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A Head of English, Examiner my resources span 26 years of teaching.
Othello essay plans: jealousy and idealised love
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Othello essay plans: jealousy and idealised love

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Two detailed essay plans on ‘Othello’. These have been put together to aid the teaching of AQA’s spec A English Literature course ‘Love Through the Ages’ but would be suitable for any A level course or to support more able students at GCSE. The pdfs include the essay titles and the passage with suggested ideas on both the passage and elsewhere in the play.
Eduqas GCSE poetry anthology 'War' collection
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Eduqas GCSE poetry anthology 'War' collection

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Everything you need to teach the ‘war’ poems from the GCSE Eduqas poetry anthology. 77 slides, include lessons on all of the following: Armitage, Sheers, Owen, Brooke, Hardy. Slides include close analysis of each poem, plus context and essays plans and structures to follow. I also have other resources on the other poems in the anthology and a bundle covering a full term’s work (with over 250 slides)
A Streetcar Named Desire - essay plan on the theme of masculinity
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A Streetcar Named Desire - essay plan on the theme of masculinity

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The slides are arranged with some just containing the quotations for students to ponder and build an argument around and other ‘teacher’ slides padded out with more notes and ideas. Suitable for any A level spec, the essay plan follows the structure of the following key ideas: Aggression and physical dominance - manifested in violence, in order to subjugate the women and preserve his authority. Male pride/ego Sexual desire - manifested in animalistic behaviour, suggesting masculine sexuality is base and primal
A Christmas Carol essay plans (5 plans with quotations)
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A Christmas Carol essay plans (5 plans with quotations)

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Detailed essay questions, including passages for analysis with key quotations, analysis and links to context highlighted in yellow - some plans with written paragraphs as a model. Essay topics covered include: how Scrooge changes throughout the novel poverty community transformation supernatural
Key Stage 2 & 3 Prose study The Land of Neverendings
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Key Stage 2 & 3 Prose study The Land of Neverendings

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This is a brilliant book covering lots of thoughtful issues around friendship, grief and it is also utterly magical and enchanting. This unit of work contains over 170 slides covering comprehension skills, reading implicit meaning, punctuation, report writing, descriptive writing, speech writing to name a few. It was used for year 8 students but could be used for top primary as well as early secondary. Lots of consolidated work here, fun and enough to keep students busy for at least a term.
Jane Eyre - background, analysis and assessment
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Jane Eyre - background, analysis and assessment

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A background presentation on Bronte, a contexts presentation, close analysis and chapter by chapter close textual analysis throughout the central Thornfield chapters plus other helpful banded answers
Tissue AQA
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Tissue AQA

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This is a detailed analysis of the poem with alternate readings. There are also slides with notes on the analysis of techniques.
AQA Othello: essay title 'women as helpless victims' including annotated extract
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AQA Othello: essay title 'women as helpless victims' including annotated extract

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An essay title written for the AQA spec A Love Through the Ages paper 1 section A with a question onRead the passage from Othello, provided below, and respond to the following: • ‘In Othello, love makes women helpless victims’. • In light of this view, discuss whether Shakespeare presents women as victims in this passage and elsewhere in the play. • [25 marks] This includes an annotated extract to support teaching.
Lord of the Flies - two essay titles with the appropriate quotations
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Lord of the Flies - two essay titles with the appropriate quotations

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Two essay titles with all the appropriate quotations gathered together for students to analyse: Why do you think it is important that Golding portrays the natural world as a character with malevolent characteristics? How does Golding establish a contrast between the two boys in the first five pages?
To Kill a Mockingbird - Maycomb as a character and context
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Maycomb as a character and context

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This was a really useful task which invited students to visualise the town of Maycomb and to answer the question: How does Harper Lee use the settings of Maycomb to reflect aspects of life in 1930s America. I’ve included my filled in version for teacher use.
Narrative writing: plots
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Narrative writing: plots

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A presentation covering the various plot narratives students could choose from when planning a short story. Towards the end are a series of detailed questions helping students to think about their own characters and how to create jeopardy and therefore a plot.
Gothic unit
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Gothic unit

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A mini unit on writing a Gothic chapter or scene. This includes material suitable for key stage 3. There are prompts within the tasks as well as scaffolded sheets.