A fully resourced PowerPoint that guides students through the exploration of ‘Medusa’ by Carol Ann Duffy - activities also include a comparison task with the poem ‘Mrs. Midas’, also by Carol Ann Duffy. Tried and tested in the classroom with lots of success.

Made these starters for my Year 11 to start recalling previous knowledge from An Inspector Calls and the Power and Conflict poetry cluster. There's 6 in total, easy template to use to create your own.

I designed this 'quote quest' activity as a regular starter for my Year 11s to help them learn and consolidate key quotes from the poetry cluster. Worked really well. Easy template to add more quotes of your own.

A booklet of character profile pages for all of the characters from An Inspector Calls using images from the recent BBC adaptation which students (in my experience) really enjoy and appreciate seeing them linked in resources. Can be used as a revision activity for students to complete, or as originally, used to record first impressions from Act One. Prints lovely as a booklet.

A series of 6 fully resourced lessons exploring the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Uses images from the Patrick Stewart version and links to YouTube clips. Lots of guidance and scaffolding/sentence starters to help students analyse and explore the difference in language used between the two characters. Extracts provided on worksheets with original Shakespeare next to a modern translation to help students access the language. Some more challenging activities too, including reading an extract from a literary article. Students have always enjoyed and engaged well with this sequence of lessons at both KS3 and KS4.

A lesson focussing on an extract from Stave Two, whilst introducing students to metacognition (thinking about thinking) includes a student review to see which strategies they liked best and to evaluate whether or not it improved their written responses. I did this lesson with Year 10 and the reviews were extremely positive.

I designed this as an introduction lesson for my Year 10s before telling them anything about An Inspector Calls. They each got a set of little character scenario cards with accompanying activities (to record on the A3 sheet) and as an extra challenge, were asked to try and match the quote to the character/scenario. The students loved it and it led to some great class discussions. A perfect way to introduce the characters, theme and plot of the play!

I've created a set of 20 posters displaying key quotes from 'Romeo and Juliet' featuring corresponding images from the Luhrmann film to help my students learn and revise! Each quote depicts who it's said by and when in the play it's said. Created on Publisher (A3 template) so easy to add your own quotes if needed.