A Year 9 into Year 10 Transition Booklet to prepare Year 9 students for English Language Paper 1. There is lots of advice, skills practise, differentiated tasks, reading for pleasure, and a practice paper at the end.
Two exam practice lessons in line with Assessment Objectives.
Includes:
June 2017 practice question and specimen question
2023 grade boundaries on slides (includes 22-24 boundaries on document)
Mark scheme, indicative content, candidate responses, examiner’s comments
Step-by-step plans
Annotated poem slides (‘Morning Song’, ‘Hinterhof’, ‘A Song’, ‘Neutral Tones’)
Three lessons focusing on the Animal Farm question on the OCR Literature Paper using the AOs, includes:
Part A and B, including exam question and extracts
Detailed context
Annotated extracts
Form and structure
Hints and tips
Model responses
OCR 2023 grade boundaries
Lessons and resources for the Edexcel A Level Course including:
Wuthering Heights , The Handmaid’s Tale, and Frankenstein Recaps
Unseen poetry
Exam questions - how to approach them, and model responses
AO focused
A revision lesson with resources. Each question is covered in detail with relevant strategies for all abilities, and model answers. There is between three/four hours teaching here.
Run through of whole of English Language Paper 2 [AQA] as a guide for classroom teaching/in-class revision. Includes mark schemes and reading techniques.
Exam practice lessons in line with Assessment Objectives.
Includes:
Three lessons (one on Part A, one on Part B, one on both)
2023 grade boundaries on slides (includes 22-24 boundaries on document)
Mark schemes
Candidate responses and examiner’s comments
Comprehension and connections with other poems
Past paper questions (of those available at the time)
Annotated poem slides (‘Long Distance II’, ‘Silence’, ‘Now’, ‘Hour’)
Introduction and analytical paragraph on ‘Flirtation’
Extremely detailed lesson in line with Assessment Objectives – you can get at least three hours from this.
Includes:
Breakdown of Paper 1
All past paper questions up to 2023 inc. possible questions
Tragic conventions (Aristotlelean) and unusual context
Candidate responses
Annotated extract slides
Introductions
Marked Streetcar student response and more!
AQA English Literature A Level, Elements of Crime Poetry & Atonement
Extremely detailed lesson of 52 slides
Overview of each poem and the novel, including links, key quotes/ideas/themes
Includes plot of Atonement
Exam questions
Examiner advice
Indicative content
Model essays and introductions
Ideal for revision
Detailed, scaffolded lessons on how we interact with our world: social media, climate change, politeness
Tabloid and Broadsheet articles, video and transcript of speech for analysis of rhetorical devices
Do Now Starters
Lots of engaging tasks
Mark scheme
SPaG pointers
Planning
Worst possible introduction tasks
Adaptable to other exam boards
Ideal for exam revision
Detailed lessons and resources including:
Act One recap
Essay structure and ‘lesser’ characters
How to approach a theme question
How to approach the exam question on gender
Planning and structure
Colour-coded model responses
Easily differentiated
Adaptable to other exam boards
Detailed Lessons on How to Approach the OCR A Level Literature Exams, includes:
Hamlet
Dystopia (The Handmaid’s Tale)
Ibsen and Rossetti
Detailed early modern context lesson
Resources include extracts and model responses
Detailed, scaffolded lessons and resources including:
Essay structure and planning
Exam questions with extracts
Quizzes
Past Papers
Relevant Context
Colour-coded model responses
Easily differentiated
Adaptable to other exam boards
Detailed, scaffolded lessons and resources including:
Essay structure and planning
Exam questions with extracts
Banquo
The Supernatural
Relevant Context
Colour-coded model responses
Easily differentiated
Adaptable to other exam boards
A scheme of ten differentiated lessons and resources - seven reading, three writing - based on a Language paper 1 I created on the opening of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men . This can be taught at the beginning of Year 10, and is easily adaptable. There are model responses and, also, some homework tasks.
Full, comprehensive GCSE scheme of differentiated lessons and resources for An Inspector Calls includes:
Three lessons per act, each with differentiated resources
Retrieval practice
Focus on language, form and structure
Detailed analysis of character and theme
Exam practice and building convincing essays from planning to thesis statement to argument and conclusion
It is designed for AQA but can be adapted to suit the other boards.
There is a separate lesson on exam practice with lots of exam-style questions.
The lessons were planned for doubles, but can easily be adapted to singles.
There is a good ten weeks of teaching here, depending on timetabling.
A GCSE Year 9 into 10 Transition Booklet including vital information and a range of differentiated tasks for the step up to GCSE English Language, and a complete English Language Paper 1 scheme based on Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men - both sections of the paper are explored in detail with differentiated tasks and resources. This is ideal for teaching at the beginning of Year 10.