I advise my students to start their response to Paper 2 Question 5 with an engaging personal anecdote. This resource contains 6 examples of anecdotal lead paragraphs to familiar Paper 2 Question 5-style topics covering travel, school uniform, homework, climate change, social media and animals in captivity. I ask my students study the style of these modelled examples before attempting to write their own anecdotal lead paragraphs.

A knowledge organiser containing a brief overview of the main ideas, key quotations, structure and context for the 15 poems from the AQA Worlds and Lives new poetry anthology. Useful for anyone, like me, who is trying to prepare to teach these largely unfamiliar poems for the first time.

Lesson on Scene 6. Analysis of 12 key quotations from Scene 6 of A Streetcar Named Desire. Also includes a blank template version for students to explore the significance of the quotations themselves.

A grade 9 level response looking at the theme of greed in A Christmas Carol. Also contains 6 revision cards analysing 6 useful quotations for exploring the theme of greed.

A timeline focusing on how the character of Macbeth changes during the play. There is also a question template to help students explore their own interpretations of the different stages of Macbeth’s descent into evil. Also includes 2 exemplar high grade exemplars to the question for students to compare and consider which are the most perceptive in meeting the criteria for level 6/grade 9. Also includes 12 character flashcards to help trace how the different aspects of Macbeth’s complex personality are communicated in the play.

A 42 page booklet focused on the Edexcel conflict poetry anthology for GCSE 2024. Includes, printer-friendly revision activity sheets for all 15 poems in the Edexcel Conflict anthology. For each poem there is a question sheet and a detailed answer sheet covering the whole poem. Also includes 3 knowledge organisers looking at big ideas, structure and context in all 15 poems. Also includes 7 high grade model responses to different questions covering multiple themes such as war, powerful images, tension, anger and conflict. The Man he Killed Exposure Poppies No Problem What were they like? Charge of the light brigade Extract from the Prelude The Destruction of Sennacherib A Poison Tree Belfast Confetti Half Caste Cousin Kate Catrin The Class Game War Photographer

Simple storyboard activity to help students gain a basic understanding of the plot to Much Ado About Nothing.

2 high level model example responses to the AQA Language Paper 2 Question 5 June 2024 paper. One response primarily agrees with the statement and argues young people should choose a career that benefits society. The second response offers a more nuanced argument that primarily disagrees with the statement in the question. Both follow a 6 paragraph structure which start with a personal anecdote to hook the reader. Both explore the issue from ethical, moral and financial perspectives. Both contain an element of counter argument. Both use a cyclical structure at the end to return to the ideas expressed in the opening.

A worksheet for exploring the significance of the opening stage directions of A Streetcar Named Desire. It also comes with a suggested answer sheet with high grade responses to the questions. The opening stage directions are so rich in meanings and wider significance that it is worthwhile helping students to become experts in analysing this section because it can be used in a wide range of potential essay questions. Hopefully this worksheet should help. This also contains a sheet closely analysing the significance of the epigraph.

Simple storyboard worksheet to help lower ability students understand the basic plot to Othello.

A simple storyboard to help students learn the basic plot points for A Merchant of Venice.

Detailed lesson looking how to extend similes to describe the weather by making the comparisons more precise and intricate. Includes a vocabulary sheet to help with creating interesting similes. Includes modelled examples. Includes a test on identifying the tone of similes. Includes examples of similes for each season.

A high grade model response looking at how the theme of guilt is explored in An Inspector Calls.

This 11 page booklet contains detailed model answers for questions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the summer 2022 AQA Paper 1 English language exam which featured an extract from The Pearl by John Steinbeck. I go through each question in detail providing a range of possible ways of approaching the question to meet the marking criteria. For question 5 there are 4 different high level responses based on a life-saving rescue to compare.

Model answers for questions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the November 2022 language exam based on the extract from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, For each question, I have provided 2 different answers so students can compare the merits of each. Both are aimed at meeting the top band (level 4) criteria. For question 5 I have provided a high level response to both questions - the fishing village and the unlikely friendship. The extract is available on the AQA website.

An unequivocal grade 9 response to the 2022 EdExcel question on Lord of the Flies: Explain the significance of evil in the novel.