I created this for a cover lesson on Act 2 Scene 3 of Macbeth.
Students must read each extract from the scene and write a PEE paragraph explaining how each character reacts to news of Duncan’s death.
2 worksheets to 2/3 lessons which encourage students to explore the impact of the stage directions in An Inspector Calls.
Sheet 1: 18 differentiated questions based on the initial stage directions.
Sheet 2: A knowledge organiser which picks out key quotations for each member of the Birling Family before, during and after the interrogation. The students then answer the 15 questions to explore the characters’ subtle changes in behaviour through the play.
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
Planning sheet and writing frame to guide students through how to answer a GCSE style exam question on the theme of family in A Christmas Carol (GCSE 1-9).
Ideal lesson to check the students’ understanding of the 15 poems and work out which poems to go over again.
In each round there are 15 questions (one on each poem).
Round 1: Opening Lines
Round 2: Conflict
Round 3: Power
Round 4: Key phrase
Round 5: Structure
Round 6: Context
Extra quiz on thesis statements for each poem.
Also includes an extra quiz on 5 questions per poem.
Another quiz is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-quiz-12352453
Theme revision sheets covering key themes in the play:
kingship
ambition
supernatural
motif of blood
Fear
Guilt
Each revision sheet analyses 6 quotations relating to the theme in detail to meet the requirements for A01, A02, A03.
A composite of various resources combined together to form one A3 revision sheet on the poem.
This is a free taster from my Power and Conflict bundles which are available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-2019-revision-bundle-12072615
Selected annotations on Tissue and Ozymandias followed by a writing frame to compare the ways power presented in the two poems. Ideal for low ability students or for students writing comparative responses for the first time.
To push the more able, there are questions to encourage students to annotate Tissue independently.
Also includes a high level exemplar response.
Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2. Table and writing frame to compare how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth react after the murder. Structured for lower ability students. Includes the extract.
Ideal to set as an assessment after reading the first 5 chapters.
Contains 3 carefully selected short extracts from chapters 2, 3 and 5.
Students analyse how power is abused in each extract and answer the overall question: who is worse the humans or the pigs?
There is a writing frame for students to follow to help analyse each extract and ensure they meet the criteria for A01, A02 and A03.
Various resources to help lower ability students understand Macbeth’s ‘Is this a dagger soliloquy’.
Worksheets include:
Create a visual storyboard to break down key lines.
Use the writing frame to write a summary of the scene.
Give two interpretations to key lines
Give instructions for how an actor should perform the speech using the writing frame.
Writing frame for comparing Storm on the Island and Exposure (AQA Power and Conflict).
The AQA style exam question is as follows:
Compare the ways the poets in Storm on the Island and one other poem (Exposure) present conflict with nature.
A useful for activity for helping students to remember key quotations while also testing their understanding of the novel as a whole.
The quotations have been carefully selected to cover a range of themes.
The answer sheet is also included.
This was great for teaching students how to compare two poems from the Power and Conflict section of the anthology. Students follow the detailed writing frame to complete the comparison using the prompts and structure provided. The writing frame guides students to ensure they meet the criteria for A01, A02 and A03.
Also includes all lessons for teaching Poppies and Remains individually to prepare for the comparison with various resources.
A grade 9 model response to the following question:
How does Dickens present Scrooge as charitable towards the poor? (30)
Also included:
An A3 planning sheet
Useful zoom in/out quotations
Also includes a full lesson powerpoint comparing 12 quotations from Stave 1 and 5 with detailed inferences included for each.
Also includes:
A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist.
A01: What is the meaning of the quotation?
A02: What is the impact of words/methods?
A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation?
Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it.
Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.
Full lesson which pairs 6 quotations from Stave 1 with 6 quotations and Stave 5 and asks students to make inferences looking for similarities and differences to highlight Scrooge’s transformation and redemption. The PowerPoint then goes through 3 inferences for each of the 12 quotations. The lesson also Includes a grade 9 model response and a writing frame for lower ability students.
There is also a helpsheet to support an exam question which is also attached.
Also includes:
A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist.
A01: What is the meaning of the quotation?
A02: What is the impact of words/methods?
A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation?
Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it.
Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.
Animal Farm. Writing frame for analysing deception in Chapter 3. Also includes 2 lessons exploring Chapter 3 with a particular focus on the milk and apples incident.
This Animal Farm Bundle includes the following:
20 lesson scheme of learning.
40 page revision booklet covering model answers, writing frames, plot, context, chapter questions, theme trackers and lots more.
High level response to a question on Moses and Benjamin
Revision grid of 60 character quotations and flashcards
4 full model answers
Lesson on Squealer.
Lesson on Snowball.
Lesson on Boxer.
Lesson on Benjamin.
Lesson on themes.
Lesson comparing Snowball and Napoleon’s leadership.
10+ Questions on every chapter
Lesson on Napoleon
Activity analysing key extracts
Plus lots more.Check out all the previews on each individual resource to help gain an impression of the amount of material included.