Just a single lesson to teach the three fairly minor scenes from the play with an accompanying worksheet to support the reading.

A sheet to help students plan a response to the following AQA 1-9 question on Romeo and Juliet which meets the criteria for A01, A02, A03: How far do you think Shakespeare presents Capulet as a good father. (34)

Worksheets with questions and extracts to help explore how Shakespeare presents Juliet as an unconventional woman. Students will be expected to explore how… In Act 1 Scene 3 her rebellion is passive and implicit and shown through her vague answers to Lady Capulet’s questions. In Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 2 Scene 2 her rebellion is more implicit and is shown through her love for Romeo. There are also comprehension questions based on what is a conventional Elizabethan woman.

Students read a model response to the following question: How does Shakespeare present the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet. (34). Then then have to annotate each sentence to analyse what the essay writer is doing in each section of the response. There is also a building better answers sheet included.

Revision lesson. Students identify language features in 8 short key extracts from the novella. Can be printed in A4 but A3 is recommended.

A lesson aimed at getting students to be more conscious of the sentences types they use in their descriptive writing. Images from A Christmas Carol are used as the stimulus for the descriptive writing. After each task, students complete extension tasks to review their combination of sentence types.

A great way to relieve stress and create a relaxing classroom environment at the end of a long term while helping students embed quotations into their long term memory I have selected 16 key quotations from Christmas Carol and including a relevant image with each quotation that can be coloured in. Students annotate the 16 quotations following the differentiated success criteria and annotate the 16 key quotations for various shades of meaning. After they finish annotating, I allow them to colour in the images. Also contains drawings of characters to colour in and label with quotations or what students know about each character.

Lesson exploring the significance of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. Looks at 10 key quotations and makes links to A03 wider context. Also includes a high grade exam response on Tiny Tim.

This lesson is aimed at getting students to extend their analysis of quotations by thinking of 3 inferences for 12 important Scrooge quotations. Students have a go at thinking of 3 inferences for each of the 12 quotations. Later in the lesson, use the animated PowerPoint to share possible answers for each quotation.

Students use the worksheet to follow the 9 step method for approaching an exam question on a theme in A Christmas Carol for the 9-1 GCSE examination. Includes an exam style question, a suggested writing frame using prompts from the AQA website, a table for planning a response and recommended extracts to zoom out to. Ideal for examination revision. Also included is a 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.

3 Grade 9 model responses to annotate and analyse to 3 different GCSE-style questions on the following topics: 1. The supernatural 2. Bob Cratchit 3. Importance of Christmas

A CHRISTMAS CAROL EXAM QUESTION PREDICTIONS - planning sheets with extracts

Contains resources to help students answer the following exam style response: How does Steinbeck create sympathy for Lennie in Of Mice and Men.

Lesson analysing Steinbeck’s initial description of Slim in Chapter 2 with a focus on developing 2 analytical comments about each quotation.

Differentiated activities on Chapter 2 with an accompanying PowerPoints Lesson 1. Understanding Chapter 2. Differentiated comprehension activity. Lesson 2. The bunkhouse. Differentiated resources leading to PEE responses. Lesson 3. Curley meets Lennie. Differentiated resources leading to PEE responses. Lesson 4: How is Curley’s Wife presented. Worksheet with writing frame.

3 lessons exploring Chapter 3. Lesson 1: A differentiated comprehension worksheet to help students of different abilities engage with Chapter 3 of Steinbeck’s novel. Tough: Storyboard Tougher: Comprehension Questions Toughest: Analysis Questions There is also a differentiated writing task included on the PowerPoint: Tough: Lennie wanted poster Tougher: Diary entry for girl from Weed Toughest: Newspaper report of what happened in Weed Lesson 2 involves analysing the language to describe the fight between Lennie and Curley. Lesson 3 is a skills lesson which looks at how to deliberately use a combination of simple, compound and complex sentences in paragraphs.