Students read a model response to the following question: How does Shakespeare present the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet. (34). Then then have to annotate each sentence to analyse what the essay writer is doing in each section of the response. There is also a building better answers sheet included.

Revision lesson. Students identify language features in 8 short key extracts from the novella. Can be printed in A4 but A3 is recommended.

A grade 9 response to the following question: Starting with this extract, how does Dickens explore the importance of places in the novel? (30 marks) Explore how Dickens presents a place in the extract Explore how Dickens presents places across the novel as a whole. The extract (included) is from the start of Stave 3 when the ghost of Christmas Present transforms Scrooge’s room. This was written in one 45 minute sitting to reflect the amount of time students would have to write their response in the exam.

A lesson aimed at getting students to be more conscious of the sentences types they use in their descriptive writing. Images from A Christmas Carol are used as the stimulus for the descriptive writing. After each task, students complete extension tasks to review their combination of sentence types.

A great way to relieve stress and create a relaxing classroom environment at the end of a long term while helping students embed quotations into their long term memory I have selected 16 key quotations from Christmas Carol and including a relevant image with each quotation that can be coloured in. Students annotate the 16 quotations following the differentiated success criteria and annotate the 16 key quotations for various shades of meaning. After they finish annotating, I allow them to colour in the images. Also contains drawings of characters to colour in and label with quotations or what students know about each character.

Lesson exploring the significance of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. Looks at 10 key quotations and makes links to A03 wider context. Also includes a high grade exam response on Tiny Tim.

This lesson is aimed at getting students to extend their analysis of quotations by thinking of 3 inferences for 12 important Scrooge quotations. Students have a go at thinking of 3 inferences for each of the 12 quotations. Later in the lesson, use the animated PowerPoint to share possible answers for each quotation.

Students use the worksheet to follow the 9 step method for approaching an exam question on a theme in A Christmas Carol for the 9-1 GCSE examination. Includes an exam style question, a suggested writing frame using prompts from the AQA website, a table for planning a response and recommended extracts to zoom out to. Ideal for examination revision. Also included is a resource offering 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas. Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations. Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations. Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.

PowerPoint covering 4 lessons on Stave 1. Lesson 1: Prepare for assessment on Scrooge in Stave 1 using GCSE style extract and help sheets. Lesson 2: Complete assessment Lesson 3: Respond to feedback using model essay to help. Differentiated. Lesson 4: Test on 28 key quotations from Stave 1.

Various resources to help students explore Stave 2. PowerPoint included. Worksheets include: Stave 2 questions Stave 2 exam style question Stave 2 revision poster activity Comparing Stave 1 and 2 Analysing key quotations Lesson analysing the Ghost of Christmas Past Lesson Analysing Fezziwig

3 Grade 9 model responses to annotate and analyse to 3 different GCSE-style questions on the following topics: 1. The supernatural 2. Bob Cratchit 3. Importance of Christmas

A CHRISTMAS CAROL EXAM QUESTION PREDICTIONS - planning sheets with extracts

Contains resources to help students answer the following exam style response: How does Steinbeck create sympathy for Lennie in Of Mice and Men.

Lesson analysing Steinbeck’s initial description of Slim in Chapter 2 with a focus on developing 2 analytical comments about each quotation.