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Scrbbly resources are adaptable for classroom teaching, home schooling + independent study or revision. We're a team of expert tutors and examiners who all love English, and we aim for our content to be highly detailed, visually engaging and suitable for different levels and abilities.
OFFER: If you purchase one of our resources and leave an honest review, we'll give you a second resource completely FREE! Leave a review + drop us an email (admin@scrbbly.com) with your TES name and request.
This resource provides a full summary of Macbeth, broken down into Acts and Scenes. Perfect for teaching or studying - for students of all levels.
Before delving deeper into the ideas of the play (and often before even reading the play itself), it’s crucial that students have access to an overview of the key events. This digital + printable + PPT resource helps them to understand structure and characterisation more clearly and precisely.
CONTENTS:
Acts 1-5 fully covered
Each scene broken down into 1-2 sentence summaries
Guided study of key plot points
Visual aids for additional support
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Download our Macbeth Character Analysis for FREE as an example resource, to see whether the complete bundle is right for you!
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An overview of John Keats, his life and influences. Perfect for teaching or studying at any level!
This 5-page digital + printable pdf resource contains the following:
Keats’ Background
Keats’ Romantic Relationships
Bright Star
Critical Reception and Legacy
Extension Task: Shelley’s Adonais
Reasons to love this resource:
A full introduction to Keats, Romantic poetry + Key Literary concepts
A range of contextual details that can be used in essays to supplement analysis
Excerpts from Keats’ poems and letters
A short poetry analysis task centred around Adonais, Shelley’s elegy to Keats
Check our COMPLETE KEATS BUNDLE here!
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A full breakdown of the genres in An Inspector Calls, with a set of tasks tailored towards helping students to understand and analyse them more deeply.
This ** 7-page digital + printable pdf resource** includes the following genres:
DETECTIVE FICTION
WELL-MADE PLAY
MODERN MORALITY PLAY
CRIME
THRILLER
SOCIAL REALISM
MELODRAMA
DRAWING ROOM PLAY
BONUS MATERIAL
Varied Tasks + Exercises on each genre
Teaching or studying the play? View our full AN INSPECTOR CALLS BUNDLE here!
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A great way to introduce students to the key concepts of Macbeth!
This full lesson resource helps students to build confidence with reading Shakespearean language, interpreting key meanings and delving deeper into thematic and contextual analysis.
Suitable for GCSE, iGCSE and A Level students!
**This digital + printable pdf document includes the following: **
Reading + Understanding Act 1.1
Vocabulary list
Comprehension tasks
Analysis tasks (setting + atmosphere)
Thematic research - The Supernatural
Personal Response - Does Evil really exist?
Contextual research - Witches
Note: with the research tasks, students are encouraged to do their own reading. You could also use our Complete Context Revision document to support learning.
Reasons to love this resource:
A full breakdown of the opening of Macbeth
Guided study tasks to help students engage with deeper ideas
A great introduction to the ideas of the play
A range of tasks and exercises to encourage a personal response
Help students to achieve higher grades
Suitable for students of all levels
Visual aids for additional support!
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Just in time for Halloween, here’s a spooky letter that argues persuasively in defence of keeping the festival going!
The question is taken from an official AQA GCSE Language Paper 2
An AQA examiner wrote this answer with the mark scheme in mind, so it ticks all the boxes that you would expect for a top-level grade
A clear, thorough argument with counter paragraphs, an evaluative conclusion, lots of rhetorical devices, a logical structure and more!
This resource is provided as a digital + printable PDF and PowerPoint for adaptable teaching and studying - perfect for classrooms, homework, homeschooling and independent study.
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Here’s an essay completed by one of my students taking the ‘AQA Power and Conflict’ poetry module. It was his first comparative essay and his first poetry essay, so he did amazingly well! However, there is also clear room for improvement - I would expect the same student to be on a minimum of an L7 / A Grade by the time he takes his exams. I have given detailed feedback underneath to help him improve, plus a breakdown of the mark scheme and grade boundaries to show how his essay would convert to a specific grade.
Teaching or studying AQA Power + Conflict Poetry? Have a resource on us!
Download our Ozymandias Study Guide here!
View our full AQA POWER + CONFLICT POETRY BUNDLE here!
Teaching or studying the whole WJEC collection? Have a resource on us! Download Duffy’s ‘Valentine’ for free here!
View our full WJEC GCSE POETRY BUNDLE here.
