Differentiated activities on Chapter 2 with an accompanying PowerPoints Lesson 1. Understanding Chapter 2. Differentiated comprehension activity. Lesson 2. The bunkhouse. Differentiated resources leading to PEE responses. Lesson 3. Curley meets Lennie. Differentiated resources leading to PEE responses. Lesson 4: How is Curley’s Wife presented. Worksheet with writing frame.

3 lessons exploring Chapter 3. Lesson 1: A differentiated comprehension worksheet to help students of different abilities engage with Chapter 3 of Steinbeck’s novel. Tough: Storyboard Tougher: Comprehension Questions Toughest: Analysis Questions There is also a differentiated writing task included on the PowerPoint: Tough: Lennie wanted poster Tougher: Diary entry for girl from Weed Toughest: Newspaper report of what happened in Weed Lesson 2 involves analysing the language to describe the fight between Lennie and Curley. Lesson 3 is a skills lesson which looks at how to deliberately use a combination of simple, compound and complex sentences in paragraphs.

Lessons analysing how George and Lennie are presented in Chapter 1. Includes different styles of lessons to match to different abilities/cohorts. Also includes planning sheet and model answers on George and Lennie at different levels and in different analytical styles.

Dreams in Of Mice and Men: essay planning sheet

Includes powerpoint and planning resources for an assessment analysing Crooks in Chapter 4. Also includes a model essay to help with responding to feedback. Also includes 6 tasks based on Chapter 4 that works well as an independent learning task or as a cover lesson.

A lesson analysing how George and Lennie are presented in Chapter 1. Includes annotation of an extract, a sample paragraph followed by an independent task.

Full lesson to help students analyse the significance of the death of Curley’s Wife in Chapter 5.

2 lessons on Chapter 2 analysing the initial presentation of Curley and Curley’s Wife in Chapter 2 with success criteria, writing frames, model paragraphs, extension activities and accompanying worksheets. Also includes a high level model answer on Curley’s Wife. Also includes an essay plan for analysing how Curley’s Wife is presented across the whole novel.

Turn the story of Pandora’s Box into a storyboard.

Worksheets to teach The Midas Touch. Includes text to the story: Differentiated storyboard activity Differentiated activity exploring the question: Is Midas a good father?

Printer friendly resource for a differentiated carousel group activity in which each group has to teach others a myth and complete the table. The 5 myths in order of difficulty starting with the hardest: Tantalus Icarus Trojan Horse Perseus Orpheus

Week of lesson activities on Theseus and the Minotaur which would work for KS2/KS3 Includes the text to the story A differentiated storyboard activity (bronze, silver, gold) A myth mountain to study the structure of the story A differentiated worksheet on who is the cruellest character The accompanying PowerPoint with learning outcomes

Complete lesson analysing language in the opening to Great Expectations with a focus on the skills for English Language Paper 1 Question 2. Contains detailed annotations of the extract along with exemplar responses to the exam-style questions. Plenary asks students to review the features of a successful analytical paragraph.

A worksheet in which students have to match 50 key A Christmas Carol quotations to 50 brief explanations. Also includes a follow up worksheet for students to then explain each quotation independently.

Use for a final revision session or series of sessions on A Christmas Carol Present the students with 6 big ideas about the novel. Students use the attached top 50 quotations sheet to help add their ideas about each big idea. I have also included a top 100 quotation version for higher ability students. Then go through possible answers on the PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is animated and each answer appears on the mouse click so you can talk through each one as it appears. I have also included 6 predictions about what extract might come up. Now we are 3 years into the 9-1 syllabus, I predict they might use a more obscure extract so I have picked 6 less obvious extracts. Students read each extract and complete the planning grid. Also includes some sample exam style responses to different generic questions. New for 2022 is a large PowerPoint encouraging students to choose and explain their top 3 quotations for 9 different themes.

Various comprehension worksheets to develop an understanding of the 3 parts of the book.

Red Dust - Travel writing extract comprehension activities

A cloze activity based around selecting word choices for effect and then commenting on the word choices. Students then listen to the song and compare their word choices with the original.