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I am an English teacher with over 16 years' experience. My high quality resources will save you time and offer creative and purposeful activities for your students.
For commissions, questions or feedback, please e-mail me at jpresourcesuk@gmail.com
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Neutral Tones’ by Thomas Hardy from the Love and Relationships Cluster of AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Neutral Tones’ by Thomas Hardy from the Relationships cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'One Flesh’ by Elizabeth Jennings from the Relationships cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
An extract analysis booklet which contains 25 examination-length extracts from Romeo and Juliet and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 20 examination-length extracts from A Christmas Carol and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Great Expectations and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
Two detailed lessons exploring 'La Belle Dame sans Merci’ by John Keats from the Relationships cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
This bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Edexcel Relationships Cluster: ‘1st Date - She and 1st Date - He’; ‘A Child to his Sick Grandfather’; ‘A Complaint’; ‘i wanna be yours’; ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’; ‘Love’s Dog’; ‘My Father Would Not Show Us’; ‘My Last Duchess’; ‘Nettles’; ‘Neutral Tones’; ‘One Flesh’; ‘She Walks in Beauty’; ‘Sonnet 43’; ‘The Manhunt’; and ‘Valentine’.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able.
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource, ‘Island Man’
A series of lessons to introduce students to the analysis of English Language A Level novels through an introduction to and analysis of lexis, grammar and semantics.
These resources could be used to introduce English Language A Level at the start of Year 12 or as a taster lesson. The resources are not tied to any specification and do not reference any assessment objectives (although these are implied).
The following documents are included:
A 14 slide PowerPoint which guides students through:
Lexis (Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs)
Grammar (Sentence types - simple, complex and compound)
Semantics (through analysis of effect)
Two worksheets with texts for analysis
A lesson plan with very detailed guidance for two or more lessons
Check out my other introductory A Level resources:
Introduction to A Level English Literature
A Level English Language Taster Lesson
A Level English Literature Taster Lesson
A Level English Language and Literature Taster Lesson
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Sonnet 29’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning from the Love and Relationships Cluster of AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Wilfred Owen’s ‘Disabled’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Gillian Clarke’s ‘Catrin’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Catrin’ by Gillian Clarke from the Conflict cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The PowerPoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Seamus Heaney’s ‘Blackberry Picking’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Beatrice Garland’s ‘Kamikaze’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland from the Power and Conflict Cluster of AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy from the Power and Conflict Cluster of AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘War Photographer’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
From the new Eduqas poetry anthology (for 2025 with first examination in 2027), two detailed lessons exploring Simon Armitage’s ‘Remains’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Remains’ by Simon Armitage from the Power and Conflict Cluster of AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
