A worksheet and PowerPoint to support the study of the character of Eva Smith in An Inspector Calls. Students read the 32 carefully selected quotations about Eva Smith and work out who said each one. They can plot the utterances into a table to enable further analysis. Also includes a worksheet examining who is responsible for her death and an essay planning sheet with and without answers. The PowerPoint then encourages students to create a revision page on Eva by explaining what the key quotations reveal. Students look at a grade 5/6 full response on Eva. Students then write a model paragraph. 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

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.

Writing frame for analysing Ignorance and Want extract in Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol for AQA 1-9. The basic PowerPoint includes 2 model examples to explore, compare and annotate.

5 lessons on Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol Lesson 1: Introductory lesson covering the main events, quotations and big ideas in Stave 3 with accompanying worksheet. Lessons 2: Using 5 carefully selected short extracts, students are encouraged to select precise quotations (A01), analyse language choices (A02) and make wider links to context (A03) to explore how Dickens presents ideas about Christmas in Stave 3. The 5 extracts are coloured to allow for a differentiated group carousel activity. This resource contains the worksheets and a powerpoint for 1-2 lessons with learning outcomes for exploring how Dickens presents ideas about Christmas in Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol. There is a differentiated version with boxes for lower ability students to complete. I have also written 5 model answers for each extract for students to annotate. Lesson 3: Also includes a lesson which asks students to compare Scrooge’s room in Stave 1 and 3. Lesson 4: Lesson focused on the Ghost of Christmas Present. Lesson 5: Lesson focused on the description of the streets on Christmas morning.

Stave 2 and 3 comprehension questions: A Christmas Carol

Comprehension questions on Stave 4 of A Christmas Carol.

A helpsheet containing 10 generic ways that students can improve their sentences in a second draft of a piece of narrative or descriptive writing. Ideal for Key Stage 2/3 or for low ability students at Key Stage 4. Examples are included. The 10 strategies are differentiated in order of difficulty and are designed to help students in a mixed ability class to respond to feedback on narrative writing by selecting the methods to help them improve.

40 questions on Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol. Useful to set after reading the Stave to check understanding. Includes 8 extension questions based around A03 to develop understanding of context and Dickens’ purpose. Also includes a revision PowerPoint guiding students on how to make a mind map to revise the key quotations from the Stave.

Comprehension questions and detailed revision lessons to recap the plot and key quotations in Stave 1 and 2 of A Christmas Carol.

Differentiated assessment/planning sheets to support students with a response to the following exam style GCSE question: How does Shakespeare present Lady Macbeth as an unconventional Elizabethan woman? A focus on how Lady Macbeth is presented in Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 1 Scene 7. There is a writing frame and easier planning sheets for lower ability students.

A worksheet for comparing quotations from Stave 1 and 2 of A Christmas Carol. Also includes detailed PowerPoints containing analysis of the key quotations in Stave 1 and 2. Students complete a mind map on each Stave with the PowerPoint guiding students through each section.

A worksheet to encourage students to think in an allegorical way to introduce the themes in Animal Farm by George Orwell. Using characters in a typical school, they consider which animal would best represent each of the stock school characters. They then write a short story in which the animal students take over the running of the animal school.

Stave 3 Christmas Carol: five key extracts with 5 exam questions looking at the presentation of Christmas in this stave. Works well as a home and away carousel.

6 exam questions written in the style of AQA 2017 English Literature Paper 1 questions. There is at least one exam question for each stave. The questions cover various themes such as poverty, family, charity and Christmas.

An exam-style question on Romeo and Juliet with an attempt at a Grade 9 response. Students can annotate the model example and then try to write another paragraph of their own in the same style.

3 differentiated worksheets to explore what Scout learns during the course of the novel. Bronze: Includes possible answers Silver: Includes page numbers and points Gold: Students select all points independently.

Differentiated starter activity on the character of Scout. Bronze: Define the words Silver: Make links between the words Gold: Use the words in a paragraph about Scout.

Romeo and Juliet: 11 exams written in the style of the new spec for AQA 2017 Literature Paper 1. The questions have been structured to mirror the layout of the actual exam as far as possible. Ideal to use set as homework or to use as revision.

Printer friendly resource for a differentiated carousel group activity in which each group has to teach others a myth and complete the table. The 5 myths in order of difficulty starting with the hardest: Tantalus Icarus Trojan Horse Perseus Orpheus