A printable A3 Knowledge Organiser for Macbeth including Context, Plot, Characters, Quotations, Key Terms and Themes. Designed as a large flashcard: Part 1: Learn the content Part 2: Test yourself (turn sheet over and fill empty template) Perfect for exam revision.

A printable A3 Knowledge Organiser for Macbeth including Context, Plot, Characters, Quotations, Key Terms and Themes. Part 1: Learn the content Part 2: Test yourself (turn sheet over and fill empty template) Perfect for exam revision.

LO: How do I plan and write a response to 27.1? A complete lesson including starter, unseen poem, exam question, model responses, plenary that explores a Paper 2-style AQA English Literature unseen poetry question based on the following poem: Thomas Hardy: The Voice. Powerpoint: 19 slides. AQA English Lit Paper 2 Section C Unseen Poetry Purpose of unit of work: To master questions 27.1 and 27.2 Form: Exam paper responses Assessment Objectives: AO1 - Read, understand and respond to texts, maintaining a critical style and developing an informed personal response, using textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations (12 marks). AO2 - Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate (12 marks). AO2 - Comparison of AO2 (8 marks) STIMULATE AND GENERATE Focus on engagement, discussion and building cultural capital CAPTURE, SIFT AND SORT Sifting the outcomes from the first phase to fit where we are heading. What skills do pupils need to learn in order to be successful in the next phase? Focus on teaching, modelling and developing key skills and processes linked to success criteria CREATE, REFINE AND EVALUATE More independent application of skills learnt. This is the stage that needs most differentiation and allows/enables writers to work at different rates and pitches. Self, peer and teacher review happens throughout this phrase. Write extended responses to exam questions, provide feedback and refine work Starter: How do these images link? Blue dress and autumn leaves. Both blow in the wind. Key question: what language form and structural techniques can I analyse? Recap: AO1 and AO2 Exam question: In The Voice, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about loss? Unseen poem: Thomas Hardy: The Voice. Glossary. 7 steps to understanding an unseen poem AO1 and AO2. The Introduction: 3 sentence model. I DO: Model introduction YOU DO: Use this model to help you write an introduction focusing on The Voice. SELF-ASSESSMENT: Use this model to help you improve your own introduction. WE DO: How do I write an analytical language? Model paragraph analysing language. YOU DO: Use this model to help you write your own paragraph analysing language. Plenary: Peer Assessment - Read through your partner’s response. Highlight and annotate their response to show where they have demonstrated WHAT WHERE HOW WHY. Write a brief commentary below their work in which you explain the following: What went well (WWW). What do they need to do in order to improve? (EBI).

LO: How do I compare language, form and structure used by writers to create meanings and effects? A complete lesson including starter, unseen poems, exam question, model responses, plenary that explores a Paper 2-style AQA English Literature unseen poetry question based on the following poems: Grace Hazard Conkling: Cedars and Nicolaus Lenau: The Oak-Wood. Powerpoint: 15 slides. AQA English Lit Paper 2 Section C Unseen Poetry Purpose of unit of work: To master questions 27.1 and 27.2 Form: Exam paper responses Assessment Objectives: AO1 - Read, understand and respond to texts, maintaining a critical style and developing an informed personal response, using textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations (12 marks). AO2 - Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate (12 marks). AO2 - Comparison of AO2 (8 marks) STIMULATE AND GENERATE Focus on engagement, discussion and building cultural capital CAPTURE, SIFT AND SORT Sifting the outcomes from the first phase to fit where we are heading. What skills do pupils need to learn in order to be successful in the next phase? Focus on teaching, modelling and developing key skills and processes linked to success criteria CREATE, REFINE AND EVALUATE More independent application of skills learnt. This is the stage that needs most differentiation and allows/enables writers to work at different rates and pitches. Self, peer and teacher review happens throughout this phrase. Write extended responses to exam questions, provide feedback and refine work Starter: Which words make the forest sound MYSTERIOUS? Which words make the forest sound SACRED? Key question: What language form and structural techniques can I compare? Unseen poems: Read both poems: Grace Hazard Conkling: Cedars and Nicolaus Lenau: The Oak-Wood¬ – 7 steps to read and understand Exam question: In Cedars and The Oak-Wood the speakers describe the woods. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the woods are presented? How do I structure my poetry comparison essay?: 5 steps Task: Comparison table. The structure of a comparative paragraph: Go through points. I DO: Model comparative paragraph (first half). YOU DO: Use this model to help you write the second half of the comparative paragraph. SELF-ASSESSMENT: Check the model paragraph. Now write your own paragraph comparing form and structure. What makes this comparative paragraph successful? Use the example to help you write your own comparative paragraph about a DIFFERENT method and effect. Plenary: Peer Assessment - Read through your partner’s response. Highlight and annotate their response to show where they have demonstrated WHAT WHERE HOW WHY. Write a brief commentary below their work in which you explain the following: What went well (WWW). What do they need to do in order to improve? (EBI).

