A context sheet to support the teaching of Lord of the Flies. It looks at 8 contextual factors to deepen students’ understanding of the novel:
Golding’s life
WWII
Cold War
British Imperialism
Coral Island
Religion
Existentialism
Thomas Hobbes
A famous extract from Chapter 2 of Oliver Twist with an exam style question and a writing frame to help students explore the extract. Ideal to use with Key Stage 3 to prepare them for Key Stage 4.
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.
A revision sheet containing explanations for 10 key quotations about Eric Birling in An Inspector Calls.
Also contains a blank version for students to have a go at explaining the quotations themselves first.
Resources based on music for ensemble (classical chamber music).
Students must define terminology associated with chamber music and then categorise this onto a summary sheet (answers on the pp).
There is also an emphasis on the difference between baroque/classical/romantic music and what students could spot in a score reading question.
There are also a listening question with answers with you tube links on the pp.
Differentiated tasks are including for all stages of the lesson.
Differentiated starter activity on the character of Scout.
Bronze: Define the words
Silver: Make links between the words
Gold: Use the words in a paragraph about Scout.
Use this test if you want to find out if your students have read the whole of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ instead of just watching the movie. All the questions test students on incidents that occur in the book but not in the film.
A music test based on classical music to test student’s understanding of musical language and identifying key features.
Answers and links to the pieces are provided.
3 differentiated worksheets to explore what Scout learns during the course of the novel.
Bronze: Includes possible answers
Silver: Includes page numbers and points
Gold: Students select all points independently.
Starter: List words associated with rain.
Learning outcomes:
To identify features of Dickens’ style
To apply knowledge in a piece of descriptive writing
To evaluate against the success criteria
Next students examine the methods Dickens uses to describe the fog in an extract from ‘Bleak House’ and the snow in an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’. There is differentiation so students of different ability can examine different methods used by the author.
Students must then try to write a paragraph in the same style about rain. There is a differentiated success criteria.
The plenary can be done in the form of peer and self assessment and has sentence stems linked to the success criteria.