This lesson covers key content for the poem, highlighted key quotes with guided notes that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared ideas, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. Quotes include: “Half sunk a shattered visage lies.” “sneer of cold command” “'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair” Works towards: How does Shelley present the power of humans in Ozymandias? (This lesson is intended to be the first in a sequence so introduces students to writing on one poem before they begin writing comparatively)

This lesson covers key extracts, sumamry of the character, comparisons to Lady Macbeth, extensive analysis and questioning of the scene and possible extracts, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, critical theorists, as well as a mock question for a writing task. A possible plan is included with three clear points and quotes Quotes include: “the poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.” ‘Poor birds” “why then, alas, Do I put up that womanly defence, To say I have done no harm?” Works towards: Starting with this extract, explain how Shakespeare presents Lady Macduff

This lesson covers key extracts, extensive analysis and questioning of the scene and possible extracts, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, critical theorists, as well as a mock question for a writing task. Quotes include: Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep To be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus.–Our fears in Banquo Stick deep The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?– What, will these hands ne’er be clean? Works towards: Starting with this extract, how is fear presented in the play? or How are Macbeth’s fears presented throughout the play?

This lesson covers key extracts, extensive analysis and questioning of the scene and possible extracts, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, 5 slides of various critical theorists and relevant quotes surrounding gender, thoughtful extensive analysis on gender expectations and context, as well as a writing frame to support all students. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are two model answers and opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work. Quotes include: “Look like th’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under ’t.” “Out, damned spot; out, I say […] Hell is murky.” “who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” Works towards: Starting with this extract, explore how Shakespeare presents guilt.

This lesson covers key Jacobean context, an audience and reader’s expectations, extensive analysis and questioning of the scene and possible extracts, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, critical theorists and relevant quotes, as well as a writing question to prepare students for essay responses. Quotes included: “dark night strangles the travelling lamp” “A falcon tow’ring in her pride of place, was a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d” “darkness does the face of Earth entomb” “‘Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that’s done.” Working towards: Starting with this extract, examine how Shakespeare presents the natural order

Macbeth GCSE. This lesson covers a summary of his character, possible extracts with prompt questions for student thought or discussion, critical theorists and relevant quotes surrounding Kingship, a quote recall task, as well as a writing frame to support all students. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work. Writing task: Starting with this speech, explore how Shakespeare presents the theme of Kingship in Macbeth.

This lesson covers key content for the poem, carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. Quotes include: “well-used books, the back of the Koran” “Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines” “paper that lets the light shine through” Works towards: How does Dharker explore the fragility of human life in this poem? Compare her approach to that of another poet.

This lesson covers key content for the poem, three carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. A summary of the exam paper is included, so students can prepare to see the real thing. Quotes include: There once was a country… I left it as a child But my memory of it is sunlight-clear for it seems I never saw it in that November The city “may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants” but “the worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view” which is “the bright, filled paperweight” Works towards: Compare how identity is presented in 'The Emigree’ and one other poem.

This lesson covers key content for the poem, highlighted key quotes with guided notes that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared ideas, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. Quotes include: ““a huge peak, black and huge, / As if with voluntary power instinct, / Upreared its head.” “growing still in stature the grim shape / Towered up between me and the stars” "like a living thing, / Strode after me.” “Small circles glittering idly in the moon, / Until they melted all into one track / Of sparkling light.” Works towards: How is nature presented in 'The Prelude’? or Compare how nature is presented in 'The Prelude’ and one other poem.

This lesson covers key content for the poem, highlighted key quotes as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. Quotes include: “This wizened earth has never troubled us” “leaves and branches Can raise a tragic chorus” “You might think that the sea is company, Exploding comfortably” "“spits like a tame cat Turned savage.” Works towards: How is nature presented in ‘Storm on the Island’? and then Compare how nature is presented in 'The Prelude’ and one other poem.

This lesson covers key content for the poem, three carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. Quotes include: “Well myself and somebody else and somebody else” “His blood-shadow stays on the street” “probably armed, possibly not” “One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body” “his bloody life in my bloody hands.” “he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out, pain itself“ Works towards: How does Simon Armitage present the effects of war in Remains and one other poem ?

This lesson covers key content for the poem, three carefuly chosen quotes for students to independently analyse as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. This lesson works well as the first in a sequence, so I have also laid out the exam structure and total list of poems students will study. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. Quotes include: “I met a traveller from an antique land” “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone” “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies” “frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command” “y name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Works towards: How does Shelley present the power of humans in Ozymandias?

This lesson covers key content for the poem, carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. Quotes include: “Looking, as if she were alive.” “gave commands” “all smiles stopped” “Her looks went everywhere” Works towards: How is the abuse of power presented in My Last Duchess and one other poem?

This lesson covers key content for the poem, three carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. Quotes include: “Blind me to my own identity.” “Dem tell me bout de dish run away with de spoon but dem never tell me bout Nanny de maroon” “But now I checking out me own history I carving out me identity” Works towards: How do the writers in London and one other poem present identity

This lesson covers key content for the poem, three carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them as well as prepared notes, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. Quotes include: “A samurai sword” “Huge flag waved” “Little fishing boats” “a shaven head full of powerful incantations” Works towards: Compare how the poets convey conflicting emotions in the poem ‘The Emigree’ and one other poem

This lesson covers key content for the poem, four carefuly chosen quotes with steps that students can use to easily analyse them, extensive analysis and exploration of context, example comparative points to another poem from the anthology, as well as a writing frame to support all students and make the comparison paragraphs easy work. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work through target codes. Quotes include: “his bloody life in my bloody hands.” “hearing bullets smacking the belly out of the air” “he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out, pain itself, the image of agony” “He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm” Works towards: Compare the ways in which poets present ideas about war in Bayonet Charge and Remains. Made for Poetry and COnflict Anthology, AQA GCSE curriculum.

A Grade 9 lesson on Key Gothic Themes in The Bloody Chamber, for A Level English. Includes key themes, critical quotes and analysis, and how to link this to not only TBC but also other Gothic texts, for context marks. Key quotes are highlighted from The Bloody Chamber, and linked to their wider patterns in the text. Made for The Bloody Chamber A Level OCR spec, but suitable for any work on the book.

A Grade 9 context lesson, covering everything required for the OCR A Level English mark scheme, to help students reach top marks in an easy to understand, simple format. This lesson covers key Gothic context throughout the centuries, using direct quotes from critical theorists and a modern, simplified explanation. Made for The Bloody Chamber A Level OCR spec, but suitable for any work on the book.

This lesson includes Essay Plans for all key characters, with prepared quotes and clear points. Students can use these to prepare for any character question that may come up, revising and remembering their analysis for each quote. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as are opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work. Working towards: How is Mrs Birling presented throughout the play?

This lesson covers key context, an audience and reader’s expectations and reactions, writing a thesis statement, extensive analysis and questioning of key ideas, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, as well as a writing frame to support all students. Key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as is an option for debate, a second writing question template, and opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work. Quotes include: “EDNA, the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table” “Edna’ll answer it.” “All right, Edna. Show him in here. Give us some more light.” Works towards: How does Priestley present class in An Inspector Calls?