A revision grid contains notes for all 15 poems on the themes of power, conflict as well as notes structure and context. The activity asks students to engage with the revision grid in order to look for discriminating comparisons. After finding a pair, students write comparative sentences. Another way of using this revision sheet is to colour code the poems that go well together.

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A lesson that walks students through how to answer an exam question on attitudes to the supernatural in Macbeth. The featured extract comes from Act 1 Scene 3. The lesson includes annotations of the extract, a grade 9 sample answer and annotations for quotations to use from outside the extract to finish the response. Also contains an alternative lesson which uses Act 1 Scene 1 as the starting extract. This lesson is actually better.

How to structure AQA English Literature Paper 2 with suggested timings for each question.

PowerPoint lesson with differentiated worksheets to help students explore the importance of the Friar. Students read the key quotations and decide how far they think Shakespeare presents The Friar as a wise man. Includes GCSE exam style question adapted for AQA (34 mark question) and EDUQAS (25 mark question)

Questions to encourage students to annotate Act 1 Scene 4 from Romeo and Juliet. Also an activity analysing the 3 key moments from Act 1 Scene 4: 1. Romeo and Mercutio’s witty exchanges 2. Queen Mab speech 3. Romeo’s premonition of death

Using this marking code will speed up your marking without compromising the quality and specificity of your marking because it transfers the time-consuming job of writing the targets out for each student from you to the students. Your marking will look something like this: WWW 1. 3. 7. EBI 4. 10. 15. Read the work and select 3 ways they have met the generic success criteria (WWW) and 3 ways they can improve further (EBI). The students have to then write out the target before trying to meet it. The 20 criteria start with the basics of using full stops and capital letters before moving on to much harder targets such as using a full range of punctuation. This should work with any creative writing task. Students can also use it a self-assessment tool. I have also included a differentiated and more visually stimulating version which just has 8 targets.

Various resources to help students explore Stave 2. PowerPoint included. Worksheets include: Stave 2 questions Stave 2 exam style question Stave 2 revision poster activity Comparing Stave 1 and 2 Analysing key quotations Lesson analysing the Ghost of Christmas Past Lesson Analysing Fezziwig

A full lesson exploring the poem with challenging questions for independent analysis followed by answers and annotations. Links to other Eduqas poetry resources: Revision Cards: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-wjec-poetry-revision-cards-gcse-12107545 Lessons on all poem: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-anthology-bundle-2-lesson-on-each-poem-11896591 Revision resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-revising-all-poems-11894072 Bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-bundle-gcse-9-1-11815065

Lesson on similes, metaphors, and personifications with worksheet and PowerPoint. Includes 5 activities and extension tasks. Update: I have added a complete lesson PowerPoint.

2 lessons which explore key exam length extracts from Act 4 Scene 1 and Act 4 Scene 3. Includes annotations, writing frames, guided questions with answers and a model high level answer.

2 lessons on Chapter 2 analysing the initial presentation of Curley and Curley’s Wife in Chapter 2 with success criteria, writing frames, model paragraphs, extension activities and accompanying worksheets. Also includes a high level model answer on Curley’s Wife. Also includes an essay plan for analysing how Curley’s Wife is presented across the whole novel.

Lesson introducing Prelude for the Power and Conflict anthology. Includes detailed annotations followed by questions on the annotations to test understanding. There is also a revision sheet with extension questions.

In this 16 slide powerpoint, I have selected 4 key quotations for each poem to annotate in detail with a focus on all 3 areas of assessment: A01: meanings A02: analysis of methods A03: Context/Themes This lesson is repeatable in the run up to the exam to revise all 60 quotations and their various layers of meaning. I have also included an answer sheet on A3 paper with all the slides on one page. How it works: Show students the 4 quotations and give them time to annotate them then reveal the teacher answers to compare. The teacher annotations are animated and appear one by one on the mouse click so you can talk through them. A successful lesson that doesn’t require any photocopying!

Inspired by the image of the old man in the 2018 AQA English Language exam, I have collated and categorised 275 words to describe a face onto a worksheet to help students with their descriptive writing. Students found this useful in helping them to improve the precision of their characters descriptions for English Language Paper 1.

Differentiated - 3 different versions of essay plans for Macbeth to use with different ability groups. For ease of photocopying, I have created 6 exam questions on one A3 students. Each question has a planning grid for students to map out their ideas. Useful for final revision session. Also contains 4 completed plans for students to convert into essays. Great for revision lessons or for homework tasks.

A range of high grade Macbeth exam responses. All responses were written to reflect the ability of grade 8/9 students working under timed conditions. Marking is subjective but as an experienced examiner, I am confident all of these responses would, in my opinion, fit into the top band because all 6 contain thorough (and at times perceptive) debate with the nuances of the question supported by thorough and at times perceptive analysis of methods and wider ideas supported by fine-grained analysis of judicious quotations.

Lesson and resources to help students produce a high quality response on the character of Eva Smith. Eva Smith essay planning sheet with answers for AQA 1-9 An Inspector Calls style question. The planning sheet contains perceptive points with carefully selected quotations and space for students to make deeper insights into language and theme. This is aimed at students with a target grade of 7-9. There is also a PowerPoint version aimed at students with a target grade of 4-5.

Starter: List words associated with rain. Learning outcomes: To identify features of Dickens’ style To apply knowledge in a piece of descriptive writing To evaluate against the success criteria Next students examine the methods Dickens uses to describe the fog in an extract from ‘Bleak House’ and the snow in an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’. There is differentiation so students of different ability can examine different methods used by the author. Students must then try to write a paragraph in the same style about rain. There is a differentiated success criteria. The plenary can be done in the form of peer and self assessment and has sentence stems linked to the success criteria.