5 grade 8/grade 9 model responses to the Power and Conflict poems.
Poppies and Exposure
War Photographer and Exposure 2 versions
Prelude and Storm on the Island
Ozymandias and Tissue
Bayonet Charge and Remains
I do have other power and conflict resources available:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-11626301
Revision cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049
With Lady Macbeth being the focus for the AQA May 2024 exam, here are a range of resources exploring Lady Macbeth’s character in detail. Includes timeline, poster, model answers, lessons and worksheets.
3 A3 revision sheets, 1 A4 revision sheet and a set of revision cards.
Sheet 1 has carefully selected key quotations for all 6 characters and carefully selected points about context for A03.
Sheet 2 has quotations for 5 themes and exam questions based on each theme.
Sheet 3 is a summary and brief explanation of 10 key quotations for each character.
Sheet 4 contains a summary of key stage directions across the play.
Sheet 1 contains suggested differentiated revision activities:
Bronze:
Apply a word from the word bank to each quotation.
Silver:
Link each quotation to a theme (age, gender, class, responsibility).
Gold:
Use the revision sheet to write essays on all 6 characters.
Several helpful and printable revision sheets and activity sheets covering key quotations for characters, themes and stage directions with links to examination questions and context.
The themes covered include:
Responsibility
Class
Age
Gender
Wealth, Power and Influence.
4 differentiated writing frames to 4 actual AQA power and conflict past exam questions. Each writing frame has 3 tiers of difficulty to allow for the fact different students in the class require different levels of support and guidance in the run up to the examinations.
Tier 1: Students add the analysis of the quotations. The topic sentences and recommended quotations are already filled in for them.
Tier 2: Students must pick their own 3 quotations from each poem and analyse the quotations.
Tier 3: Students must pick their own topic sentences, quotations and then analsyse the quotations.
The questions covered are as follows:
2021 question: Compare how poets present ideas about power and control in ‘London’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
Nov 2020 question: Compare how poets present the ways people are affected by difficult experiences in ‘Remains’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
May 2019 question: Compare how poets present the ways that people are affected by war in ‘War Photographer’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
May 2018 question: Compare how poets present ideas about power in ‘Ozymandias’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
Also includes a selection of more than 10 other writing frames that I created a few years ago but are still fairly popular on here.
Includes:
Bayonet Change and Charge of the light brigade
Ozymandias and Prelude x2
War Photographer and Remains
Ozymandias and My Last Duchess
London and Emigree
Storm on the Island and Exposure
Poppies and Remains
Ozymandias and Tissue
Checking out me History and My Last Duchess
Use the A3 sheet to revise inferences for 10 quotations per character then compare against the answer sheet. The animations on the PowerPoint reveal each answer one by one so you can go through them in turn.
Activity is differentiated to encourage higher-level students to push for more advanced inferences and to identify and comment on language features and Priestley’s wider purpose.
I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310
Revision Cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143
Knowledge Organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057
Revision quotations:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293
9 Romeo flashcards covering explanations for 27 quotations which cover different aspects of Romeo’s character. Includes a pdf version and an editable version in word.
I normally give students the blank versions of the cards and reveal the answers later in the lesson.
Also includes some theme revision cards too.
Also presented as a revision poster.
A 42 page revision booklet for the Edexcel conflict poetry anthology. Contains a page on each poem packed with analysis of the key quotations. Also contains knowledge organisers on main ideas, structure and context and various high level model responses to a range of questions.
A 23 page booklet containing detailed analysis and annotations for all 18 poems alongside knowledge organisers covering the main ideas, context and structure in each poem.
104 PowerPoint slides containing annotations for the whole play - Macbeth. A great resource to accompany a reading of the play or to help students address gaps in their learning through absence. I originally created this resource to help some students who missed a large proportion of the curriculum due to absence.
Annotations are click activated so the teacher can talk through them one by one.
There are over 300 annotations covering every scene of the play. Obviously, I have prioritised the key moments from the key scenes for the most detailed annotations. The PowerPoint is fully editable so you can add extra annotations so you add, remove or change the amount of annotations to suit the ability of your students.
I have included a revision task sheet that encourages students to go through the PowerPoint and explain what is happening in each scene, explore the language in the key quotations and evaluate the thematic significance of the scene.
