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English GCSE and English KS3 resources by a lead practitioner. Everything I upload is tried and tested by both myself and my English Department. I always appreciate feedback, so please do leave a review if you get chance.
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A General Election lesson looking at Spoken Language and speaking and listening skills. Students work in groups to prepare for a political TV debate as individual UK parties before coming together to have a proper general election style debate. Includes differentiated activities and worksheets throughout.
Includes information sheets on all major parties: Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems (Liberal Democrats), Greens, SNP (Scottish National Party), Reform (Brexit Party).
Notes on Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, Ed Davey, John Swinney, Richard Tice, Green co-leaders and more.
General Election 2024 escape room lesson that covers political leaders, political parties, key conventions around general elections, key aspects of the General Election 2024 and more. Students explore what they already know about British politics and build on their basic knowledge, exploring their own opinions and evaluating what is important to them during elections. A really useful resource for tutor time.
Includes notes on Conservatives, Labour, SNP, Liberal Democrats, Reform Party, Greens, Plaid Cymru and more. Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, John Swinney, Ed Davey.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A walkthrough pack for the May 2023 paper.
Includes:
Model answers for Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4.
Analysis and breakdown of all questions and answers provided
Success criteria
Exam walkthrough tasks
Timings
Exam tips and advice
Please note that the extract from The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing is not included in the pack due to copyright restrictions, but will shortly be available to download via the AQA website.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section B walkthrough pack for the May 2024 paper.
Includes:
Activities for planning and writing BOTH descriptive AND narrative writing pieces
Advice and models for planning both descriptive and narrative writing tasks
Success criteria
Exam walkthrough tasks
Exam tips and advice
Full model answers for BOTH the descriptive AND narrative tasks (very hot place description AND disagreement story).
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AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 Knowledge Organisers
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Sections A and B package
AQA English Language Paper 1 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 5 package
AQA English Language Paper 2 Section A package
AQA English Language and English Literature revision package
An Inspector Calls whole scheme package
An Inspector Calls revision package
Macbeth whole scheme package
Macbeth revision package
A Christmas Carol whole scheme package
A Christmas Carol revision package
Jekyll and Hyde whole scheme package
Jekyll and Hyde revision package
Romeo and Juliet whole scheme package
Power and Conflict poetry comparing poems package
Power and Conflict poetry whole scheme package
Love and Relationships poetry whole scheme package
Unseen Poetry whole scheme package
2024 An Inspector Calls model answer on how the Inspector is used to present ideas about social change - this model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 2. Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into Edwardian and post-war British society, how and why Priestley presents the Inspector to convey his messages about politics in Britain after the conclusion of the Second World War.
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2024 An Inspector Calls model answer on how Mrs Birling is used to present ideas about social class - this model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 2. Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into Edwardian and post-war British society, how and why Priestley presents Mrs Birling to convey his messages about politics in Britain after the conclusion of the Second World War.
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2024 Power and Conflict model answer on how Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland explores how people are affected by conflict, as well as Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes.
This model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 2. It Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into relevant contexts, how and why Ted Hughes and Beatrice Garland present their poems in relation to how people are affected by conflict.
2024 Love and Relationships model answer on how Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy presents powerful feelings about love , as well as Winter Swans by Owen Sheers.
This model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 2. It includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into relevant contexts, how and why Hardy and Sheers present their poems in relation to powerful feelings about love.
2024 Unseen Poetry model answer for BOTH questions on The washing is never done by Jaan Kaplinski and A Day in Autumn by R S Thomas.
This model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 2. Includes two answers that weaves together language and structure analysis, relevant comparisons how and why the two writers present their poems in relation to daily lives and connecting to the natural world.
Please note that due to copyright restrictions, the actual poems are not included in this resource, but are available from the AQA website or online.
2024 Jekyll and Hyde model answer on Stevenson building an atmosphere of fear and danger. This model essay or answer is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature. Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into Victorian society, how atmospheres or moods are created and used by Stevenson to communicate messages on morality and humanity.
2024 A Christmas Carol model answer on the lessons Scrooge learns about life - this model essay or answer is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 1. Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into Victorian society, how the lessons Scrooge learns are presented, and Scrooge’s growing awareness of social injustice is in turn used by Dickens to communicate messages on social transformation.
2024 Romeo and Juliet model answer on how Shakespeare presents Juliet’s difficulties, both in Act 2 Scene 5 and the rest of the play. This model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 for AQA English Literature Paper 1. Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into Elizabethan society, how and why Shakespeare presents Juliet’s difficulties as he does throughout the play and how the character could be perceived by an Elizabethan audience.
