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A teacher of English Literature and Language GCSE, English Literature A-Level and Film Studies A-Level for the past 9 years.

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A teacher of English Literature and Language GCSE, English Literature A-Level and Film Studies A-Level for the past 9 years.
AQA English Language: Questions 1,2&3 Empire of The Sun
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AQA English Language: Questions 1,2&3 Empire of The Sun

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**A double lesson looking in detail at Questions 1,2&3 of the AQA English Language Paper 1 using an extract from Empire of The Sun. The students in this lesson will be able to develop their language and structure skills using very guided annotations and prompts on the board for language and structure. They will also be able to write good responses to the language and structure questions using sentence starters and model responses from the lesson.**
AQA English Language Paper 1 Narrative Writing: Building Character and Setting
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AQA English Language Paper 1 Narrative Writing: Building Character and Setting

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A lesson focused on building character and setting in narrative writing. Includes videos, exemplar pieces of writing and annotations and plenty of writing and peer assessment opportunities. Created for AQA English Language Paper 1 Section B. Worked excellently with Year 11 higher ability but could easily be differentiated down for lower abilities.
AQA Literature Paper 1: Macbeth and Kingship
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AQA Literature Paper 1: Macbeth and Kingship

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A lesson exploring the key idea of kingship in Macbeth. Explores some key quotes, characters, ideas and a practice question on ‘Shakespeare’s lessons on kingship’. Has writing frames and opportunities for live modelling and peer assessment. Very scaffolded lesson!
AQA Literature Paper 1: Macbeth and Dishonesty/Deceit
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AQA Literature Paper 1: Macbeth and Dishonesty/Deceit

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A full Macbeth lesson exploring ideas of dishonesty and deceit in the play, even exploring how Shakespeare uses literary foils of characters to exacerbate the dishonesty and deceit of others. Contains many key quotes, a practice AQA style extract question, exemplar written paragraphs and writing frames etc. A very scaffolded lesson that can be picked up and taught without much adapting. Also includes a full GRADE 9 level response essay to the question.
AQA English Language Paper 1 - Section A and B Walkthrough
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AQA English Language Paper 1 - Section A and B Walkthrough

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A set of 3 lessons in one which looks at the layout and exemplars of Q1,2,3&4 with a few additional slides for prompting responses for Q5 - but more could be added to adapt this. Full mark schemes, extract, exemplar answers and writing frames included!
Descriptive/Creative Writing AQA English Language Paper 1 Section B: Trump Capitol Protests
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Descriptive/Creative Writing AQA English Language Paper 1 Section B: Trump Capitol Protests

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A resource looking at describing an image from the Trump Capitol protests. The lesson contains appropriate models, details on the drop-shift-zoom method, watching a news report to develop some literary techniques for our writing and use of colour imagery. Mostly suited to AQA English Language Paper 1 Section B, but definitely could be used universally for any descriptive writing question.
AQA English Language Paper 1: Q1,2&3 Northanger Abbey
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AQA English Language Paper 1: Q1,2&3 Northanger Abbey

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A double lesson looking at Q1,2&3 of the AQA English Language Paper 1 using an extract from Northanger abbey. Students will be prompted with guided annotations on the lesson and have sentence starters/model responses in order to write a good response for the language and structure questions. Video’s to engage interest in the extract are included.
AQA English Language Paper 1: Q1,2&3 Ministry of Fear
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AQA English Language Paper 1: Q1,2&3 Ministry of Fear

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A double lesson looking at questions 1,2&3 on the AQA English Language Paper 1 using an extract from Ministry of Fear. The students will be prompted to annotate the extract and work in groups using guided annotations on the lesson and will be able to write good responses to questions 2&3 for language and structure using the sentence starters and model responses provided on the lesson.
AQA English Language Paper 2: Newspapers and Writing to Explain
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AQA English Language Paper 2: Newspapers and Writing to Explain

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Lesson and full mark exemplar included. Lesson includes focus on what writing to explain means, what AO5 linguistic devices should be used when writing, how to plan a response and structure ideas, alongside a full mark exemplar response that can be printed and annotated alongside students in order to show them how to embed particular devices into their writing. AQA specific but could be used as just a general article writing lesson out of context.
AQA English Language Paper 1 June 2023 Life of Pi
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AQA English Language Paper 1 June 2023 Life of Pi

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A lesson I used to walk and talk my class through this paper that they sat for a mock exam. Can be tweaked very slightly for genric WTM style lesson. Include writing frames and exemplars, plus Q5 examples. Deals with Q2,3,4,5 only.
AQA Literature Paper 1: Macbeth and the Power of the Supernatural
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AQA Literature Paper 1: Macbeth and the Power of the Supernatural

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A lesson exploring the power of the supernatural within the play Macbeth. Has slides supporting key context and Shakespeare’s driving message in the play, alongside a practice AQA extract based question, writing frame and opportunity to complete essay based question. A very scaffolded pick-up-and-go lesson ready to teach!
AQA Literature Paper 1: A Christmas Carol and the Presentation of the Poor
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AQA Literature Paper 1: A Christmas Carol and the Presentation of the Poor

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A lesson exploring a few key quotations looking at the idea of the poor in the novella as being always pushed to the periphery in society. Opportunities for writing and to openly explore the quotations as a group. Printable resource included in PPT. Written exemplar paragraph and question with success criteria provided on PPT.