I am a teacher of English, English Literature, Moving Image Arts - and when I'm really lucky, History as well! I have been teaching in N. Ireland since 2006 and am particularly familiar with the CCEA curriculum from KS3-KS5. I have worked with CCEA for over a decade and have been employed to create resources for KS5 English Literature. I also ran my own Tutoring company and have a real passion for creating user friendly resources.
Contact me at - mcttresourcesni@gmail.com
I am a teacher of English, English Literature, Moving Image Arts - and when I'm really lucky, History as well! I have been teaching in N. Ireland since 2006 and am particularly familiar with the CCEA curriculum from KS3-KS5. I have worked with CCEA for over a decade and have been employed to create resources for KS5 English Literature. I also ran my own Tutoring company and have a real passion for creating user friendly resources.
Contact me at - mcttresourcesni@gmail.com
A complete unit to teach the presentation of Animals in Fiction and Non-Fiction texts, leading to several discussions and a final discursive argument about whether or not Animals should be kept in Zoos.
Unit of Work with clear lesson by lesson focus and link to worksheets
Notebook file and Pdf file of teacher notes - written on whiteboard as moved through this unit - may be of use to assist with teaching certain lessons.
All resources mentioned below and in the unit are included
Room Display inspiration - titles, words and images
Includes
Animal alphabet
Adjectives and verbs to describe Animals
Animal related onomatopoeia, similes and metaphors
Animal habitats
Animals in the media - positive and negative portrayals, bias int he media
Collective nouns for animals
Description and connotation of negative and positive in description - vocabulary copyright of ‘Descriptosaurus’ by Alison Wilcox, published by Routledge 2013
Animal combinations - inspired by ‘Axel Scheffler’s Flip Flap Series’, published by Nosy Crow 2014
Reference to National Geographic - paper copy, website or instagram feed.
Pet argument - annotate and analyse
CCEA KS3 Past Paper ‘Wood Green Animal Shelter’ - analyse for writer’s craft
Animals in Film, and as fashion fads
Writing to inform - argument
Article ‘Calling Animals ‘pets’ is insulting, academics claim’ - connotation of appropriate words for ‘pets’ - read poems ‘Old Dog’ and ‘Sheepkiller’ to further the discussion
How are animals used? Poems ‘The Battery Hen’ , ‘The Early Purges’, and ‘Killing a whale’ to further the discussion
Animal rights - what are they and how are they compromised?
Writing to explain - discussion of animal rights
Hierarchy of animal kingdom
Issue of Extinction - furthered by use of CCEA KS3 Past Paper ‘The Black Rhino’
Zoos vs Safari - investigate and create a balanced argument in response to the topic: It is unfair to keep animals in Zoos.
A complete and accessible student booklet which leads the pupil through a variety of exercises in order to complete their own creative pieces of writing.
Suitable for KS3 and low ability KS4 or as an easy introduction to Creative Writing (CCEA GCSE Unit 4, Task 1)
This pack includes notes, areas to complete and prompt work to be completed at length separately.
‘Flexing your imagination’ exercises - nine tasks to get pupils engaged and start thinking about words, images and uniqueness.
How to begin your story notes - with exercises to complete to practice the four key methods, folded by ‘Which is best’ work.
Sentence variety notes - how to prevent repetition etc - exercises to complete to make the student aware of their actions and how to improve.
Description notes - with work on the senses, smooth connectives, weather, place, verbs
How to end your story notes - with exercises to complete
Passages to completed with key words - noting how word choice can affect atmosphere and mood
Up-levelling your writing - examples and tasks to complete
Character work - descriptions, opening lines, emotions
Emotions - working through VEMB - Voice, Expression, Movement, Breathing and Pulse - comes with Teacher answers
Image prompts - to develop VEMB and narrative
‘Father and Daughter’ - Oscar winning short - work to complete - comes with Teacher answers
‘The Mysteries of Harris Burdick’ - Image prompts with helpful planning table
Notes for Parts 1-3; focused class work for Parts 4-8 - with answers.
