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Hi everyone! I'm Kayleigh. I'm head of English and EAL with more than 8 years of teaching experience. I hope my resources will save you time planning, engage students in learning and guide them to academic success.
YouTube Videos: www.youtube.com/c/EnglishwithKayleigh
Hi everyone! I'm Kayleigh. I'm head of English and EAL with more than 8 years of teaching experience. I hope my resources will save you time planning, engage students in learning and guide them to academic success.
Are you teaching Ted Hughes for pupils’ upcoming exams, or are you a student who wants to revise essay structures and ideas for Hughes’ work? Then, this pack is for you.
This pack includes three real essays with real marks from CAIE from June 2023.
It includes:
A response that was awarded 21/25
A response that was awarded 17/25 (after a remark)
A response that was awarded 14/25
Please note: As these are real essays, there are mistakes present.
This is a 5-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s Brendon Gallacher poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing.
YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF
A comprehensive (63 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s Telegraph Wires.
Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams!
PPT includes:
The poem
A summary of its content
The themes encountered
A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis
Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme
An essay question to help you practice!
Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870
A comprehensive (83 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s The Other.
Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams!
PPT includes:
The poem
A summary of its content
The themes encountered
A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis
Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme
An essay questionto help you practice!
Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870
A comprehensive (65 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s Relic.
Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams!
PPT includes:
The poem
A summary of its content
The themes encountered
A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis
Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme
Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870
Help students understand the initial thematic concerns of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, analysing pages 1 - 9.
Lesson Two | Thematic Concerns
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
Analysis Notes
No prep needed - just teach!
Made for the 9695 CAIE A-Level Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for GCSE / any other syllabus.
Help students understand the playwright of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill and the impact his life had on his writing.
Lesson One | O’Neill’s Life
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
A handout for students to complete
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 9695 CAIE A-Level Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for GCSE / any other syllabus.
A comprehensive (66 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s Snowdrop.
Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams!
PPT includes:
The poem
A summary of its content
The themes encountered
A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis
Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme
An essay question to help you practice!
Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870
This is a 5-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s My Grandmother’s Houses poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination!
This mini unit (76 slides!) teaches students how to analyse any poem they meet in their Literature course / curriculum.
The slides cover:
Title analysis
Context and meaning
Stanza structures and rhyme schemes
Line structure
Language analysis
Tone analysis
The PPT analyses Life is Fine by Langston Hughes.
You can print free copies from any search engine.
Supporting students through their revision of Beloved? This workbook is for you! With over 40 pages of revision activities, including revision of characters, the novel’s structure, thematic concerns, and A05, this pack covers everything a pupil needs to know before walking into the exam room.
There are multiple opportunities for candidates to engage with new exam style questions, saving you time to focus on best supporting your pupils.
Help students understand the thematic concerns in Act Three of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, through engaging with an extract question.
Lesson Thirteen | Themes and Dramatic Concerns
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
A practice extract question
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 9695 CAIE A-Level Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for GCSE / any other syllabus.
Help students understand the characterisation of James Tyrone in Act One of Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Lesson Four | James Tyrone
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
A handout for students to complete
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 9695 CAIE A-Level Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for GCSE / any other syllabus.
Help students understand the theme of denial and guilt in Act One of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, analysing the family dynamic through their interactions with one another.
Lesson Three | Theme: Denial and Guilt
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
A handout for students to complete
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 9695 CAIE A-Level Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for GCSE / any other syllabus.
Help students understand the theme of fatalism and resignation in Act Two, Scene Two of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, through engaging with an extract question.
Lesson Six | Theme: Fatalism
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
A practice extract question
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 9695 CAIE A-Level Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for GCSE / any other syllabus.
Help students understand the characterisation of Mary Tyrone in Act Two, Scene One of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, considering her utterances and actions.
Lesson Five | Mary Tyronw
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
A collaborative PPT for students to complete
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 9695 CAIE A-Level Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for GCSE / any other syllabus.
Analyse the relationship between Blanche ans Stella as they are reunited at the start of Act One.
Lesson Four | Sister Sister
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
Lesson worksheet
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 0475 CAIE GCSE Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for A-Level / any other syllabus.
FULL ANSWER KEY INCLUDED!
Get pupils excited about Indian Ink, and prepare them to score top marks in the process with this 65-page engaging workbook! Have pupils work through the activities and questions as you study Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink.
WORKBOOK CONTENT:
Assessment Objectives
Marking Criteria (CAIE)
Assessment objective 5 suggestions and notes pages
Literary lenses and notes pages
How to develop drama analysis
Story summary
Contextual information
Key things to know and Indian Ink
Character overview
Character analysis guiding questions
Character analysis pages for all major characters
Minor character analysis
Thematic concerns
Themes tracker
Symbols introduction
Symbols tracker
Act one analysis questions
Act two analysis questions
Indian Ink exam questions
Made for the Cambridge (CAIE) 9695 syllabus. However, it can be adapted for any course!
HOW I SPLIT THE SCENES:
Since we will all be using different texts, I thought it best to share the first line of each scene to help you save time!
1.1
ACT ONE Dusk. FLORA sits alone on a moving train.
1.2
The Shepperton garden is now visable. Here, MRS SWAN and PIKE are having tea while occupied with a shoebox of Flora’s letters.
1.3
FLORA: ‘So far, India likes me. My lecture drew a packed house, Mr. C’s house, in fact…’
1.4
FLORA: ‘Then I met my painter…’
1.5
FLORA: (Recorded) Yes, I am in heat like a bride in a bath,…
1.6
Anish stands up at the approach of Mrs Swan who comes from the bungalow with tea for two on a tray, and two kinds of cake.
1.7
Flora and Das sit at the table with lemonade.
1.8
We have already heard the horse. We do not see the horse.
1.9
Flora waves and turns aside. She sits at her table and starts to write.
1.10
FLORA: (Recorded)
‘…Yes, think of a woman in a blue dress…’
1.11
FLORA: Thank you Nazrul … And two kinds of cake!
1.12
Pike enters dressed for India. He is staying at the best hotel in Jummapur…
1.13
DAS: Thank you. (He lights a cigarette.) You were writing to your sister?
1.14
Das leaves the bedroom and goes along the verandah towards the servants’ quarters and disappears round the corner.
1.15
Das enters the bedroom.
DAS: (Approaching the bed Should I pour the water for you?
2.1
ACT TWO The Jummapur Club after sundown.
2.2
FLORA: ‘My suitor-I suppose I must call him that…’
2.3
The scene becomes exterior. The actors remain astride the gym horses.
2.4
*Dilip and Pike are in the garden/courtyard of the Jummapur Palace Hotel…
*
2.5
RAJAH Entering The spiritual beauty of Jummapur has been increased a thousandfold by your presence, Miss Crewe!
2.6
PIKE: Augustus de Boucheron enjoyed brief celebrity as a millionaire philanthropist and patron of the arts.
2.7
Mrs Swan and Anish are sitting in the garden with gin-and-tonic.Mrs Swan is looking at the watercolour.
2.8
Nirad Das and Coomaraswami are sit
2.9
PIKE AND
2.10
This is a 7-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s My Grandmother poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing.
YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF
This is a 7-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s Plague poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing.
YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF