A booklet that prepares students to explore metaphorical meanings in poems. Scaffolded for low ability students. Uses the poem ‘Wires’ by Larkin. Great for intervention.

Complete booklet style lesson and PowerPoint exploring the opening of 1984 by George Orwell. Model responses, scaffolded questions. Perfect for resit, tutoring, year 11 intervention etc.

Perfect for AQA paper 1 question 5 creative writing, or any creative writing exam question. Recaps need for planning and uses an extract from The Five People You Meet in Heaven to explore how structure can be used for effect. Uses drop, shift, zoom in, zoom out. Ends with a creative writing task. Enough for 2 hours+ Great for year 11, intervention, tutoring, resit etc.

A complete lesson worksheet and Powerpoint for analysing structure in the opening of Enduring Love. Perfect for year 11, tutoring, resit etc.

Includes PP and worksheet with questions, model responses, perfect for preparing students for paper 1 question 2. Great for year 11 tutoring, resit etc. Uses extract from The Kiterunner.

Used as a second lesson. Full booklet and Powerpoint.

Revision lesson and extracts for Dr Jekyll

Analysing the presentation of Blackpool by Bill Bryson and comparing it to Dickens description of Verona. Questions and scaffolding to support.

A 2 hour workshop designed for year 11 students as revision for paper 2 question 5. Full booklet and Powerpoint. Great for intervention, tutorials, resit, or a revision lesson. Focus is on young people respecting their elders. Uses real life examples as models.

Powerpoint for the scenes. Brief look at Benvolio and Mercutio's differing views on: love, life, friendship and women. Then activity in which students identify words that connote 'light' in Romeo's soliloquy. Provided a supporting worksheet in which they plot these references onto a graph depending on their 'brightness'- good for numeracy links.

Using Alex Quigley’s Closing the Reading Gap, this session aims to introduce staff to the idea of literacy as a whole school issue and the importance of reading across school.

2 lessons exploring gender through the concept of dramatic foils. Lady Macbeth vs Lady MacDuff Macbeth vs Macduff Really enjoyable lesson for teacher and students! Perfect for revision or post reading.

Full Powerpoint and booklet to support first lesson.

Booklet introducing paper 2 discourses to year 12/13- focus on accents, dialects etc.

A lesson in which students consider the importance of sentence structures within their writing using video clips from Planet Earth II. Complete with full lesson Powerpoint with differentiated learning objectives (3 levels). Worksheet with the speech David Attenborough says, without any punctuation in. Students to punctuate as they listen to and watch the show, considering the intended effect. This worked so well for my set 2 year 11 class and they thoroughly enjoyed the task!

A PP with accompanying booklet designed to walk students through the challenging paper 2 question 4. Uses a 19th century source and a 21st century source. Worked extremely well for the two years I’ve used. Perfect for a walking talking lesson, intervention or tutoring.

Two 55 minute lessons introducing students to key terminology and concepts within discourse analysis, using two transcripts from the Paris anthology. Lesson 1 focuses on Text 11: ‘Visiting Paris’, Mike and Sophia (transcript) and has some question prompts on the slides, followed by some independent tasks for students. Lesson 2 focuses on Text 32: ‘Eating in Paris’ and follows the same pattern: screenshots with question prompts, followed by a final slide of questions for students to consider.

A lesson that introduces the concept of grammar, morphology and syntax. The start of the lesson gets students to consider prescriptive vs descriptive language analysis, highlighting the importance of A Level focus being descriptive. Then students are introduced to the linguistic rank scale where each one is focused on in detail and with examples. This study is them applied to an advert for Clarins, where students analyse how the grammar and morphological choices impact on the reader, in relation to the form audience and purpose.

A fully resourced lesson comparing writers’ views on mental health. Uses a source from 1877 detailing the experiences of a patient in a mental asylum, in a letter to her family. The comparison source is a speech given by MP Ed Miliband in 2012 on mental health. By the end of the lesson, students will have answered paper 2 question 4. Resources include: Powerpoint All worksheets Also, complied into a work booklet too- this option is perfect for remote learning or intervention sessions where a computer is not available.

Lesson focused on Question 4 of the new AQA English language paper 2. Comparison of two articles that discuss the Hillsborough Disaster: The Sun (1989) and The Guardian (2016). Included: Powerpoint presentation, linked to AOs, with questions throughout; two articles; comparison grid for students to collect thoughts.