This is a great starting lesson for students who are just about to start studying 'An Inspector Calls' it introduces all the context and the themes of the play. It also goes through the exam requirements for Edexcel. It also has video links to BBC Bitesize revision videos that help students to fill in the Themes and Context sheet attached. (Internet needed for the links) This helped my students get down the basics and start making links to the themes that run throughout the play.

With only two sample questions from the new spec for Edexcel literature exam on 'An Inspector Calls', I thought I would create a step-by-step guide of how to answer one of these questions. Most of my students find it hard to add context in, and now with a question focused on context the students were finding this difficult. This power point is great at showing the students where to start and how to plan for the question. All the answers come up in sections. There is even a hand written mind map to show the students how they could link all the ideas together. My class found this very useful and have now started to understand how to link theme, context and quotations all together for this question.

This mark sheet is a quick and easy way to mark students work for writing skills. It also encourages students to respond and could be used for DIRT.

This mark sheet is great for doing DIRT with your students on The Tempest. You can adapt it by changing the characters if necessary. It is a quick way of marking a baseline assessment. I usually print it on green paper so it stands out as marking in the exercise books.

This is a great lesson on the contextual and cultural links to the book Refugee Boy. It has a great little booklet that goes with the presentation that the students can work on throughout. It also includes selected pieces of information that can be stuck around the class for the students to pick the contexts that links and put it on the outlined hand. It worked really well with my Y8 class as it got them up and about finding out the relevant information and then moving onto using language techniques from Alem's point of view from the book.

This is like a mini project as you will probably need three lessons to complete the task and students presentation. This lesson starts by asking the students questions that they have to think about when watching the news clips about refugees (internet access needed) The next slide tells the students what their task is and shows them other charities that are available to refugees at the moment. The final slide gives students a success criteria which they need to follow. This lesson aims to show students what being a refugee is a like and how we as a country could help.

This lesson prepares students to analyse quotations comparing Coraine's two mothers from the book Coraline by Neil Gaiman. The analysis is done through the analogy of a house, as you look at the outside and explain the ideas generally, and then when you look in more detail inside the house you gain a further understanding of the language used by Neil Gaiman. There is a booklet resource that fits with the lesson to help students follow this ideas, as well as top tips.

Here is an AFOREST lesson that gets students to pick out the persuasive techniques they can see in an advert. It then goes onto analysing leaflets; for this I usually go and grab a handful of leaflets from the Tourist Information or a service station. Then you can use the middle part of the lesson and the work sheets to get students to identify and explain persuasive techniques used. This is a great lesson if your students are creating a leaflet or brochure for their assessment. It has always worked really well with Y7 and 8s.

This lesson will help students to identify AFOREST Techniques using Martin Luther King's speech and prior knowledge matching cards. As you can see above this pack includes a powerpoint lesson, MLK speech for the students to use, MLK speech annotated for the teacher, and AFOREST matching cards for the starter activity. This lesson has worked really well with my Y8s and 9s. It could also be used for Y7.

This lesson helps students to answer a question about Candy's loneliness and friendship with his dog. It contains a model answer and PEE structure help throughout. A quick and easy PEE lesson on Chapter 3.

In this collection of resources there are two powerpoint presentations that focus on speech writing. There is also a model speech that you can use as an example of good speech writing and structure. When teaching students how to write a speech, I found that it was important that they knew what I wanted, so created this speech on Queen Elizabeth I, as seen attached. This speech goes with Analysing a Speech as it tells students what to look for and then gets them to pick apart their own speeches, identifying what is good in their own. Writing a Speech could be used as a follow up lesson or a preparation lesson before they analyse, as it helps students build a speech. Extra details below: Writing a Speech About Your Contributions to the World is a lesson that helps students prepare a speech in which they take on the role of a famous person from history, and then defend their position in an overburdened hot air balloon. A speech, 'written by Queen Elisabeth I' is attached, that the teacher can use as an example of one of these speeches. Analysing A Speech is a lesson that helps the student first analyse Queen Elisabeth's speech, and then each other's speeches.

This lesson will introduce your students to the ideas behind the Gothic genre. Using extracts from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, as well as specially written pieces of text, this lesson will aid students in identifying Gothic themes, storylines, and writing techniques.

Literally what it says in the title here. This is to get those students who struggle with PEE writing in the correct layout first.

One slide that breaks down how to write a comparative paragraph for the GCSE comparing poem exam question.

Here are a few slides that will help students to understand the structure of a PEE paragraph and give them an example. Included: Model PEE paragraph, PEE sentence starter, and PEE questions.

Language technique cards and definitions for revision.

This power point is great for preparing your class to write an essay on The Tempest. The question that I have focused on is 'How does Shakespeare present Prospero and his relationship with one other character in the first act of ‘The Tempest’? Included are PEE questions, success criteria based on the new 9-1 scale, and a model paragraph on Prospero and Caliban. There are about three lessons in this one power point in order to prepare your students. This lesson goes really well with The Tempest Planning sheet (which can be used to plan their assessment after these lessons). '

An ideal planning sheet to give to students who need a little guidance to start with when planning and writing their assessment. It has an introduction and conclusion plan with sentence starters and questions focused on a question that compares Prospero and one other character in the play, in this case Caliban. It also has a guide for writing a PEE paragraph.

A nice little lesson to get your class thinking about how it feels to be alone. They should use the images and the movie clips to write down a range of adjectives. The students should then attempt to put their feelings of feeling alone into a descriptive paragraph.

Two worksheets that make up a mini booklet for Carol Ann Duffy's Valentine.