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Plastic Theatre Revision Sheet
A revision sheet focused on Williams’ use of plastic theatre in A Streetcar Named Desire. It offers detailed analysis of 12 moments from the play which use plastic theatre to help express universal truths about the human condition.
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AQA Paper 1 Model Answers Bundle
A large collection of model answers for AQA Language Paper 1 Questions 2, 3, 4 and 5 from past exams.
Includes high level model responses for the past 3 exams:
Summer 2024 - The Grass is Singing
Summer 2023 - Life of Pi
November 2022 - The Old Man and The Sea
Summer 2022 - The Pearl
Also includes lots of extra Paper 1 Question 5 examples with a focus on the drop, shift, zoom, leave structure, pathetic fallacy opening and using a motif.
The Handmaid's Tale 100 Key Quotations Revision Organiser
An A3 sheet containing 100 key quotations in chronological order from The Handmaid’s Tale alongside brief explanations.
Students find this useful.
Start with asking students to RAG rate.
Red - Little understanding/unlikely to use in an essay
Amber - Some understanding/some chance of using in an essay
Green - Good understanding/likely to use in an essay
After this, I would ask students to group quotations in terms of different themes such as the following:
The Body
Rebellion
Duality
Fertility
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A Streetcar Named Desire Character Revision Sheets
Revision sheets for the 4 main characters in A Streetcar Named Desire: Blanche, Stanley, Stella and Mitch. Each sheet contains high level analysis of key quotations and stage directions relating to the character.
AQA Language Paper 2 November 2024 model answers
Model answers for questions 2-5 of the AQA November 2024 Paper 2 exam when the 2 non-fiction texts were about Egypt.
I have included 2 answers of slightly different quality for each question so students can compare them both and adjudge the quality against the marking criteria.
Note the extract and exact wording of the questions are not included and would need to be obtained from elsewhere such as the AQA website.
Romeo and Juliet context
A handy A3 context sheet aimed at helping students understand how the Elizabethan context enriches our understanding of the play. Ideal as a starting point for helping students move outside of the text to address A03.
Also contains a revision resource about what Romeo and Juliet teaches us about the human condition which is another way of meeting the criteria for A03.
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AQA Language Paper 1 Model Answers 2022-24
Model answers for AQA Paper 1 2022-24.
Includes model responses to exams based on the following extracts:
The Pearl
The Old Man and the Sea
The Glass House
Life of Pi
The Grass is Singing
Note the actual extracts are not included but are available to download on the AQA website.
For most questions I have tried to provide 2 different model responses so students can compare and contrast how each response meets the markscheme success criteria.
A Christmas Carol Scheme of Learning 33 lessons
A thorough and detailed 33 lesson scheme of learning for A Christmas Carol. This resources contains 33 fully resourced lessons totalling over 500 PPT slides alongside accompanying worksheets. The unit starts with a cold read then goes through each stave in detail before ending with revision lessons looking at big ideas, key quotations and key extracts. Each lesson has been labelled clearly with a lesson number to make everything easy to find and ready to teach.
Lessons 1-5. Cold read of each Stave with comprehension questions.
Lesson 6. 19th century Context
Lesson 7. Preface and Marley was dead to begin with extract
Lesson 8. Scrooge’s introduction
Lesson 9. Scrooge’s isolation
Lesson 10. Marley’s Ghost
Lesson 11. Ghost of Christmas Past
Lesson 12. Scrooge’s Childhood in Stave 2
Lesson 13. Fezziwig
Lesson 14 and 15. Belle
Lesson 16. Ghost of Christmas Present
Lesson 17. Christmas Morning
Lesson 18. Cratchit Family Christmas
Lesson 19. Tiny Tim
Lesson 20. Christmas in remote places (miners, solitary lighthouse, ship)
Lesson 21. Fred’s Party
Lesson 22. Ignorance and Want
Lesson 23. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Lesson 24 and 25. Stave 4 vignettes
Lesson 26. Stave 5 and Scrooge’s transformation
Lesson 27. Big Idea of poverty as a problem in society
Lesson 28. Big idea of Christmas as a joyful time
Lesson 29. Big idea of Family as the fabric of society
Lesson 30. Character Revision
Lesson 31. Revising 100 key quotations.
