Great first lesson with an overview of AO3 as well as a careful look at aspects of language and structure in the poem. Two potential timed essay exam style questions at the end and a homework task on Rossetti. Fab stand alone lesson, could be used as an intro to the poem or as a revision task.
An outline of the new A level AQA Literature course, designed for students but also useful for teachers new to the course. Outlines Assessment Objectives, set texts (you will have to adapt this for your own chosen set texts), expectations, wider reading, literary vocabulary and a possible route through the course in preparation for examination at end of Year 12.
A self standing quiz, takes about 40 minutes, could be ideal for a cover lesson as it involves self assessment and the possibility of a useful and worthwhile lesson with no teacher input whatsoever. Possibly more useful if students are given the A4 Literary Terminology Sheets for revision a week before!
A revision resource with activities for students to address the assessment objectives in exams and make a note of key vocabulary for each poem. The template document can be shared with students for a collective revision through shared documents or can be printed and students can fill in during a lesson or for personal revision
3 power points and a booklet for use with AS and A level AQA students to revise the pre-1900 poetry. Range of activities for planning, addressing the Assessment Objectives and essay writing. Activities can also be used for revising and embedding poets and poems into long term memory
A Comprehensive set of resources on Othello, suitable for AQA English Literature, there are lessons, exemplars, past paper style questions, guidance on hitting the assessment objectives, key vocabulary on aspects of Language, Form and Structure. Anything and Everything you could possibly need for a course of study on Othello
complete A level English Literature resource bundle for revision. Many of these resources can be set for independent study or used for teacher led revision sessions. Poetry pre- 1900, Gatsby, Othello, Streetcar and Handmaid resources
Another Revision Resource for AQA A Level English Literature poetry. Covers aspects of recall to embed poems in long term memory, as well as tactics for addressing all of the assessment objectives in planning. Essay questions suggested and model responses provided
A brilliant detailed consideration of Act One, Scene One and Two. This resource includes exam style questions styled on the new AQA exam specification and has two invaluable model answers.
Students can annotate the worksheet (which includes the two Acts in question) and use the assessment objectives to self assess their own work and set targets. This could be a very useful stand alone resource for a cover teacher. It is also clearly addressing AQA's assessment objectives in preparing students for the demands of the examination.
The Literary Vocab Power Point can be used to accompany this comprehensive worksheet, which covers at least two weeks' worth of lessons, self study and homework, with two potential exam style assessments and self assessment tools.
Revision materials for pre 1900 AQA Poetry Anthology. Covers aspects of planning and hitting the Assessment Objectives, along with some re-call activities to get those synapses working in embedding poems and their poets into long term memory. Most significant part of this power point is for students to develop an effective way of planning to hit all Assessment Objectives and developing their LINE OF ARGUMENT to improve AO1
This power point was designed for a lecture style revision session geared towards the new AQA Literature syllabus. The lecture covers key revision points, key terminology, contextual information and video clips of rising action and dramatic climaxes in the play. It's a good 40 minutes in lecture format or could be adapted to 2 to 3 lessons.
an overview of Burns' poem Ae Fond Kiss, with a careful look at the use of vernacular and links with AO3. Key questions for analysing aspects of language and structure and suggestions for possible timed essay questions
An excellent resource including plenty of social and historical context as well as analysis of the language and structure of the poem. A stand alone lesson with a possible timed essay response at the end. This produces excellent responses from my Year 12 group, which is a broadly mixed ability group!
Worksheets to help support students in analysing Gothic texts (you will need a copy of the film Van Helsing for one exercise - you only need watch the first ten minutes!) Self and paired assessment sheets for when the students are ready to assess coursework.
Looking closely at the scary stories genre, the genre worksheet is designed to work with the story Winter Pruning by Chris Priestley from the short story anthology Uncle Montague´s Tales of Terror. The other two sheets are generic genre or horror or scary story worksheets. For the characteristics sheet, I viewed lots of youtube clips of genres and looked at book covers to get the students to fill in the characteristics.