This is a whole unit (71 slides) designed to help develop the confidence of your Yr 8 students when reading 19th-century literature. It will introduce skills that will be relevant to the study of literature at Key Stage 4, and help your students develop their understanding of contexts, as well as some of the conventions established in literary genres.

In this resource I have planned a series of lessons that help students complete the 24 mark question on the poem: ‘On A Portrait for A Deaf Man’. I have also included a lesson on the unseen comparative poetry section, comparing ‘On A Portrait of Aa Deaf Man’ to ‘Praise Song For My Mother’. The resource contains a sample question, high quality model answers and an answer template to help support students approach this section of the exam, all written by an experienced GCSE Literature examiner. Additionally, I have added a version of the slide for students to add their notes, which allows them to complete the tasks without the preplanned answers.

This resource is designed to teach students to create a response on the theme of mystery in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

These lessons are designed to introduce students to the poetry of Maya Angelou. The lessons are fully planned and ready to teach. They include an array of tasks designed to engage your students.

This resource has been planned to teach in a mixed ability group work setting. The resource is differentiated through the use of colour coded questions (green, blue and red), which increases the level of challenge. It also includes visual prompts, so that weaker ability students can access the poem and produce clear analysis. The more able students are pushed to produce more sophisticated and perceptive analytical commentary through the use of the more challenging ‘red’ questions. I have also included detailed anlaysis of key quotaions from the poem to model the expectations for able students, which is written by an experienced GCSE Literature examiner.

This resource is a lesson that helps students build their understanding of the character of Sheila Birling. It contains detailed analysis of key quotations, which contains subject terminologies, contextual information, and conceptualised link, and it is written by a GCSE English Literature Examiner.

This resource contains detailed analysis of key quotations on the theme of responsibility. The analysis contains subject terminologies, contextual information, and conceptualised link, and is written by a GCSE English Literature Examiner.

This lesson is carefully planned to build upon your students creative writing skills using a stimulus. It contains a guided writing task and model examples.

This lesson contains ready to teach lessons on question 1-5 of Language paper 1.

This is a ready to teach lesson on questions 1-5 of Language Paper 2. It is designed to guide students through the skills necessary to succeed.

These resources are designed to help you teach the poetry of William Blake as a part of the component 1 (poetry) part B (comparative poetry) of the Eduqas specification. It includes PowerPoints guiding students through the analysis of the following poems: A Poison Tree Ecchoing Green London The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence) The Chimney Sweeper (Experience) The Divine Image The Garden of Love The Sick Rose The Tyger Proverbs of Heaven and Hell AO5 quotes

This resource is designed to teach students how to approach an AQA GCSE style question on the character of Mr Utterson from* The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.*

This lesson breaks down the approach to the Poetry Comparison question (AQA's Literature Paper 2, 30 marker) into simple chunks. It starts off by explaining the assessment objectives and then moves on to a sample question. This resource is particualrly uselful for those students who struggle to think of conceptualised points, as it includes topic sentences and model paragraphs which will help students create a detailed and sophiticated comparative response to poetry.

This resource contains detailed analysis of key quotations on the character of Eva. The analysis contains subject terminologies, contextual information, and conceptualised link, and is written by a GCSE English Literature Examiner.

This ‘An Inspector Calls’ resource helps students to create a response to a question on the character of Mrs Birling. The resource guides students through the process of answering a question, encouraging them to use conceptualised topic sentences, and contextual links. It also includes a Grade 9 model paragraph, written by a GCSE English Literature Examiner.

This resource contains a sample question and model answer on ‘My Last Duchess’. The model contains links to the GCSE assessment objectives, except the comparative element. It is designed to ease students in to the Comparative Poetry Unit, is written by a GCSE English Literature Examiner.

This resource includes helpful tips, and sample paragraphs with a step-by-step approach to the AQA Language Paper 1.

This resource contains detailed analysis of key quotations, with sophisticated subject terminologies, relating to the Inspector. It also contains a detailed and conceptualised grade 9 model paragraph on the Inspector written by a GCSE English Literature Examiner, to help students to prepare to answer a question on this character.

This source contains detailed analysis of some of key thematic quotations in ‘Macbeth’.