Please note that due to copyright restrictions, the actual question is not included in this resource, but it is available from the AQA website.
2024 Macbeth model answer on how far Lady Macbeth is presented as a strong female character in Act 1 Scene 7 and how she can be perceived throughout the rest of the play. This model essay is designed to hit the requirements for Grade 9 forAQA English Literature Paper 1. Includes an answer that weaves together language and structure analysis, context and detailed and perceptive insights into Jacobean society, how and why Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a strong female character in the extract and how this perception may change throughout the play and how these changes could be perceived by a Jacobean audience.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 exam task spreadsheet that includes the focus of EVERY exam question from 2017 to 2023, as well as the three sets of sample materials (SAMS). Every question is included from Q1 to Q5 (writing tasks).
It also includes links to walkthroughs for many of the texts, and links to assessment materials to help prepare for specific tasks.
Useful for planning revision, exploring past papers, setting homework, designing intervention sessions, and so on.
Includes 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 tasks for English Language Paper 1.
Power and Conflict poetry 2024 revision for English Literature Paper 2 revision lesson on tone and emotions and how the writer and speaker convey their ideas within the poem us via feelings/tone. We explore all four stanzas of War Photographer and the tones used in each to help us understand the key themes/messages of the poem and we explain how tone helps readers to develop interpretations, helping students to prepare for the exam in the 2024 summer.
We also explore a second poem (Remains) on the central theme of guilt in preparation for making comparisons between anthology poems, exploring its use of tone but also making comparisons between the first and second poem in terms of SMILE (structure, messages, imagery, language, emotions).
The lesson includes differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, detailed theme notes and more.
A really useful way of revising poetry in time for the Paper 2 exam in May 2024.
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AQA English Literature exam task spreadsheet that includes the theme/character/focus of EVERY exam question from 2017 to 2024, as well as the three sets of sample materials (SAMS).
It also includes links to model answers for many of the texts, and links to assessment materials to help prepare for specific tasks.
Useful for planning revision, exploring past papers, setting homework, designing intervention sessions, switching to different texts, considering which themes to focus on and more.
Includes exam tasks for A Christmas Carol, Macbeth, An Inspector Calls, Power and Conflict, Unseen Poetry, Love and Relationships Poetry, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Jekyll and Hyde, The Sign of Four, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, Blood Brothers, Animal Farm, History Boys, DNA, Taste of Honey, Anita and Me, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Telling Tales, Never Let Me Go, Lord of the Flies, Pigeon English.
UPDATE: Now includes the focuses for the 2024 questions.
Power and Conflict revision pack for the 2024 exams. Includes the following masterclasses:
Structure and Form/Comparisons
Messages
Imagery
Language
Football manager revision lesson
Tones and Emotions
This is the perfect pack for preparing for the English Literature Paper 2 exam, recapping all of the key specification areas for the examination.
It provides adaptive learning approaches, key information sheets for revision, modelled examples and more.
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Power and Conflict 2024 revision for English Literature Paper 2 revision lesson on language and how the writer and speaker convey their ideas within two anthology poems (The Emigree and Remains) via devices/techniques. We explore both poems and the language used in each to help us understand the key themes/messages of the poems and we explain how language helps readers to develop interpretations, helping students to prepare for the exam in the 2024 summer.
The lesson includes differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, detailed theme notes and more.
A really useful way of revising poetry in time for the Paper 2 exam in May 2024.
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Power and Conflict Poetry 2024 revision for English Literature Paper 2 revision lesson on comparing two anthology poems and exploring how their images are similar and different and WHY.
We explore Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker and Ozymandias by Perchy Bysshe Shelley, around the theme of the power of humans, analysing how the key messages and attitudes on this theme are conveyed to us through the use of imagery, working as a template for students to compare messages around key themes for other poems, in turn helping students to prepare for the exam in the 2024 summer.
The lesson includes differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, detailed theme notes and more.
A really useful way of revising poetry in time for the Paper 2 exam in May 2024.
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Power and Conflict Poetry 2024 revision for English Literature Paper 2 revision lesson on comparing two anthology poems and exploring how their messages are similar and different and WHY.
We explore London by William Blake and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, around the theme of anger, analysing how the key messages and attitudes on this theme are similar or different, working as a template for students to compare messages around key themes for other poems, in turn helping students to prepare for the exam in the 2024 summer.
Additionally, we also explore the messages of Checking Out Me History by John Agard and Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes.
The lesson includes differentiated and adaptive learning approaches, detailed theme notes and more.
A really useful way of revising poetry in time for the Paper 2 exam in May 2024.
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