Originally written for iGCSE students but could be used and adapted for other syllabus and age range. This lesson is an introduction to narrative writing and walks students through the different between narrative and description, exploring the conventions through examples, actives and Disney's short 'The Paperman'.

Originally written for iGCSE students but could be used and adapted for other syllabus and age range. This lesson is an introduction to descriptive writing and takes students through building a description, using the senses and other literary resources and building this up in stages. Very interactive; including carousel activities, music stations, sweet tasting and extracts from popular fiction for example.

Quizzes, worksheets, quotes and revision resources for iGCSE but could easily be adapted for other syllabuses.

Full lesson PPT and resources for 'Praise Song for My Mother'. Includes group activities, discussion questions, interactive classroom tasks and analysis questions. Originally planned for Y9/10 unseen poetry but could easily be adapted.

Full lesson with PPT and resources, including discussion questions, video links, analysis prompts and information. Originally written for Y9/10 students as part of a series of unseen poetry lessons, bur could easily be adapted.

Full lesson with PPT and resources for Tomas Transtromer's 'Further In' (Transtromer writes poems often about nature). Includes analysis questions, discussion and talk prompts, analysis breakdown worksheets and opportunities for written reflection. Originally written for Y9/10 students as part of a series of unseen poetry lessons, bur could easily be adapted.

Activities and full lesson outline for 'The Thought Fox'. The lesson was planned originally for Y9/10 students for unseen poetry, but could easily be adapted. Includes full powerpoint, poem, worksheets and resources.

Example essays, questions, worksheetsand quizzes for revision of Susan Hill's 'I'm the King of the Castle'. Originally planned for iGCSE Cambridge, but easily adaptable.

A lesson originally created for Cambridge A-level studnets but could easily be adapted for other key stages and syllabuses. The lesson explores Act 1 Scene 1 in great detail, considering questions to demonstrate understanding, close language analysis of religious imagery, drama group work exploring hierarchy and power dynamics and and introduction to image clusters within the play.

This lesson was designed for the Cambridge iGCSE specification but could easily be adapted for other stages and syllabuses. The lesson is an introduction to Willer Cather's 'My Antonia' and focuses on the context of the novel, including Westward Expansion, the Frontier, the American Dream and immigration. The lesson is interactive in discussion with several sound and video clips and also includes differentiation.

Planned for Cambridge A-level students but could easily be adapted. This lesson focuses on chapter 9 and the themes of violence and cruelty. It includes video links and questions as well as a starter asking for a review of key characters.

Planned for Cambridge A-level students but could easily be adapted. This lesson focuses on chapter 8 as well as taking in an in-depth look at representations of the female gothic. The lesson uses interactive learning, discussion, video clips, questions and extract annotation for consolidation.

Planned for Cambridge A-level students but could easily be adapted. This lesson focuses on chapter 7 and different forms of love. It includes links to several music videos about love and asks students to consider different forms. It then extends this with questions to ask students to consider Cathy and Heathcliff's love and how this manifests itself in the novel.

Planned for Cambridge A-level students but could easily be adapted. This lesson focuses on a revisit to chapter 6 and asks students to consolidate their understanding of setting, paying particular attention to the novel's portrayal of ThrushCross Grange. The lesson includes close language analysis of chapter 6, questions for discussion/response and a starter based around the connotations of names.

Planned for Cambridge A-level students but could easily be adapted. This lesson focuses on chapter 6 and the key concept of the sublime. The lesson uses several video clips to help illustrate the importance of nature and setting on the text and ends by asking students to consolidate their learning into an essay-styled response.

Planned for Cambridge A-level students but could easily be adapted. This lesson focuses on the female voice in Victorian Literature, paying particular focus to Nelly's narrative and the first representations of Cathy Several clips are included to help students grasp key ideas.

This lesson introduces the key context of the play including religion and belief, women, class an status and the monarchy and the Great Chain of Being. Students are introduced to the moral dilemma in a modern context and then encouraged to think about predictions based on the title and images. Students are then asked to work in groups and given extremely detailed context sheets together with websites and questions for research. Groups are responsible for feeding back their research to the rest of the group. Finally, students are given some key themes to discuss how these points might be relevant to the play. Questions, clips and links are all included. Whilst the lesson was originally planned for the A2 Cambridge Syllabus, it could easily be adapted for other key stages and syllabuses.

Planned for Cambridge A-level students but could easily be adapted. This lesson focuses on the opening chapters of the novel, paying particular attention to narrative structure and points of view (using creative writing and other extracts from novels as a way into this discussion). The lesson then moves onto Lockwood's impression of himself as romantic hero and ends with reading of chapter 4. A clip of Indiana Jones is included to demonstrate conventions of the heroic.

Planned for Cambridge A-level students but could easily be adapted. This lesson focuses on chapter 3 of the novel and the gothic elements, as well as focusing on the introduction of Cathy and some close language analysis of the window extract. Includes clip from Kate Bush.

Planned for Cambridge A-level students but could easily be adapted. This lesson focuses around chapter 2 of the novel and Lockwood as a narrator. The lesson includes close language analysis, the role and function of narrators in prose and seminar style questioning.