Stretch and Challenge cards with a number of activities to engage and challenge students in lessons. Also there are some Progress Pockets so that students can demonstrate the progress they have made in a single lesson.

PowerPoint analysing ‘England to her Sons’ an early WW1 jingoistic poem by WN Hodgson. This poem is a part of the ‘Up the Line to Death’ poetry anthology and is used extensively in AQA’s English literature A-level, WW1 and Its Aftermath. I have used this with many classes over the years. This resource also includes a knowledge organiser I have made for the poem with references to The Wipers Times for the 2023 examination.

A lesson on the poem ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Useful for the GCSE AQA Power and Conflict anthology. The lesson has a ‘do now’ activity, context section, summary of the poem and then each line and stanza is broken down and analysed in depth. At the end of the lesson there are some review resources and exemplar essay questions.

This is a 20 page author study booklet. There are two separate studies - a generic study for students to choose their own author and a second study focusing on William Shakespeare. There are twelve activities in total, six for each study.

Two author studies - a generic author study and a study based on the Romantic poets which can help to prepare students for their GCSE English literature poetry anthologies. There are 13 activities in total - four extended activities for the generic study and nine activities for the Romantic poets study.

This is an author study booklet with two separate studies - the first one is a generic study in which students can choose their own author, while the second study focusing on a comparison between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens in which the students work in a pair to decide who is the ‘best’ author. There are eleven activities in total, five in the first study and six in the second.

Hi everyone, this is a collection of 60 English writing activities for cover lessons. I have also used many of these activities as end of term options when there has been only a few lessons left. The activities range from directing pupils to writing speeches and stories to creating new products. There is a big variety. The resources are available on PowerPoint and as a PDF for easy printing.

A lesson on the poem ‘London’ by William Blake. Useful for the GCSE AQA Power and Conflict anthology. The lesson has a ‘do now’ activity, context section, summary of the poem and then each line and stanza is broken down and analysed in depth. At the end of the lesson there are some review resources and exemplar essay questions.

A lesson on the poem ‘The Prelude’ by William Wordsworth. Useful for the GCSE AQA Power and Conflict anthology. The lesson has a ‘do now’ activity, context section, summary of the poem and then each line and stanza is broken down and analysed in depth. At the end of the lesson there are some review resources and exemplar essay questions.

A lesson on the poem ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen. Useful for the GCSE AQA Power and Conflict anthology and also AQA A-level Up the Line to Death anthology. The lesson has a ‘do now’ activity, context section, summary of the poem and then each line and stanza is broken down and analysed in depth. At the end of the lesson there are some review resources and exemplar essay questions.

An exemplar answer for the 2017 ‘Rosabel’ English language paper 1. There is a PowerPoint with the answer fully annotated. I have used this with my class and it has proved to be useful.