My students voted this as their most useful revision resource for A Christmas Carol.
First ask students to annotate the top 50 quotations in the text and then give out the answer sheet to check their responses.
For weaker students, there is a matching version where students match the 50 quotations to 50 brief explanations.
Also contains more advanced notes on my top 20 quotations linked to A01, A02 and A03.
For students wanting a comprehensive knowledge of the text there is also a 100 quotation version with meanings, methods and message briefly explained for all 100 quotations.
This PowerPoint contains detailed annotations of 34 key quotations to the novel.
There are 4 annotations for each quotation which link to
A01 - meaning
A02 - writer’s methods
A03 - context/themes/wider ideas
Start by showing the students the 4 quotations and asking them to annotate them. Then talk through the annotations which appear one by one on the mouse clicl
The following characters and themes are covered:
Simon
Roger
Jack
Ralph
Piggy
Hair
Evil
Island
Conch
Also includes a random generator quotation PowerPoint. Simply stop the PowerPoint on a slide and students must guess the missing word.
PowerPoints on both poems containing questions and activities followed by a writing frame for answering an AQA style exam question which is structured in the following way:
P1. Compare how both poems present the horror of conflict in war.
P2. Compare how both poems present the bravery of soldiers.
P3. Compare how the structure helps show the conflict.
Includes the two poems on one page for ease of printing and to encourage independent analysis before giving students the option of the writing frame.
This A3 revision sheet revises key quotations for 6 key characters and 4 key themes in the play. There are also notes on context for each theme and an exam question for each character and theme.
Students found this really useful to help them revise for the new closed book examinations.
In this 16 slide powerpoint, I have selected 4 key quotations for each poem to annotate in detail with a focus on all 3 areas of assessment:
A01: meanings
A02: analysis of methods
A03: Context/Themes
This lesson is repeatable in the run up to the exam to revise all 60 quotations and their various layers of meaning. I have also included an answer sheet on A3 paper with all the slides on one page.
How it works:
Show students the 4 quotations and give them time to annotate them then reveal the teacher answers to compare.
The teacher annotations are animated and appear one by one on the mouse click so you can talk through them.
A successful lesson that doesn’t require any photocopying!
Two revision resources covering big ideas in Macbeth which allow students to chart how the major themes of the novel develop through the course of the play.
There is a version aimed at grade 9 students which contains perceptive inferences for the key quotations linking.
There is also a version aimed at students working towards grade 4 or 5 with clear and relevant comments on the quotations.
PowerPoint contains essential annotations for all 18 Eduqas poems.
Also contains a revision booklet with a page of detailed analysis of quotations for each poem.
Also includes a quiz and revision cards for each poem and the PowerPoint for a revision lesson.
Links to other Eduqas poetry resources:
Revision Cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-wjec-poetry-revision-cards-gcse-12107545
Lessons on all poems
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-anthology-bundle-2-lesson-on-each-poem-11896591
Revision resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-revising-all-poems-11894072
Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-bundle-gcse-9-1-11815065
4 handy revision sheets covering the following 4 characters in A Christmas Carol:
Scrooge
Fred
Cratchit Family
Ghost of Christmas Past
Also includes analysis of the 10 key words in the novella for zooming in on.
Also includes:
A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist.
A01: What is the meaning of the quotation?
A02: What is the impact of words/methods?
A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation?
Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it.
Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.
Also contains a lesson and resource to help students explore multiple interpretations for what each character symbolises or represents.
A new and vastly improved character revision sheet for 2023-2024
This A3 sheet contains a thesis-style introduction and 10 key quotations analysed in detail for the 4 main characters in Lord of the Flies:
Piggy, Simon, Ralph and Jack.
Also contains a blank template version. I give students the blank template first to see how much they can recall before going over the answers.
Which character do you think is going to come up in the 2025 exam?
Character revision sheets for the 5 main characters in Lord of the Flies - Piggy, Ralph, Jack, Roger and Simon. Each sheet explores 10 key quotations from across the novel. Also includes a revision sheet on the island because this is a common exam question that hasn’t come up for a couple of years. Perfect revision preparation for 2024.
Includes a pdf version or an editable word version in case you need to swap around any of the top 10 quotations to suit your teaching.