A differentiated carousel activity based on the Edwardian context to An Inspector Calls.
Red (highest ability) make notes on socialism and capitalism
Orange (high ability) make notes on 1912 versus 1945
Yellow (middle ability) make notes on the role of women
Blue (low ability) makes notes on JB Priestly’s life.
Students then carousel to share answers and create a mind map.
Instead of buying my power and conflict revision cards, why not download this template for free and have a go at creating your own personal revision cards.
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Alternatively try the full power and conflict bundle with lessons, model essays and lots more revision resources and writing frames.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-bundle-2018-11881499
Romeo and Juliet into 15 pages to help students with revising the plot and key quotations to the novel.
The abridged version includes:
- A short summary of each scene.
- The key quotation(s) from each scene.
- Extended extracts from what I consider to be the key scenes from the play.
Worksheets aimed at helping students consciously use a range of simple, compound and complex sentences to describe an image.
Task 1: Students combine the sentences already provided to describe the image.
Task 2: Students must come up with their own examples of simple, compound and complex sentences and then produce their description.
This task is very repeatable - just change the image each time. It is worth repeating until students find it easy to come up with simple, compound and complex sentence examples.
A random generator powerpoint that is useful for encouraging students to experiment with using alternative sentence openers.
Simply give students a topic to describe.
Turn on the random generator and students must begin each sentence with whatever word the random generator lands on. It may be ad adverb, present particple verb, preposition etcetera.
Students always seem to enjoy this activity.
Free comprehension questions on Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet.
Other popular Romeo and Juliet resources include:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-grade-9-and-grade-7-model-responses-to-aqa-gcse-questions-11580421
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-notes-for-top-quotes-11894589
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-theme-revision-cards-violence-love-family-honour-fate-death-isolation-11869598
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-6-exam-questions-on-one-a3-page-2019-predictions-12119104
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-analyse-20-key-short-extracts-with-answers-11601152
Set off the random generator. Right click to stop on a random quotation. Students must compete to be the first to identify the missing word.
Works well as a quick 5 minute activity to repeat over a number of lessons.
Check out my shop for other A Christmas Carol resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-theme-revision-cards-poverty-isolation-ghosts-christmas-family-11869145
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-gcse-differentiated-revision-sheets-on-themes-and-context-11387723
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/stave-1-and-stave-5-scrooge-s-transformation-in-a-christmas-carol-11503154
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-grade-9-lesson-and-essays-on-ghosts-11552659
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-100-comprehension-questions-with-answer-sheet-12450748
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/revise-themes-in-a-christmas-carol-family-isolation-poverty-charity-christmas-supernatural-11577227
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-9-a-christmas-carol-exam-responses-12220340
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-top-50-quotations-11901568
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-3-grade-9-model-answers-for-eduqas-gcse-exam-style-11797550
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-9-response-on-poverty-in-a-christmas-carol-12512988
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/6-grade-9-model-essays-on-a-christmas-carol-for-aqa-or-eduqas-11896608
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-aqa-1-9-super-bundle-11532059#
Lesson that prepares students for answering the AQA 2017 question about Snowball’s leadership.
Includes a Grade 7 exemplar response.
Includes an engaging starter looking at ambitious vocabulary to describe Snowball - answers included.
It then moves on to annotate and analyse 10 key quotations about Snowball.
There are also extension questions to review the learning.
Ideal preparation lesson before asking students to complete an exam question on Squealer.
For other Animal Farm resources, try the following links:
Revision:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/themes-in-animal-farm-8-revision-resources-11389822
Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-bundle-11499747
Revision cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-character-revision-cards-12167869
Analysis of ending
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-chapter-10-lesson-compare-orwell-s-ending-with-two-film-versions-11532867
A partially completed plan for an essay response focusing on how Scrooge is presented as cold heart.
The big points and quotations are included. Students must add language analysis and context.
Comprehension questions to complete on a first reading of Stone Cold by Robert Swindells.
Includes at least one question on every chapter.
Useful for developing scanning skills to retrieve information from the text.
The page numbers are the same in the various versions of the book I have taught from over the years.
Lesson along with planning sheets to help students to plan and write an AQA exam response on the character of Mr Birling.
Sheet 1: Listening activity with youtube link
Sheet 2: Find quotations
Sheet 3: Exploratory questions and useful sentence stems/writing frame
Sheet 4: Grade 6 exemplar response with examiner comments
Sheet 5: 10 quotations explained in detail
A term’s worth of ready-to-teach resources created for the 2021 examination on A Christmas Carol.
Includes:
Revision sheets containing key quotes and context points and differentiated revision tasks
Context match up sheet
9 grade 9 model answers
Writing frames
5, Sample AQA-style questions
Partially completed essay plans to finish
Difficult vocabulary glossary activity
Carousel activity on key extracts
Differentiated questions on stave 2
Differentiated questions on Marley’s ghost
Which vision in Stave 2 affects Scrooge the most worksheet
Activities with model responses on how Dickens presents ideas about Christmas in Stave 3
Comprehension questions on all staves
Top 50 quotations revision sheets
Fred lesson
Fezziwig lesson
Lesson on more obscure extracts
Lesson on women in the novella
Plus lots more
Worksheet 1: Differentiated questions (Bronze A01, Silver A02, Gold A03) on the Marley’s ghost extract.
Worksheet 2: Storyboard activity to sum up the scene with Marley’s ghost with 3 levels of differentiation.
Lesson with worksheets and a PowerPoint for analysing the word choice in Romeo’s final soliloquy in Act 5 Scene 3. Students follow the instructions and zoom in to two words choices within each quotation. They should then discuss the combined or contrasting effect of these two word choices.
40 questions on Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol.
Useful to set after reading the Stave to check understanding.
Includes 8 extension questions based around A03 to develop understanding of context and Dickens’ purpose.
Also includes a revision PowerPoint guiding students on how to make a mind map to revise the key quotations from the Stave.
PowerPoint for 2 lessons on Poppies. Lesson 1 uses differentiated prompt questions to give students enough hints to allow them to be more engaged and independent with their annotations.
Lesson 2 involves applying knowledge and developing deeper annotations. Lesson comes with success criteria, annotations, starter, plenaries.
Also includes a revision sheet to prepare students for an exam style question on the poem:
How does the writer present the effects of war.
Also includes a responding to feedback helpsheet for after students have attempted to write about the effects of war in the poem.
Differentiated PowerPoint with learning outcomes to help students answer the following question based on Chapter 8 and 9 of Oliver Twist:
To what extent is Fagin an out and out villain?
Lower ability students will look at how Fagin is an absolute villain.
Higher ability students will also look at his redeeming qualities.
Also includes a model response to annotate to help students improve their second draft or respond to feedback.