Complete PowerPoint covering how to analyse the opening to the film.

A useful model response for students to annotate which focuses on how the play interests a modern day audience.

Resources to help students write their own soap script. Includes a high level example and planning sheets to prompt ideas.

A handy revision sheet covering characters, themes and context with key quotations and examination style questions. Also I have added the scenes from which all the quotations have been taken.

Revise 64 carefully selected mini quotations for the closed book examinations. Also includes a short summary of each scene to help students work out when each mini quotations is said. I have kept the quotations as concise as possible to aid with memory.

5 Exams written in the style of the new 9-1 AQA GCSE examination for Romeo and Juliet. For the exam on the theme of love there is a model answer for students to annotate. For the questions on the other themes, there is a 9 step grid for students to follow. I have also attached a generic writing frame for responding to any character or theme to help students with the 9 step method.

Using Island Man to teach about connotation and denotation of word choices.

This lesson is focused on Paper 1 Question 3 (AQA - commenting on the structure of the whole text). This seems to be a popular topic for interviews at the moment. I have used a very short extract with lots of shifts which widen and narrow the focus - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Starter: Students rate their understanding of structural devices. Construct: Students try to identify narrative shifts in focus in the text. Main: Students look in more detail at the narrative shifts in the text. This activity is in the form of an A3 table and is differentiated. Bronze Level: Identify what is happening during each shift. Silver: Apply structural devices. Gold: Comment on the effect of structural devices. I have also included the lesson plan. For a more challenging class, students can use the extract from the opening of Kite Runner.

A worksheet detailing all terminology and definitions for students to revise from for the area of study ‘Harmony and Tonality’. A powerpoint is also available which explains all terms with musical terminology and musical examples.

An Inspector Calls: Revision Activity on 5 character and 5 theme questions for AQA and EDUQAS. Complete the tables using the revision guides to plan responses to exam questions.

Students read and analyse 20 short key extracts from the play. I have selected the extracts most likely to feature in the exam. Bronze: Explain what is happening. Silver: Analyse 3 key quotes Gold: Link to context and answer the question Students can then check their answers on the PowerPoint which contains sample annotations for each extract. They are colour coded. Includes 2 versions. AQA (with context) and EDUQAS (without context). There are also extension activities: Bronze: Revise 64 mini quotations Silver: Find 3 key extracts which link to each theme Gold: Attempt an exam question.

Don John worksheet 2 versions differentiated - Much ado about nothing

A selection of resources to aid students with completing essays for chamber music in the AQA A2 examination. Revision sheets comparing key works are included as well as powerpoints based around essay questions which take students through the process of writing essays. This also includes model responses relating to the set works.

Write a diary entry for Jonathan Starling in Darkside by Tom Becker. Also includes independent homework tasks and a task examining word choices.

Graphic organisers to help guide students on how to structure their responses to each question on the English Literature AQA 9-1 GCSE. This structure will work for any text you are studying. You will just need to change the headings if you are not studying Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol or An Inspector Calls.

4 extracts from To Kill a Mockingbird each with a challenging question investigating the impact of language features.

This resource looks at different ways to structure a poetry comparison essay for AQA 9-1. Students like having a choice over how they set out the plan. Ask students to spot the difference between the plans. Then ask students to have a go at following each model and see which one they prefer. Then get students to turn the plan into a complete essay.