English literature → Shakespeare in One Minute → Macbeth
Macbeth in one minute, using stills from Joel Coen’s film, one to represent each scene. Ask students to caption each image with a line or phrase from the scene.
Comes as a GIF file and as a video (MP4) that can be paused.
English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 2: Comparative and contextual study → Dystopia → Brave New World and The Handmaid’s Tale
Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file.
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Modernist poetry → T. S. Eliot
All fifteen of the Eliot poems, in chronological order, in a forty-page PDF.
English literature → Shakespeare → Othello
Notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Romantic poetry
All nineteen of the Romantic poems, in chronological order, in a twenty-seven-page PDF.
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Romantic poetry → John Keats
All fourteen of the Keats poems, in chronological order, in a twenty-four-page PDF.
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 2: Prose → Childhood → Hard Times and Atonement
Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Victorian poetry → Christina Rossetti
All twenty-one of the Rossetti poems, in chronological order, in a twenty-nine-page PDF.
English literature → Shakespeare → Hamlet
Notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → The Romantics → Shelley → ‘The Question’
Annotations for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file.
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Poems of the Decade → ‘On Her Blindness’ by Adam Thorpe
Commentary for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Poems of the Decade → ‘The Deliverer’ by Tishani Doshi
Commentary for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Poems of the Decade → ‘Please Hold’ by Ciaran O’Driscoll
Commentary for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Poems of the Decade → ‘The Lammas Hireling’ by Ian Duhig
Commentary for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → Coursework → Hamlet and Fight Club
Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, and essay topics. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 1: Drama and poetry (pre-1900) → Christina Rossetti
All fifteen of the Rossetti poems, in chronological order, in a twenty-six-page PDF.
English literature → Shakespeare → Hamlet
Notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → Shakespeare → Hamlet
Hamlet’s seven soliloquies compiled in a six-page PDF, with some brief analysis at the beginning about how they can be understood in terms of memory, understanding, and will.
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → Metaphysical poetry → John Donne
All twenty-nine of the Donne poems, in chronological order, in a twenty-four-page PDF.
English literature → A-level → Edexcel → Paper 3: Poetry → The Romantics
Four pages on the poems, arranged chronologically by composition date. Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF file.
Blake, ‘Holy Thursday’ (Songs of Innocence) (c. 1784)
Blake, ‘London’, ‘The Tyger’, ‘The Sick Rose’, and ‘Holy Thursday’ (Songs of Experience) (c. 1791–92)
Wordsworth, ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ (1798)
Wordsworth, ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’ (1798)
Wordsworth, ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ (1802–04)
Byron, ‘Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull’ (1808)
Shelley, ‘The cold earth slept below’ (?1816)
Byron, ‘So We’ll Go no more A Roving’ (1817)
Keats, ‘Sonnet on the Sea’ (1817)
Shelley, ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples’ (1818)
Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, and ‘Ode on Melancholy’ (1819)
Shelley, ‘Ode to the West Wind’ (1819)
Shelley, ‘The Question’ (1820)
Byron, ‘On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year’ (1824)