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This is a complete scheme of work for the poetry section of the Edexcel GCSE English Literature specification; the CONFLICT cluster. This scheme of work contains three lessons focusing on each individual poem, which each walk students through the context, language, form and structural analysis they need to understand and teaches them how to analyse the poem with regards to a specific theme. There is also a differentiated glossary for each poem. There are also four lessons which teach students how to answer the comparison question, focusing on the themes of war, anger, relationships and nature. Including within these lessons are model answers, references to the mark scheme and planning sheets. Additionally I have created a poetic terminology workbook to run alongside the unit which students complete as they annotate each poem. There are also memory quizzes designed to help students to be able to quickly recall important quotations from across the cluster.

This fifty question quiz is designed to test your A Level students on the Child Language Acquisition module and guide them in their revision.

A fill-in-the-blanks pop quiz that tests your students on their ability to remember key quotations from the novel.

This revision lesson begins by quizzing students on plot, characters, themes and events (21 questions). Then, they examine a question and exemplar paragraph, exploring how to structure an essay (whole-text question). They then use this model to write their own response to a question.

This two/three hour lesson is a detailed walk-through of everything students need to know and demonstrate in the imaginative writing section of Edexcel’s Language paper one exam. It includes a full marks model answer that is analysed and then used as an example for students; they use this as inspiration for their own writing.

A lesson teaching students how to analyse an extract from Romeo and Juliet, preparing them for the new GCSE 9-1 Literature exams. This lesson focuses on Act 1, Scene 5 (a previous exam question). Based on Edexcel mark scheme, though this can be easily changed.

This is a collection of resources that I used with my Y11 students during an Easter holiday revision session. I spent two hours delivering this lesson, however students were asked to finish many of them at home independently (therefore this could last several hours if used during lesson time). Conflict poetry pub quiz (containing true/false questions, context questions and fill in the blank quotation questions) Comparisons grid (students are given a plethora of exam questions and asked to identify comparable poems) Poetic Terminology task (students revise poetic terminology and definitions, then match terminology with examples from Conflict poems) Context and Form Bingo game (designed to help students remember key information regarding the form and structure of all 15 poems).

A game with 70 slides containing key terminology relevant to AS Level English language (multiple specs). Game is easy to play and only requires a couple of students. Excellent revision tool.

A fully-resourced A Level lesson on Lakoff’s Deficit Model, using a Loose Women transcript as a stimulus. Observed by Oftsed inspector and graded outstanding. All resources, differentiation and a lesson plan are included.

This is a full marks model answer comparing how the theme of anger is presented in A Poison Tree and Half-caste, two poems from the Edexcel (new spec) Conflict Poetry cluster.

A revision lesson on Lady Macbeth to help students prepare for the new 9-1 Literature exam. The lesson includes an engaging game of Quiz-Quiz-Trade to help students to recap their prior knowledge of Lady Macbeth, and an extract-based exam question (with model answer) to help students to revise exam techniques.

A 40/40 essay answering the following Animal Farm question: ‘Explore the significance of Snowball throughout the novel’. This has not yet appeared as an exam question, so a great exemplar to use with groups, especially those you are challenging to achieve grades 8 and 9.

An intensive 1-hour lesson (or intervention session) designed to boost progress in the writing sections of the English Language exams. This lesson focuses on using and punctuating complex sentences with accuracy (and for effect). Has had brilliant outcomes in my school.

This complete, fully-resources scheme of work is a comprehensive and detailed unit perfect for Year 10 and Year 11 students studying the AQA English Literature GCSE. For each poem in the collection, there are two hour’s worth of lesson materials. The first hour is more focused on explicitly teaching the poems, introducing students to key thematic and contextual knowledge before using guided analysis questions to support students in annotating the poems themselves. The second lesson focuses on analysis, using the “I do, we do, you do” approach to model effective analysis of a key theme in each poem. There is also retrieval practice for each poem. In addition to 30 hours of teaching covering all 15 poems in the collection, there are also 4 “essay based” lessons, which will likely take two hours to deliver - students are supported in preparing for an analysis question, guided in their planning and then provided with models to help them to create their own responses. A revision Bingo game and quotation quiz is also included - that means in total this unit comprises approximately 40 hours of lessons.

Bingo game for A Christmas Carol, testing key quotations, knowledge of plot and characters as well as knowledge of context.

I have created a bespoke reading intervention programme based on the fundametnal principles of Reciprocal Reading, a method championed by the EEF’s research. Each Reciprocal Reading unit has a different genre focus - this unit focuses on extracts from dystopian novels. The unit of work is designed for KS3 students with a reading age lower than their chronological age. There are 12 sessions, each fully resources, with an accompanying PPT, extract booklet and workbook for students.

Seven mock papers for the Edexcel Conflict Poetry cluster question.

Here are eight practice papers for the Macbeth questions on the new Edexcel English Literature 9-1 GCSE.

A 10-week scheme of work for KS3 English based on myths, legends and symbols. Through this scheme of work, students will study a range of texts (Bible stories, non-fiction extracts, poetry and fiction extracts) and examine how these texts form the basis of modern Literature. Lessons are designed to target a range of skills, such as language and structural analysis, comparing texts, analysing poetry, using quotations to support ideas, writing analytically and writing creatively. This scheme of work has been used successfully and enjoyed by students in my school for the last three years.