Lessons 1 to 5 of the full scheme of work.

Full Scheme here:

The most comprehensive Hamlet Crime Writing pack on TES. Thirty lessons, three hundred and sixty slides, eighteen companion documents, and a complete partner-text pairing guide for AQA 7717/2A Paper 2A: Texts and Genres: Elements of Crime Writing.

Designed by an experienced UK secondary school leader and English specialist. Every resource is evidence-informed, AO-mapped, and aligned to the AQA 2021 mark scheme’s specific instruction that Hamlet must be read AS crime writing.

Medium Term Plan

11-page landscape A4 medium term plan with the complete 30-lesson sequence, AO mapping for every lesson, assessment timeline showing where formative and summative work falls, sensitive content protocols (Lessons 11, 12, and 13 flagged), partner text compatibility notes, and detailed delivery notes including the critical crime writing framework discipline reminder that every lesson must reinforce the genre lens rather than drifting into tragedy reading.

Five Knowledge Organisers (portrait A4, 2 to 3 pages each)

Phase-aligned to the six batches, each with a 10-question self-quiz for spaced retrieval practice:

KO 1: Crime Genre Framing (Lessons 1 to 5)
KO 2: Close Study Part 1 (Lessons 6 to 10)
KO 3: Close Study Part 2 (Lessons 11 to 15)
KO 4: Section A and B Technique (Lessons 16 to 20)
KO 5: Section C Comparative Technique (Lessons 21 to 25)
Five Retrieval Grids (125 questions in total)

Colour-coded 5x5 grids covering DEFINE, RECALL, APPLY, EVALUATE, and STRETCH question types, with full answer keys for self-marking. Twenty-five questions per grid, phase-aligned to the lesson batches. Designed for fortnightly spaced retrieval throughout the scheme.