3 lessons exploring the following 3 themes in A Christmas Carol: Christmas, poverty, family.

A lesson analysing the initial description of the ghost of Christmas past.

A lesson analysing Scrooge’s visit to 3 remote places: solitary lighthouse, miners, remote ship. Includes an I do, We do, You do structured worksheet for analysing the 3 extracts. Model paragraphs are included.

A lesson analysing Fezziwig’s party in Stave 2.

A lesson analysing the presentation of Scrooge’s childhood in Stave 2.

A lesson analysing the character of Fred in A Christmas Carol.

2 lessons analysing the depiction of Scrooge in Stave 1.

A lesson examining Scrooge’s isolation in Stave 1.

A lesson analysing the arrival of Marley’s Ghost in Stave 1. 20+ slides. Also contains a takeaway revision sheet with analysis of 7 key quotations.

A detailed lesson analysing the description of the ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Also includes a takeaway revision sheet with detailed analysis of 7 key quotations.

A lesson looking at the themes of greed and avarice in Stave 2.

A lesson analysing the initial description of the ghost of Christmas Present. Also contains a key quotation revision takeaway sheet.

A lesson looking at how Dickens describes Christmas morning at the start of Stave 3.

Lesson on Victorian context for A Christmas Carol.

A thorough and detailed 33 lesson scheme of learning for A Christmas Carol. This resources contains 33 fully resourced lessons totalling over 500 PPT slides alongside accompanying worksheets. The unit starts with a cold read then goes through each stave in detail before ending with revision lessons looking at big ideas, key quotations and key extracts. Each lesson has been labelled clearly with a lesson number to make everything easy to find and ready to teach. Lessons 1-5. Cold read of each Stave with comprehension questions. Lesson 6. 19th century Context Lesson 7. Preface and Marley was dead to begin with extract Lesson 8. Scrooge’s introduction Lesson 9. Scrooge’s isolation Lesson 10. Marley’s Ghost Lesson 11. Ghost of Christmas Past Lesson 12. Scrooge’s Childhood in Stave 2 Lesson 13. Fezziwig Lesson 14 and 15. Belle Lesson 16. Ghost of Christmas Present Lesson 17. Christmas Morning Lesson 18. Cratchit Family Christmas Lesson 19. Tiny Tim Lesson 20. Christmas in remote places (miners, solitary lighthouse, ship) Lesson 21. Fred’s Party Lesson 22. Ignorance and Want Lesson 23. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come Lesson 24 and 25. Stave 4 vignettes Lesson 26. Stave 5 and Scrooge’s transformation Lesson 27. Big Idea of poverty as a problem in society Lesson 28. Big idea of Christmas as a joyful time Lesson 29. Big idea of Family as the fabric of society Lesson 30. Character Revision Lesson 31. Revising 100 key quotations. Lesson 32. Revising key quotations in each stave. Lesson 33. Revision 12 key extracts

Model answers for questions 2-5 of the AQA November 2024 Paper 2 exam when the 2 non-fiction texts were about Egypt. I have included 2 answers of slightly different quality for each question so students can compare them both and adjudge the quality against the marking criteria. Note the extract and exact wording of the questions are not included and would need to be obtained from elsewhere such as the AQA website.

The plot to Lord of the Flies converted into a short play script to help the main plot points to low ability students in an engaging manner.

2 exemplary responses to the AQA November 2024 Paper 2 Question 5 prompt which asked students whether or not learning about the past or learning about the future should be prioritised. One response primarily agrees with the given statement while one primarily disagrees. I have put them side by side so students can read them and compare the merits of each against the markscheme/success criteria for this question.

High level model answers for questions 2-5 of the AQA Paper 1 November 2024 paper where the extract was from ‘The Glass House’ by Eve Chase. Note this resource only contains model answers and does not include the insert or the question paper. I have provided 2 different high level thorough responses for each question so students can compare and contrast the merits of each against the mark scheme/success criteria. I have put put references to authorial methods in bold. Also provides a worksheet with step by step instructions on how to generate a drop, shift, zoom, leave response for question 5.