Writing Practice Homework: Sentence Demarcation - 6 Weeks 6 weeks’ worth of homework tasks including one page of learning and one page of related activities Easy and quick to self-assess in class . Tasks focus on the following: Homework 1 – What is a sentence? Types of sentences The parts of a sentence Complete the activities: Find the sentences Distinguish the clause elements Homework 2 – How simple and compound sentences are structured Simple sentence Compound sentence Complete the activities: Simple or compound? Compound out of simple Homework 3 – How complex sentences are structured Complex sentence Complex sentence with embedded clause Complete the activities: Simple, compound, or complex? Complex out of simple Homework 4 – Punctuation to demarcate sentences The full stop [ . ] The question mark [ ? ] The exclamation mark [ ! ] The semi-colon [ ; ] The colon [ : ] Speech marks [“ ”] Complete the activities: Add punctuation to demarcate the sentences Homework 5 – Comma Splice and Run-On Sentences Comma splice Run-on sentence How to correct comma splices and run-on sentences Complete the activities: Correct the punctuation Homework 6 – Colons and semi-colons The colon and its functions The semicolon and its functions Complete the activities: Put a colon in each of the following sentences Replace the commas with semicolons

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from classic supernatural texts. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts from: 1 - The Vampyre by John William Polidori (1819) 2 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot (1859) 3 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) 4 - The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (1894) 5 - The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898) 6 - The Wendingo by Algernon Blackwood (1910) 7 - Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker (1914)

LO: How do I plan and write a response to 27.2? LO: Exam practice: Unseen poetry questions 27.1 and 27.2 AQA English Lit Paper 2 Section C Powerpoint: 23 slides. Lesson includes: starter activity, lesson objective, which methods to compare recap, AO1 and AO2 recap, two unseen poems, practice exam questions, 7 steps to responding to unseen poem, comparison table, structure of introduction, model introduction, struture of comparative response, model comparative paragraph, WHAT, WHERE, HOW, WHY analysis, exam practice tasks, plenary.

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from texts set or written in the 1920s. 27 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (2 to 4 sheets per lesson, including extract and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts from: 1 - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 2 - The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury 3 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 4 - The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings 5 - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot 6 - Ulysses by James Joyce 7 - We by Yevgeng Zamyatin

6 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from texts set or written in the 1920s. 23 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (2 to 4 sheets per lesson, including extract and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts include: 1 - A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 2 - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 3 - Just William by Richmal Crompton 4 - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 5 - A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 6 - Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

5 weeks’ worth of homework tasks including one page of learning and one page of related activities as A4 Word editable and printable booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class . Tasks focus on the following: Homework 1 – Functional paragraphing Functional paragraphing examples TIP TOP Complete the activities: Insert the paragraphs Correct the paragraphs Homework 2 – Purposeful paragraphing Purposeful paragraphing examples Complete the activities: Insert the paragraphs Homework 3 – Paragraphing direct speech What is indirect speech? What is direct speech? The general rules of direct speech Complete the activities: Insert the paragraphs Homework 4 – Making paragraph choices Sustain or maintain the same style Develop Contrast Complete the activities: Develop Contrast Homework 5 – Organising a text Topic sentences Sentence expansion Complete the activities: Add the topic sentences and discourse markers Sentence expansion

