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The Handmaid's Tale Context
5 context information sheets to help students to understand factors that influenced The Handmaid’s Tale.
Margaret Atwood
4 waves of feminism
The New Conservative Right
Literary Influences
What The Handmaid’s Tale teaches us about the human condition
Also includes a 10 question knowledge quiz with detailed answer sheet.
How I teach it:
Flipped learning: Get students to research the context to the novel.
Test the quality of the research through the knowledge test.
Go over the answer sheet and get students to highlight points they missed.
Grade 9 essay on Scrooge's fears
A grade 9 response exploring how Scrooge’s fears are presented in the novella.
Jekyll and Hyde context
A context sheet to help students understand how Stevenson was influenced by the late Victorian context.
It is divided into 6 sections:
Victorian London
Calvinism
Science
Fin de Siecle
Gothic literature
Atavism
Each section intertwines contextual knowledge with links to the actual novel.
Macbeth Knowledge Quiz
A 48 question multiple choice knowledge quiz on Macbeth with answer sheet. There 6 questions on each of the main themes: guilt, ambition, appearance versus reality, supernatural, violence, fate versus freewill, deception, kingship.
Also includes a 50 question multiple choice quiz with 10 questions on each Act. Once again, answers are included.
Lady Macbeth Critical Perspectives A03
For students looking to impress the examiner for A03, here is a summary of critical perspectives into Lady Macbeth’s character.
Much Ado About Nothing Revision 2025
Character and theme revision cards for Much Ado About Nothing. Contains brief analysis of key quotations linking to the main 6 characters and themes.
Power and Conflict Essential Context A03
A handy revision sheet containing the essential contextual information that students need to know for each of the 15 poems in the AQA power and conflict anthology to meet the requirements for A03.
My most comprehensive resource on Power and Conflict poetry is available here with revision posters on every poem:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-sheets-12884928
Scrooge's Transformation Timeline Activity
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.
Also contains a similar timeline focused on the life lessons Scrooge learns across the novel to support the AQA May 2024 style question.
Banquo Revision Sheet
A revision sheet analysing 10 key quotations on the character of Banquo in Macbeth.
Motif of fire A Christmas Carol
A revision sheet exploring the motif of fire with 13 carefully selected quotations allowing students to trace how the motif is used by Dickens to convey his authorial messages about poverty, isolation, kindness, family and the transformative power of redemption.
Also includes a blank student version to encourage students to explore the impact of the quotations themselves.
SEND Inset Training
This 227 slide (full day inset) PowerPoint covers the following areas in depth:
• The SEND Code of conduct and the implications for teachers
• The 5 recommendations from the EEF SEND review
• The emphasis on high quality teaching as a first step in support
• Guidance on scaffolding, flexible groupings, collaboration, metacognition
• Advice of identifying and supporting students with dyslexia
• Advice on supporting SEND students with reading
• Advice on practical differentiation and adaptive teaching within lessons
• Opportunities for teachings to put the ideas into practice.
Suitable for trainee teachers or experienced practitioners.
Othello Plot Storyboard
Simple storyboard worksheet to help lower ability students understand the basic plot to Othello.
Grade 9 life-saving rescue story AQA Paper 1 Question 5 2022
3 grade 9 examples of a life-saving rescue story which was a question 5 on the AQA 2022 Language Paper 1 exam.
Story 1 is set at sea
Story 2 is set in a desert
Story 3 is set on a mountain
Jekyll and Hyde - Settings Model Response
A high level response exploring how Stevenson uses settings to create a disturbing and threatening atmosphere in the novella.
As imperceptibly as Grief
Highly detailed annotations of Emily Dickinson’s As imperceptibly as Grief for the Eduqas poetry anthology to support students aiming for grade 9.
She Walks in Beauty Annotated
High level annotations for She Walks in Beauty by Byron that features in the Eduqas and Edexcel anthologies.
A Streetcar Named Desire Key Quotations
A knowledge organiser showing the key quotations in each scene of A Streetcar Named Desire on one handy sheet.
Reading Intervention Booklet Unit 2
A 6 week reading intervention unit aimed at students in Year 6 and Year 7. Each session involves looking at a short speech on a contemporary topic (topics include homework, school uniform, the environment) working on a range of fluency strategies to develop students’ confidence in accessing the text. Full details are included for how to structure each session. At the start of the unit and in week 6, the teacher should assess students against Rasinski’s rubric to help measure progress in reading fluency.
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Reading Intervention Booklet
A 6 week reading intervention module focused on building reading fluency and comprehension aimed at supporting students in Year 6 and Year 7 whose reading age is slightly below their chronological age.
The theme of the booklet is superheroes. In each session, students read a 500 word text about a superhero and complete fluency activities before ending the session with comprehension questions. Full details are included on how the sessions can be delivered.
Also contains an answer booklet for the comprehension questions.
The superheroes covered are Iron Man, Superman, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Captain America and Spiderman.
At the start and end of the unit, I recommend assessing students against Rasinski’s fluency rubric.
The Soldier Eduqas Poetry Revision
Highly detailed annotations of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke to support students with gaining a perceptive and thoughtful understanding of the Eduqas poetry anthology.