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Two detailed lessons exploring ‘A Wider View’ by Seni Seneviratne from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
An extract analysis booklet which contains 24 examination-length extracts from Much Ado About Nothing and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
This bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Edexcel Time and Place cluster: London; Composed Upon Westminster Bridge; To Autumn; I started Early, Took my Dog; Adlestrop; Where the Picnic Was; Home Thoughts from Abroad; Stewart Island; Postcard from a Travel Snob; First Flight; Hurricane Hits England; Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan; Nothing’s Changed; In Romney Marsh; and Absence.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able.
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
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Two detailed lessons exploring Moniza Alvi’s ‘Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with thorough annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A complete unit of work for teaching The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
This is a dynamic and engaging unit for teaching this text. A range of activities are included, incorporating textual analysis, comprehension, contextual linking, comparison and creative writing.
The main resource includes 87 Powerpoint slides which stretch over at least 15 lessons. If class reading time is incorporated into the lessons, then this would double the number of lessons available.
Additional consolidation and assessment activities are included to extend the unit further. Any worksheets mentioned are included in the pack as are detailed lesson plans with learning objectives, suggestions for differentiation and variety in activities.
This unit will stretch and challenge even the most able students whilst supporting those learners who require it. In addition, the Powerpoint slides are visually engaging and accessible.
Two detailed lessons exploring Fleur Adcock’s ‘Stewart Island’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A complete set of ‘Learning Checkpoint’ sheets for GCSE AQA English Language and English Literature.
Included are templates for every longer response question across Language and Literature.
The sheets allow you to set a short task or paragraph response with pre-filled lines for students to write on. Students write in their own graded target. All you need to do is to tick the appropriate box as to whether they met their target and highlight or underline any of the pre-populated targets appropriate for that task or response.
You can easily mark a class set of responses in 10 to 20 minutes and students quickly receive appropriate targets/feedback. I use these every other lesson in the run up to mocks or exam season and they are a game changer.
Easily adaptable for your own targets, these low stakes templates will reduce your workload.
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Shall earth no more inspire thee’ by Emily Brontë from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'A century later’ by Imtiaz Dharker from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'England in 1819’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'A Portable Paradise’ by Roger Robinson from the Worlds and Lives Cluster in the AQA GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Great Expectations and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
Two detailed lessons exploring Thomas Hardy’s ‘Where the Picnic was’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring U.A. Fanthorpe’s ‘First Flight’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Emily Dickinson’s ‘I started Early - Took my Dog’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring Sophie Hannah’s ‘Postcard from a Travel Snob’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A comprehesive 40 slide Powerpoint which takes students through an introduction to The Merchant of Venice; a background to Shakespearean tragedy; and all three scenes of Act I.
Included:
A comprehensive guide to tragedy with a terminology matching exercise
Contextual background to the play
Analysis and discussion questions for each scene
Modelled textual analysis
Longer exam-style questions
Extension questions for higher ability students
This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.
The slides in yellow are aimed at A Level students or those GCSE students who are aiming for a grade 8 or 9.
A table-based revision document where students write down an evaluative statement (possibly lifted from a past question beginning ‘Evaluate the idea…’ before adding their own argument, a supporting theorist and a real world example.
Four rows have been completed to guide students through the process.
This is an excellent way of supporting students to plan for an evaluative response, and demonstrates how to bring in theory and supporting ideas.
Check out my other English Language resources:
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
This booklet contains essay structure suggestions and guidance for Paper 2 of AQA English Language A Level.
Each page offers guidance as to how to approach each question in the paper - covers Section A (Language DIversity), and Section B, Questions 3 (Language Discourses) and 4 (Opinion Article).
Check out my other English Language resources:
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
This is a revision resources for the GCSE English Literature text, Lord of the Flies. There are fourteen quotations from across the text, each in the middle of an A3 sheet. Students should annotate the quotations, pulling out techniques, effects and contextual links.
Suitable for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas specifications.