<p>This overview includes my findings as an experienced examiner for each question of Paper 2. It also includes some worked models that guide students from level 2 to 3 and 3 to 4, and top tips for the teaching of this paper.</p>

<p>This unit of work is designed to introduce students to powerful voices in the Elizabethan era and in a selection of Shakespeare’s plays.</p> <p>This includes a booklet of extracts from Elizabeth I’s Tilsbury speech to Henry’s V’s ‘band of brothers’.</p> <p>The aim of this 4 week unit it to introduce students to powerful voices in Shakespeare with lots of drama opportunities. The assessment is for students to then choose a speech, practice it and then perform.</p> <p>It include 14 core lessons with non-core suggestions.</p> <p>The unit is working incredibly well to push and challenge more able students.</p>

<p>This booklet is designed to help students navigate Lady Macbeth’s character through background reading, extracts and activities. It uses ideas from Jennifer Webb’s ‘How to Teach English Literature’.</p> <p>I have used this booklet to support my students to understand the character of Lady Macbeth. It has also been used as an effective intervention resource.</p>

<p>This collection of posters can be used as a display or as a work booklet. It guides them through how to write thesis statement, how to write topic sentences, how to choose the best quotations and how to write a conclusion. It then gives them an opportunity to have a scaffolded go at writing an essay.</p> <p>Questions:<br /> guilt in Macbeth<br /> redemption in A Christmas Carol<br /> Edna in An Inspector Calls</p>

<p>A booklet that focuses on the character of Macbeth and his development through key extracts throughout the play. This booklet is designed to help students to understand elements of Macbeth as a tragic hero.</p>

<p>This booklet contains all the key extracts to help students understand the development and relationships of the lovers. It includes quizzes for plot recaps throughout, activities, and an opportunity for formative assessments and models.</p> <p>It is everything the students will need in lesson to cover the lovers after reading.</p>

<p>This a report of my findings as an AQA examiner on June 2018 Paper 2. It includes top tips, models and some of the more useful things AQA gave us.</p> <p>This is useful in helping to develop the teaching of this paper and key strategies to help students move up the mark scheme.</p>

<p>7 complete lessons (including a DIRT/ feedback lesson) that focus on students being able to plan and write an effective piece of writing around the theme of adventure.</p> <p>It includes quizzes, checklists, models etc.</p>

<p>This booklet has worked brilliantly in getting students to engage with the character of Lady Macbeth and how far students see her as a character as chages (November 2020 AQA question).<br /> It includes a sample essay 26/30, indicative content, articles curated to help students develop theit knowledge of the character and the big ideas.<br /> Students read this before they got their mock essays back, made notes and the ideas in the text, and then were able to re-write their essays. Students went up on average 7-10 marks after enaging with this booklet.<br /> It is aimed at HPA students but with scaffolding guidance, it was used successfully with students aiming for grades 4 and 5.</p>

<p>After marking this paper, I put together some of my main findings and then top tips of how to move students onto the next level. It includes worked models that demostrates how students can easily move to level 3 and and level 4.</p>

<p>4 lessons based on World War One poetry. Students learn about what life was like for a soldier, then apply their knowledge through scaffolded descriptive writing. They then look at how to change their descriptions into war poetry.<br /> It uses the Sainsbury’s war advert as a prompt for their ideas.</p>

<p>These series of lesson use key extracts to track the development of Curely’s Wife. They also provide opportunities for students to practice responses using the 'What?‘How? Why?’ approach.</p>

<p>This intervention scheme of work consists of 3 lessons and assessment (using Nov 2019) and includes specific guidance from AQA and my findings as an examiner.</p> <p>There is also a booklet of articles for students to read for homework to help them develop a convincing voice, complex ideas and the AQA suggested planning methods.</p>

<p>5 complete lessons introducing the themes of the Gothic. These lessons are planned to help students develop a knowledge of the conventions of the Gothic, female archetypes, Gothic settings and how to analyse an extract and write a response using TEAL paragraphs. I have used this with my Y8s and the mastery of the concepts of Gothic conventions then helped them develop a greater understanding of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.</p>

<p>As an AQA examiner, I have developed this common approach for the language papers. It follows the What? How? Why? approach and includes diagrams, models and challenges to help push students to Level 4.</p>

<p>This hand drawn illustration has lots of hidden references to Lady Macbeth and her character development. Students can make inferences about the image, colours, shapes etc and then link to quotations and the ‘big ideas’ in the play.</p> <p>It’s also very powerful as a revision tool or starter with students considering alternative interpretations around her character.</p>

<p>A fun series of lessons that aims to consolidate students’ knowledge of the play. It models how to plan and write a TV report. My students loved it!</p>

<p>Revise some key Englaish Language skills using Christmas adverts. They include models and get students to have a go at P1 Q2,3 and P2Q2.<br /> These are fun festive lessons where students still practice skills they will need for the exams.</p>

<p>These rubrics can be uploaded onto TEAMs assignments and then they can be used to mark students’ work. They are a mixture of ‘copied straight from the mark scheme’ and more student friendly (with thanks to Hank Wells’ original upload- shared with his permission).</p> <p>I hope they are useful!</p>