This PowerPoint guides students through how to plan and structure 5 exam responses.
Each plan has click-activated animations to talk through the process of constructing an answer. The plan is written in short hand to help students with note-taking.
Each plan guides students to work through the text chronologically.
Each question plan includes:
Thesis
Context
4 topic sentences for 4 content paragraphs
Quotations for each paragraph
Inferences and methods (A02)
Conclusion considering authorial purpose and universal truths (A03)
The 5 questions cover the following topics:
How is Banquo presented?
How is Macbeth presented as a violent character?
How does Shakespeare present Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship?
How do the witches influence the play?
How does Shakespeare present hallucinations?
New for 2024. Also includes a sixth essay plan and a step by step essay plan and grade 9 response looking at how the concept of kingship is presented in the play.
Differentiated tasks based on composition of leitmotifs for film music. All using Star Wars as a stimulas.
Based on melodic and harmonic development methods.
A lesson aimed an understanding and analysing the prologue to Romeo and Juliet. Originally aimed at a relatively low ability group but there are extension tasks on the main activity to stretch the more able. There is a further optional extension worksheet attached.
This 44 page PowerPoint collates my carefully selected annotations for each poem onto one 44 page powerpoint.
The annotations are animated to appear on the mouse click so you can go over them one by one.
The revision lesson asks students to make 3 mind maps by grouping the poems into 3 themes:
Power of nature: Tissue, Storm on the Island, Kamikaze, Prelude, Ozymandias,
Effects of war: Bayonet Charge, Exposure, War Photographer, Charge of the Light Brigade, Poppies, Remains
Conflict with identify: London, Emigree, Checking out my History, My Last Duchess
Also includes an A3 revision sheet containing key notes on each poem.
Also includes a test with 5 questions on every poem.
I do have other power and conflict resources available:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-11626301
Model answers:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-grade-9-model-essays-12213236
Revision cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049
Lesson on A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy.
Includes starter, differentiated questions for students to explore the poem independently followed by answers and then detailed annotations. The final slide is an examination question in the style of EDUQAS 9-1.
The revision card template asks students to identify the following information in each poem to ensure they have a basic understanding of the poem that comes up.
Type of power and/or conflict
3 essential quotations
Structure
Form
Context
Works well when bought in conjunction with my 5 star rated revision grid.
A guide for how to write a comparison of Ozymandias and Hawk Roosting using a 13 step guide to ensure comparisons are discriminating. Includes lesson and worksheet.
Also includes an alternative differentiated version of the writing frame with more scaffolding.
A range of resources about how to compare Power and Conflict poems which include:
10 writing frames
Model paragraphs
40 pairs of quotations that are useful for comparing
using a revision grid to plan comparisons
and lots of other ideas
A writing frame to guide students through the following exam style question:
Compare the ways the poets in War Photographer and one other poem (Remains) present ideas about conflict. (30).
The writing frame encourages students to make discriminating comparisons between the poems.
Resources to support the analysis of verse 1, 2 and guitar solo for Samba em Preludio. All music is on Sibalius 6 and worksheet have been created to break down the analysis. These are double sided A3 and also look to compare the similarities and differences between verse 1 and 2.
Detailed annotations are on the powerpoints.
PowerPoint for a walking talking mock exam on the Eduqas English Literature May 2017 Paper 1 exam.
The text used for Section A is Romeo and Juliet.
The named poem in Section B was Sonnet 43.
This has been used successfully with a whole year group.
10 Sample exam questions for the GCSE 9-1 Eduqas Poetry Anthology.
Includes the 15 mark a) question and the 25 mark b) question.
Also includes 14 sample comparative b) questions for a carousel revision lesson.
In pairs, students will respond to all 14 questions over the course of the lesson.
Also includes 6 unseen poems with questions.
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