This resource includes group work questions that focus on the females within the novella: Belle and Fan. The resource also includes an extension task, which involves an empathetic response based on the questions just answered

Looking at an old exam style task based around motorcycling, this presentation includes lots of images and peer assessment to ensure that boys are engaged and to ensure that they are meeting success criteria when writing letters.

The start of a modelled response to demonstrate to pupils how to write about mood and atmosphere. The model is aimed at B/C borderline students.

This presentation helped me to secure an 'outstanding' judgement in my lesson observation. The presentation is set up to allow students to explore juxtaposition and pathetic fallacy in an extract. The entire lesson focuses on AO2 - Language, Structure and Form. The lesson is set up for group work activities.

A structured grid for students to begin to understand the relationships between characters in Romeo and Juliet.

This planning sheet can be used to plan any form of writing. There is a section on there for making inferences too, i.e. if students are responding to something that they have read. This really allows students to understand the importance of planning and really helped my lower ability learners in terms of giving them a really structured way of doing so.

Response looks at all 3 ghosts and the Bob

Family Fortunes style game to make students consider the content of their descriptive writing This activity worked really well with boys in particular

This task builds learners knowledge of Linda and Mrs Johnstone The task is to create a dialogue between Mrs J and Linda - imagining that it takes place after the end of the play

A simple but effective resource that allows students to consider snapshots for zoomed out images The second page gives tips for more able students and how to cleverly craft their writing

5 quotes per poem. Students loved this sorting activity for matching key quotes to each title.

This sheet allows students to take charge of their own learning by researching and finding the definitions of key poetic forms

A great visual resource for the classroom wall

Back to basics

A visual representation of the poem along with key quotations

Here is an article linked to the modern world The female is murdered as a result of her husband's jealousy There are some deeper thinking questions to go with it You could explore this article in many ways Links nicely with My Last Duchess

I used these key quotes with students before giving them the poem They had to use them as evidence for what they think might have happened to the Duke's Duchess

A worksheet for students to consider the difference between thoughts and feelings - visual aid

Introduce your students to descriptive writing with this visual aid There are a range of images to be printed out I stuck the images on A3 paper - one image per sheet The students, in groups, then had to have a go at adding adjectives, verbs, similes etc to describe the image ****No book marking involved!!!

Modelled teacher response at a very basic level. Improvement it written below, showing pupils how ideas can be developed and how sentence variety can impact