Teacher Notes
Part 1: Teacher Notes to stimulate writing on the ‘Power of Words’ for Auggie
Part 2: Teacher Notes on Via’s key metaphor and her struggles
Part 3: Teacher Notes on Summer’s key characteristic
Julian: Teacher Notes looking at the some of the presentation his character**
Student Work + Teacher Answers for each section.
Part 4: Divided into two parts: 4a - Adjectives and Key Questions; 4b: Vocabulary work, close reading Q, PEE paragraphs
Part 5: Grammar work, multi-choice, vocabulary work, PEE work
Part 6: Close reading work, multi-choice, vocabulary work, PEE work, Emotions work
Part 7: Vocabulary crossword, multi-choice, PEE work, Chekov’s gun Links
Part 8: First section work only - facts and opinions, research work, close reading, setting etc
After Reading: Book Review and Alphabet Quiz
This resource is the second in a series of GCSE pupil booklets designed to be user friendly and cover all aspects of the novel and writer’s technique.
These pupil booklets have been created by a seasoned teacher and examiner for English Literature, have been tried and tested in the classroom, and cover all aspects of the curriculum.
Teacher booklet provided offers possible responses for every question, and suggestions of quotations for Chapter work.
Currently available:
*Of Mice and Men: Background https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ccea-of-mice-and-men-background-context-12366444
*Of Mice and Men: Chapter by Chapter
*Of Mice and Men: Characters
*Of Mice and Men: Themes
*Of Mice and Men: Writer’s Technique
Also available as part of Unit 4 Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-ccea-unit-4-exam-task-2-comparing-texts-12446799
Unit 4, Task 2, Comparing Literary Texts
A fully comprehensive student booklet covering a wide range of comparative fiction.
76-page document
Utilising content from the current CCEA publications as well as pre 2010 specification.
Includes:
Tried and tested Exam Advice and ‘Basics’
Writer’s Craft
Example paragraphs
Language analysis examples
Full story analysis
Examples taken from CCEA Textbook, Revision Book and Work Book
Advice for Character work - including structured comprehension questions
Advice for Setting and Atmosphere - including accessible questions
Advice for Tension - including multiple comprehensions
Multiple single and paired exercises for various areas of writer’s craft
Annotation of Specimen Comparison provided by CCEA with accompanying tips and example paragraphs.
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 4 and 5 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
60+ page Booklet
80+ slide Power Point
Includes:
Two booklets and one PowerPoint
A Student booklet to be completed
A Teacher Answer booklet to assist with completion of student booklet, with student responses, teacher notes and teacher answers.
A Task 5 PowerPoint to assist teaching of Student booklet, with pertinent notes, sample answers and advice
Exam guidance
Worked answers
Reference to CCEA examples - current and past paper
Variety of examples to have pupils cover multiple scenarios
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
Task 2
A complete 31-page pupil booklet covering all aspects of Task 2, taking some inspiration from CCEA GCSE publications and past papers from different boards.
Sample Teacher annotation and paragraphs have been provided for the majority of the work – please note, in most cases the same article has been annotated up to three different ways to accommodate the ability level of the class, therefore the sample answers range from basic to advanced.
This resource provides:
• A 31-page pupil booklet
• 11 separate documents of Teacher answers matching the tasks of the booklet – for a variety of pupil ability.
• This booklet carries the student through from easy to harder tasks, assisting in the building up of confidence as they grow accustomed to the task styles.
• Guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
• Worked example layout guiding the student through expected responses
• Exam guidance and annotation of past paper layout
• What to look for when analysing a variety of techniques
• Five short tasks where students annotate for key term
• Seven longer tasks where students annotate for named techniques and work through the accompanying tasks
• Seven practice articles to be worked on independently
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 3 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
37-page document
A matching Teacher answer booklet to accompany and aid completion of Student work. All Student work is answered int he teacher booklet.
