Detailed lesson on Hamlet & Ibsen/Rossetti question for the OCR Drama and Poetry Pre-1900 paper, including:
Summer 2022 grade boundaries
Mark scheme
Candidate responses
Examiner’s comments
Literary and socioeconomic context
Lesson focusing on tips on how to approach OCR English Literature A Level Paper 2 Question 6: essay, including:
Detailed slides
Mark scheme
Typical Question 6 on language and control
Language in THT
Literary and socioeconomic context
How to build an essay starting with a thesis statement, through to argument and conclusion (AO focused)
Model introductions including one colour coded and one student model introduction
Colour-coded model essay for discussion
Suggestions for wider reading
Easily adaptable
Lesson on AQA GCSE Literature Paper 2 An Inspector Calls Act One Recap. It includes:
Form and structure
General historical context
Key speeches from Act One
Detailed plot resource
Exam question and model paragraph
Sentence starters
This can be easily adapted to your class or to other exam boards, hence no AOs on slides
Detailed lesson on AQA GCSE Literature Paper 2 Exam Essay Structure and lesser Characters in the play. It includes:
General essay tips
Mark Scheme
General historical context
Key Vocabulary
Analyses of Gerald, Edna, Joe Meggarty and Eva Smith
Exam question with colour-coded introduction and thesis statement
Model exemplar response
General plan
This can be easily adapted to your class or to other exam boards, hence no AOs on slides
Detailed lesson on AQA GCSE Literature Paper 2 on how to approach a theme question. It includes:
Exam questions
Mark Scheme in a nutshell
Theme with a focus on collective responsibility
Excerpt from the play
General essay tips
Example responses
Examiner’s commentary
Tips for signposting the examiner
Writing a thesis statement
This can be easily adapted to your class or to other exam boards, hence no AOs on slides
All AQA GCSE English Literature Exam Questions 2017-2022
Exam tips and technique
Indicative content
Ideal for revision
Easily adaptable
PowerPoint and PDF versions
OCR English Literature Paper 2 Dystopian Fiction overview lesson on THT, includes:
Theme
Background Plot
Narrative Structure
Language
Sociopolitical context
Literary context and links to other dystopian texts
This should be used as a recap lesson or in conjunction with revision/exam practice.
Detailed Recap lesson for Edexcel Lit Paper 2 prose, Wuthering Heights WOMEN IN SOCIETY
Includes:
June 2018 Exam Questions
Key terms
Narrative structure
Plot
Context
Theme
Characters
Setting
Indicative content
Mark schemes
Candidate responses
Examiner’s comments and tips
Detailed, scaffolded lessons on how we interact with our world: social media, climate change, politeness
Tabloid and Broadsheet articles, video and transcript of speech for analysis of rhetorical devices
Do Now Starters
Lots of engaging tasks
Mark scheme
SPaG pointers
Planning
Worst possible introduction tasks
Adaptable to other exam boards
Ideal for exam revision
Lessons and resources for the Edexcel A Level Course including:
Wuthering Heights , The Handmaid’s Tale, and Frankenstein Recaps
Unseen poetry
Exam questions - how to approach them, and model responses
AO focused
AQA English Literature A Level, Elements of Crime ‘Porphyria’s Lover’
Very detailed lesson covering all AOs
Includes socioeconomic context and elements of crime
Form and Structure
Symbolism
Theme
Alternative Readings
Exam question
Examiner advice
Colour-coded model paragraph
Very detailed lesson focusing on:
Plot (inc. key scenes for Romeo and Juliet)
Character
Theme
Key Quotes
Extract Analysis
Lesson can be split - it’s effectively two lessons - and is easily differentiated for all KS3 abilities
Detailed lesson in line with Assessment Objectives
Includes:
2023 grade boundaries
June 2018 exam questions
Excerpt from critical anthology
Mark scheme and examiner’s guidelines
Iambic pentameter, Great Chain of Being
Theme and Key Terminology
Sample response
Plan
Marked student answer to masculinity question
Very detailed lesson in line with Assessment Objectives.
Includes:
Socioeconomic context
Modernism
Form and Fitzgerald’s language
Imagery and symbolism
Question 2 and mark scheme
Annotated extract from C3 of the novel
A lesson/lecture covering the socioeconomic conditions of the early modern - English renaissance - era. This can be taught as a masterclass to the Most Able at Year 11, or as general contextual background for an early modern A Level text. The focus in the second part is Macbeth but having personally taught many early modern texts, I know it can easily be adapted to all exam boards for GCSE and A Level.
Some quick and easy resources to aid GCSE English Literature students with retrieval practise [and revision] for Macbeth
Resource includes Acts One to Five on separate documents, and the whole play on one document.
Run through of whole of English Language Paper 2 [AQA] as a guide for classroom teaching/in-class revision. Includes mark schemes and reading techniques.
Simple, straightforward revision guide for AQA English Language Papers 1 and 2 focusing on how to use the language of the mark schemes to your advantage. Includes Question 5s. Can be used in tandem with any paper.