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 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

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 includes everything you need to teach Mockingbird at KS4 and it will save you hours of preparation time! It is focused on essay writing skills for English Literature, but covers themes such as prejudice, segregation, bravery and innocence along the way. It includes 25 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, assessment questions, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts, context cards, theme cards and opportunities for online research. Page numbers refer to the Orange Faber and Faber edition with an introduction by Ian Gregor. Lesson 1: Context research Lesson 2: An introduction to Maycomb County and Alabama Lesson 3: A Southern Education Lesson 4: Miss Caroline extract practice Lesson 5: The relationship between Atticus and Scout Lesson 6: Atticus and Bravery Lesson 7: Miss Maudie Atkinson Lesson 8: How Harper Lee builds tension Lesson 9: Growing Up Lesson 10: Creative Writing and The Fire Lesson 11: The rabid dog Lesson 12: Ms Dubose and Southern Belles Lesson 13: Segregation Lesson 14: Aunt Alexandra Lesson 15: Lynch Mobs and the KKK Lesson 16: The Trial Lesson 17: How Harper Lee creates mood and atmosphere Lesson 18: The Verdict Lesson 19: Character Foils: Bob and Atticus Lesson 20: The Missionary Ladies Lesson 21: Role Models Lesson 22: The attack on Scout and Jem Lesson 23: The Aftermath Lesson 24: The Ending Lesson 25: Chapter Revision Guides

This scheme of work is 10 lessons designed to test your students’ ability to plan and write creatively using a picture as a springboard for their imagination. It is most effective when used a few weeks before their exam. The focus is: Lesson 1: structuring paragraphs in a WW1 trench scene Lesson 2: using varied sentence structures in a train scene Lesson 3: noun-verb collocation in a forest scene Lesson 4: the effect of adjectives in an alien planet scene Lesson 5: paragraph focus in a scene from Private Peaceful Lesson 6: descriptive techniques in a castle scene Lesson 7: using tense changes in a stormy sea scene Lesson 8: individual word choice in a transport image Lesson 9: creating backstories from AI images Lesson 10: using a learning mat for a mountain scene

This unit of work has been designed to prepare A-level students for their AQA Paper 2 Unseen Prose exam. The students have to incorporate context into their answers, so the unit contains 13 lessons ranging from Victorian Literature to more modern, multi-cultural texts like White Teeth. Each lesson will take you about an hour to prepare their answer and a further hour to write an essay if you wish to do so. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoint lessons, exemplar essays, guidance on how to write introductions and conclusions, extracts, and examiner advice. The lessons include extracts from: The Heart of Darkness I am Charlotte Simmonds Brick Lane Digging to America White Teeth Gone with the Wind Catcher in the Rye Revolutionary Road Everything I Never Told You Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit I have used this unit with very high achieving A-level students who have gone on to study English Literature at Oxford and Cambridge, so it is definitely targeted towards the top end.

This unit contains everything you need to revise unseen poetry for your A level exam. This unit of work includes 8 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information and exemplar material. It covers poetry eras such as: Metaphysicals, Cavaliers, Renaissance, Tudor and more modern poems. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level course, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. The scheme of work includes: Lesson 1: Metaphysical revision of Donne, Marvell, Herbert and Crashaw Lesson 2: Comparing Cavalier and Metaphysical attitudes to love Lesson 3: How to approach an unseen poem Lesson 4: Romantic love in Victorian and modern poetry Lesson 5: Motherhood in modern poetry and WW2 Lesson 6: Romantic love in 3 modern poems Lesson 7: Loss in Tudor and Renaissance poetry Lesson 8: Analysing poems for the influence of context using Kahoot

