Series of lessons exploring the poem ‘Let No One Steal Your Dreams’. Includes comprehension questions, explorative response, model answer and creative writing task. Has been planned for students to work through independently at home.

Lesson in which students plan to either incriminate or defend Lady Macbeth for her part in King Duncan’s murder. Discussion points and framework provided within lesson.

Lesson around Shelley’s creation in chapter five of the 19th Century novel. Includes an introduction to features of Gothic writing based on prior knowledge. Leads on to reading a short extract from the chapter, then looking at the language used. Also includes a creative writing task from a different perspective the climax of the creation of Frankenstein’s creature. Could be used or tweaked as an introduction to AQA GCSE 19th Century fiction or Literature progress tests.

A KS3 reading task around an extract from 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'. Covers prior knowledge around the tradition of arranged marriage and allows some discussion. Uses a framework structure to closely analyse language used in the extract to explore different emotions.

Sounds daft but I've sometimes struggled to find all the poems in one document so this is a ready made version to print out as a booklet/one at a time for annotations.

Lesson around the poem including wrod association starter, labelling/illustrating task, agony aunt letter writing.

A breakdown of key questions and points to consider when making notes around poetry. Students could transform this into a revision map, booklet, poster or general revision guide. Can be used for any poem alongside pupils' prior knowledge or by transferring notes from revision guides.

Presentation to inform students about the content of the new AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2. Includes list of Conflict and Power poetry and a breakdown of questions in Section A, B and C. Could be used as introduction to new content and re-visited to look over how exam questions could be worded.

'Scattegories' game in which students are given a list of items/topics and they have to come up with that begin with the same letter of the alphabet. Random letter generator needed beforehand. Could be used as a starter/plenary and to generate some vocabulary ideas.

Creative task in which students design their own mask for a masquerade ball similar to those of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Act 1 Scene 5. Includes translated key moments of scene and mask template. Promotes discussion around connotation of colour and design before students design their own. All images from Google.

Three poems which could be discussed individually or in groups to fuel a response around unseen poetry. Uses the MRS TEAR structure (meaning, structure, reason followed by TEAR paragraphs) Technique Evidence Analysis Reader response Model answer included and all poems can be taken from PowerPoint for printing.

Lesson around each character’s acceptance (or denial) of their responsibility towards to death of Eva Smith. Includes clip around social responsibility. Students to discuss what they understand about each character’s involvement in groups then apply knowledge onto a table including textual evidence. Framework given and model answer to structure own response including textual evidence to the question - ‘How does Priestley present the theme of social responsibility in ‘An Inspector Calls’?’ Could be used alongside new AQA GCSE English Literature specification.

Planning lesson using Blue Planet images as stimulus. Full episode available on BBC iPlayer.

A discussion task of Tennyson’s poem and an annotating task of each verse in groups. Students then create a freeze frame for each verse and perform the play whilst teacher/other student reads the whole piece aloud. Times article (which inspired the poem) can be found at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1854/News/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade

Series of lessons exploring the poem ‘Cornish Limpet’. Includes comprehension questions, explorative response, model answer and creative writing task. Has been planned for students to work through independently at home.

Simple lesson to introduce students to creative writing using a 5 point plan/arc structure. Can be used alongside AQA English Language paper preparation. Works well with a clip as stimulus.

Students take on roles to perform their own version of The Jeremy Kyle show influenced by the events in An Inspector Calls. Every family member is included with key information about them, Jeremy Goole is the host, and the other class members make up the audiences who are split into different social groups. The family members are to introduce themselves and explain their link to Eva, the audience members then pose questions to each family member. Jeremy Goole (this could be the teacher) controls proceedings, there is a framework to follow. Have fun deciding ‘who dunnit’…it can get quite exciting! Could be good to be used on an open evening/showcase as well as in class as an alternative to revising key characters.