This was put together for the Edexcel spec but would work for other specs also. It is looking at the theme of doubles across the two gothic texts, Dracula and Dorian Gray.

This is a comparative essay plan I put together for the texts of Dracula and Dorian Gray looking at the theme of power. It was for the Edexcel spec but would work for other specs also.

Support your students preparing for the Edexcel spec comparing Dracula and Dorian Gray — exploring how both writers present gothic elements in their texts. This has paragraph planning sheets on the following and includes quotations, analysis and context prompts. Settings: portrait/mirror/poisonous book/ crucifix/ animals/ Windows: Faustian bargain Violence: Secrets: Influence: mesmeric/psychic in its suggested power.

This presentation was produced for an Edexcel class and includes key ideas for an essay plan including quotations and critics and is available as either a pdf or a powerpoint. The ideas within would also suit other specifications.

This includes all the materials needed to teach Romeo and Juliet to Key Stage 3. It also includes GCSE style essay resources, character studies and close textual analysis.

A series of A Level lessons on Wilde’s ‘Dorian Gray’ including the quotations and analysis from the text, covering such themes as Influence/gothic/Art and Aesthetics/doubles, dopplegangers and splitting/hereditry/flowers, colour and decadence/ context/women and gender. Some of these themes may be in these first two chapters or may be in subsequent chapters (also uploaded) or you may purchase all together as a bundle.

Two detailed essay plans on ‘Othello’. These have been put together to aid the teaching of AQA’s spec A English Literature course ‘Love Through the Ages’ but would be suitable for any A level course or to support more able students at GCSE. The pdfs include the essay titles and the passage with suggested ideas on both the passage and elsewhere in the play.

Everything you need to teach the ‘war’ poems from the GCSE Eduqas poetry anthology. 77 slides, include lessons on all of the following: Armitage, Sheers, Owen, Brooke, Hardy. Slides include close analysis of each poem, plus context and essays plans and structures to follow. I also have other resources on the other poems in the anthology and a bundle covering a full term’s work (with over 250 slides)

This is a pack of material I put together for an Ofsted lesson which received an outstanding/1. The objective is to develop the students' ability to both provide an overview and to zoom in on the detail. The structure of the lesson is provided as well as all the materials. Particularly helpful is an essay grid to help students word their responses which I have found invaluable for other texts.

A presentation which covers the theme of the past and how Williams presents it in A Streetcar Named Desire, covering the main ideas of: The past is significant to personal identity. The past is traumatic and detrimental The past is symbolised through music Some slides have just the relevant quotations for the students to reflect and plan around with other ‘teacher’ slides padded out with ideas related to these quotations.

This is a detailed presentation with close analysis of both Prayer Before Birth and La Belle, with an essay plan comparing the two poems. This is for the Pearson Edexcel iGCSE poetry anthology question.

A detailed plan with quotations, ideas, and context for a study of how Priestley presents society in An Inspector Calls.

This is a brilliant book covering lots of thoughtful issues around friendship, grief and it is also utterly magical and enchanting. This unit of work contains over 170 slides covering comprehension skills, reading implicit meaning, punctuation, report writing, descriptive writing, speech writing to name a few. It was used for year 8 students but could be used for top primary as well as early secondary. Lots of consolidated work here, fun and enough to keep students busy for at least a term.

Two powerpoints to guide students in how to hit the AOs

This is a detailed analysis of the poem with alternate readings. There are also slides with notes on the analysis of techniques.

Two essay titles with all the appropriate quotations gathered together for students to analyse: Why do you think it is important that Golding portrays the natural world as a character with malevolent characteristics? How does Golding establish a contrast between the two boys in the first five pages?

Poetry often manages to engage our interest in issues and characters which we do not necessarily like or admire. How far would you support this remark? A detailed essay plan on ‘The Wife of Bath’ with quotations

An essay on Jack in Lord of the Flies. How does the character of Jack develop throughout the novel? In your answer you should refer to events in the novel and its social, cultural and historical context. The context is highlighted for students to see. Also a sheet with context is supplied

This test provides you with quotations from the text and invites students to make links to relevant contexts. A filled in version is supplied for the teacher.