A comprehensive overview of the four models of Elaine Showalter’s ‘Gynocriticism’. Includes: comprehensive details on each of the four models of sexual difference; links to themes in The Handmaid’s Tale, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Feminine Gospels; an essay title and sample opening paragraph. Fantastic resource to develop AO5 and prepare students to critically analyse and examine texts.

Introduction to literary criticism, with prompt questions to encourage pupils to link these to the AQA Spec A texts - Othello, Gatsby, Handmaid, Streetcar, Feminine Gospels, etc. Includes: 3 revision tasks, check-in points, links to AOs, and strengths/weaknesses of each theory. Great as introduction to criticism (AO5) and, later, as revision. Please see other uploads for a wider range of AO5 resources, once your pupils have grasped the basics.

Great revision for Paper 1 texts - Love through the Ages, Gatsby, and Othello. Includes: overview of types of love (eros, etc), links to texts, comparison task, comparative writing structure, and famous quotes which can be used for AO5.

Revision of Tragedy as a genre, linked to AQA English Lit/ Spec A/ Paper 1 but can also be used for GCSE Macbeth. Includes: genre conventions, critic comments, and links to exam questions and examiner feedback. Ends with independent task linking ideas to exam style questions. Great as intro to genre and revision of in Y13.

Great resource to introduce/revise the genre of modernism for A-Level English Literature. Includes overview of genre, critics comments, and prompts to develop critical readings of core texts. Ends with an independent task where pupils apply their learning to exam style questions in style of AQA Spec A/ Paper 2.

Use for: AQA English Lit/ Spec A/ Paper 2/ Unseen Prose Linked to pre-release extract: White Teeth by Zadie Smith Great resource that guides pupils through the extract and links to AO5 to stretch and challenge. Includes intro WAGOLL and free bonus lesson to how the theme in the extract can be linked to two studied texts - Streetcar and Handmaid.

A great resource to give to pupils at the beginning of independent prose study. I have these laminated as a classroom resource. Great prompt for pupils who struggle to do independent research.

For: AQA English Lit / Spec A/ Paper 2/ Unseen Prose Lesson linked to pre-release extract: Unseen extract 4: Revolutionary Road Includes 4 exploratory tasks, one exam question, a intro exemplar, and the essay planning prompts.

Fully comprehensive NEA introduction for Spec A. Includes task overview, exemplar essay titles, 10 text suggestions, and planning and draft tasks. Great resource for pupils to come back to as a support guide.

AQA English Literature, Spec A - course overview for beginners

Pupil friendly resource explaining what each Assessment Objective for AQA English Lit, Spec A entails.