An essay plan template (with answer sheet) to help students write up a response to the following AQA 1-9 style question:
How does Priestley use Gerald to explore ideas about responsibility. (34 marks)
Includes a mid level exemplar for students to compare their work against.
The essay plan includes points, precisely selected quotations about Gerald and opportunities for students to extend their analysis to move towards a top grade response.
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
3 versions of a simple but highly engaging board game to revise key quotations in Macbeth and A Christmas Carol for Paper 1 English Literature.
Game 1:
Use the 98 prompts to help revise 98 quotations from Macbeth and A Christmas Carol.
Game 2:
Explain the 98 quotations (49 from each text) to advance.
Game 3:
100 questions on Macbeth (includes answers)
Dice and counters not included!
Also includes a Macbeth random generator activity.
A grade 9 critical and exploratory response to an exam-style generic question about how Romeo and Juliet’s relationship develops during the play.
Also contains a response adapted for a question on Romeo’s feelings for Juliet.
I have included the extract and a brief examiner commentary to help explain why the response would achieve grade 9.
The response is 662 words along which is about the average length of a grade 9 essay in 45 minutes of exam conditions.
Also available as part of a group of model responses:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-grade-9-grade-8-and-grade-7-model-responses-to-aqa-gcse-questions-11580421
Inspired by the image of the old man in the 2018 AQA English Language exam, I have collated and categorised 275 words to describe a face onto a worksheet to help students with their descriptive writing.
Students found this useful in helping them to improve the precision of their characters descriptions for English Language Paper 1.
A sample high level response with grade and examiner comment to the following exam response:
Wxplore how Dickens presents Scrooge’s fears/anxieties in A Christmas Carol.
Also includes a simple writing frame for students working towards grade 4.
Check out my shop for other A Christmas Carol resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-theme-revision-cards-poverty-isolation-ghosts-christmas-family-11869145
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-gcse-differentiated-revision-sheets-on-themes-and-context-11387723
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/stave-1-and-stave-5-scrooge-s-transformation-in-a-christmas-carol-11503154
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-grade-9-lesson-and-essays-on-ghosts-11552659
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-100-comprehension-questions-with-answer-sheet-12450748
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/revise-themes-in-a-christmas-carol-family-isolation-poverty-charity-christmas-supernatural-11577227
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-9-a-christmas-carol-exam-responses-12220340
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-top-50-quotations-11901568
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-3-grade-9-model-answers-for-eduqas-gcse-exam-style-11797550
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-9-response-on-poverty-in-a-christmas-carol-12512988
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/6-grade-9-model-essays-on-a-christmas-carol-for-aqa-or-eduqas-11896608
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-aqa-1-9-super-bundle-11532059#
A grade 9 response on the theme of greed in A Christmas Carol.
It includes a thesis style introduction.
Point 1 explores the Marley’s Ghost section.
Point 2 explores the Belle section.
Point 3 explores the criminals stealing Scrooge’s possessions in Stave 4.
Also presented in the form of 6 revision cards.
Knowledge Organiser for Lord of the Flies along with a PowerPoint slide that contains questions explaining how students should use the knowledge organiser to revise each character’s development in the novel.
I have selected crossover quotations that link to both characters and themes.
I have also included some ideas for how to approach A03 context for each character and theme.
The second page has a blank version of the knowledge organiser. I ask students to fill as much of the blank one in as they can and then show them my answers at the end.
An example of high level analytical writing in An Inspector Calls about how Priestley presents ideas about selfishness in An Inspector Calls.
Includes an examiner comment and grade at the end.
This resource is also available as one 9 sample responses at different grades:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-an-inspector-calls-model-responses-11453529
It is also available as a bundle covering the whole play:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310
A high level grade 9 exemplar response that explores ideas about power in Ozymandias and Tissue. Includes some examiner annotations.
Also includes annotations for both poems that focused on ideas about power.
Also includes a writing/planning frame to help see how the essay was created from a plan.
A strong grade 9-style thoughtful and at times perceptive response about poverty in A Christmas Carol. Also Includes a 20+ slide PowerPoint that guides students how to go about creating a grade 9 response on poverty by exploding key quotations to meet the requirements for A01, A02 and A03.
The grade 9 response itself is designed to snugly fit on one page for ease of printing.
Check out my shop for other A Christmas Carol resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-theme-revision-cards-poverty-isolation-ghosts-christmas-family-11869145
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-gcse-differentiated-revision-sheets-on-themes-and-context-11387723
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/stave-1-and-stave-5-scrooge-s-transformation-in-a-christmas-carol-11503154
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-grade-9-lesson-and-essays-on-ghosts-11552659
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-100-comprehension-questions-with-answer-sheet-12450748
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/revise-themes-in-a-christmas-carol-family-isolation-poverty-charity-christmas-supernatural-11577227
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-9-a-christmas-carol-exam-responses-12220340
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-top-50-quotations-11901568
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-3-grade-9-model-answers-for-eduqas-gcse-exam-style-11797550
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-9-response-on-poverty-in-a-christmas-carol-12512988
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/6-grade-9-model-essays-on-a-christmas-carol-for-aqa-or-eduqas-11896608
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-aqa-1-9-super-bundle-11532059#
A 16 slide PowerPoint which contains detailed animated annotations for 6 soliloquies from the play along with modern translations and follow up comprehension questions on each speech.
Act 1 Scene 5 (Unsex me here)
Act 1 Scene 7 (If it were done)
Act 2 Scene 1 (Is this a dagger)
Act 3 Scene 1 (To be thus is nothing)
Act 5 Scene 3 (Seyton! I am sick at heart)
Act 5 Scene 5 (She should have died hereafter)
Lesson and resources to help students produce a high quality response on the character of Eva Smith.
Eva Smith essay planning sheet with answers for AQA 1-9 An Inspector Calls style question.
The planning sheet contains perceptive points with carefully selected quotations and space for students to make deeper insights into language and theme.
This is aimed at students with a target grade of 7-9.
There is also a PowerPoint version aimed at students with a target grade of 4-5.
100 comprehension questions on A Christmas Carol. 20 questions on each Stave that is useful to use at the end of scheme of work to test students’ understanding of the novella. All the questions are in chronological order. I have put them all onto one A3 sheet to allow for easy printing.
I have also included an answer sheet for students to mark the quiz themselves.
NEW: Also contains the questions in the form of a board game.
Also includes analysis of the top 10 single words to analyse in the novella with high level explanations of how to zoom in and then how to zoom out to explore Dickens’ authorial purpose.
A grade 9 response about the theme of ambition.
This is one of a number of high level Macbeth responses that can be purchased in a bundle from here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-9-responses-12242190
50 Questions over 50 Slides on Romeo and Juliet. The questions go through the key plot points and quotations chronologically. There is the answer slide at the end to allow students to mark the quiz themselves.
A lesson aimed at helping mid/low ability students expand their analysis of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls.
Includes a planning sheet for expanding analysis of quotations, starter questions, a planning sheet and an exemplar response.
A PowerPoint lesson with starter, detailed animated line by line annotations of the poem, along with questions, extension activities and a grade 9 exemplar comparing Bayonet Charge with Remains.
This revision lesson includes 9 possible exam questions for English language paper 2 writing. For each task, students are asked to come up with 3 ideas and to write an effective opening paragraph.
The starter activity asks students to analyse 9 effective openings to letters, articles and speeches.