This unit is a great introduction to poetry from English speaking countries around the world. It includes 21 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar essays, past papers, mark schemes, quizzes and opportunities for self-assessment. It is focused on poetry skills, as well as comparing themes between two poems. The final assessment asks the students to compare cultural divisions in Nothing’s Changed and Two Scavengers in a Truck. Lesson 1: Poetic techniques Lesson 2: Cultural context Lesson 3: Limbo by Edward Kamu Brathwaite Lesson 4: The Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel Lesson 5: Island Man by Grace Nichols Lesson 6: Comparing Limbo and Night of the Scorpion Lesson 7: Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker Lesson 8: Nothing’s Changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika Lesson 9: Two Scavengers in a Truck by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lesson 10: Comparing Nothing’s Changed and Two Scavengers Lesson 11: Assesment Feedback Lesson 12: Vietnam War context Lesson 13: What Were They Like? by Denise Levertov Lesson 14: Vultures by Chinua Achebe Lesson 15: Comparing Vultures and What Were They Like? Lesson 16: Mid term quiz Lesson 17: Search for my Tongue by Sujatta Bahat Lesson 18: Presents from my Aunts by Moniza Alvi Lesson 19: Comparing Presents and Search Lesson 20: Half Caste by John Agard Lesson 21: End of unit quiz

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. This unit includes everything you need to teach The Tempest at KS3. It includes 20 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and extract analysis. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. There is a final unit assessment on the relationship between Miranda and Prospero. Lesson 1: Elizabethan context Lesson 2: Accessing Shakespeare’s language Lesson 3: The plot Lesson 4: The characters Lesson 5: A1S1 shipwreck Lesson 6: Analyzing the relationship between Prospero and Miranda Lesson 7: Ariel and magic Lesson 8: Caliban and slavery Lesson 9: How Prospero and Miranda’s relationship changes Lesson 10: Alonso and betrayal Lesson 11: Gonzalo and loyalty Lesson 12: Miranda and Ferdinand Lesson 13: Designing a Tempest poster Lesson 14: Nature and nurture Lesson 15: Prospero’s plan Lesson 16: How the characters change Lesson 17: The epilogue Lesson 18: Assessment planning Lesson 19: Writing your assessment Lesson 20: Feedback and improve

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

If you are teaching Frankenstein, this unit contains everything you need to allow students to connect an 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 KS4. It contains over 25 lessons that take you through the text chapter by chapter. It is fully resourced with context readings, theme discussions, chapter analysis, persuasive writing opportunities, online research on The Romantics, example essays, critical articles and opportunities to practice extract into essay writing. The page numbers refer to the Penguin Classics edition. Lesson 1: an introduction to the themes of Frankenstein Lesson 2: context: grave robbers, Gothic horror and Mary Shelley Lesson 3: the Epistolary opening Lesson 4: Victor and Elizabeth as character foils Lesson 5: good and evil in Frankenstein Lesson 6: foreshadowing Lesson 7: the importance of setting Lesson 8: the creature comes to life! Lesson 9: extract analysis Lesson 10: the role of women in Frankenstein Lesson 11: the psychology of child killers Lesson 12: acting out Justine’s trial Lesson 13: the Gothic and the Romantic Lesson 14: Romantic poet research Lesson 15: Romanticism on the ice field Lesson 16: the importance of parenting Lesson 17: education and influences Lesson 18: serial killers Lesson 19: appearance vs reality Lesson 20: revenge Lesson 21: revolting monsters Lesson 22: comparing Victor and his creature Lesson 23: the dangers of science Lesson 24: who is the real monster? Lesson 25: the trial of Victor Frankenstein

Everything you need to teach Blood Brothers at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts and opportunities to exploit online research. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama Edition edited by Jim Mulligan.

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

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.

