A powerpoint to support teaching of AQA's A Level Literature B specification for chapter 2 of 'The Great Gatsby'. Many opportunities to link ideas to quotations and offers students the chance to make their own notes, or work together, depending on your preferred teaching style. Links to main themes and ideas as well as providing links to the context. Can lead to an essay question linked to Myrtle Wilson and/or unhappy marriages.

A lesson powerpoint for use with GCSE groups to establish what makes a narrative opening effective by looking for authorial methods at play using the opening of 'A Monster Calls' by Patrick Ness. (You will need to get a copy of the opening but this is available through Google Books). Once pupils have explored the effective methods, they need to understand the impact these have on a reader and then you can use the extract to link back to Q2 (lang) or Q3 (structure) depending on the needs of individual pupils.

A PDF document which I created to support my students in writing responses to the language and structure questions (2 and 3) for paper 1. Has a shot of the mark scheme, things to look for and scaffolded sentence starters. Written by a current Head of English.

An introductory powerpoint outlining the context to 'Macbeth'. Suitable to use as an opening to GCSE study of 'Macbeth'.

Selection of structurally and linguistically interesting lines from literature. Used with a GCSE group to get them considering what makes the lines linguistically and structurally interesting. Cut them out, give them one each and then have them ask questions of the lines and feedback to partners about the different features they find. Great way in to analysing language and structure.

An exemplar response to the 'Homework has no value' question 5 on the specimen paper 2. A useful resource to take pupils through how the article format should appear and the types of language features that would be expected. Useful to walk and talk through using the mark scheme where pupils can annotate and pull out features.

This is a 24 page revision workbook which takes pupils through the power and conflict cluster of poems from the AQA GCSE English Literature specification. The workbook deals with all of the poems apart from ‘Tissue’. The other 14 poems are printed in the workbook with questions which deal with the different AOs. There is space for pupils to select the quotations which they feel will help them to best analyse the poems in terms of language, form and structure. Within the workbook there are also 5 knowledge tests - there are spaces for answers within the workbook and the questions are at the end of the pack.I wrote this workbook to be worked through as an in-class series of revision lessons for a lower ability year 11 group, but will also be using it as an independent revision aid for my higher ability class. Resource is written for use with current classes and I am a current Head of English in a fully comprehensive secondary.

This is my version of the best guess mock for AQA English Literature Paper 2 2018. There is an ‘An Inspector Calls’ question (choice of two) which has been ‘guessed’ by looking at what has come up previously and through legacy spec along with a best guess question (two again as I couldn’t decide!) for the Power and Conflict cluster of poems. There is also an unseen poetry question also attached which uses ‘The Mower’ by Philip Larkin.

Four practice questions that students can use as part of their revision for the AQA 9-1 Power and Conflict Anthology Cluster question for English Literature Paper 2.

This package of resources includes four practice questions for the singular unseen poem task in section C of English Literature for AQA GCSE. The poems included are ‘In The Orchard After Midnight’, ‘Your Dad Did What?’, ‘In Oak Terrace’ and ‘Names’. The sheets include the poem, question, boxes for planning to write about language, form and structural ideas, have a space for a SOP (Statement of Purpose - which is a response to the poem where pupils outline their initial thoughts in response to the question. There is also an image of the level 6 mark scheme criteria from AQA. I have included both word documents and PDF copies so that should you want to use the template to produce more, you can. The comparative poem practice is on ‘The Pros and Cons’ by Sophie Hannah and ‘The Trick’ by Imtiaz Dharker.

An eight page document which includes 4 practice questions and copies of the poems alongside planning grids which ask students to add their SOP (statement in relation to the question), and space to plan ‘Big Picture Idea’ responses to the questions with space to add quotations which exemplify the points. This was designed to be printed as two-to-a-page sheets so that the poem sits alongside the question. Questions offer preparation for ‘Poppies’, ‘Exposure’, ‘London’ and ‘The Emigree’. I have included both a word document and a PDF, which is fully formatted, should you wish to adapt and amend in an editable version.

This is a short revision booklet that I created for my year 11 set 9 (it could be used with higher ability pupils too) which takes them through basic revision for ‘An Inspector Calls’, ‘Macbeth’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’. I intend to walk the pupils through this resource and go through the activities and ideas with them in our Easter revision session although it may be useful for independent revision preparation as we enter the final stages of revision. I teach the AQA English Literature specification and have used the specimen 3 question for ‘AIC’ in this pack. Hopefully it may be useful to you and your students!

A revision booklet for preparation for the English Literature (AQA) exam with the ‘Macbeth’ question on paper 1. The booklet takes pupils through some of the key ideas and principles with some practice questions and planning too.

This is a 12 lesson SOW for ‘Macbeth’ which incudes 39 recources including full lesson powerpoints (that span at least one lesson each), handouts of the key scenes referenced in the lessons, along with worksheets, practice questions and model answers with success criteria and mark schemes. I have used this SOW myself with a range of classes as it can be differentiated up and down. I am currently using it with my set year 10, but have used in with set 1 and 5 previously. I hope you find this helpful and it saves you precious time!

This is a 42 slide long powerpoint resource that includes signposts for teaching the novella ‘A Christmas Carol’ with questions and prompts at different points. There are knowledge recall questions, with answers, attached which act as starters for lessons. These cover elements of the text in chronological order and also begin to interleave as the presentation goes on. The questions cover key ideas, vocabulary, terminology, themes and quotations.

A four lesson series on letter writing which includes activities on the powerpoints alongside some handy worksheets to help students to understand why letters are written, how to write successful letters and, finally, to write their own letters.