A grade 9 model response to the following question: How does Dickens present Scrooge as charitable towards the poor? (30) Also included: An A3 planning sheet Useful zoom in/out quotations Also includes a full lesson powerpoint comparing 12 quotations from Stave 1 and 5 with detailed inferences included for each. Also includes: A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist. A01: What is the meaning of the quotation? A02: What is the impact of words/methods? A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation? Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it. Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.

A lesson for exploring Storm on the Island in the Power and Conflict AQA anthology. Step 1: Students use the hint questions to prompt them to gain an independent understanding of the poem. Step 2: Read through the answer and complete. Step 3: Questions to test understanding of new annotations. Step 4: Review by creating thesis statement about Heaney’s purpose.

Detailed lessons analysing the significance of the 4 ghosts in the novel. A differentiated worksheet to invite students to explore the impact of each ghost in A Christmas Carol independently. A key extract is selected for each ghost and students answer the tough, tougher or toughest challenges. Also includes a full lesson analysing the Ghost of Christmas Past extract in greater detail. Also includes a grade 9 style response on the importance of ghosts to Scrooge’s change and transformation.

A prompt sheet to help students to peer assess poetry comparisons against the marking criteria. I have used this with the AQA Power and Conflict poems; however, it can easily be adapted for other specifications.

Dreams in Of Mice and Men: essay planning sheet

Revision lesson for Elizabethan context in Romeo and Juliet. Task 1: What do they already know. Task 2: Watch a short video and make notes. Task 3: Link words Task 4: Use the revision sheet for a carousel activity. Task 5: Review learning. Grouped under 5 headings (women, marriage, fate, death and honour, love) the worksheet works really well as a home and away group task.

Students read and analyse 20 short key extracts from the play. I have selected the extracts most likely to feature in the exam. Bronze: Explain what is happening. Silver: Analyse 3 key quotes Gold: Link to context and answer the question Students can then check their answers on the PowerPoint which contains sample annotations for each extract. They are colour coded. Includes 2 versions. AQA (with context) and EDUQAS (without context). There are also extension activities: Bronze: Revise 64 mini quotations Silver: Find 3 key extracts which link to each theme Gold: Attempt an exam question.

2 A3 worksheets revising stage directions in the play. Sheet 1: A list of key stage directions for each character split into before, during and after the interrogation combined with questions to help students understand the subtle changes in the characters’ behaviour at each stage of the play. Sheet 2: Differentiated questions linking to A01, A02, A03 based on the opening stage directions.

Lesson introducing Death of a Naturalist to a mid to low ability group for Eduqas 9-1. Includes guided annotations, questions, key quotations and some context.

An exam walk-through lesson for the 2017 unseen poetry questions. The poems that featured were ‘A Child’s Sleep’ and ‘Night Feed’. This lesson can easily be adapted for an AQA revision lesson by simply changing the marks awarded for the two questions: AQA awards 24 marks for the single poem analysis and 8 marks for the comparison. EDUQAS awards 15 marks for the single poem analysis and 25 marks for the comparison

A lesson that invites students to explore comparisons between compatible poems in the EDUQAS anthology by looking for subtle and discriminating comparisons.

Ozymandias: PowerPoint for at least 3 lessons with worksheets and resources. Also includes annotations focused on power and a writing frame for comparing the poem to Tissue.

Lots of worksheets looking at figurative language.

A detailed A3 revision sheet containing key quotations in short easy to remember chunks for the following 4 supporting characters in Romeo and Juliet: Mercutio, Capulet, Nurse and Friar. There is a differentiated activity to encourage students to use the revision sheet effectively: Bronze: AO1 explain what we learn about the character in each quote. Silver: AO3 link each quotation to context Gold: AO3 link each quotation to a theme Diamond: AO2 Identify language features in each quotation Also includes a follow up lesson revising the key quotes and testing understanding.

Disabled: Wilfred Owen: 2 differentiated worksheets for exploring the poem. Ideal for homework/flip learning tasks. Worksheet 1: Bronze/Silver/Gold differentiated questions on each stanza of the poem. Worksheet 2: Bronze/Silver/Gold task involving annotating and drawing images to demonstrate understanding.

An Inspector Calls: differentiated vocabulary activity for AQA 1-9 3 worksheets for 3 levels of differentiation: tough, tougher and toughest.

A differentiated activity on how Lady Macbeth is presented in 4 key scenes. Students are divided into 4 ability groups - signified by colour. Students then work on annotating the extract using the differentiated bronze, silver, gold tasks. After this students should carousel to share their answers for all 4 scenes. Also includes a Lady Macbeth timeline and high grade exam response.

A lesson introducing Kamikaze with brief context, detailed line by line animated annotations, comprehension questions to test understanding of the annotations followed by various extension activities and a model comparative paragraph comparing Emigree to Kamikaze. Also contains a creative writing task involving transforming the poem into a narrative.