This scheme of work focuses on The Handmaid’s Tale at A-level. It contains 28 lessons that allow slow progression through the text, allowing opportunities for analysis and critical thinking. It is fully resourced and comes with worksheets, videos, notes, example essays and critical articles. It is particularly in depth for high achieving students, looking at post-modern concepts such as metafiction and the unreliable narrator. Each lesson focuses on different aspects of the text such as: why Gilead could come true the epigraphs identity feminist arguments the irony of Serena Joy class hierarchy rebellion oppression the role of the mother in society the female body use of colour imagery masculinity the role of religion

Everything you need to revise Unseen Poetry at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 12 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, IWB interactive resources using SMART Notebook, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and examiner advice. This unit is best if you have already taught the skills for Unseen Poetry and are revising just before the exam. Lesson 1: Analysing a Child’s Sleep by Carol Ann Duffy Lesson 2: Comparing A Child’s Sleep with The Night Feed by Evan Bolan Lesson 3: Analysing Rejection by Jenny Sullivan Lesson 4: Comparing Rejection with Years Ago by Elizabeth Jennings Lesson 5: Analysing Tramp by Rupert Loydell Lesson 6: Comparing Tramp with Decomposition by Zulfikar Ghose Lesson 7: Analysing I See You Dancing, Father Lesson 8: Comparing I See You Dancing with Coat Lesson 9: Analysing Woman Work by Maya Angelou Lesson 10: Comparing Woman Work with County Sligo by Gillian Clarke Lesson 11: Analysing Yew Tree Guest House by Phoebe Hesketh Lesson 12: Comparing Yew Tree with Goodwill Store by Ted Kooser

This unit of work has been designed to support students who are preparing for their AQA individual speaking and listening presentation. There are 12 lessons which take students through the brainstorming, structure, planning, writing and speaking stage. There is an emphasis on stress and intonation so students speak naturally, use sophisticated language and access the ‘distinction’ band. Lesson 1: An introduction to public speaking Lesson 2: How to grade a speech: pass, merit or distinction? Lesson 3: How to plan your speech Lesson 4: Online research Lesson 5: How to write an introduction Lesson 6: How to write the main body of the speech Lesson 7: Editing the main body of the speech Lesson 8: How to end with a BANG! Lesson 9: Using body language, stress and intonation Lesson 10: Using cue cards Lesson 11: Practising and giving peer to peer feedback Lesson 12: Delivering your speech to the class

Ideally for KS3 students, this unit of work has been designed to teach students the skills to analyse a variety of texts, and form an opinion on different topics that affect teenagers. There are 16 lessons which allow students to explore topics such as: perceptions of teenagers, graffiti, school shootings, anti social behaviour orders, gang violence, computer games and negative press coverage. It is fully resourced with ppts, articles, podcasts, storyboards and assessment opportunities. Lesson 1: Perceptions of youth culture Lesson 2: Is graffiti a form of art? Lesson 3: School shootings Lesson 4: anti social behaviour orders - do they work? Lesson 5: gang violence Lesson 6: the influence of computer games Lesson 7: fighting back through charity work Lesson 8: negative stereotypes in the press Lesson 9: YouTube challenge Lesson 10: writing a speech on knife or gun crime Lesson 11: Fallout Lesson 12: an open letter by Lennie James to stop the violence Lesson 13: Gang violence in The Outsiders Lesson 14: Designing an anti violence poster Lesson 15: Writing your commentary Lesson 16: Panorama video reward

This unit is designed to give Year 9 students an introduction to Charles Dickens and other Victorian Writers at KS3. It includes extracts from Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and more. This is perfect for introducing KS3 students to the skills they will need for their GCSE course and the context for Victorian Literature. The 14 lessons are fully resourced with extracts, contextual information, quizzes, gap fills and exemplar answers. Lesson 1: The plot of Dombey and Son Lesson 2: Analysing an extract Lesson 3: Formative assessment Lesson 4: Language to describe Victorian London Lesson 5: The Dining Hall in Oliver Twist Lesson 6: Victorian Women Lesson 7: Lowood in Jane Eyre Lesson 8: Miss Temple from Jane Eyre Lesson 9: Mr Creakle from David Copperfield Lesson 10: Describing characters Lesson 11: Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights Lesson 12: Comparing childhoods in Wuthering Heights and David Copperfield Lesson 13: Comparing teachers in Jane Eyre and David Copperfield Lesson 14: Assessment

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