A high-ability knowledge organiser for Much Ado about Nothing for AQA GCSE English Literature
Offered as a PDF
This is a high-ability revision tool (aspiring grades 7-9) which presumes students are competent already with the basic structure of the plot and basic character roles.
The knowledge organiser has two sides which can be copied back-to-to-back on A3 or simply put on your school’s intranet .
Side one offers analysis on the following four sections:
- Characters as concepts (11 characters) with significant key quotations and act/scene
- Significant Elizabethan contextual factors including: legitimacy, marriage, religion, humanism and patriarchal hegemony
- Significant themes including: constructive/destructive/self deception, love and marriage, transformation and gender (with act/scenes as relevant)
- High-level key vocabulary to help discuss the play conceptually
Side two offers analysis of method specifically dramatic comedy devices:
Metadrama, deception and artifice
Self-reflexive language / metalanguage
Pairs and Parallels (structure)
‘Happy’ endings
Green World
If you are new to teaching Much Ado about Nothing at a high-level, this would be a great tool for you as a teacher also to use as a planning aid and way into the text before giving to students for revision.
I hope you find it useful.
Best wishes,
Englbee x
Get this resource as part of a bundle and save up to 29%
A bundle is a package of resources grouped together to teach a particular topic, or a series of lessons, in one place.
Something went wrong, please try again later.
This resource hasn't been reviewed yet
To ensure quality for our reviews, only customers who have purchased this resource can review it
Report this resourceto let us know if it violates our terms and conditions.
Our customer service team will review your report and will be in touch.
£4.49