A fully resourced model lesson based on analysing an extract in Romeo and Juliet for GCSE 9-1. The lesson is focused on building skills in A01 and A02. The extract is taken from Romeo’s soliloquy in Act 5 Scene 3.
Includes:
TEEP lesson plan
engaging starter activity
learning outcomes
differentiation throughout
PowerPoint
writing frames
Student-friendly mark scheme
3 Grade 9 model responses to Eduqas GCSE style exam questions to analyse and annotate. Includes the question and extract.
Essay topics.
1. Supernatural
2. Bob Cratchit
3. Christmas
Revision cards for all 18 Eduqas anthology poems in the 9-1 GCSE.
Also includes a revision lesson PowerPoint along with a revision quiz to help get students to use the revision cards.
Links to other Eduqas poetry resources:
Revision Cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-wjec-poetry-revision-cards-gcse-12107545
Lessons on all poems
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
Also contains a 23 page revision booklet.
A resource to support students aiming for high marks on question 9 of the Edexcel GCSE Music examination. There are 10 points per set work which students can revise from which aim to either link to the genre, link to characteristic features of the piece/genre or explain WHY the composer chose a certain aspect.
This has been used with a cohort of students for revision and half of the cohort achieved 9 or above /12 on the essay question.
A powerpoint with annotations of the poem followed by 5 worksheets containing follow up activities:
Questions on each stanza
Listening to the recording and answer questions
Plan comparisons to Bayonet Charge
Writing frame for comparing to Bayonet Charge
Structuring a comparative paragraph
A lesson on the poem I always leave until last to teach: Tissue.
To try and get students to explore the poem more independently, I have included line by line questions. Answers follow. There are also some extension questions with answers and a prompt sheet for comparing Tissue to Ozymandias.
Also includes a high exemplar response comparing Tissue to Ozymandias.
Push more able towards the highest grades by using this worksheet to explore contrasting quotations to bring out the complexities and contradictions within the language of the 5 main characters.
I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310
Revision Cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143
Knowledge Organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057
Revision quotations:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293
A comprehensive A3 revision sheet for ‘A Christmas Carol’ with differentiated tasks.
It includes key quotations from each stave and various ways of making links to context for A03.
The differentiated tasks encourage students to
Bronze: Find language features in the quotations
Silver: Match the quotations and context to themes
Gold: Work out the 10 quotations which can be adapted to suit the most themes.
Also includes a planning resource offering 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas.
Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations.
Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations.
Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.
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 fully differentiated and potentially outstanding lesson offering various levels of differentiation. It invites students to explore 5 ways Scrooge is presented in Stave 1: outsider, uncharitable, miser, isolated and lacking festive spirit.
Starter: Students annotate the 2 model paragraphs about Scrooge using the differentiated bronze, silver, gold criteria that links to the A01, A02, A03 mark scheme.
Main: Students work in 5 groups. They each complete their paragraph based on their individual question. After this students carousel to share the answers.
Plenary: Students understand the AQA mark scheme and grade their work against the English Literature criteria.
Lesson 2: Recap 28 key quotations from Stave 1.
9 High level Macbeth responses to a range of GCSE style questions.
Includes essays on guilt, Macbeth, Banquo, women, Lady Macbeth, witches.
All responses have been designed to reflect the realistic achievements of the highest achieving students in Year 11.
Some responses are clearly grade 9. Others you may feel could be grade 8 depending on the grade boundaries in any particular year but all have moments of critical exploration required for the top band.
A grade 9 response exploring how Macbeth is presented in the play.
Also includes a planning grid for students to follow
It would comfortably fit into the top band of the mark scheme 26-30 marks due to the perceptive debate with judicious quotations and assured analysis of methods and exploration of wider ideas.
Also includes a grade 8 version that does not quite meet the grade 9 requirements for a comparison.
Also includes a differentiated writing frame for students working towards a grade 4 at the other end of the ability spectrum.
The question is freely available here:
https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/sample-papers-and-mark-schemes/2019/june/AQA-87021-QP-JUN19.PDF
A lesson focused on upgrading sentences for Paper 2 Question 5. Includes examples of 20 different sentences. It encourages students to create their own version of each sentence and then apply them into an exam style question.
20 Revision flash cards for 20 key quotations in Macbeth that encourage students to explore the impact of the quotations in a thorough and perceptive way.
The cards are colour coded to link to assessment objectives A01, A02 and A03 and the methods are underlined.
In each I try and ensure the analysis of the method leads directly on to a discussion of Shakespeare’s intentions and big ideas - informed by the Jacobean context.
I recommend giving students the blank version first to find out what they can already say about each quotation before sharing the cards so they can identify the gaps in their knowledge.
A 19 slide revision lesson for Paper 1 Question 5. Best used over 2/3 lessons.
Using the image of a haunted house as the inspiration, students complete a series of tasks on a worksheet (attached) aimed at developing skills for Paper 1 Question 5 (covering sentence types and openers, advanced punctuation and figurative language) before completing the description. Students then evaluate their work using the suggested strategies.
Also contains a lesson which goes through some high level exemplars of a lighthouse.
20 slide PowerPoint for a 2 lessons looking at Chapter 10. Includes an engaging starter, 10 comprehension questions, detailed notes to help students discuss and annotate 10 key quotations from the chapter and extension activities looking at Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and defence mechanisms.
You may also wish to consider my bundle which includes lessons on all chapters alongside useful knowledge organisers and other revision activities.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lord-of-the-flies-mini-bundle-12072617