Powerpoint for a lesson to introduce students to a way to answer the unseen poetry question worth 24 marks for the new AQA (9-1) literature course which comes on paper 2. The lesson uses the AQA specimen question paper and the poem 'To a daughter leaving home'.

Three sheets (which you can enlarge to A3) to help students to revise the characters of Scrooge, The Ghosts and The Cratchits for GCSE English Literature Preparation. Allows them to track themes, add key quotations and understand why and how characters develop in certain ways.

This small group of resources includes a 14 slide PPT which takes pupils through the key ideas and assessment materials for the Great Expectations question on the new AQA English Literature 9-1 exam. There are also sample essay questions on themes included along with a sample character profile for the character of Pip which is linked to an activity within the PPT.

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.

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.

This is a fully resourced lesson on the poem 'About His Person' by Simon Armitage. The resources include a powerpoint, a working sheet for pupils to use within the lesson alongside three different differentiated resources to support your pupils from levels 4 to 7. This lesson is very observation friendly and will show your ability to differentiate effectively, provide pupils with an interesting take on a poem and allow them to be creative and engaged. You will need to provide pupils with a copy of the poem.

This is a 14 page pupil workbook for year 11 pupils primarily to help them to prepare for the writing sections of their GCSE exams with gaining marks for accurate elements of SPAG. I have given this to all of my year 11 pupils to aid revision. Written by a current Head of English.

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.

This is a fully resourced lesson to allow you to deliver an interesting and engaging lesson on Tennyson's 'Charge of the Light Brigade' to students from year 9-11. Featured on the new AQA GCSE poetry cluster for power and conflict, this would provide an ideal starting point. The resources include a powerpoint, a working sheet and support sheets as the lesson is designed as a carousel where pupils move around accessing questions on all of the stanzas before completing a peer assessment.

Mini bundle includes a short revision PPT (includes mark scheme and key information), a sample essay response to the AQA specimen question 'how far do you think Macbeth can be viewed as a hero' which students can annotate using the mark scheme, an AO3 map to help students put these areas into their responses and a table of the key quotations which they can cut up and use to make flash cards. All used with my third and seventh set year 11 students for the new AQA 9-1 English Literature GCSE and all understood it and used to their varying levels of ability.

This revision workbook has been prepared to support my year 13 students with their preparation for the AQA Language and Literature A Level specification (new) for their work on 'Dramatic Encounters' using 'The Herd' by Rory Kinnear. The work pack includes lots of information that they need along with a variety of tasks that they can attempt to support their revision.

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 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 six week teaching sequence for lessons for AQA GCSE English Literature paper 1 on the 19th century novel, 'Great Expectations' written by a current Head of English. The powerpoints are designed to go over a full teaching week each and include relevant objectives all linked to AOs and skills required for the exam. There are assessment points, with relevant resources, included within the resources. The resources are easy to use and designed to be used with minimal photocopying, assuming that pupils have access to copies of the text. This resource has been written for me to teach to my own class and is relevant and up-to-date.

This is a detailed SOW which includes all powerpoints, worksheets, assessments and example responses to take pupils through the study of Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls'. Written this year to be taught to year 10 GCSE classes, the scheme includes assessment points, a mock style question, mini tests alongside going through the main themes, characters and ideas of the play. If this scheme is followed, pupils should have a good grounding and understanding of the play and its contextual background. Designed originally for use with the new AQA GCSE course (9-1), but could be used for other exam boards. There are 22 resources included in this bundle. They are labelled L1 and so forth identifying which resources go with which lessons.