Starter with a review of the two poems, moves into an exploration of the mark scheme and before exploring what is necessary to achieve a 6+. Tailored to the AQA mark scheme. Moves into comparing the poems using a venn diagram. Ends in sentence starters to help compare the poems. Also included: a model answer for the question.

This is a 4 lesson set of work which explores - in detail - the life and times of Charles Dickens, including Charles Dickens life himself, an exploration of the workhouses, childhood, schools and Victorian London. The final lesson then helps students to design a soundscape in which they compare the sound of modern London to Victorian London - beginning to think about using comparison skills for the GCSE style questions.

A booklet consisting of 20 literacy tasks covering tasks on: Proofreading Homophones Spelling Connectives Syllables Vocabulary Capital Letters Punctuation Tenses Words Types Plurals Writing Skills The tasks can be printed separately or printed as a booklet and used in lesson time or as homework tasks.

Two lessons introducing to William Blake - specifically tailored to the poem London and Blake’s thoughts about it, but…this could be used as a general introduction as well. Includes a inference grid for students to infer information about Blake and lots of contextual information about his life.

This resource includes 8 lessons on introducing Edgar Allan Poe, gothic conventions and several lessons on The Tale Heart. It also includes a lesson on the context of Edgar Allan Poe and information about him as a writer. The lesson includes a focus on symbolism, tension and detailed quote analysis as well as lessons on writing in the style of Edgar Allan Poe! If you’d like to taster this scheme before buying you can download the first lesson free here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/historical-background-context-edgar-allan-poe-lesson-complete-lesson-1-of-sow-12156984

A 5 lesson mini scheme which includes a focus on clear understanding of a difficult poem - The Raven. These lessons include a focus on symbolism, tension and inference skills. Resource has copy of the poem, the 5 lessons, a detailed timeline worksheet and pictures to be used with the narrative skills lesson.

This resource includes a full lesson on using high level punctuation - specifically semi colon and colons with the theme of dystopian writing based on an image. Starter includes the use of music and resources include the lesson plan as well as the learning mat which matches the lesson. This lesson does not require paper - simply the learning mat printed in A3.

This is a complete lesson on Hawk Roosting from the old conflict cluster AQA - this can be used to teach the poem in isolation or as an unseen. The resource includes a copy of the poem and the full lesson. The lesson includes: exploration of symbolism of hawks predictions context of the author deep independent analysis of key stanzas reminder of key language techniques, and help sheet to support students peer assessment

A detailed workpack on the Tell Tale Heart by Poe - this includes a copy of the story and tasks focused on gothic conventions as well as how tension is built within the story itself. It also includes a research task around Poe and comprehension tasks on the story itself. The booklet ends with a PEE activity around the atmosphere horror created.

This resource includes an introduction to William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It has 7 lessons including the opening of the play, act 1 scene 1 and act 1, scene 2, a lesson on the plot and characters of the play as well as contextual information and explorations of the characters of Prospero and Caliban. Complete lessons include resources and diffentiation.

2 lessons on exploring the poem London by William Blake. The lesson culminates in students writing an analysis paragraph about their impressions of London. There is also a focus on vocabulary used in the poem and students identifying language features in the poem to comment on. This poem links exceptionally well with my other resource on the context on of William Blake.

A series of 8 lessons focused on comprehension of an extract from Chapter 6 of Call of the Wild by Jack London. The lessons focus on exploring the life and times of Jack London, reading and exploring the extract from Chapter 6 and culminate in an exploration of tension in the extract before an extended answer to ‘how does Jack London create tension in this extract?’. Complete with peer extract and differentiation as well as including the extract.

This is a 5 mini lesson scheme on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat. It includes a focus on comprehension of the key events, as well as building vocabulary and exploring how tension is built through the story. This pack also includes a copy of the original story (not my copy) and a simplified, differentiation copy which I have created. There is also a reading assessment included in the pack, focused on Paper 1 reading and analysis skills. This lesson can be used in conjunction with the lessons on ‘introduction to gothic conventions’ and ‘context of Edgar Allan Poe’.

This is a stand alone lesson introduction gothic conventions - this could easily be stretched over several lessons and finishes with the opportunity to use the knowledge of gothic conventions to write the opening to a gothic story, focusing on description.

This is an 8 lesson on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. These lessons include: speaking, writing and reading opportunities a monologue assessment. peer assessment a dramatic performance character exploration comprehension links to youtube videos for tasks. There is also worksheets which match the lessons.

This is a full lesson on Blessing by Imitaz Dhaker originally from the Poems from Different Cultures cluster. This poem can be used in isolation to teach poetry skills, or as an unseen poem or can be used as part of a bundle for a poetry unit on Different Cultures. This lesson includes: context on Dhaker exploration of the meaning of a blessing extended language analysis peer assessment.

This resource included a full lesson on the poem, as well as a copy of the poem itself. This poem can be taught alone or as part of unseen.

These lessons includes 127 slides on chapters 1-35 of Holes. This includes: front cover and blurb tasks link to an audio book on youtube language techniques exploration impressions of camp green lake - analysis (PEE) paragraph timeline tasks reading and writing skills comprehension tasks exploration of narrative hooks exploration of genre exploration of themes exploration of characters designing a brochure for the camp (examples included) descriptive writing of the camp a mid-unit assessment

This is a complete lesson on the context and historical background of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing- this can be used for any of Poe’s tex and is a general lesson using a KWL grid on his life. For Tell Tale Heart lessons: www.tes.com/teaching-resource/introduction-to-edgar-allan-poe-and-the-tell-tale-heart-8-lessons-reading-and-writing-12156891