A GCSE Christmas Carol lesson analysing the Cratchit family and the theme of poverty within the novel Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is based around AO1 and AO2. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

A lesson teaching the poem ‘Checking out me history’ from the GCSE power and conflict poetry. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Includes context and language analysis tasks.

A lesson teaching the poem ‘Charge of the light brigade’ from the GCSE power and conflict poetry. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme and aim/challenge/super challenge. Includes context, annotations and language analysis tasks.

A lesson aimed at KS3 to introduce them to the characters in the play. Lesson includes various activities, ending in a diary entry task from the perspective of one of the characters. Differentiated tasks including challenge tasks.

2 x lessons aimed at KS3 but can be used for KS4. Lessons include reading an extract from the GCSE text ‘A Christmas Carol’ and then completing descriptive writing tasks. Lessons are a nice way to keep lessons Christmas themed while still teaching important skills and introducing GCSE texts to younger students. All lessons differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme and aim/challenge/super challenge. All lessons planned using TEEP.

A Christmas Carol quiz consisting of 3 rounds and 40 questions. Aimed at GCSE students studying the text, to test their knowledge of the plot, characters and key quotations. Round 1 - A general knowledge of the book. Round 2 - The ghosts. Round 3 - Who said it.

A lesson aimed at KS3 but can be adapted for older year groups. Uses the poem ‘The Night Before Christmas’ to help students plan and write their own poem. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge.

2 x lessons teaching questions 1,2 and 3 on language paper 2. All lessons differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme and aim/challenge/super challenge. All lessons planned using the TEEP model. Please leave a review if possible, it would be really appreciated :)

Students analyse how the character of Scrooge is presented and how Dickens’ presents the characters of Fred and Bob in contrast to him. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme.

A lesson introducing students to the character of Lady Macbeth and analysing her role within the play. Differentiated tasks/questions. Looks at the context of the play and the role of women in the 17th Century.

Lesson is aimed at students being able to understand the role of the ghost of Christmas past and to begin to empathise with Scrooge and explore how he changed. Lesson differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme.

A lesson aimed at teaching students the structure question (question 3) on language paper 1. Lesson is differentiated with challenge questions and using the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is scaffolded to support all ability students in answering the question.

Lesson is aimed at getting students interested in the news by making it fun and interesting. Lesson asks students to think about the way they can access the news and why news is important. Students then watch and discuss the news before writing and presenting their own news report on a current topic. Aimed at KS3 students but can easily be adapted to suit older students. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme and aim/challenge/super challenge.

A lesson based around analysing how language is used to describe a setting. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is part of a full scheme of gothic horror lessons (full scheme available on TES.)

A lesson aimed at introducing students to the context of A Christmas Carol. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Independent task is for students to write a diary entry from the perspective of a child in a workhouse.

An introduction to the GCSE play, teaching students the social and historical context of the play. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge.

A lesson aimed at teaching language paper 1, question 2 skills. Lesson was made as part of a module teaching the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas but can also be used for GCSE students teaching language paper 1. Lesson includes challenge questions and uses the GCSE mark scheme.

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Students are asked to analyse the soliloquy fromAct 1, Scene 5. Students are given various tasks before answering an exam style question. Lesson covers AO1, AO2 and AO3 and asks students at the end to identify where they have covered each AO in their work.

Includes a range of lessons and resources for a non-fiction scheme of work. All lessons differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lessons include a range of topics including: Prisons, P.T Barnum, the Death penalty, Live Aid, the news, Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy’, Selling houses, gun law and nursing. Lessons cover both the reading and writing sections of the paper. Please leave a review. I would love to hear your feedback :)

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Students are given various tasks before answering an exam style question. Lesson focuses on Act 1, Scene 3 and the impact of the witches prophecies.