic Lesson 10: Romantic Research Lesson 11: C10 The Ice Field Lesson 12: C11 The Creature’s Tale Lesson 13: C15 The Importance of Appearances Lesson 14: C16 Revenge Lesson 15: C17 The Bride of Frankenstein Lesson 16: C19 The Orkney Islands Lesson 17: C20 The Dangers of Science Lesson 18: Who is the real monster? Lesson 19: C23 Elizabeth Lesson 20: C24 The End Lesson 21: Extract analysis on ‘Regret’ Lesson 22: Walton’s Letters Lesson 23: The Trial of Victor Frankenstein Lesson 24: End of unit quiz

This scheme of work is designed as a pathway through the play and an introduction to drama at KS3. It includes 12 lessons that are easy to follow and focus on aspects like staging, character development, creative writing, the history of the holocaust and more. Lesson 1: elements of a fable and context Lesson 2: narrative voice Lesson 3: descriptive techniques Lesson 4: vague language and inference Lesson 5: reading between the lines Lesson 6: character analysis of Pavel Lesson 7: comparing Bruno and Shmuel Lesson 8: writing analytical paragraphs Lesson 9: Comparing Lieutenant Kotler with Nazi Germany ideology Lesson 10: Discussing the message of the novel Lesson 11: Designing a book cover Lesson 12: Analysing Jackson’s use of staging

Do you want to teach a play that will demystify the language of love and relationships? This unit of work is fantastic for stretching high ability KS3 students. 18 lessons covering the whole of the play, focusing on playwright’s use of language, how the playwright uses structure, creative writing and the effect of staging. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, chapter extracts and IWB activities. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge School Shakespeare Edition. Lesson 1: Elizabethan context quizzes Lesson 2: Shakespearean language Lesson 3: the theatre Lesson 4: act out the play Lesson 5: the soldiers return in A1S1 Lesson 6: the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick in A1S1 Lesson 7: Don John in A1S3 Lesson 8: the masked ball in A2S1 Lesson 9: deception in A2S1 Lesson 10: focus on the villain in A2S2 Lesson 11: focus on Benedick in A2S3 Lesson 12: appearance and reality in A2S3 Lesson 13: review of Acts 1-2 Lesson 14: Beatrice is tricked in A3S1 Lesson 15: Claudio is tricked in A3S2 Lesson 16: the marriage in A4S1 Lesson 17: Beatrice and Benedick in A4S1 Lesson 18: Leanato and Antonio in A5S1 Lesson 19: the ending

A whole scheme of work dedicated to Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Excellent context work for supporting appreciation of Shakespeare using context. It includes an introduction to the Globe, life for men and women, Shakespeare’s family life, Machiavelli and a Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England. Fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes and creative writing opportunities. Lesson 1: Context Lesson 2: Library and online research Lesson 3:The Globe Lesson 4: The Plays Lesson 5: Shakespearean language Lesson 6: Mid term assessment Lesson 7: Designing a movie trailer Lesson 8: Tudor women Lesson 9: John Shakespeare Lesson 10: Designing a theatre Lesson 11: Staging A1S5 of Romeo and Juliet Lesson 12: Machiavelli Lesson 13: The Taming of the Shrew Lesson 14: The Witches in Macbeth Lesson 15: The Tempest Lesson 16: Love poems and sonnets Lesson 17: Origins of English Lesson 18: Elizabethan beliefs Lesson 19: Planning your assessment Lesson 20: Writing your assessment

This scheme of work is designed as a pathway through the play and an introduction to drama at KS3. It includes 16 lessons that are easy to follow and focus on aspects like staging, character development, creative writing, autism research and more. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama edition. Lesson 1: Autism research Lesson 2: Creating Chris’ voice Lesson 3: Metaphorical and literal Lesson 4: Siobhan as the narrator Lesson 5: The detective genre Lesson 6: Perceptions of Chris’ mother Lesson 7: Perceptions of Chris’ father Lesson 8: Stephen’s use of staging Lesson 9: Research on why children run away from home Lesson 10: Eidetic memories Lesson 11: Staging Chris’ journey to London Lesson 12: Judy and Roger Lesson 13: Creating coping strategies Lesson 14: The crime genre Lesson 15: Assessment on Siobhan

This Midsummer Night’s Dream unit is lots of fun and fantastic for stretching high ability KS3 students. It contains 18 lessons, focusing on the playwright’s use of language, how the playwright uses dramatic devices, creative writing and the effect of staging. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, extracts and IWB activities. The page numbers refer to the Cambridge School Shakespeare edition. The unit includes: Lesson 1: Elizabethan context Lesson 2: Online research Lesson 3: The Globe Lesson 4: The Characters Lesson 5: The language Lesson 6: Plot and Characters Lesson 7: Act out the play Lesson 8: Set design in A1S1 Lesson 9: Creating characters in A1S2 Lesson 10: Exploring fairies in A2S1 Lesson 11: Oberon and Titania in A2S1 Lesson 12: Persuasive language in A2S1 Lesson 13: Shakespeare’s language Lesson 14: Writing spells in A2S2 Lesson 15: Insults in A3S2 Lesson 16: Analysing character in A4S1 Lesson 17: Themes review at the end Lesson 18: Blockbuster revision

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

If your students find Shakespeare dull and inaccessible, this is the unit for you. The lessons are focused on staging a shipwreck, costume, props, bringing the play to life and contextually understanding Elizabethan views of slavery, love, revenge and violence. This scheme of work designed as a way into Shakespeare at KS3. It includes opportunities for online research and extract analysis from the most popular plays. It is fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes and creative writing lessons. It also works well with Roland Emmerich’s 2012 ‘Anonymous’ , as the plays studied match the plays performed in the film, allowing the students to see the words come to life on the stage. Lesson 1: Othello Lesson 2: Othello feedback Lesson 3: Romeo and Juliet Lesson 4: Agony Aunt writing for Juliet Lesson 5: Romeo and Juliet movie analysis Lesson 6: Anthony and Cleopatra Lesson 7: Sonnet 130 Lesson 8: Macbeth witches Lesson 9: Iago Lesson 10: Midsummer Night’s Dream Lesson 11: Midsummer Night’s Dream Lesson 12: Hamlet Lesson 13: Richard III Lesson 14: The Tempest Lesson 15: Caliban Lesson 16: Staging Lesson 17: Henry V Lesson 18: King Lear plot Lesson 19: King Lear A1S1 Lesson 20: Midsummer Night’s Epilogue