User and teacher friendly.
Provides:
guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
example layout guiding the student through expected responses
activity to aid deduction of implicit and explicit writing
five structured activities to aid the correct choosing of quotations
six structured activities to aid appropriate summarising of the author’s argument
ten exam practice tasks, imitating the correct styling of the exam
inclusion of past papers questions (four to date) and the specimen question
Teacher booklet provides suggestions and example paragraphs for all tasks, including exam practice tasks.
Also available as part of Unit 4 Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-ccea-unit-4-exam-task-2-comparing-texts-12446799
A complete pupil booklet, with accompanying teacher answer booklet to teach Unit 4, Tasks 3 and 4, Reading Non-Fiction
Tried and tested in the classroom.
Provides:
Comprehensive and developed list of writer’s craft techniques
Paragraph layout advice - suggested by CCEA, built upon by writer
Non-Fiction example articles adapted from Non-Fiction Past Papers, pre 2017 spec, made suitable for new Task 3 and Task 4
Sample tasks to accompany example articles, guide students to make pertinent comments
Tasks could be used as practice or for mocks.
Teacher booklet offers some example answers, and sample paragraphs to be built upon
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
Student instruction booklet for Unit 1, Task 1: Functional Writing
45-page document
User friendly for both teacher and student.
Tried and tested in the classroom as a thorough REVISION booklet. (Even more comprehensive version available in early 2021)
Provides:
Exam basics and advice
Typical topics
Legacy and current spec Questions
Fully comprehensive list of possible questions - 25 possible themes gathered to be analysed - with over 100 questions divided variously among them - to stimulate debate, research, essays etc
Advice basics about WHAT and to WHOM you are writing
Four pages of advice for WRITING EFFECTIVELY including handy Essay Layout
Exercises to complete: compiling similar questions and reacting to thought provoking questions
Separate planning pages for controversial topics: smoking/abortion/drugs etc
Highly effective STUDENT SCAFFOLD for full Essay Layout - has been used for every topic in the classroom
Three example essay titles with developed answers and guidance for completion: Organ Donation/Tolerance/Tattoos and Piercings
Student research of 12 separate topics - for and against points - gathered collaboratively - comprehensive and easy to use as stimulus for completion of essays.
A visually appealing and easily accessible booklet, this pupil resource covers all areas of MIA, creating a perfect introduction and foundation for progress into GCSE Moving Image Arts.
Instruction is given, and complimented with film extracts and activities to complete.
A PowerPoint to aid teaching is also provided.
Areas covered:
Roles of responsibility
Genre
Camera technique
Sound
Lighting
Mise-en-scène
Answer Book provided
A complete set of resources covering all aspects of teaching the Identity Anthology for CCEA GCSE Unit 2 Literature course.
You won’t need anything else!
Includes:
Identity Anthology Pupil Booklet - for students to complete as the poems are being taught - includes space to complete context, poetic techniques and sample Question at the back.
Pdf of Teacher completed Identity Anthology Pupil Booklet - all context complete and images of some annotated poems - see separate pdf for all annotated poems - Noteboook file is even more useful
Identity Anthology Student Summaries - blank, to reveal students’ learning - to complete after the teaching of each poem
Identity Anthology of poems - blank, for exams
PowerPoint Identity Poems - Images, Author info, Context, Message, Themes
Handwritten Annotations - in pdf form, Identity Poetry TES; multiple versions of poems dependent on class ability; also available in Notebook form, Identity Poetry TES
Poetry Essay Layout
Word Document of Context Notes
Sample Comparative Essay Titles x18
Completed Comparative Essay Title ideas
Poetic Themes - Ideas for Comparison
PowerPoint -Images and Poem o accompany teaching of Prayer Before Birth
PowerPoint -Images and Poem to accompany teaching of Mrs Tischer’s Class
PowerPoint -Images and Poem to accompany teaching of I Remember, I Remember
Full Essay - how choices affect identity - Road Not Taken and Invictus
Essay Notes - sense of who you are - Here and Belfast Confetti
2 Different Approaches to How Childhood Affect us - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
3 Variations to How Relationships Affect Us - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
2 Variations to A Sense of Who We Are - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
Two booklets - one for the STUDENT and one with answers for the TEACHER.
