Notes and model essay plan looking at essay technique and using context in essays through a focus on the theme of the supernatural in Macbeth. (3 pages, used for 1hr of tutoring)
Designed for GCSE AQA English.
Resource helping students to use adjectives and adverbs effectively and strategically, and to find alternative ways of describing.
Includes both notes and activities.
Aimed for 11+ and KS3, but many of the ideas could also be suitable for older students.
Resource with notes and activities on different ways of starting a sentence, suggesting -ed, -ing and -ly words.
Aimed primarily at students going for the 11+, but could be relevant to KS3 students as well.
2-page handout of biographical information about Tennessee Williams, focusing on details particularly relevant to the play A Streetcar Named Desire for use as context in A-Level essays.
Context notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes: Courtly Love, gender, Queen Elizabeth I, the supernatural, Shakespeare’s other plays, Classical/mythological references, literary influences and conventions, historical context of the contemporary theatre, modern productions.
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level English specification.
Bullet-point essay plan exploring gender, femininity and masculinity in Macbeth - raises questions and context points for the class to think about, discuss further and find quotes for.
Latin crossword practising vocab, verb conjugation and noun cases. Created for pupils revising for 13+ entrance exams (also appropriate for end of year9/beginning year10).