I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
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
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 contains everything you need to teach Lord of the Flies at KS4 and will save you hours of preparation time. It includes 24 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts and opportunities for online research. Page numbers refer to the Orange Faber and Faber edition with an introduction by Ian Gregor.
Lesson 1: An introduction to Lord of the Flies
Lesson 2: William Golding’s message
Lesson 3: Leadership
Lesson 4: The island as a symbol
Lesson 5: Jack as a dictator
Lesson 6: The frailty of society
Lesson 7: Civilization and the mask
Lesson 8: Roger as an enforcer
Lesson 9: Order and Chaos
Lesson 10: The significance of the beast
Lesson 11: Chapters review quiz
Lesson 12: Group behaviour
Lesson 13: Creative Writing
Lesson 14: Marking and improving your writing
Lesson 15: How and why Ralph changes
Lesson 16: The power struggle
Lesson 17: The beast and human nature
Lesson 18: The fall of society
Lesson 19: Symbolism
Lesson 20: The British Empire
Lesson 21: Savagery
Lesson 22: The importance of hunting
Lesson 23: The message of the novel
Lesson 24: How Golding builds tension
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
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
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
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
This unit contains everything you need to teach Midsummer Night’s Dream at KS4. It is focused on essay writing skills, analyzing extracts for English Literature and bringing the play to life. It includes over 25 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, 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.
Lesson 1: Context
Lesson 2: Online research
Lesson 3: The Globe
Lesson 4: Character research
Lesson 5: Language
Lesson 6: Plot and characters
Lesson 7: Act out the play
Lesson 8: A1S1 Theseus and Hippolyta
Lesson 9: A1S2 The Mechanicals
Lesson 10: A2S1 Puck
Lesson 11: A2S1 Oberon and Titania
Lesson 12: A2S1 Demetrius and Hermia
Lesson 13: Language
Lesson 14: A2S2 The love potion
Lesson 15: A3S1 The rehearsal
Lesson 16: A3S1 Bottom and Titania
Lesson 17: A3S2 Oberon and Puck
Lesson 18: A3S2 The lovers
Lesson 19: A3S2 Young love
Lesson 20: A4S1 Bottom
Lesson 21: A4S1 Explanations
Lesson 22: A5S1 The play
Lesson 23 A5S1 The end
Lesson 24: Blockbusters review game
Lesson 25: Revision cards
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
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
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 support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3. Each unit of work is specialised to target a specific area of the KS3 curriculum such as writing to persuade, advise and argue. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Creating characters with depth
Lesson 2: Writing to argue
Lesson 3: Writing a film review
Lesson 4: Writing a letter of complaint
Lesson 5: How to structure a story
Lesson 6: Writing to advise
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 unit has been created to support students’ spelling and grammar at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills needed to be successful at KS3. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Using capital letters
Lesson 2: Writing a summary
Lesson 3: Improving your vocabulary
Lesson 4: Similes and metaphors
Lesson 5: Using persuasive devices
Lesson 6: Writing to argue