Excellent preparation for the Unseen section of CCEA GCSE Unit 1 English Literature.
Tried and tested in the classroom.
Try our free sample to get a taste of what’s included…
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sample-ccea-gcse-unseen-student-booklet-12478647
63 Page Student Booklet
64 Page Teacher Booklet
Includes:
Exam basics
Full explanation of the question layout and advice for how to answer
Detailed advice for how to form your response - with unique and useful mnemonic memory guide
CCEA advice
Research into popular C19th authors and the times in which they lived
Link to BBC’s excellent selection of free audio ‘Classic Stories’
Close focus, example responses and exercises covering: Setting, Tone, Atmosphere, Mood, Plot, Narration and Character.
Close reading of C19th language style with four developed examples
Plot work on extracts
Guided reading and exercises to assess Setting and Atmosphere
Narrative voice notes, exercises and assessment of Tone in writing
Character notes on C19th expectations
Six exercises to practice Close reading and analysis of Character
Five practice papers with notes to assist student completion
A complete Unit of work for both student and teacher - engaging and original.
There are many options for close reading comprehensions for “Private Peaceful”, but this unit offers thoughtful, engaging and skill-enhancing work for each chapter. The student is encouraged to critique and explain the development of character; or writer’s craft, creating PEE paragraphs and PETE paragraphs - with the inclusion of TECHNIQUE, among other challenges…
All excepts are copyright of Michael Murpurgo.
In my classroom,** “Private Peaceful”** is taught in tandem with “War Poetry” and there are several occasions when overlap is made - check out my complete Student and Teacher Booklets, as well as some free samples below:
War Poetry Booklets + PP
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12375733
Wildred Owen’s “Dolce” - free
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366844
Jessie Pope’s “Who’s for the Game” - free
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366846
“The Target” Essay Analysis
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12506386
Included here:
Chapter 1 - notes and tasks
Chapter 2 - description of mother, example supplied; character analysis of Big Joe - mix and match creation of PETE paragraphs; close analysis of Grandma Wolf using BARSCAP - all with answers.
Chapter 3 - close analysis of entire chapter - close reading, technique spotting and explanations - annotated chapter included - with answers.
Chapter 4 - tasks including PETE development, creation of newspaper article - all with answers and samples
Chapter 5 - tasks including the development of Charlie and Molly’s relationship, creation of Love Letter between them - guidance and sample pupil example provided - with answers.
Chapter 6 - tasks including Big Joe’s disappearance and close analysis of negative and positive atmosphere - how it is created - all with answers
Chapter 7 - tasks including close reading, differentiated work for the Seargant Major’s speech, propaganda work (linked to “War Poetry” resource - all with answers
Chapter 8 - tasks including close reading, scaffolding of PETE paragraphs, BARSCAP analysis of Sergeant Hanley - with answers
Chapter 9 - tasks including reality of life in the trenches - notes and table supplied; PETE paragraph work for Tension; PEE and technique work; links to ‘The Target’ - with answers
Chapter 10 - three options for close analysis - scaffolded and guided analysis using PEE/PETE; a look at colloquial language and Tommo’s changing feelings - with answers
Chapter 11 - thorough questions of the whole chapter - could be used as an assessment - close references to ‘Dulce’; Letter home from Tommo with notes to assist - with answers
Chapter 12 - key questions to aid understanding of what happened and why - looking again at Hanley (add to BARSCAP from Chapter 8); notes to aid creation of the courtroom dialogue - with answers
Chapter 13 + Postscript - analysis of Charlie’s last moments, and questions
Student and Teacher Booklets covering a full range of John Donne’s love, death and God-themed poems.
