This popular pack offers great value. It contains various worksheets to support with the teaching of A Christmas Carol for 2022 AQA GCSE examinations.
The pack includes plans to help students respond to various AQA style examination questions.
There is also a comprehensive list of the key quotations from stanzas 1 to 5.
There is also a list of possible AQA style questions and a list of key context points.
There are also helpsheets to structure responses on the character of Scrooge.
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 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.
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.
A comprehensive A3 revision sheet for ‘A Christmas Carol’ with differentiated tasks.
It includes key quotations from each stave and various ways of making links to context for A03.
The differentiated tasks encourage students to
Bronze: Find language features in the quotations
Silver: Match the quotations and context to themes
Gold: Work out the 10 quotations which can be adapted to suit the most themes.
Also includes a planning 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
7 detailed essay plans to help students produce exam style responses on each of the 7 main characters in the play.
Sheila
Eric
Mr Birling
Mrs Birling
Eva
Inspector Goole
Gerald
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
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!
Lesson revising 4 war poems from the Eduqas GCSE anthology:
Dulce et Decorum Est
Mametz Wood
The Manhunt
The Soldier
Includes carefully selected essential annotations for each poem following by an extension activity asking students to write the opening sentences to discriminating comparisons that identify similarities and differences.
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
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
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.
A series of SPaG worksheets for 20 minute intervention sessions aimed at KS32/3.
Topics covered include:
Apostrophes
Comma splices
Semi Colons
Colons
Brackets
Embedded clauses
Subordinate clauses
Literacy board game
Making inferences
Word classes
PowerPoint revises 6 quotations for each of the following big ideas in the novel:
Poverty is a serious problem
Material leads to isolation
Supernatural as a catalyst for redemption
The rich have a responsibility to help the poor
Christmas is a joyful time
Family is important
For each quotation, the inferences are written in short hand to help students make precise and concise notes.
They are animated so teachers can talk through them one by one to build up the layers of inference.
8 student friendly high-quality literacy worksheets to support students at KS2/3.
1. Embedded clauses
2. Subordinate clauses
3. Sentences and fragments
4. Semi colons
5. Apostrophes
6. Parts of speech part 1
7. Parts of speech part 2
8. Colon
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.