The Little Book of Literature Quotes
Key quotes for year 11 to revise (Cohort 2019) covering the following set texts:
A Christmas Carol
Macbeth
An Inspector Calls
Conflict and Power Poetry
Produced for LA Year 11 AQA GCSE Literature.**
A pupil workbook to accompany reading ‘Buddy’ by Nigel Hinton at KS3.
Covers a range of reading and writing tasks, linked to GCSE English / GCSE English Literature.
Best suited to LA / SEND.
Includes self /peer assessment and ‘Stretch and Challenge’ tasks.
A two sided A 4 Word template which folds into a leaflet, which can be glued into pupil exercise books. Pupils are provided with boxes to draw illustrations and lines on which to write, explaining key area like their family tree, friends and plans for the future. Very useful when getting to know new classes!
4 Excel sheets of ‘Quickfire’ starters, covering:
Literary devices
Spelling
Punctuation
Parts of speech
Sentences
12 task boxes per topic area.
Suitable for KS3 or as revision in KS4.
SmartBoard version available also, for whole class Q&Q.
**AQA Paper 1, Questions 1 & 2 and Paper 2, Questions 1 & 2 **
Source A: Lost at Sea (Guardian)
Source B: I Fell Through The Arctic Ice (Gary Rolf)
Exam style for all four questions.
4 Excel 4 x 3 grids of quick-fire starters or bell tasks, covering:
Common spelling errors
Literary devices
Punctuation
Parts of speech
Suitable for KS3 or as revision for KS4.
A 25 page pupil booklet to support teaching poetry ballads and sonnets. Contains:
2 ‘warm up’ or starter tasks
Sonnet 130(Shakespeare) poem and task
Sonnet 116(Shakespeare) poem and task
Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare)poem and task
My Last Duchess (Browning) poem and task
What has happened to Lulu? poem / task
The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond poem and task
That Time Again (Birtles) and The Captain’s Daughter (Fields) poems and tasks
Exerpt from The Highwayman (Noyes) and task
Useful for KS3 classes, in particular SEND or lower ability.
Used to compliment a year 8 unit of work by the same name for over ten years.
The Little Book of Essays
An A5 booklet of essay titles, suitable for AQA GCSE Literature, Paper 1 and Paper 2:
A Christmas Carol (4 essay titles, including extracts)
Macbeth (5 essay titles, including extracts)
An Inspector Calls (5 essay titles)
Power and Conflict Poetry (6 essay titles)
Each essay page allows pupils space to bullet / spider diagram plan their response to a similar essay in the actual exam.
Helpful for GCSE revision in class or at home.
AQA GCSE LITERATURE GUIDE TO WRITING AN UNSEEN POETRY ESSAY
133 slides covering:
What to expect in the exam
How am I assessed?
What should I do before I write my essay?
How do I write my essay?
What about the comparison question?
Slides animated with transitions, for easy use on whiteboards.
Two A4 page grids of key information for the following poems:
‘Ozymandias’
‘My Last Duchess’
‘Remains’
‘Storm on the Island’
‘The Emigree’
‘Charge of the Light Brigade’
‘Kamikaze’
‘Bayonet Charge’
Blank grids included also, for setting as homework.
Coloured and black and white grids, as well as PDF uploaded.
Handy for revision.
KS3 ‘The Witches’ (Roald Dahl) pupil booklet, to accompany teaching the text.
Updated 2024.
Suitable for KS3 (particularly year 7 or LA year 8).
17 pages.
Range of reading, writing and quiz tasks.
PDF uploaded also.
An 8 page feedback document
Makes an ideal A3 booklet
Used successfully with my year 11’s during a learning walk focussed on feedback to pupils after their mocks. Outcome considered ‘Excellent’.
Activities ask pupils to ‘Review’, ‘Reflect’ and ‘Repsond’ to exemplar material and their own responses.
The mock Literature question was:
In ‘Scaffolding’, how does the poet present the speaker’s
feelings about their relationship?
… but the template could easily be adopted to other poems / texts.
AQA GCSE English Literaturee - How to write a ‘Macbeth’ (William Shakespeare) essay.
An 89 slide PowerPoint covering:
What to expect
How am I assessed?
How to plan
How to structure
How to write a paragraph
Introductions and conclusions
Used with my Year 10 and Year 11 mid-ability classes.
Uses transitions and animations, for use on whiteboards.
EDUQAS GCSE MEDIA STUDIES
COMPONENT 1, SECTION B: THE ARCHERS
Teaching PowerPoint (320 slides) and accompanying pupil booklet (18 pages)
Includes:
Part 1: Introduction to radio
Part 2: Social, historical and cultural contexts
Part 3: Funding, regulation and production process
Part 4: Convergence, Technology and webiste
Part 5: Audiences
Part 6: Episode study (Helen and Rob)
Part 7: Revision and recall
Part 8: Assessment
PDF and Word version of the pupil booklet included.
Plenty of AFL, recall and differentiation along the way.
Save yourself the planning time!
‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’: PUPIL WORKBOOK - LA or SEND
A 20 page workbook for lower ability or SEND pupils to work through the basic plot of the play.
Example tasks include:
Storyboarding
Annotation of short extracts
Staging ideas
Comprehension on plot summaries
Uploaded as a PDF also.