The following poems are analysed in this resource with both a student and a teacher booklet provided FOR EACH poem:
The Flea
The Good-Morrow
The Sun Rising
The Canonization
The Anniversary
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
The Ecstasy
The Relic
Elegy XIX: To his Mistress going to bed
Loves Deity
Good Friday 1613: Riding Westward
Holy Sonnet VII: At the round Earth’s
Holy Sonnet X: Death be not Proud
Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my Heart
Each poem comes with:
A blank Student Booklet
A completed Teacher Booklet
A pdf of Narrative Annotations to explain the poem
A pdf of Poetic Technique Annotations to explain the poem
Also included in this resource:
Pre-Tasks: Timeline of John Donne, specfic themes to research
** John Donne - Blank Poem Booklet** (x14 poems)
John Donne - Context Booklet (x19 pages) Student (blank) and Teacher (completed) booklet
John Donne - Exam Booklet - Past Paper and Theme questions (x11). Guidance on how to write an essay; several helpful tables dividing poems into ‘Love’ and ‘God’ poems; Love topics; God and Death topics and matching poems
John Donne - Essay Planning Booklet (x23 pages)
6.** Love poems** - questions for each poem; language work (x18 pages)
The Flea- sample paragraphs and guided work
John Donne + Love - copy of excellent article (referenced); example essay paragraphs for Love poems; example introductions for Love poems
John Donne + God - notes; three essay plans provided
You may also be interested in my Unit 1 Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
Three Student booklet bringing together everything you need to complete CCEA’s GCSE English Unit 4.
Includes:
Task 1 Personal and Creative Writing Student booklet - advice, examples and exercises
Task 2 Comparative Texts Student booklet - advice, LOTs of examples of comparative text, guided exercises, and example responses
Task 3 + 4 Reading Non-Fiction Student booklet - advice, example text response examples and exercises to complete.
Unit 4, Task 1
Student instruction booklet for Unit 4, Task 1: Personal and Creative Writing
Trialled in class as a thorough REVISION booklet. (Even more comprehensive version available in early 2021)
Provides:
• Review of Past Paper topics
• Checklist of topics for Personal Writing
• Student to complete common Personal Writing themes
• Student to complete of more thoughtful Personal Writing themes
• Student to complete quick descriptive practice
• Helpful overview of how to approach Personal and Creative Writing - including how to open and conclude
• Student to complete 11 Personal Writing Topics - short, engaging introductions supplied as an example for how to begin each question theme.
• Example response upleveled - three attempts with three feedback and guidance for approval - students will see the increasing competence as each attempt improves.
• Example creative response ‘Description of place’
• Example creative response - looking at connotation affecting storyline and word choice
• 5 guided Student responses to Creative Images (all sourced via Google Images)
• 8 further Creative Images to be used at teacher’s discretion
• 3 story arc outline tasks supplied to aid response to 3 further creative images
• Personal Writing mat - brings together all writing advice, and example questions.
Unit 4, Task 2
A fully comprehensive student booklet covering a wide range of comparative fiction. Utilising content from the current CCEA publications as well as pre 2010 specification.
Provides:
• Tried and tested Exam Advice and ‘Basics’
• Writer’s Craft
• Example paragraphs
• Language analysis examples
• Full story analysis
• Examples taken from CCEA Textbook, Revision Book and Work Book
• Advice for Character work - including structured comprehension questions
• Advice for Setting and Atmosphere - including accessible questions
• Advice for Tension - including multiple comprehensions
• Multiple single and paired exercises for various areas of writer’s craft
• Annotation of Specimen Comparison provided by CCEA with accompanying tips and example paragraphs.
Unit 4, Tasks 3+4
A complete pupil booklet, with accompanying teacher answer booklet to teach Unit 4, Tasks 3 and 4, Reading Non-Fiction
Tried and tested in the classroom.
