Comprehension questions on The Man he Killed.

Your Shoes Comprehension questions

Much ado about nothing plot summary cloze activity.

Comparing Your Shoes with Superman and Paula Brown’s Snowsuit.

Why is Atticus a good father. Complete the grid. Check against the answers.

Use the writing frame to write acting directions for Juliet’s soliloquy in Act 4 Scene 3.

Help with writing a review of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet.

Discuss whether Tom Robinson was innocent or guilty and write an argument for or against using the helpful sentence stems.

Useful model when looking at descriptive writing.

Worksheets looking at using commas and complex sentences. Answers not included.

In my experience, students find beginning comparative paragraphs to be the hardest aspect of writing comparisons on the power and conflict anthology poems. These two worksheets offer help with starting off discriminating comparisons. Students use the prompts to complete the opening sentences to various comparative paragraphs.

2 differentiated planning sheets with writing frame for writing an essay exploring who is responsible for Macbeth’s downfall. Stronger students can use the version which explores how Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and The Witches are to blame. Weaker students can use the version that only focuses on how Macbeth is responsible. Includes an accompanying PowerPoint. Also includes a model 4 person discussion about who is to blame to showcase the way students should respond to each other’s points.

Students read the Grade 9 GCSE model answer on the theme of love and trace how the 9 step method has been used to write about the extract and the play as a whole. They then plan 3 GCSE style questions on the themes of death, fate and family honour using the 9 step method. I have made it so you can print them separately or as part of a 4 page booklet.

I have carefully selected 20 brief key extracts from the play. They are the 20 extracts I consider to be most likely to come up in the exam. To complete the revision activity, students must work out what is happening in each extract, analyse two key quotations and make links to context, themes and ideas. This booklet is helping my students revise for the closed book examination. There are 4 A3 sheets covering Acts 1-5. Of the hundreds Romeo and Juliet resources I have created, this is probably the most effective. Also includes a PowerPoint with suggested answers for each extract. Includes an AQA version (with context) and an Eduqas version (without context).

Oliver Twist: Nancy’s Death. How does Dickens use language to make the scene dramatic? There are two differentiated versions of the task with differentiated writing frame guidelines. There are also differentiated resources to help students answer this GCSE style question. Includes a revision of language features in the extract.

Students plan responses to four GCSE style theme questions on A Christmas Carol using my simple 9 Step method. Includes a model response that uses the 9 STEP METHOD. Set up to be printed as a 6 page revision booklet. Students have found this method really helpful in structuring their responses to the text. New for 2023 is a resource which offers 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas. Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations. Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations. Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.

A complete lesson about ghosts in the novel to help lead students towards creating a grade 9 response to a GCSE style question on the theme of ghosts in A Christmas Carol using a 9 step process. Students go on to read the grade 9 exemplars and trace how I have followed the 9 step process. Also includes 6 revision cards about the supernatural in the novella.

Students identify the meaning of a range of language features which are divided into 3: words, imagery, sentences. They then have to find examples of each technique in Macbeth. This activity can be differentiated by allowing weaker students access to a list of answers which have been mixed up into random order.

Students use the worksheet to follow the 9 step method for approaching an exam question on a theme in A Christmas Carol for the 9-1 GCSE examination. Includes an exam style question, a suggested writing frame using prompts from the AQA website, a table for planning a response and recommended extracts to zoom out to. Ideal for examination revision. Also included is a resource offering 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas. Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations. Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations. Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.

Lesson exploring the presentation of religion in Animal Farm. Students contrast the pigs’ hatred of Moses in Chapter 2 with the way his presence is tolerated on the farm in Chapter 9 when the animals are hungry.