Basic cover lesson sheets: one storyboard template with an example completed. Character profile sheets for Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo and the Witches each with an example of a quote and analysis. Easy to use or adapt.

Storyboard template and character profile sheets, all with first example completed for each main character. Easily adaptable.

Further lessons to work towards controlled assessment.

Second week of lessons with resources

Further lessons

A quick powerpoint which explains how to answer the exam question on Paper 2 for the Power and Conflict poetry collection. Easily adaptable for Love and Relationship. Includes planning process with examples and timings of the exam.

A quick powerpoint to prepare students to compare the Power and Conflict poetry collection.

A powerpoint and worksheets to guide students through using different sentence types for effect and working towards using different points of view to express themselves. An example of second person narrative is included as well as a table to discuss a variety of points of view.

An assessment task for the beginning of Private Peaceful about Tommo’s father’s death. Can be used as a formative assessment to baseline students. Suitable for KS3 students. Includes two extension tasks which focus on writing skills, particularly using different sentence types.

A powerpoint which shows the rules for the classroom with an example of an activity which invites students to think about what they want to get out of the year. Used with KS3 and KS4 students to encourage them to focus on positive behaviour and attitude.

A short scheme of work to study short stories with KS3. Includes example short stories as well as activities and examples of how to write using the senses.

A plan and a template for a formal letter. Used with KS3 students studying Private Peaceful to write a letter to the author about an incident in the book, however can be adapted to any novel or non fiction activity. Template includes sentence starters and the plan includes questions to get students thinking.

Introducing Jane Eyre to year 9 students to prepare for AQA GCSE English Literature. A lesson prompting students to research key areas of the social context of the novel. Includes challenge task as well as information to begin their search.

A lesson preparing students to answer a question about sympathy for Jane. It includes a student friendly mark scheme for AQA English Literature.

Year 9 lesson on Jane Eyre to prepare for the AQA English Literature GCSE. Includes an extract from chapter one and differentiated questions.

This lesson asks students to write a letter to Mrs Reed questioning her treatment of Jane.

An introduction to literacy particularly focusing on punctuation marks. Lessons included to cover sentence types and basic punctuation. Suitable for KS3.

A powerpoint with a guide to sentence types and two activities to complete: one as a class and one individual. Also includes a homework task. Can be used with KS3 and KS4.

Full lesson covering paper 1 questions 3 and 4 with model answers and writing frames for November 2017 AQA exam paper.