Provides:
• Comprehensive and developed list of writer’s craft techniques
• Paragraph layout advice - suggested by CCEA, built upon by writer
• Non-Fiction example articles adapted from Non-Fiction Past Papers, pre 2017 spec, made suitable for new Task 3 and Task 4
• Sample tasks to accompany example articles, guide students to make pertinent comments
• Tasks could be used as practice or for mocks.
• Teacher booklet offers some example answers, and sample paragraphs to be built upon
Teacher and Student Booklets
All work to assist with the delivery of the current 12 Heaney and 12 Frost poems specificed for CCEA GCE AS Poetry, AS 1.
Heaney:
Personal Helicon
The Forge
The Peninsula
The Wife’s Tale
Bogland
The Harvest Bow
The Railway Children
The Summer of Lost Rachel
Postscript
‘Had I Not Been Awake’
The Conway Stewart
The Baler
Frost
Into My Own
Mowing
Going for Water
Mending Wall
After Apple Picking
The Road Not Taken
Birches
“Out, Out-”
For Once, Then, Something
Gathering Leaves
Acquainted with the Night
Desert Places
12 page Student Booklet to be completed - ‘Heaney and Frost Introduction Booklet’ - includes information on Assessment Objectives, key literary terms, space for further biographical information, and possible poem pairings for themes.
24 PP Slides - (Image) Visual representation for each poem
Comprehensive 24 page booklet for Student/Teacher to assist learning about/ teaching of Robert Frost poems - notes for each poem detailing information on narrative, context, message, form and structure, language, tone and themes
Comprehensive 20 page booklet for Student/Teacher to assist learning about/ teaching of each Seamus Heaney poems - notes for each poem detailing information on narrative, context, message, form and structure, language, tone and themes
24 pdfs - each providing a fully annotated version of the named poem - annotated to account for choices of language and imagery - all techniques are abbreviated and present in short form, inside a circle. e.g. ‘M’ inside a circle = metaphor, ‘Sib’ = sibilance etc
Checklist for poems for both poets (24 in total - 12 each)
Blank Summary document - for Student revision purposes
Four Student booklets bringing together everything you need to complete CCEA’s GCSE English Unit 1.
All five Unit 1 Tasks - combined teacher and student user- friendly booklet Power Point and Teacher Answer booklets covering the course in detail.
Task 1: Writing for Purpose
Task 2: Reading Non-Fiction
Task 3: Reading Non-Fiction
Task 4+5: Reading Media Texts
Task 1
Student instruction booklet for Unit 1, Task 1: Writing for Purpose
45-page document
User friendly for both teacher and student.
Tried and tested in the classroom as a thorough REVISION booklet.
Provides:
Exam basics and advice
Typical topics
Legacy and current spec Questions
Fully comprehensive list of possible questions - 25 possible themes gathered to be analysed - with over 100 questions divided variously among them - to stimulate debate, research, essays etc
Advice basics about WHAT and to WHOM you are writing
Four pages of advice for WRITING EFFECTIVELY including handy Essay Layout
Exercises to complete: compiling similar questions and reacting to thought provoking questions
Separate planning pages for controversial topics: smoking/abortion/drugs etc
Highly effective STUDENT SCAFFOLD for full Essay Layout - has been used for every topic in the classroom
Three example essay titles with developed answers and guidance for completion: Organ Donation/Tolerance/Tattoos and Piercings
Student research of 12 separate topics - for and against points - gathered collaboratively - comprehensive and easy to use as stimulus for completion of essays.
Task 2
A complete 31-page pupil booklet covering all aspects of Task 2, taking some inspiration from CCEA GCSE publications and past papers from different boards.
Sample Teacher annotation and paragraphs have been provided for the majority of the work – please note, in most cases the same article has been annotated up to three different ways to accommodate the ability level of the class, therefore the sample answers range from basic to advanced.
