How to use appositive phrases in English literature texts. Includes examples for Animal Farm, An Inspector Calls, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Lord of the Flies and A Christmas Carol.

6 lessons exploring how Caliban is presented in The Tempest.

A fully resourced model lesson based on analysing an extract in Romeo and Juliet for GCSE 9-1. The lesson is focused on building skills in A01 and A02. The extract is taken from Romeo’s soliloquy in Act 5 Scene 3. Includes: TEEP lesson plan engaging starter activity learning outcomes differentiation throughout PowerPoint writing frames Student-friendly mark scheme

A worksheet and Powerpoint to help students answer a question on Russell’s use of dramatic irony and foreshadowing to engage the audience.

Differentiated worksheets which summarise the main composition development methods and cover texture, melody, rhythm and harmony.

6 Comprehension worksheets covering the prologue and Acts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Updated PowerPoint with annotations, differentiated question worksheets and differentiated writing frames for analysing Act 1 Scene 6 and Act 1 Scene 7 from Macbeth. Also includes questions to recap the main events in Act 1 as a whole.

Worksheets explaining how to answer a Macbeth question on the theme of guilt for AQA GCSE. Also includes a clear level 4 example response and a more thoughtful level 5 response so students can examine the difference between these two bands on the AQA mark scheme. Also includes worksheets for exploring the extract.

Theme and Character Quotation Revision Cards/Posters on the 6 key themes and the 4 key characters in Lord of the Flies.

PowerPoint lesson on Owen with colour coded animated annotations covering language, structure and form. Includes exemplar paragraphs, notes on 5 key quotations, questions on each stanza and a range of follow up activities and 4 worksheets looking at the exploring 4 different types of conflict in the poem: 4 types of conflict in Exposure Conflict with the weather Conflict with religious faith Conflict between the present and the past memories of home Conflict between anticipated action and inaction.

100 Key Quotations from Lord of the Flies (with brief explanation) arranged in chronological order, by chapter, through the novel. This can be used for revision in many ways. I have included a range of exam questions so students can select 6 numbered quotations (from the 100) to help answer each question. For example: Narrow down the list to the top 10/20 most important quotations. Find 5 quotations for each of the main characters. Find 5 quotations for each of the main themes. Alternatively look at exam questions and ask students to select 5 quotations they would use to help answer each question.

A timeline revision activity where students track and explain Romeo key quotations across the play to help understand how his character develops across the play. Includes an answer sheet. I give this out at the end of the lesson for students to compare their answers to. Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May exam.

An exercise which asks students to think deeply about the reasons why Golding uses 15 specific words in the novel. Students are encouraged to come up with 3 different reasons why that specific word was used. They can zoom in to the word connotations and then zoom out to think about Golding’s authorial messages. The answer sheet with examples of thoughtful and perceptive inferences for each word choice is included for students to compare their answers to at the end of the lesson.

I have carefully selected what I consider to be the 5 key extracts from Stave 4 . They are differentiated by colour. Each extract has an AQA style GCSE question attached to it. This works well as a home and away task. There is also a grid for students to fill in to show their understanding of each extract.

A Grade 7 exemplar response to the following AQA 2017 exam question on Animal Farm. How does Orwell use the character of Snowball to present ideas about leadership? (34 marks) The essay is colour-coded so that students can see the different sections of an analytical paragraph. The essay was written for a low/mid ability class to show them how to use a writing frame.

Lots of worksheets looking at figurative language.

Notes on main ideas, context, language and structure for each poem from the Eduqas poetry anthology. An ideal resource to add to your revision.

Full lesson and annotations of Act 1 Scene 3.

Push more able towards the highest grades by using this worksheet to explore contrasting quotations to bring out the complexities and contradictions within the language of the 5 main characters. 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

8 worksheets and resources focused on exploring themes in Animal Farm. Includes resources focused on: - Identifying the key themes in the novel - Identifying ‘super extracts’ which can be used to cover various themes - Model responses to themes in the novel - Structuring responses