Girl on an Altar is first examined in 2027. There are no past papers, no published guides, and no time to build a scheme from scratch. This pack removes the preparation, not the teaching.

It takes you across 21 lessons, from the myth and the world of the play through a guided reading to a timed 60-mark answer. The reading is staged so that no lesson depends on students having read ahead, and the exam work is concentrated at the end, when the play is securely known. Two running artefacts, a key-moments grid and a quotation bank, are fed every lesson and become the machine students plan their essays from.

What is included

• A Teacher Overview and sensitive-content protocol
• A Play Guide for your own preparation
• Scene-by-scene cheat sheets
• A focused bank of twelve key moments and quotations, organised by exam use
• A detailed Scheme of Work: the full 21-lesson pathway, the reading method, the assessment map and the exam coverage
• The 21 lesson plans, supplied as a separate file with the pack: one folder per lesson, each with a ready-to-teach plan and a complete editable slide deck
• Model paragraphs at H1, H3 and H5 with PCLM commentary
• An exam question bank by type
• An assessment architecture with low-burden marking notes
• Catch-up sheets students can use independently after an absence
• A vocabulary and phrasing bank
• A standalone revision pack

Why teachers choose it

• Built for the real exam: Single Text, Section I, Paper 2, 60 marks, marked on PCLM, with worked answers in H1 to H8 language
• Built to teach from, not hand to the student
• Absence-proofed, so a student who misses a week is not lost
• Honest about a hard text, planning for the sensitive content rather than glossing over it

Higher Level. On the Leaving Certificate English prescribed list as a single text (first listed for 2027). Short fair-dealing quotations only; designed for use alongside your own copy of the play.