Themes in Animal Farm. Differentiated carousel activity to push more able students.
Assign each coloured group a theme in explore in the novel.
Ask them to prepare a presentation on that theme.
During the presentation, students fill in the carousel grid to make notes on how all 5 themes are presented in the novel.
Oliver Twist: Nancy’s Death. How does Dickens use language to make the scene dramatic?
There are two differentiated versions of the task with differentiated writing frame guidelines.
There are also differentiated resources to help students answer this GCSE style question.
Includes a revision of language features in the extract.
A description writing lesson based on the Tempest.
Students complete exercises which encourages them to make conscious choices about their sentence lengths, sentence types, sentence openers and use of punctuation.
Analysis sheet and key quotations sheet for 6 key motifs in Macbeth: blood, darkness, weather, animals, clothing and illness. The sheets can be used in lots of different ways to assist with revision.
An A3 revision resource to remind students about the following:
connectives
persuasive techniques
cohesion
punctuation
complex sentences
figurative language
Also includes an extension activity which models a first paragraph to 3 different Paper 2 Question 5 style questions and asks students to write the next paragraph.
Also includes a revision mat with tips and writing frame for Paper 2 questions 2-4.
A differentiated learning journey exploring Scrooge in Stave 1 and 2 with accompanying resources.
Contains instructions to follow at tough, tougher and toughest level to encourage students to explore the character independently.
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 sample 8 mark question from the AQA Paper 1 2017 exam.
It includes a writing frame for answering the question. The extract is taken from 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.
3 poems ideal for guiding students through the process of unpicking the meaning of unseen poems by noticing features of form, language and structure. Includes worksheets and PowerPoint.
The 3 poems are
TOUGH: In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
TOUGHER: Take One Home for the Kiddies by Philip Larkin
TOUGHEST: Tamed Cat by Sylvia Kantaris
Each poem has prompt questions to encourage students to explore the effect of the writer’s methods.
Lesson on Chapter 10 of Animal Farm.
Includes learning outcomes, starter, differentiated plenary, comprehension questions and a main activity involving comparing Orwell’s ending with the ending in two film versions (links to the films are included). This is useful for exploring how the films attempt to rewrite history by changing the endings to suit the target audience.