Teaching or studying the full Cambridge A Level Literature course? Take a look at our CAMBRIDGE A LEVEL POETRY BUNDLE here.
Teaching or studying the Edexcel IGCSE Literature course? Take a look at our EDEXCEL IGCSE POETRY BUNDLE here.
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This is a borderline L7 -L8 Comparative Essay example that was completed by a student in time, with bonus feedback from an AQA examiner at the end.
This 8-page resource is provided as a digital + printable PDF, worksheet and PowerPoint for adaptable teaching and studying - perfect for classrooms, homework, homeschooling and independent study.
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Here is an essay that I wrote in (roughly!) timed conditions.
The topic was an Unseen Essay Question for a contextual literature paper — where you’re given an extract from a novel that you’ve never seen before, and you have to read and write about it using your knowledge of that time period — in this case, it was the 1950s and 1960s American US culture.
This is the type of essay that you’ll find at the college or university level, as well as in A-Level exams such as AQA English Literature ‘Modern Times’, OCR
American Literature ‘Comparative and Contextual Study’, WJEC’S Unseen
Component 3 and more.
It is suitable for OCR, AQA, Edexcel, and WJEC Literature A-Level.
This resource is for anyone who is aiming towards intermediate or advanced level writing. It covers a full breakdown of how to understand the features, as well as ways to create them and analyze them in your own writing.
This A* grade Robert Frost essay was completed by an A Level student – not in timed conditions.
She planned and thought thoroughly before writing, and edited the piece before handing it in. According to the mark scheme it received 23/25 (92%), which would translate to an A* grade at A-Level.
The piece can also be used as an example for any student studying Frost at any level. I have suggested some edits, which occur in bold throughout the essay.
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Many of the creative writing and descriptive writing questions in exams require you to focus on an object, person, place or thing. This document breaks down the process of writing to describe inanimate objects for students of all levels - KS3, GCSE, iGCSE and above.
Included:
Task 1: Choose an Object
Task 2: Sketching + Planning
Task 3: Writing
Task 4: Read an Example Answer
Task 5: Review your work
An unseen poetry sample answer written by a 15 year old student, aimed at helping students to understand the format of unseen exams. The response is written about Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’.
This digital + printable pdf resource includes:
The poem
The question + guidance
The example answer
A study task that helps students to identify key concepts and skills in the response
Reasons to love this resource:
Great for practising exam technique
A high quality response that shows good structuring and deep analysis
A guided reading task
Teaching or studying a full unseen module? Click here to view our Complete Unseen Poetry + Prose Study Pack
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An unseen prose practise task for GCSE or A Level (ages 14-18), aimed at helping students to understand the format of unseen exams. The extract is from Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’.
This 3-page digital + printable pdf resource includes:
Contextual information on the text
The question + guidance
The extract: Raft scene
Extension tasks: Genre + Social Realism
Reasons to love this resource:
Great for practising exam technique
A range of tasks and exercises designed to help students build confidence
A high quality literary extract that challenges students to analyse deeply
Fun and interesting writing, that captivates readers
Teaching or studying a full unseen module? Click here to view our Complete Unseen Poetry + Prose Study Pack
Have a resource on us! Download our ‘What is an Unseen Question’ document for FREE to see whether the full course is right for you!
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Here’s a summary of the story / narrative for J.B. Priestley’s play ‘An Inspector Calls’ — it’s suitable for students at GCSE, IGCSE or A Level (Edexcel, AQA, OCR, CIE/Cambridge, CCEA, WJEC, Eduqas). I’ve made it as short and clear as possible so that they can get to grips with the main ideas and most important scenes quickly!
In this resource, you’ll find a ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Extract - The Radley Place, along with some comprehension tasks, essay questions, and close reading tasks.
In this resource, you’ll find an example PEE paragraph – it’s broken down into the various skills you need to achieve a highlevel analysis in your essay and academic writing answers.
In this resource, you’ll find two examples of creative writing by students which are centred around the idea of creating a gothic atmosphere, precisely through language and imagery. The first is a descriptive piece, with feedback. The second is the opening to a story.
In this resource, we’re going to equip you with the words and phrases you need to write a top-notch essay, along with examples of how to utilise them.
It’s by no means an exhaustive list, and there will often be other ways of using the words and phrases we describe that we won’t have room to include, but there should be more than enough below to help you make an instant improvement to your essay-writing skills.