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KS3 Cover Lesson Worksheet: Gothic Literature
This KS3 Gothic Literature worksheet is designed to keep KS3 pupils engaged for at least an hour.
It contains four activities:
Research
Vocabulary building
Analysis
4.Creative Writing
I have provided an answer sheet.
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Poetry Terms Colour by Number
Suitable for KS3 or KS4, this colour by number sheet asks pupils to read the definition and select the correct poetry term. Great end-of-term or revision exercise.
Answer sheet provided.
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EDUQAS GCSE Non-fiction Writing Frames (2022)
Differentiated writing frames for 2022 EDUQAS English Language component 2, questions 21 and 22.
3 levels of differentiated support/planning for each exam question.
I am an experienced examiner for this unit and created this resource straight after marking the 2022 exam, based on the type of content and skills that leads students to achieve their best possible grades. These have been successfully tried out on my own classes.
Differentiated as follows:
Sheet 1 - For students who are working towards grades 3/4/5 or for those wanting more support. Full support including a vocabulary bank, with space to add personal spellings.
Sheet 2 - For students who are working towards grades 6+, more ambitious techniques/punctuation. Halfway between a writing frame and planning sheet.
Sheet 3 - A guided planning sheet for more confident pupils
All sheets are in Arial, size 12 font.
Mark schemes are available on the EDUQAS website (English Language, Past papers/mark schemes/2022/Component 2 mark scheme).
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Boys Don't Cry GCSE practice papers (Set 2)
SET 2
Three GCSE ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ practice papers for EDUQAS, each with a table to support response writing and an indicative content list for marking.
Questions in this set explore Dante’s change, Tyler, and Adam.
For marking, use the EDUQAS GCSE English Literature post-1914 literature mark scheme (page 4): https://pastpapers.download.wjec.co.uk/S22/s22-C722U10-B-ms.pdf
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Boys Don't Cry Vocabulary Slides
This resource has been produced to support the teaching of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman at GCSE.
Designed for whole-class teaching, so that the tier 2 and 3 vocabulary and metaphors can be explained to students without you having to keep stopping to explain what it all means. Pictures and diagrams are also included where relevant.
This resource is suitable to support whole-class teaching, homework, revision, pre-teaching and independent reading of the book.
This has been put together to boost the vocabulary of all students at all levels. It is particularly useful as an adaptive resource for students with EAL, ASD and hearing impairments. It is attractively, and simply presented, using a dyslexia-friendly font and background.
This is an editable, 180-slide PowerPoint and a PDF version. Chapter headings and section dividers help you to find the relevant vocabulary quickly.
If you are teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ at GCSE, please check out my other resources in my TES shop: worksheets, complete lessons and practice papers.
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GCSE Non-fiction Writing Bundle: Practice Papers and Model Answers
This bundle consists of three new examples of EDUQAS GCSE English Language Component 2, Section B question papers (6 writing tasks in total). For each of the 6 tasks, a model answer is provided. You will get 6 questions and 6 model answers in total, split into 3 practice exam papers.
The mark shemes for these tasks may be found on the Eduqas website (EDUQAS, past papers, Summer 2022, GCSE English Language, component 2, section B).
I am both an examiner for this paper and a teacher of GCSE English Language with over twenty years of experience.
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Boys Don't Cry - GENDER - No prep lesson
This is a ready-to-go lesson on the theme of gender in Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman. No preparation needed - you don’t even need print anything out!
This lesson features lots of discussion, including opportunities to explicitly teach the skills required to organise a group productively and listen effectively to others’ ideas. Differentiated to include support for less able students, extension tasks for early finishers, and challenge tasks for more able students. Includes suggested homework tasks. Fully editable. Suitable for GCSE English Literature (EDUQAS or EDEXCEL).
You will receive:
a full lesson plan, including teacher’s notes and answers (both Word and PDF)
accompanying PowerPoint (both PPT and PDF)
Learning objectives:
• To understand the terms ‘gender stereotype’ and ‘masculinity’.
• To apply these terms to characters in ‘Boys Don’t Cry’.
National Curriculum Links:
Understand and critically evaluate texts through
• identifying and interpreting themes, ideas and information.
Speak confidently, audibly and effectively including through
• working effectively in groups of different sizes and taking on required roles, including leading and managing discussions, involving others productively, reviewing and summarising, and contributing to meeting goals/deadlines
• listening to and building on the contributions of others, asking questions to clarify and inform, and challenging courteously when necessary
Resources needed:
• Essential: copies of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman
• Recommended: the PowerPoint accompanying this lesson plan
• If available: ipads/tablets/laptops, whiteboards, large sheets of paper, felt pens
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Command Word Classroom Display
Help your students to understand key concepts and exam questions with this classroom display of printable command word.
Each poster contains a flat icon and simple definition. The image backs up verb’s meaning and makes it much easier for students to engage with their meaning.
I have these up at the front of my room as a permanent display, using them in both KS3 and KS4 lessons. I also have a set laminated and stick one up at the top of my whiteboard when I want to explicitly teach one skill or type of exam question.
Features the command words used on all exam boards for GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature.
Supports both UK and US spellings of key terms.
The pack contains posters explaining the following terms:
Advise
Analyse (you’ll find it spelled ‘Analyze’ in an additional poster)
Argue
Comment
Compare
Describe
Evaluate
Explain
Explore
Identify
Infer
Inform
Link
List
Persuade
Predict
Quote
Review
Summarise (spelled ‘Summarize’ in an additional poster)
Support
If you require words that are featured on this list and would like them adding, please do let me know.
