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The Handmaid's Tale Context
5 context information sheets to help students to understand factors that influenced The Handmaid’s Tale.
Margaret Atwood
4 waves of feminism
The New Conservative Right
Literary Influences
What The Handmaid’s Tale teaches us about the human condition
Also includes a 10 question knowledge quiz with detailed answer sheet.
How I teach it:
Flipped learning: Get students to research the context to the novel.
Test the quality of the research through the knowledge test.
Go over the answer sheet and get students to highlight points they missed.
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Jekyll and Hyde Revision
2 revision sheets on character and theme quotations and 2 quizzes. One is multiple choice looking at the whole play and one contains comprehension questions on each chapter. Both come with answer sheets.
Also contains 2 high level model exam responses on settings and Mr Utterson.
Also contains a Victorian context sheet.
World and Lives Revision Flashcards
Revision flashcards for the 15 poems in the Worlds and Lives Poetry Anthology.
Each card has brief notes on main ideas, 3 key quotations, structure and context.
Ideal for anyone in the same position as me and teaching these poems for the first time.
Banquo Revision Sheet
A revision sheet analysing 10 key quotations on the character of Banquo in Macbeth.
How does Shakespeare present Macbeth as a male character who changes? Timeline and exemplars. 2023
A timeline focusing on how the character of Macbeth changes during the play. There is also a question template to help students explore their own interpretations of the different stages of Macbeth’s descent into evil.
Also includes 2 exemplar high grade exemplars to the question for students to compare and consider which are the most perceptive in meeting the criteria for level 6/grade 9.
Also includes 12 character flashcards to help trace how the different aspects of Macbeth’s complex personality are communicated in the play.
As imperceptibly as Grief
Highly detailed annotations of Emily Dickinson’s As imperceptibly as Grief for the Eduqas poetry anthology to support students aiming for grade 9.
A Streetcar Named Desire: Scene 5
Detailed 41 slide lesson analysing scene 5 from A Streetcar Named Desire to over 2 or 3 lessons. Includes detailed analysis of 12 key quotations from Scene 5 along with a blank template for students to explore their own thoughts about the quotations. Includes an analytical writing task based on the episode at the end of the scene.
Power and Conflict May 2024 Model Answer Kamikaze
A model answer to the May 2024 AQA Power and Conflict Question.
This response compares Kamikaze and Remains.
Conceptual paragraph 1 explores how conflict dehumanises soldiers in both poems.
Conceptual paragraph 2 explores how conflict leads to internal struggles for the soldiers.
Conceptual paragraph 3 explores the debilitating nature of survivor’s guilt and shame.
Quotations and poetic are analysed in thoughtful ways in each paragraph with a clear focus on authorial methods.
Much Ado About Nothing Plot Storyboard
Simple storyboard activity to help students gain a basic understanding of the plot to Much Ado About Nothing.
Reading Intervention Booklet Unit 2
A 6 week reading intervention unit aimed at students in Year 6 and Year 7. Each session involves looking at a short speech on a contemporary topic (topics include homework, school uniform, the environment) working on a range of fluency strategies to develop students’ confidence in accessing the text. Full details are included for how to structure each session. At the start of the unit and in week 6, the teacher should assess students against Rasinski’s rubric to help measure progress in reading fluency.
Jekyll and Hyde context
A context sheet to help students understand how Stevenson was influenced by the late Victorian context.
It is divided into 6 sections:
Victorian London
Calvinism
Science
Fin de Siecle
Gothic literature
Atavism
Each section intertwines contextual knowledge with links to the actual novel.
Merchant of Venice Plot Storyboard
A simple storyboard to help students learn the basic plot points for A Merchant of Venice.
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Reading Intervention Booklet
A 6 week reading intervention module focused on building reading fluency and comprehension aimed at supporting students in Year 6 and Year 7 whose reading age is slightly below their chronological age.
The theme of the booklet is superheroes. In each session, students read a 500 word text about a superhero and complete fluency activities before ending the session with comprehension questions. Full details are included on how the sessions can be delivered.
Also contains an answer booklet for the comprehension questions.
The superheroes covered are Iron Man, Superman, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Captain America and Spiderman.
At the start and end of the unit, I recommend assessing students against Rasinski’s fluency rubric.
Half Caste
Handy one page revision sheet on Half Caste by John Agard for the Edexcel conflict anthology. It contains 10 analytical questions and 10 developed responses to the questions.
My most popular resource on Edexcel conflict poetry, which puts together all my resources into one booklet, is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/edexcel-conflict-poetry-revision-booklet-12955594
Juliet Grade 9 exemplar
A grade 9 model answer focusing on the character of Juliet.
The model answer starts with a thesis statement.
It moves on to analyse the youthful, idealistic nature of Romeo’s feelings for Romeo early in the play.
The second half of the essay moves on to explore the growing maturity of Juliet’s feelings later in the play.
The word count for the response is 1014 words.
Also includes revision cards for critical perspectives into Romeo’s character to really help push for that grade 9 in A03.
AQA Paper 1 June 2022 Model Answers The Pearl
This 11 page booklet contains detailed model answers for questions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the summer 2022 AQA Paper 1 English language exam which featured an extract from The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
I go through each question in detail providing a range of possible ways of approaching the question to meet the marking criteria.
For question 5 there are 4 different high level responses based on a life-saving rescue to compare.
AQA Language Paper 1 November 2022 Model Answers
Model answers for questions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the November 2022 language exam based on the extract from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway,
For each question, I have provided 2 different answers so students can compare the merits of each. Both are aimed at meeting the top band (level 4) criteria.
For question 5 I have provided a high level response to both questions - the fishing village and the unlikely friendship.
The extract is available on the AQA website.
Paper 2 Question 5 Grade 9 exemplar (June 2020)
A grade 9 response to the AQA June 2020 Paper 2 Question 5 about whether or not travel was a waste of time.
It starts with a powerful anecdote, has 2 paragraphs arguing the benefits of travel, then it looks at and dismisses the counter argument before reaching a conclusion which links back to the opening anecdote to gain marks for whole text structure and organisation. Vocabulary is sophisticated throughout and punctuation is advanced.
Jekyll and Hyde - Settings Model Response
A high level response exploring how Stevenson uses settings to create a disturbing and threatening atmosphere in the novella.
Paper 2 Question 5 November 2019 Grade 9 response
A grade 9 750 word model response to the AQA November 2019 Paper 2 Question 5 about animals.
Starts with a powerful anecdote before moving to presenting the central argument. It explores and then dismisses the counter argument before adding a conclusion that links back to the opening anecdote to help gain marks for whole text organisation and structure.