Lesson 32. Revising key quotations in each stave.
Lesson 33. Revision 12 key extracts
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A Streetcar Named Desire Bundle
A bundle of resources to support the teaching of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Detailed lesson on each scene of the play with accompanying revision sheets analysing key quotations.
Character revision sheets on the 4 main characters.
Various high level model responses.
Revision booklet collating the resources into an easy to print version.
Banquo Revision Sheet
A revision sheet analysing 10 key quotations on the character of Banquo in Macbeth.
A Streetcar Named Desire: Scene 5
Detailed 41 slide lesson analysing scene 5 from A Streetcar Named Desire to over 2 or 3 lessons. Includes detailed analysis of 12 key quotations from Scene 5 along with a blank template for students to explore their own thoughts about the quotations. Includes an analytical writing task based on the episode at the end of the scene.
Much Ado About Nothing Plot Storyboard
Simple storyboard activity to help students gain a basic understanding of the plot to Much Ado About Nothing.
Paper 2 Question 5 Grade 9 exemplar (June 2020)
A grade 9 response to the AQA June 2020 Paper 2 Question 5 about whether or not travel was a waste of time.
It starts with a powerful anecdote, has 2 paragraphs arguing the benefits of travel, then it looks at and dismisses the counter argument before reaching a conclusion which links back to the opening anecdote to gain marks for whole text structure and organisation. Vocabulary is sophisticated throughout and punctuation is advanced.
The Soldier Eduqas Poetry Revision
Highly detailed annotations of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke to support students with gaining a perceptive and thoughtful understanding of the Eduqas poetry anthology.
Motif of fire A Christmas Carol
A revision sheet exploring the motif of fire with 13 carefully selected quotations allowing students to trace how the motif is used by Dickens to convey his authorial messages about poverty, isolation, kindness, family and the transformative power of redemption.
Also includes a blank student version to encourage students to explore the impact of the quotations themselves.
A Streetcar Named Desire: Analysis of opening stage directions and epigraph
A worksheet for exploring the significance of the opening stage directions of A Streetcar Named Desire. It also comes with a suggested answer sheet with high grade responses to the questions.
The opening stage directions are so rich in meanings and wider significance that it is worthwhile helping students to become experts in analysing this section because it can be used in a wide range of potential essay questions. Hopefully this worksheet should help.
This also contains a sheet closely analysing the significance of the epigraph.
How to compare every poem to Exposure: Power and Conflict Revision
A knowledge organiser looking at how every poem in the Power and Conflict anthology can be compared to Exposure. Exposure is a key poem to revise because it links to many themes: power of nature, human power(lessness), loss of identity, conflict with identity, power of a place.
Contains 14 high level comparative paragraphs comparing a key quotation from Exposure and another poem to provide an example of how to make a thoughtful and perceptive conceptual comparison.
Also contains a revision sheet looking solely at the key quotations in Exposure with detailed analysis linked to the AOs.
Power and Conflict: Revision of Big Ideas
PowerPoint with click-animated text which goes through 4 big ideas in the collection concerning the power of nature, conflict over identity, abuse of power and the power of memories. For each big idea, I go through key quotations from specific poems with detailed analysis written in short form to assist with note-taking. Students then move on to try using big ideas to help plan responses to 3 exam-style questions.
My most comprehensive resource on Power and Conflict poetry is available here with revision posters on every poem:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-sheets-12884928
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AQA Language Paper 2 Model Answers June 2022- June 2024
High level model answer booklets for the following 5 AQA language Paper 2 exams:
June 2022 - camping
November 2022 - Sleep and Sleeplessness
June 2023 - trains
November 2023 - Environmental concerns
June 2024 - medical care
Contains 2 high level responses for questions 2, 3, 4 and 5 so students can compare the merits of each response.
Compare how anger presented in A Poison Tree and one other poem (Edexcel conflict poetry)
2 model answers to the Edexcel conflict poetry exam style question:
Compare how anger is presented in A Poison Tree and one other poem.
Essay 1 uses Exposure
Essay 2 uses Half Caste