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Boys Don't Cry - chapters 10 and 11 worksheets
Three worksheets based on chapters 10 and 11 of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman.
You get 3 PDF worksheets.
Activities include:
True or False maze based on chapters 10 and 11 (answers included)
Explanations about the differences between writing to advise and writing to instruct
Close reading exercise
Writing exercise
Challenge task for the most able students
I’ve designed these activities as part of a blended learning approach to a first reading of this GCSE text with a mixed ability Year 9 group.
These worksheets would also suit independent learning or homework tasks.
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Boys Don't Cry - Worksheets for chapters 7, 8 and 9
These worksheets support the teaching of Boys Don’t Cry, chapters 7, 8 and 9, as a GCSE text.
These sheets cover:
difficult vocabulary from these chapters
identifying features of the novel’s structure
comparative and contrasting connectives
Comparing and Contrasting the characters of Dante and Adam
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Boys Don't Cry lesson - IEEL paragraphs
In this complete Year 9 or 10 lesson, pupils will learn how to write an IEEL paragraph which is the building-block of GCSE English Literature essays.
This stand-alone lesson fits into my series of lessons and resources on ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman, focusing on chapters 8 and 9.
This is a complete lesson with all the resources:
powerpoint
differentiated worksheets
example EDUQAS GCSE English Literature exam question
example paragraphs
detailed lesson plan
both word/PowerPoint and PDF formats are provided
Curriculum Objective:
Know how to write an IEEL (Identify, Explain, Example, Link) paragraph.
Outcome:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to construct an IEEL paragraph using appropriate subject-specific vocabulary.
This is a ready-to-go ‘Ofsted-proof’ four-part lesson with 4 sections: starter (inc. extension task), input, activity (with extra support for those who need it) and plenary. No planning or previous knowledge needed (from either teacher or students).
The lesson has been designed for a Year 9/10 class who have just begun reading the novel, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ as a GCSE text. It is suitable as a pre-reading lesson, to use as revision, or when moving on to exam questions. You could even use it as an introduction to writing IEEL paragraphs without reading the novel.
I have over 20 years in teaching English at GCSE. I am an experienced GCSE examiner with EDUQAS.
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Non-Fiction Text Types Scavenger Hunt
Through completing the scavenger hunt, pupils will learn about the features of non-fiction texts. It is suitable for pupils to work on their own, in pairs or in groups, and may be used as either a pre-teaching or revision activity. Put together with KS3 in mind, it would also be great for an injection of fun at KS4.
The lesson in designed to be a high-engagement, independent and challenging activity for pupils, but low-prep and no-marking for teachers.
The premise:
Detective Amanda Lord, a seasoned investigator with a love of stylish accessories, finds herself the victim of a theft… her beloved fedora hat has been stolen. When she finds a ransom note, your class must work hard to solve a series of clues to crack the code and find her missing hat.
What you get with this complete lesson pack:
Engaging narrative premise
Accompanying PowerPoint
Printable resources
Answer sheets
Non-fiction text types covered:
Instructions
Tabloid newspaper articles
Broadsheet newspaper articles
Advice
Reports
Formal letters
Informal letters
Reviews
Speeches
Social Media Posts
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Boys Don't Cry Colour by Numbers Revision
A fun way to revise Boy’s Don’t Cry for GCSE English Literature.
There are two colour by numbers sheets. Sheet 1 asks students to match the quotation to the speaker. Sheet 2 asks students to match the definition to the t echnical device. Answer sheets are provided.
Suitable for both EDUQAS and Edexcel GCSE revision.
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Boys Don't Cry Quotation Card Sort
Card sort game:
Match the quotation from Boys Don’t Cry to the character who said it
Revision activity
Features 40 quotations
Includes answers
Attractively presented using a dyslexia-friendly font
Editable resource (you get both PDF and editable PowerPoint versions of the cards)
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Boys Don't Cry ch 5 and 6 worksheets
Worksheets to accompany reading chapters 5 and 6 of Boys Don’t Cry.
Chapter 5 covers the seven types of plot and a ‘role on the wall’ for Dante’s character.
Chapter 6 covers similes, character attitudes, annotation of a question, annotation of an extract, how to structure a literature response IEEL paragraph.
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Boys Don't Cry, worksheets for chapter 37
Blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 37.
Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning.
Content of these worksheets includes:
homophobia
short tasks about chapter 37 testing: locating information; inference; language and structure; writing an IEEL paragraph
teacher feedback sheet
Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.
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KS2 to KS3 transition lesson - English
This is a no-prep KS2 to KS3 transition lesson, Year 5/6 taster lesson or Year 7 cover lesson.
It features an original short story for pupils to read and a short piece of creative writing.
There is just one page to photocopy for pupils.
The lesson should last 50-60 minutes.
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Boys Don't Cry Chapters 2, 3 & 4 Worksheet
Worksheet to accompany chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman.
Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning.
Covers: metaphors, literal meanings, minor sentences, simple sentences
Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.
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Eduqas GCSE English Language Exam Paper Tracker
This is a list of all the EDUQAS GCSE English Language exam papers from June 2017 to November 2023.
It’s presented as a table on which you can track which papers you’ve used with each year group. I keep a print out in my planner and update it throughout the year.
It’s also useful for helping you to quickly find the correct paper (or the mark scheme to go with the correct paper).
Fully editable Word document.
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Boys Don't Cry Chapter 1 Worksheet
Boys Don’t Cry - worksheet for chapter 1.
Covers: idioms, facts, adjectives, register