A succinct poster resource detailing key characters, quotes, author’s intentions, context, plot, and themes.

Extensive, sophisticated notes on all key themes, quotes, context, and broad ideas about writing style and author’s choices. Includes university level ideas about gender, divided into over ten different aspects of women and masculinity. Also looks at identity, the Gothic genre, science, class, and many other themes and ideas.

Notes on Dracula, focusing on Gothic tropes and conventions, and how it fits or defies them. A clear table format is used, with quotes, examples, and analysis. Also mentions relevant context, and how it can be applied.

Includes a brilliant table of Gothic conventions, examples, quotes, and analysis. Also includes relevant context and how to apply it. Has a further section of contextual notes, divided by the French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, author’s life, etc. Critical interpretations, structure, and thematic notes also included.

Includes poetry and context; social and personal context, including women, religion, etc.

A lesson considering critical theories on monsters within The Gothic genre. 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.

Marked by an experienced examiner and secondary school teacher. A top band, Grade 9 essay on the question of: How does Shakespeare present masculinity in ‘Macbeth’? Full mark model to be used for revision, notes, or lesson examples. AQA and Edexcel suited, and written specifically for the AQA GCSE English Literature mark scheme. Key quotes, thesis statement, top tier context, and multiple supporting quotes are included.

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 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 is an option for debate, a second writing question template, and opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work. There is a choice of two questions: Starting with this extract, explore how Shakespeare presents guilt. (5.1) Starting with this extract, how is guilt and deception presented in the play? (3.1)

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.

Three starters are included, with enough content for 4-6 hours, so you can split the slides into around three different lessons. This lesson covers key context, an audience and reader’s expectations and reactions, writing a thesis statement, what makes a good vs grade 9 point, extensive analysis and questioning of key ideas, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, as well as a writing frame to support all students. A key extract, key vocabulary, terminology, and paragraph structuring is included, as is a model answer paragraph. Targets are included so students can mark and improve their own work. There is a focus on understanding chapter 3 included. Designed for Jekyll and Hyde as a GCSE text, and the slides include the AQA mark scheme for the relevant question, but this can be changed for different exam boards. A debate lesson is included for engagement, oracy skills, and developing ideas. Quotes include: The doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent reputable men, and all judges of good wine. “a large, well-made, smooth faced man of fifty, with something of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness” “The large handsome face of Dr Jekyll grew pale to the very lips and there came a blackness about his eyes.” “Man is not truly one but truly two” Works towards: “How is Jekyll presented throughout the novella?”

A full landscape sheet of key quotes, analysis notes, contextual facts, secondary supporting quotes, and grade 9 thoughtful, critical ideas. This could be used for revision, or given to students to help them write a practice essay on Juliet’s character.

Fully differentiated with essay practice included. 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 class conversations, and opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work. Quotes include: “fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.” “A DESERT PLACE. Thunder and lightening. Enter three witches” “When the battle’s lost and won” Works towards: Starting with this extract, explain how Shakespeare presents the Witches as mysterious and frightening.

This lesson covers key Jacobean context, an audience’s expectations, extensive analysis and questioning of the scene and possible extracts, key quotes with grade 9 analysis notes, 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 is an option for debate, a second writing question template, and opportunities for students to mark and improve their own work. Quote analysis provided for: Hell is murky […] Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Suitable for many questions, including: How is Lady Macbeth’s madness presented? How does Shakespeare present gender? To what extent is Lady Macbeth presented as powerful throughout the play? Explore the theme of madness and guilt in Macbeth.

Check-lists of things to look for when analysing poetry, as well as lists of language types (colloquial, hypothetical, varying registers, etc), and the names for different types of meter. Also includes a glossary of poetic terms, and notes on different types of poems, such as sonnets, lyrics, ballads, etc. University level advice and techniques, but explained in an easy-to-understand way.

An explanation and definition of the sublime, including potential sources to look out for. Includes key examples from the Gothic text, with page numbers, and a full analysis of each quote.

Sophisticated notes on all the key themes, such as family, childhood, class, women, etc. Includes critical opinions and ideas, as well as analysis of key ideas in Dickens’ writing style, tropes, and intentions. Includes all essential quotes, with in depth analysis.

Includes university-level ideas about the author, explained in easy-to-understand language and formats. Includes context, sophisticated ideas about the mood and tone of his writing style, and Grade 9 analysis of the way he writes. Also includes notes on The Prelude, comparing it to other poems, as well. Discusses important themes in great detail, with quotes and analysis. Finishes with a table of comparison to Coleridge - a poet he is often considered alongside.

Comprehensive notes on A Doll’s House. Includes key quotes, as well as personal and social contexts. Also includes critical interpretations, notes on themes, structure, the relationship, and character.

Sophisticated analysis of important themes, such as masculinity, society, women, and identity.

An exemplar essay on a key theme in Hamlet.