A booklet I made to prep low ability Year 10/11 for their Speaking and Listening - the topic is a persuasive speech on ‘One Thing I Would Change About the World’; the booklet would need to be altered to suit ability/need. Contains the standard S+L mark scheme across all exam boards.

2 lessons on this scene - general annotation and understanding, then focus on the dagger soliloquy by digging deeper into allusions and alternative interpretations. Made for an engaged middle set - many ways to adapt!

Full lesson - consideration of the chaos created in the natural world by the murder of Duncan and group work. Aimed at middle ability set.

2 lesson - initial lesson on read, basic annotations and understanding (one simple slide, the rest I guided through reading as a group). Followed by a deep analysis lesson and modeling of ‘exploding’ key quotes; full written analysis task could be done in lesson or set as homework. Made for an enthusiastic set 3.

Handy worksheet to solidify knowledge of the 4 apparitions in 4.1- has support and challenge so suits all abilities!

Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1 - ‘Spirals of Violence’ - Made for more able/ G+T top set - will need scaffolding down appropriate to group; final analysis task would need a checklist of skills/PEAL/PETAR writing frame

A lesson that recaps the basics of adverts and persuasive devices followed by a series of worksheets that challenge students to come up with specific devices to promote strange products (Unicorn meat! Cupcake toothpaste!). Could be fashioned as a team task or individual work. Part of a SOW looking at print adverts, analysis, and persuasive script writing.

Worksheet made to support the understanding and analysis of The Porter’s Speech - could be set as homework!

A workbook that support the study of TTTH - good for long term cover, homework, or as a mini SOW. Adaptations encouraged.

A homework task and follow up peer assessment lesson. It’s an AQA Paper 2 Section B style task (letter to council on knife crime) written at home, and then peer assessed in lesson, then redrafted as even more homework! Peer assessment is based on a checklist chart that could be adapted to suit the needs of your group/suit the common language used in your department. Use of the peer assessment chart must be modeled for this to work effectively! Made for a high ability Year 9 group for an AQA style unit on ‘Crime and Punishment’ (the theme, not Dostoevsky).

Resource that includes copies of Macbeth’s first and last soliloquies with prompts for annotations. Students are then to consider how Macbeth’s character changes between these two extracts. Could be competed in pairs and used as the basis for class discussion.

Lesson on varying sentence and paragraph structures and lengths for creative writing section of exam. Could be used for OCR, AQA, etc. Final activity reveals a piece of a picture a bit at a time for them to write a description of - produces great results!

Combination of knowledge recall, quote memorisation, extended reading, extract annotation, and finally, written analysis, all in one handy-dandy worksheet! Powerpoints be damned!

A fun speech writing lessons that can easily be adapted up or down for Year 7-11. Some background knowledge of logos, ethos, pathos and rhetorical devices needed. Otherwise, this will need to be embedded into the lesson or taught before hand.

2 lessons building knowledge and analytical notes on Douglas’ Vergismeinnicht (Part of GCSE OCR Conflict Poetry Cluster). Opening knowledge retrieval should of course be adapted. There are several slides/activities that can be left out as they may not be suitable for different levels of available - it’s a bit of a pick n’ mix, it will require a bit of adapting.

Extract from opening of Stephen King’s novella ‘Apt Pupil’ with AQA Language Paper 1 style questions 1-4! Perfect for revision/homework :)

A set of worksheets for students to build depth of analysis to the Inspector’s final speech - have included a teacher copy, and 2 different student versions I have used for various groups.

Aimed at low ability KS4; differentiated analysis charts included.

Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2 - begins with a hunt for insect/creature metaphors; builds to students creating a mimed version of the scene to explore the tension and relationship between the Macbeths. Designed for a top set, G+T class.

Aimed at KS4; using a picture of the Maunsell Forts and a specific emotion card, students will generate a piece of descriptive writing with the aim of creating a certain emotion/tone. This powerpoint includes both simple tones/emotions and a trio of more advanced concepts (alienation, rapture, melancholy) that can be adjusted to suit the group. Best used later in a descriptive writing SOW.