Collection of powerpoint slides for all the poems in the Edexcel collection (aside from Goblin Market which will be listed separately) Tasks, discussion questions and essay questions in each. Detailed context for each poem looking at the different points of her life, her relationships, family etc. Separate slides with an introduction to Rossetti’s life and another looking at the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Slides are numbered in a suggested teaching order, but this is not proscribed. Designed for Edexcel, this is the pack I wish I had when I started teaching the course. Some Ladies Dress Remember The World Echo May A Birthday An Apple-Gathering Maude Clare At Home Up-Hill What Would I Give? Twice Memory A Christmas Carol Passing and Glassing Piteous my rhyme is ‘A Helpmeet for Him’  As froth on the face of the deep Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful Babylon the Great

Introduction to Keat’s Ode to Psyche for A level. Slides on the Keats and his writing of Odes Background on the myth of Psyche and relevance of Keat’s medical training. Questions for discussion of the poem split over 5 slides. Discussion and essay question at the end.

A level resource running through the key ideas and points for analysis of The Hollow Men. Poem is divided up across 11 slides with a series of question on each question looking at ideas, images and poetic techniques.

A group of four mini tasks. Each one looking at an article headline & strapline and then the first couple of paragraphs. Questions are designed to improve vocabulary acquisition and develop confidence in answering the short answer question for the language paper. I have designed these specifically for the Cambridge iGCSE language paper 1, but these are fun 5/10 minute tasks for any GCSE class. Please leave me a review - and feel free to say if there is anything you’d like me to add. I’m building a collection of Language resources in my TES shop, so feedback is very welcome!

Designed for Cambridge iGCSE paper 1. This is a collection of 5 starter tasks/mini activities. Short extracts from a selection of texts with vocab questions matching the short answer questions 2(a) There are also a series of technique and inference questions if you want to extend the activities. (I find teaching the language paper a bit dull - this is my attempt to break it down and make it a bit quick and fun)

Detailed breakdown of Cambridge IGCSE paper 2, the writing paper. Activites focused on the descriptive and narrative questions - images and writing ideas to help them to engage with the question as well as extracts from the mark scheme. This has enough in it to last for a series of lessons & homework tasks & ideas to pick and choose between. The directed writing section will be dealt with separately.

Creative writing tasks to get started as well as a few points about correct punctuation etc. quick & easy & lighthearted - made for Y7 to prep them for the summer exam, but would be good for any time!

Activities and tasks on Disabled - mix of detailed analysis and discussion tasks. An exploration of Shell Shock - including Sassoon’s The Survivors, some details on Mental Cases as well as tasks and a comparative essay structure and example paragraphs looking at links between Disabled & Mental Cases Powerpoint have lots of images and are laid out clearly and attractively, styled to fit the rest of my war poetry resources. I like to make sure my students are able to understand the context the poems were written in as well as appreciating the literary skill.

Christina Rossetti Slides for Christmas Carol including info on types of angels referenced in the poem. Discussion questions Essay topic Edexcel Full resource pack for all poems in the Edexcel pack available from my shop.

Introduction to war poetry unit looking at types of visual propaganda before moving on to looking at Pope’s Who’s For the Game. Colourful powerpoint with images and tasks both on the propaganda posters and the poem. Worksheet with the poem and questions.

Powerpoint with tasks and detailed key context for Rossetti’s The World Designed for Edexcel English Lit A-level

Full set of slides on Owen’s Dulce et Decorum est including an introduction to Owen & some context on the war & gas. Some sections of detailed language analysis & a range of tasks to choose from. Slides have lots of pictures and are in keeping style wise with my other war poetry resources. Reviews greatly appreciated!

Very detailed slides with analysis of the poem as well as links and an essay title Designed for Edexcel English Lit A-level

A collection of three newspaper articles with questions attached. Ideal for teaching skills for the Cambridge iGCSE course, but equally useful for working with Y9 or any other GCSE language paper. The three passages are opinion/experience pieces - teaching in Prisons, Grief during Covid & sponsoring children. Each has a set of questions attached on vocab, information retrieval - implicit and explicit, language effects & mini transformative tasks. These are perfect for cover work or homework/independant working tasks. Please leave a review - I’m trying to build a bank of useful resources for the language paper in my TES shop, any feedback is happily recieved.

A teaching or revision exercise looking at the skills for writing to argue/persuade. Task 1 a silent debate (although this can easily be altered) looking at examples & marking. Task 2 to create own work in response to a Q. Rhetorical devices also feature for discussion/development. Easily developed and altered for use with different Qs etc.

Slides to support teaching of Maude Clare, key context for this specific poem used (for more context see my Rossetti Context slides) teaching/discussion questions are included as well as a longer comparative task with Apple Gathering and an essay question. designed to teach to the Edexcel A-level spec, but teaching is not specific to this.

Full breakdown of paper one. 47 slides! Each question is looked at with the pointers/how to answer/what to look for, highlighted sections of text, as well as answers, mark scheme extracts and student friendly summaries of what they mean. The three big questions (summary, writer’s effects, transformative) are looked at in lots of detail with the task broken down into pieces and examples of what to do/not to do. All the information is broken up and sequenced on clear slides to be as student friendly as possible, questions/answers are animated to thinking time and to avoid cluttering slides. This is perfect for a Y10 class working through a paper, but equally useful for Y11 revision or students working at home as all the questions and answers are in the same place! You will need access to the June 2021 paper ‘trees’ and students will need copies of the reading inserts for this to be effective. This is similar to my other paper breakdown, but I have styled some of the tasks on the three big questions differently for some variation. If you want tasks on specific elements of the questions - look over at my TES shop for more resources including quick starter/mini tasks to get your students thinking more about language in a quick and creative way.

Designed for use with the Cambridge iGCSE language paper 1. This is a collection of 4 summary tasks to help build skills. The 4 tasks get gradually harder and should be split over a couple of lessons/homeworks. All the information is on the slides with instructions on how to break down the task and the skills that are being tested. All the passages are printed on a handout with the questions and room for answers. Passages included - decorating Easter eggs, Training for a Marathon, Farming in Kenya and an exam question from an old style CIE paper (teachers oct/nov 2014) so students can test their skills without using any of the current past papers. Hope you find it useful - I find teaching the language paper a little dry, so this is my attempt to make it a bit more interesting!! If you find it useful, there are a series of other resources targeting the other questions on the paper as well as a full paper breakdown in my shop. Reviews/feedback are appreciated.

45 slides worth of analysis and exploration of Goblin Market. This is designed to meet the requirement of the Edexcel A level course, but can be used for any spec. Detailed context for this period in her life is provided as well as further context around the inspiration for the poem. Introductory tasks are given on initial interpretations of the poem and then discussion and interpretation points are worked into points throughout the poem. Summative and essay tasks are given at the end. Slides exploring a number of key interpretations are given. I have also included an essay looking at some issue of Freudian-psychoanalytical and Marxist-Feminist interpretations. Slides are linked to the rest of my collection of Rossetti for Edexcel.