A PowerPoint containing 2 lessons with resources and differentiated activities.
Lesson 1: Analyse a key section of the fight scene. Tough, Tougher, Toughest Questions.
Lesson 2: Analyse Romeo’s lovesickness.
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.
3 sets of lessons which revise Chamber music, Musical theatre and Jazz and blues music under the Music for ensemble category.
Students must revise key words and categorise them into a revision grid. Powerpoints are provided for each lesson with differentiation embedded.
There are listening questions for each style of music and musical theatre and jazz and blues also provide longer answer questions and options to plan these answers and a hint sheet to support lower ability students.
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.
Suitable for introducing Shakespeare to KS2/3 students.
Task 1: Quiz (with sound effects) asking students to recognise the difference between Shakespearean English and modern English.
Task 2: Write parodies of some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines.
Task 3: Have a go at some Shakespearean insults.
A complete analysis of the minuet of the Eine Kleine Nachtmusik set work from Eduqas GCSE Music. This is at least 3 full lessons with differentiated tasks and worksheets which ensures students annotate their scores correctly. There is also a summary lesson to test their learning at the end of the analysis and performance.
For the performance parts please see the free resources on my page.
Full lesson analysing Chapter 7 includes engaging differentiated starter, plot summary and questions, annotations for 14 key quotations and an extension activity looking at the theme of darkness in the chapter.
A grade 9 response on the theme of greed in A Christmas Carol.
It includes a thesis style introduction.
Point 1 explores the Marley’s Ghost section.
Point 2 explores the Belle section.
Point 3 explores the criminals stealing Scrooge’s possessions in Stave 4.
Also presented in the form of 6 revision cards.
Students often struggle with starting off their creative writing to describe a setting. Here is a list of prepositional fronted adverbials to help students to describe different settings.
Analytical verbs and phrases to help sharpen critical analysis in both English language and English literature.
This is a free resource that offers a small glimpse into the large number of resources in my shop. Here are links to some of the best-selling resources in my shop.
Lord of the Flies:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lord-of-the-flies-mini-bundle-12072617
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lord-of-the-flies-character-revision-12854559
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lord-of-the-flies-40-page-study-booklet-12841597
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lord-of-the-flies-theme-revision-cards-2023-12827767
Macbeth:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-top-50-and-top-100-quotations-explained-12088304
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-resources-quotations-themes-context-aqa-9-1-11868119
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-2023-12768948
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-timelines-12715015
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-cards-on-6-themes-12852726
Romeo and Juliet:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-2018-bundle-11881390
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-gcse-9-1-exam-bundle-11833024
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-notes-for-top-quotes-11894589
An Inspector Calls:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-character-revision-sheets-12862156
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-revision-sheets-11573775
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-43-page-gcse-revision-workbook-12626676
Animal Farm:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-40-page-revision-booklet-12846365
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-bundle-11499747
A Christmas Carol:
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-character-revision-sheets-12853860
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-cards-and-sheets-12852711
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-12829089
Power and Conflict:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-poetry-revision-grid-extended-version-11530298
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-booklet-2023-12827207
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/how-to-structure-a-comparative-paragraph-for-aqa-poetry-power-and-conflict-11387714
Eduqas Poems:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-anthology-poetry-4-revision-lessons-11888938
A list of 120 analytical verbs to help students sharpen their expression to support their critical thinking.
There are 20 alternatives for this shows, this demonstrates, this suggests, this reinforces, this motivates and this highlights.
A simple plot summary cloze activity and card sort to help students become familiar with the basics of the plot.
For more Macbeth resources try the following links:
grade 9 model responses:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-7-9-model-responses-12187985
Revision Cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-cards-12173097
Full bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-bundle-2019-12115685
Other popular Macbeth resources include:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revise-20-extracts-11868136
Revision cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-theme-revision-cards-ambition-supernatural-guilt-violence-deceit-courage-11868831
Grade 9 model ansers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-7-9-model-responses-12187985
Knowledge organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-character-revision-sheet-quotations-themes-context-aqa-9-1-11868119
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/how-is-lady-macbeth-presented-in-act-5-scene-1-worksheets-and-a-model-response-11422450
Free Macbeth plot card sort activity to help students consolidate their knowledge of the basic plot.
For a huge range of further Macbeth resources, try my bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-full-unit-12584291
There are a limited number of topics that are recycled for Paper 2 Question 5. Use this worksheet to anticipate some of the topics that could come up. Typical topics include the environment, school uniform, school trips, voting, internet-related issues.
Lesson primarly focused on analysing Act 5 Scenes 6 and 7 from Macbeth.
The lesson includes:
Differentiated starter.
Simple scene summaries of both scenes.
Detailed annotations of each scene.
Activity analying the motif of blood across 10 quotations - with answers.
Activity exploring the impact of animal imagery across the play.
In this free resource I have converted 3 specimen AQA Paper 2 Section A inserts/questions from pdf into word so they can be edited by teachers and for ease of printing in A4 or, even better, A3.