Blood Brothers character and theme revision

I created this resource for use with my year 11 class who are following the EDUQAS specification, although this revision resource would be useful to any exam board where Blood Brothers by Willy Russell is a set text.

The revision lesson is mainly discussion led and then I gave them the print out of the PPT afterwards for them to take home as it contains higher-level points and very detailed notes that we didn’t have time to delve into during an hour long revision session.

This lesson includes:

• tasks organising character cards by theme (class/money, nature vs nurture, fate/superstition, coming of age/growing up and violence)
• reorganising character cards into order of importance (e.g. which character do you feel the most sympathy for)
• a model on how to ‘explode’ quotations and then examples for students to try
• two exam-style questions for students to mind-map responses to

All feedback gratefully received,

Enjoy!