30 quick fire questions for Bach section B 30 quick fire questions for Africa (verse 2 and chorus 2) Easy to use for homework and last minute revision for the exam.

Lesson with annotations and questions on the poem from the EDUQAS GCSE Anthology. Links to other Eduqas poetry resources: Revision Cards https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-wjec-poetry-revision-cards-gcse-12107545 Lessons on all poems https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-anthology-bundle-2-lesson-on-each-poem-11896591 Revision resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-revising-all-poems-11894072 Bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-bundle-gcse-9-1-11815065

Lesson exploring Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy with activities and worksheets to prepare for an assessment on the poem exploring how love is presented.

Lesson with 2 page activity worksheet exploring Act 3 Scene 2 from Romeo and Juliet.

Worksheets with questions and extracts to help explore how Shakespeare presents Juliet as an unconventional woman. Students will be expected to explore how… In Act 1 Scene 3 her rebellion is passive and implicit and shown through her vague answers to Lady Capulet’s questions. In Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 2 Scene 2 her rebellion is more implicit and is shown through her love for Romeo. There are also comprehension questions based on what is a conventional Elizabethan woman.

Students read a model response to the following question: How does Shakespeare present the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet. (34). Then then have to annotate each sentence to analyse what the essay writer is doing in each section of the response. There is also a building better answers sheet included.

A lesson aimed at getting students to be more conscious of the sentences types they use in their descriptive writing. Images from A Christmas Carol are used as the stimulus for the descriptive writing. After each task, students complete extension tasks to review their combination of sentence types.

A list of alternatives to this shows, this suggests, this highlights and this interests the reader to help sharpen your academic expression. Includes a PDF version and an editable version

A differentiated end of term colouring-in exercise to help revise 16 key quotations from A Christmas Carol. Ideal for the end of term to fill some time.

Students use the worksheet to follow the 9 step method for approaching an exam question on a theme in A Christmas Carol for the 9-1 GCSE examination. Includes an exam style question, a suggested writing frame using prompts from the AQA website, a table for planning a response and recommended extracts to zoom out to. Ideal for examination revision. Also included is a resource offering 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas. Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations. Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations. Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.

Students plan responses to four GCSE style theme questions on A Christmas Carol using my simple 9 Step method. Includes a model response that uses the 9 STEP METHOD. Set up to be printed as a 6 page revision booklet. Students have found this method really helpful in structuring their responses to the text. New for 2023 is a resource which offers 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas. Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations. Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations. Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.

3 Grade 9 model responses to annotate and analyse to 3 different GCSE-style questions on the following topics: 1. The supernatural 2. Bob Cratchit 3. Importance of Christmas

A CHRISTMAS CAROL EXAM QUESTION PREDICTIONS - planning sheets with extracts

Lesson analysing Steinbeck’s initial description of Slim in Chapter 2 with a focus on developing 2 analytical comments about each quotation.

Differentiated activities on Chapter 2 with an accompanying PowerPoints Lesson 1. Understanding Chapter 2. Differentiated comprehension activity. Lesson 2. The bunkhouse. Differentiated resources leading to PEE responses. Lesson 3. Curley meets Lennie. Differentiated resources leading to PEE responses. Lesson 4: How is Curley’s Wife presented. Worksheet with writing frame.

3 lessons exploring Chapter 3. Lesson 1: A differentiated comprehension worksheet to help students of different abilities engage with Chapter 3 of Steinbeck’s novel. Tough: Storyboard Tougher: Comprehension Questions Toughest: Analysis Questions There is also a differentiated writing task included on the PowerPoint: Tough: Lennie wanted poster Tougher: Diary entry for girl from Weed Toughest: Newspaper report of what happened in Weed Lesson 2 involves analysing the language to describe the fight between Lennie and Curley. Lesson 3 is a skills lesson which looks at how to deliberately use a combination of simple, compound and complex sentences in paragraphs.

A lesson analysing how George and Lennie are presented in Chapter 1. Includes annotation of an extract, a sample paragraph followed by an independent task.

Full lesson to help students analyse the significance of the death of Curley’s Wife in Chapter 5.