This resource provides:
• A 31-page pupil booklet
• 11 separate documents of Teacher answers matching the tasks of the booklet – for a variety of pupil ability.
• This booklet carries the student through from easy to harder tasks, assisting in the building up of confidence as they grow accustomed to the task styles.
• Guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
• Worked example layout guiding the student through expected responses
• Exam guidance and annotation of past paper layout
• What to look for when analysing a variety of techniques
• Five short tasks where students annotate for key term
• Seven longer tasks where students annotate for named techniques and work through the accompanying tasks
• Seven practice articles to be worked on independently
Task 3
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 3 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
37-page document
A matching Teacher answer booklet to accompany and aid completion of Student work - every piece of student work is answered in the Teacher Booklet.
User and teacher friendly.
Provides:
guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
example layout guiding the student through expected responses
activity to aid deduction of implicit and explicit writing
five structured activities to aid the correct choosing of quotations
six structured activities to aid appropriate summarising of the author’s argument
ten exam practice tasks, imitating the correct styling of the exam
inclusion of past papers questions (four to date) and the specimen question
Teacher booklet provides suggestions and example paragraphs for ALL tasks, including exam practice tasks.
Tasks 4+5
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 4 and 5 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
60+ page Booklet
80+ slide Power Point
Includes:
Two booklets and one PowerPoint
A Student booklet to be completed
A Teacher Answer booklet to assist with completion of student booklet, with student responses, teacher notes and teacher answers.
A Task 5 PowerPoint to assist teaching of Student booklet, with pertinent notes, sample answers and advice
Exam guidance
Worked answers
Reference to CCEA examples - current and past paper
Variety of examples to have pupils cover multiple scenarios
Student Booklet – 92 pages
Key information provided, space to complete work on Characters and Contexts. Quotations provided for each character and each context. For each context, quotations have been divided under separate titles, helpful to stimulate ideas for essay planning. Exam Questions provided, followed by space to complete plan for answer.
Included:
Exam Basics
Contexts and Themes
Essay Layout Advice
Characters – 8 key characters, space to complete key words
Characters – area for research and teaching
Characters – 8 key characters, complete with key quotations
Context – Biography + Exam Question + Example Response
Context – American Settlement and Frontier + Quotations + Exam Question
Context – America Post WW1
Context – The Jazz Age/The Roaring Twenties + Quotations + Exam Question
Context – American Dream + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Divided Society (inc. Racism and Industrialism) + Quotations + Exam Questions
Extra Exam Questions – The Great Gatsby + Today
Context – Prohibition and Organised Crime + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Geography + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Type of Hero + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Social Satire + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Romantic Novel + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Realist Novel + Exam Questions
Context – Symbolism + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Novel of Manners
Teacher Booklet – 96 pages
Exactly the same as the student booklet, with teaching notes and essay plans included.
Included:
Characters – key words provided
Characters – area for research and teaching
Characters – key quotations
Context – Biography Notes + Exam Question + Example Response
Context – American Settlement and Frontier Notes + Quotations + Exam Question with two essay response plans
Context – America Post WW1 Notes
Context – The Jazz Age/The Roaring Twenties Notes + Quotations + Exam Question with essay response plan
Context – American Dream Notes + Quotations + Exam Questions with essay response plan
Context – Divided Society (inc. Racism and Industrialism) Notes + Quotations + Exam Questions with two essay response plans
Extra Exam Questions – The Great Gatsby + Today with essay response notes
Context – Prohibition and Organised Crime Notes + Quotations + Exam Questions with essay response plan
Context – Geography Notes + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Type of Hero Notes + Quotations + Exam Questions with essay response notes
Context – Social Satire + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Romantic Novel Notes + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Realist Novel + Exam Questions with essay response notes
Context – Symbolism Notes + Quotations + Exam Questions
Context – Novel of Manners Notes + Exam Question
Three sample essays to annotate and improve - Gangsters, Geography, Women
Individual overviews for
All imagery taken from Movie and Google images