A poetry lesson on the speech ‘All the World’s a Stage’ from ‘As You Like It’. The PowerPoint includes a line by line analysis and homework activities. Can be adapted to suit various age groups.

A full lesson on ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’ from the Edexcel iGCSE Language Anthology.

A full scheme of work on ‘Noughts and Crosses’ by Malorie Blackman.

A full scheme of work on Jasmine Warga’s ‘Other Words for Home’, a novel written in free verse about a Syrian family who flee the war and move to the US.

A full scheme of work on ‘The Breadwinner’ by Deborah Ellis.

A detailed lesson exploring the contextual factors surrounding ‘Of Mice and Men’. Group work, revision slides, and improving paragraphs exercise all included.

A PowerPoint on ‘Nettles’ by Vernon Scannell including analysis and homework activities

An analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech ‘Beyond Vietnam’.

A full scheme of work on ‘Wonder’ by R.J. Palacio.

A guided reading course on ‘The Hobbit’ by J.R.R. Tolkien, including full PowerPoint presentations, discussion questions and homework assignments.

A free resource on an extract from ‘Girl in Translation’ by Jean Kwok. The lesson includes context, author bio, discussion questions, textual analysis, videos and homework activities.

A lesson on a poem called ‘Lockdown’ by Brother Richard about the coronavirus pandemic. The critical terminology is quite advanced but could be adapted to suit younger year groups. I taught the lesson to a group of students in China and their responses to the poem were amazing! ADDITION TO LESSON: I’ve now included a PDF of a poem I wrote as a homework activity.

A lesson on Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise’ including contextual discussion, in depth language analysis, a terminology quiz and a homework activity