This is a post co-written with Sarah Barker (@MsSFax) and Amy Forrester (@amymayforrester) with a view to collating in one place all the fab posts written to enhance teachers’ subject knowledge of the AQA Lit texts.
You will see that there are a fair few gaps. The other aim of writing this post is to highlight where there opportunities for posts to be written about set texts. If you spot a gap and know of a great post already out there that we’ve missed, please let us know. If you spot a gap and fancy writing a post on it, write it and please let us know.
Do your thing Team English!
PAPER ONE: SHAKESPEARE AND THE 19TH-CENTURY NOVEL
Section A: Shakespeare
Macbeth
‘Something wicked this way comes’ – Macbeth and the Gothic Tradition by Lance Hanson
Masculinity by Lance Hanson
Macbeth – some thoughts on a few deeper issues by Lance Hanson
Hear the one about the dead Queen? by Matt Pinkett
Romeo and Juliet
Blokes and birds – look at them, phwoar, I mean, soar by Chris Curtis
The Tempest
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
Section B: The 19th-Century Novel
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Etiquette, sexual repression and body snatching – A Guide to the context of Jekyll & Hyde by Mark Roberts
The Flaneur in Jekyll and Hyde by Lance Hanson
Post script to ‘The Flaneur in Jekyll and Hyde’: uncanny homes by Lance Hanson
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – still thinking about AO3 and extract to whole by Lance Hanson
Jekyll and Hyde – social context by Lance Hanson
Jekyll and Hyde and the Gothic Novel by Lance Hanson
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – reading the last chapter by Lance Hanson
A Christmas Carol
Teaching A Christmas Carol by Alex Quigley
Let the context do the talking… A Christmas Carol by Lance Hanson
Jacob Marley’s Bowel Movements by Chris Curtis
Great Expectations
Jane Eyre
Frankenstein
Pride and Prejudice
The Sign of Four
PAPER TWO: MODERN TEXTS AND POETRY
Section A: Modern Prose or Drama
An Inspector Calls
What happens when we teach interpretations of literature as facts? by Andy Tharby
The importance of Eva Smith by Lance Hanson
Blood Brothers
The History Boys
DNA
DNA – A Study Guide by Lance Hanson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A Taste of Honey
Lord of the Flies
Telling Tales
Animal Farm
Never Let Me Go
Anita and Me
Pigeon English
Section B: Poetry
Love and Relationships
When We Two Parted
Love’s Philosophy
Porphyria’s Lover
Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’
Neutral Tones
The Farmer’s Bride
Walking Away
Letters From Yorkshire
Eden Rock
Follower
Mother, any distance
Before You Were Mine
Winter Swans
Singh Song!
Climbing My Grandfather
Power and Conflict
Ozymandias
London
Marks of weakness, marks of woe by Sarah Barker
Linking structure to language in Blake’s ‘London‘ by Lance Hanson
William Blake’s London by Lance Hanson
The Prelude: stealing the boat
The Prelude – William Wordsworth by Lance Hanson
My Last Duchess
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Exposure
Storm on the Island
Bayonet Charge
Remains
‘Remains’ by Simon Armitage – A Guide by Mark Roberts
Poppies
War Photographer
Tissue
Paper that lets the light shine through… by Sarah Barker
The émigree
Kamikaze
Kamikaze: some supplementary thoughts by Sarah Barker
Checking Out Me History
The Learning Profession 
Thank you for sharing. If I find the time, in my nascent position as an RQT, I may just tackle one of the gaps that need filling…
How does one set up a blog like yours without too much fancy stuff?
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I’d love you to start blogging, Hugh. I find WordPress pretty easy to navigate. Doesn’t take long to set up and, if you get stuck, let me know and I’ll try and help. However, if I can do it then anybody can!
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I have just posted my first blog! 🤘
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