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This scheme of work was used with my Year 6 and Year 7 classes for their Shakespeare project. We studied extracts, themes and characters from ‘Macbeth’, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and 'The Tempest.

This is two lessons. In the first the students read through an article and consider how Nova Scotia, Canada is presented in the travel writing extract. They will also look and evaluate a model answer. In the second lesson students will write their own Paper 2 Question 3 using a source about London before peer assessing using the provided student-friendly mark scheme sheets.

In this reading-based lesson, students will read the myths and legends of British folklore from the Royal Mail 2025 stamp series before being tasked to write persuasively for their own stamp to be published. I made this for my Year 10 class.

I have included the Past Paper (2022) along with the mark scheme and extract. I have included model answers for Questions 3 and 4 which I have written. The language/structural terminology has already been highlighted.

Students will need to make a key and colour context. Texts studied: Macbeth, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, An Inspector Calls

I made this for my Year 10 class. Students will explore what goes into making a Paper 2 Question 5 persuasive letter. There are a number of language analysis activities and a model answer for Paper 2 Question 5.

This material was used for my Step Up to English class who are also being entered for their GCSE English Language. The texts we worked on are: The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Lottery. This is a complication of some different teaching materials, sheets and PowerPoints.

In this lesson my G.C.S.E class rotated the information sheets and made their own notes on the provided grid. The resources help students gain an understanding of the socio-historical context Robert Louis Stevenson was writing in.

There are four worksheets (I have used these as homework in the past). Each sheet has ten words linked to the play for students to learn the definition and spellings of. Students will learn the higher level vocabulary needed for a sophisticated response (A01 and A04).

This was set as a homework task but could be adapted for classwork. Students are given an AQA-style description and then asked to answer the following questions: Research was a ‘cyclical narrative’ is. How is this writing cyclical? What examples of interesting or higher-level vocabulary can you find? Highlight them. List all the types of punctuation you can see: Label where you can see each of the following: pathetic fallacy, simile, metaphor, personification.

There are 15 fill in the blank slides with 15 answer slides. This resources comes in two forms: A PowerPoint. Students fill in the blanks and the answers are revealed on the following slide. As a Word Document. I cut these out and use them as a starter activity.

Bill Bryson: Mother Tongue Tasks: Read through the opening chapter of Bryson’s book which explores the history of the English language. Highlight any information you find interesting. Summarise each page of the book in a sentence. An extract of the book is included in this activity. Useful for any SOWs relating to linguistics.

Students will read an article about Paul Newman’s ‘Serious Fun’ camps and then answer comprehension questions.

Students will read an article about Japanese Culture and then answer a series of questions requiring explicit retrieval skills and inference.

Students are given an article along with a comprehension sheet. Students are assessed on their ability to retrieve explicit information as well as inference.

This lesson has ‘Boys Ballet’ as a theme. The lesson incorporates Paper 1 Section B (Creative Writing). And Paper 2 Section A (Q2- Comparison, Q3-Language Analysis). It was designed with a mised ability Year 7 class in mind, I have also used in with Year 8.

This scaffolded lesson is aimed at a low ability Year 8 class to help them understand the plot.

Students follow the PowerPoint to create their own retelling of Puck finding the magical flower for Oberon. This resource was created for a mixed ability Year 8 class.

This PowerPoint scaffolds the opening scenes to ‘Romeo and Juliet’ using photos from the Luhrmann film. Students are invited to write a creative response following the slides. This was used with my Year 7 class (mixed ability).

This lesson was designed for a Year 7 Creative Writing lesson. It is scaffolded as we are a mixed ability class.