6 weeks’ worth of homework tasks including one page of learning and one page of related activities as A4 Word editable and printable booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class. Tasks focus on the following: Homework 1 – What is a verb? What is a verb? Different types of verbs found in the verb phrase Complete the activities: Complete the clauses Distinguish the verbs Homework 2 – Verb tenses Different types of verb tenses Complete the activities: Which tense is being used? Turn present to past Homework 3 – Present tense What is the present tense? Present continuous Present perfect Present perfect continuous Complete the activities: Correct the tenses Homework 4 – Past tense What is the past tense? Past continuous Past perfect Past perfect continuous Complete the activities: Correct the tenses Homework 5 – Future tense What is the future tense? Modal auxiliary verbs Future continuous Future perfect Future perfect continuous Complete the activities: Correct the tenses Homework 6 – Completing an action The progressive aspect The perfective aspect Some special uses of aspect Complete the activities: Identify progressive and perfective Match time expressions

18 Powerpoint slides with the most important quotations from A Christmas Carol, with pictograms to aid memory. Each slide includes the pictogram, the full quotation, the character who says the quotation and the stave. Slides can be projected to revise quotations, or can be printed and displayed in the classroom. According to dual coding theory, imagery accompanied by words, enhances recall as two separate but linked memory traces are laid down, one in each of the memory stores.

Power & Conflict Poetry Part Three (Teacher Copy) Answer Booklet 5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 5 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems included 1 - Carol Ann Duffy - War Photographer 2 - Imtiaz Dharker - Tissue 3 - Carol Rumens - The Émigrée 4 - John Agard - Checking Out Me History 5 - Beatrice Garland - Kamikaze

5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. This is the teacher copy, with correct answers already highlighted. A separate file is available to purchase, without correct answers highlighted, designed for pupil use. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems: 1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias 2 - William Blake - London 3 - William Wordsworth - Extract from, The Prelude 4 - Robert Browning - My Last Duchess 5 - Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade

5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 5 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems: 1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias 2 - William Blake - London 3 - William Wordsworth - Extract from, The Prelude 4 - Robert Browning - My Last Duchess 5 - Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade

Answers Booklet 5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. This is the teacher copy, with correct answers already highlighted. A separate file is available to purchase, without correct answers highlighted, designed for pupil use. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems: 1 - Wilfred Owen - Exposure 2 - Seamus Heaney - Storm on the Island 3 - Ted Hughes - Bayonet Charge 4 - Simon Armitage - Remains 5 - Jane Weir - Poppies

5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 5 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems: 1 - Wilfred Owen - Exposure 2 - Seamus Heaney - Storm on the Island 3 - Ted Hughes - Bayonet Charge 4 - Simon Armitage - Remains 5 - Jane Weir - Poppies

Answers Booklet 7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on poetry. 23 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 7 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems: 1 - A Poison Tree by William Blake (1789) 2 - Romance by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) 3 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti (1862) 4 - The Voice by Thomas Hardy (1912) 5 - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1915) 6 - Cedars by Grace Hazard Conkling (1920) 7 - Touched by An Angel by Maya Angelou (1993)

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on poetry. 23 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 7 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems included: 1 - A Poison Tree by William Blake (1789) 2 - Romance by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) 3 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti (1862) 4 - The Voice by Thomas Hardy (1912) 5 - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1915) 6 - Cedars by Grace Hazard Conkling (1920) 7 - Touched by An Angel by Maya Angelou (1993)

5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 5 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems included 1 - Carol Ann Duffy - War Photographer 2 - Imtiaz Dharker - Tissue 3 - Carol Rumens - The Émigrée 4 - John Agard - Checking Out Me History 5 - Beatrice Garland - Kamikaze