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Introduction to Descriptive Writing
A short unit aimed at year 9 to develop descriptive writing skills.

Unseen Poetry Jennie Joseph
Unseen poetry lesson aimed at year 9/10 to prepare students for AQA English Literature Paper 2. Easily adaptable for other exam boards.

Unseen Poetry W.H.Auden Funeral Blues
Preparing students for GCSE AQA Unseen poetry. Students complete a silent debate and annotate the poem without talking and passing the stanzas around.

Analysing and writing speeches- Independence Day
Looking at the power of the word through the Independence Day Speech. Students start by making inferences from single words before watching and analysing the speech as a whole.

KS3 Creative writing Maintaining Mystery
A lesson looking at how to maintain mystery in creative writing and looking at examples in literature.

SQuEAL Paragraphs
To support students in langauge analysis this can be copied onto other ppts, used as a poster or stuck in books.

AQA Macbeth paper 1 literature Structure Strip
A Structure strip for AQA English literature paper 1 Macbeth. Easily adaptable for other Shakespeare plays.

AQA GCSE English lit An Inspector Calls Structure Strip
Support students om structuring their response to an essay for AQA Paper 2 English literature

AQA Paper 2 English language structure strips
Structure strips for all of the questions on AQA Paper 2 English language

AQA English language paper 1 structure strips
Structure strips for all of the questions on paper 1 English language

Descriptive writing AO5 and AO6 year 9 DiRT Lesson
Heavily scaffolded lesson to support students in improving following a descriptive writing assessment.

AQA English literature Unseen Poetry Structure Strips
Designed to support students for each question in the AQA Unseen poetry in paper 2 English literature.

AQA English Literature Power and Conflict Structure Strips
Structure strips designed to support students’ essay writing for AQA English literature Power and Conflict poetry.

AQA English Literature Jekyll and Hyde style structure strip
Structure strips forJekyll and Hyde responses designed for AQA. Easy to adapt to add/ take away scaffolding.

Descriptive reading/ writing COMPASS DiRT Lessons
Designed to support KS3 lessons, following an assessment, to successfully identify and analyse descriptive writing teachniques/methods. Slide 3 and 5 in lesson 1 and slide 5 in lesson 2 will need to be adapted to meet the needs of the assessment set prior to this DiRT lesson.

Bayonet charge an Introduction
PPT and work booklet aimed at low ability students as an introduction to the poem designed for AQA English literature.

A-level English Language and Literature: Dramatic Encounters A Streetcar Named Desire
A teacher handbook, lesson powerpoints and student knowledge book for A Streetcar Named Desire for AQA A level Langauge and Literature Paper 2 Dramatic Encounters.
In this part of the subject content, students explore the ways that conflicts are presented, the meanings that can be inferred from the language use and the contextual reasons for these conflicts. As part of their study, students analyse areas relevant to the study of drama and dramatic discourse, including how playwrights:
represent natural speech features
use language to create distinctively different characters
show characters asserting power and positioning others via their language and behaviour
use the idea of conflict to create dynamic narratives and address the wider themes of the play.

Introduction to spoken language endorsement AQA GCSE
A lesson introducing students to the skills and requirements of the Spoken language endorsement for AQA GCSE English language. This lesson makes reference to the JCQ example recordings and AQA criteria.