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.

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 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.

A quick starter activity with 32 questions included on one sheet with space to write the answers. Pupils move from left to right as they progress across the acts and finish with some questions on structure. A QUICK WIN as pupils quickly assess what they know and can gain instant feedback.

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.

A sheet with a practice question for the comparison unseen poetry question for the AQA GCSE English Literature exams. Uses ‘Poem’ by Simon Armitage with ‘My Grandfather’s Garden’ by Owen Sheers. Has space to plan brief ideas about the methods to be compared at the bottom.

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.

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 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!

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.

A mock paper which was designed as a pre-mock mock for use with year 11. The source material is based on lidos and the modern text is extremely current, having only been published 13.11.17. Created from scratch so your students will not have used this before! If you have found this resource useful, please do leave me a review!

An introductory powerpoint to the elements of crime that pupils will need to successfully embark on the crime strand of AQA GCE Literature B specification. The first slide will need to be adapted to state the texts that you have chosen for your setting. Pupils can make notes and discuss, in depth, what characterises crime writing.

A sheet to help pupils to consolidate their knowledge for section B of the AQA 9-1 English Language Paper 2.

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.

A series of seven extracts which pupils can use to perform close text analysis before coming up with their own questions which they think mirror what the exam board could give them linked to key themes and characters. A handy revision activity which got pupils all talking to each other.

Five extracts from the novel which I used with my pupils to have them read through, perform some close text analysis and then decide on questions which could be set by the exam board specifically linked to the extract. A handy revision tool which got them all talking to each other.

Revision map which indicates the aspects of tragedy which pupils could explore and apply to the novel 'The Great Gatsby' for their A/AS Level AQA Literature B exam. I blew this up to A3 and let pupils fill in the details so that they had all the aspects of tragedy together on one page in preparation for their exam.

This three page revision map covers the key quotations, how to hit the assessment objectives, a reminder about Dickens' narrative techniques, a whole page devoted to the themes and where and how they are met, along with a page devoted to the characters where pupils can add details about them along with key quotations. A last minute survival sheet pack!

A revision map for 'A Christmas Carol' where pupils can note down pretty much everything they know! The resource is three pages long and includes space for them to note their key quotations, refers to the mark scheme, Dickens' narrative technique with a whole page on themes and where they're shown along with a final page for character details. Useful for putting pupils' minds at ease!