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 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.

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 unit is a great way to teach language, structure and evaluation skills at KS4. It is focused on AQA English Language GCSE Paper 1. It prepares students for Q2 writer’s use of language, Q3 writer’s use of structure, Q4 statement evaluation and Q5 descriptive writing. It includes 26 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and opportunities for online research. Page numbers refer to the Faber and Faber edition. It is best used with a high ability set aiming for G6 to G9. Lesson 1: An introduction to Lord of the Flies Lesson 2: William Golding and rules Lesson 3: How Golding describes characters Lesson 4: Describing the island Lesson 5: Jack evaluation question Lesson 6: Creative Writing Lesson 7: How Golding uses language to describe Jack Lesson 8: Language to describe the mask Lesson 9: Mood and atmosphere on the hunt Lesson 10: Order and chaos Lesson 11: Evaluation of the boys Lesson 12-13: Group behaviour Lesson 14: The Beast Lesson 15: Describing a person Lesson 16: Exploring the island Lesson 17: Creative writing Lesson 18: Evaluating the impact of the beast Lesson 19: Human nature Lesson 20: Jack’s tribe Lesson 21: Golding’s use pathetic fallacy Lesson 22: Symbolism Lesson 23: Writer’s use of structure Lesson 24: Evaluating the death of Piggy Lesson 25: The message of the novel Lesson 26: Building tension and expectation

This unit contains everything you need to teach Mean Time at High School. It includes 17 lessons covering ‘Mean Time’ and allows ample opportunity to compare poems and themes. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Each lesson covers one of the poems, or gives the students the chance to reflect and build on previous learning by linking themes and style. Lesson 1: an introduction to poetry Lesson 2: rhyme, rhythm and meter Lesson 3: an introduction to Duffy Lesson 4: context 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: Essay planning 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 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

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

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 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.

Everything you need to revise Lord of the Flies at KS4. This unit includes 17 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA GCSE, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Jack Lesson 2: Ralph Lesson 3: The Beast Lesson 4: Essay planning Lesson 5: Symbols Lesson 6: Simon Lesson 7: Essay question planning Lesson 8: Exam overview Lesson 9: The fire Lesson 10: The extract question Lesson 11: Assemblies Lesson 12: Jack extract Lesson 13: Group presentations Lesson 14: Piggy Lesson 15: Revision cards Lesson 16: Final revision Lesson 17: Character overview

This unit contains everything you need to teach Paper 1 reading at IGCSE. This unit of work teaches the students how to answer questions on the writer’s thoughts and feelings, describing events, perspective and writer’s use of language and structure . It includes 16 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, newspaper articles, speeches, autobiographies, travel writing and two past papers for practice. Lesson 1: Introduction to non-fiction reading Lesson 2: Perspective Lesson 3: Thoughts and feelings Lesson 4: Perspective Lesson 5: Gervase Finn Lesson 6: Language Lesson 7: Structure Lesson 8: Thoughts and feelings Lesson 9: Language and structure Lesson 10: Perspective Lesson 11: Boomers vs Millennials Lesson 12: Analysing JFK’s speech Lesson 13: Leonardo DiCaprio’s UN Speech Lesson 14: Muhammad Ali’s speech Lesson 15: Malala Yousafzai’s speech Lesson 16: Emma Watson’s speech on equality

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 Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Shakespearean language. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as the writer’s use of language and structure, an introduction to famous plays and extract analysis. Each unit of work comes with 7 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: How to embed context Lesson 2: Attitudes in Taming of the Shrew Lesson 3: Analysing staging on Othello Lesson 4: Form, rhythm and rhyme in Sonnet 130 Lesson 5: Rhythm in Macbeth Lesson 6: Forming a hypothesis in Hamlet Lesson 7: Analysing persuasive devices in Henry V

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as writer’s use of language and structure, how to open a story, narrative tenses and scanning for detail. It contains a workbook for students to work thought alongside the lesson PowerPoints. Lesson 1: Unique voice in Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens Lesson 2: Creative writing using a unique voice Lesson 3: How to write an effective opening Lesson 4: Verb changes in Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Lesson 5: Skimming and Scanning Lesson 6: Show don’t tell Lesson 7: How to create characters Lesson 8: How to start your descriptive sentences

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Victorian Literature. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as writer’s use of language and structure, extract analysis and embedding context. There is a workbook for the students to use alongside the lesson PowerPoints. Lesson 1: How to create characters with depth Lesson 2: Narrative Voice in Sherlock Holmes Lesson 3: Planning and writing a detective story Lesson 4: How the writer creates mood and atmosphere in Hard Times Lesson 5: Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times Lesson 6: Victorian context webquest Lesson 7: The Ghosts in Christmas Carol

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to help students who need extra support at KS3 with their grammar. It gives an overview of the skills needed to access the curriculum. Each lesson is specialised to target a specific area such as grammar, language or context. This unit works well with small support groups and comes with an easy-to-follow workbook. Lesson 1: Using apostrophes Lesson 2: Being ambitious with vocabulary Lesson 3: Describing an alien planet Lesson 4: Using your imagination Lesson 5: Narrative hooks Lesson 6: Punctuation Lesson 7: Holiday writing

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 Literacy Support unit has been created to support students who need extra help at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as creating characters and structuring stories. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens Lesson 2: Creating an original voice Lesson 3: How writers set the scene Lesson 4: Zooming in and out in descriptive writing Lesson 5: Using metaphor and similes Lesson 6: Creating original characters

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3. This unit of work is specialised to target travel articles and diaries, with both reading and writing skills, and works well with small support groups.

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support with poetry at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes needed, such as writer’s use of language and voice, poetic techniques and rhythm. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: Poetic techniques Lesson 2: Synonyms in Autumn by John Keats Lesson 3: Rhythm in Sonny’s Lettah by Linton Kwesi Johnson Lesson 4: Voice in Hitcher by Simon Armitage Lesson 5: Style in Kid by Simon Armitage Lesson 6: Originality in Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah