Learning outcomes:
To understand a code for identifying language features in Shakespeare (word level, imagery, structure)
To Apply understanding by locating the language features in key quotations.
To evaluate the effect of the language features.
A worksheet to encourage students to think in an allegorical way to introduce the themes in Animal Farm by George Orwell. Using characters in a typical school, they consider which animal would best represent each of the stock school characters. They then write a short story in which the animal students take over the running of the animal school.
Includes a differentiated starter, detailed annotations of the scene and then comprehension questions to test students’ understanding of the scene. Not bad for a £1,
An ideal differentiated end of term activity after a series of lessons on writing interesting sentences or at the start of a term to test how much students know about sentences. There is a test on the second page.
It covers the following:
What is a sentence
Varying the subject of a sentence
Long and short sentences
Subordinate clauses
4 sentence types
Varying sentence starts
Active and passive voice
40 key lines from the play in the form of a quiz in which students have to work out which character speaks each line.
I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310
Revision Cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143
Knowledge Organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057
Revision quotations:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293
Suitable for introducing Shakespeare to KS2/3 students.
Task 1: Quiz (with sound effects) asking students to recognise the difference between Shakespearean English and modern English.
Task 2: Write parodies of some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines.
Task 3: Have a go at some Shakespearean insults.