<p>In Roald Dahl’s story The Landlady, young Billy Weaver finds himself alone at night in the city of Bath looking for overnight lodgings on a work placement from his Head Office. 'Find your own lodgings, he (his boss) had said, “and then go along and report to the Branch Manager as soon as you’ve got yourself settled”. Billy is seventeen, keen to get on in his career, and he is feeling ‘just fine’.</p> <p>Before long Billy finds an inexpensive looking guest house where he is mesmerized by the sign ‘Bed and Breakfast’. The Landlady opens the door…as if she had been expecting him! ‘She seemed terribly nice. She looked exactly like the mother of one’s best school-friend welcoming one into the house to stay for the Christmas holidays’.</p> <p>And so Billy is shown around by a slightly dotty old landlady. But…after all…she is obviously harmless, isn’t she? And then Billy notices two names of guests in the guets book, and tries hard to remember where he has heard those names before…</p> <p>Roald Dahl’s tale is a classic tale of the unexpected, hugely popular with students, and deliciously macabre. It is studied for its style, and as an excellent example of the literary technique of foreshadowing, or hinting at what is to come. It is also used as a springboard for a piece of creative writing, which is the purpose these writing prompts included here.</p> <p>The writing task, is to write The Landlady’s Diary.</p> <p>I have included here two writing ‘prompts’ of different types; one is a modelled start of the first three paragraphs to the landlady’s diary, the other is a writing ‘prompt’ or writing frame; which simply gives the writer the opening sentence of each paragraph, and can of course be added to/amended/edited as the student writer chooses. You will of course need the Roald Dahl short story ‘The Landlady’, which is available as a PDF online.</p>

<p>**This pack is flexible for use at the moment with regards to home/self-study/distance learning.<br /> **<br /> The story has been split into three sections - opening, middle and ending.</p> <p>There are three worksheets with questions on each section.</p> <p>There are then three powerpoints which contain the questions plus answers on each slide. I have sent my own students at the moment a teaching powerpoint with the answers on when they have completed a reading assessment.</p> <p>You can set individuals either the opening, middle or ending - or maybe two of these sections or all three.</p> <p>There is also a powerpoint/slideshow on the very ending to the story which is a short teaching powerpoint also.</p> <p>**Taster of one of the ppts and also one of the worksheets included…<br /> **<br /> **The focus throughout is on Carla’s character and how this is shown through the language she uses to tell the story.<br /> **<br /> The questions cover grades 6-3 of the new Literature specification.</p> <p>Grade 6:<br /> I can develop a response showing critical awareness and understanding of the ways in which writers use language, form and structure</p> <p>Grade 5:<br /> I can develop a clear understanding of the ways in which writers use language, form and structure</p> <p>Grade 4:<br /> I can develop a clear understanding of the ways in which writers use language, form and structure</p> <p>Grade 3:<br /> I can develop straightforward comments on aspects of language, form or structure</p>

<p>Newly revised <strong>A lesson pack of materials on Macbeth: ‘I have done the deed’ Act 2 Scene 2</strong></p> <p>The pack has four activities all with answer keys included.</p> <p>Three of the materials - the embedded questions worksheets on Act 2 Scene2, the test yourself quiz multiple choice and the which soliloquy worksheet can be sent to your students online as a pack of three activities. They can self-mark the quiz and which soliloquy, and the teacher can mark the qeustions as very detailed answers are given to the questions on Act 2 Scene 2.</p> <p>The powerpoint is a teaching powerpoint, but can be used as a distance learning material if you send it online to your students to self-study.</p> <p>Starter activity: A 20 question multiple choice quiz testing overall knowledge of the play. Answer key included for this quiz. Can therefore be used to self-mark.</p> <ul> <li>Main task: The slideshow on Act 2 Scene 2 <strong>tracks through the key scene</strong> where Macbeth has ‘done the deed’ but brought the daggers back with him. Selected slides can be used or printed off. The slideshow has plenty of questions and answers are included. The answers can be held back until after answering (verbal or written answers) by selecting animations and then clicking the mouse so that the answer floats in.</li> </ul> <p>OR Main task: Analyzing Macbeth’s Bloody Dagger Soliloquy with questions embedded in the text. Answer key now included for this.</p> <ul> <li>Extension Task: A 10 question ‘which soliloquy’ quiz and a copy separately of worksheets of Macbeth’s five main soliloquies- Answer key also now included for this.</li> </ul> <p>Act 1 Scene 111 ‘Two truths are told’<br /> Act 1 Scene 7 'If it were done when ‘tis done’<br /> Act 2 Scene 1 ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me’<br /> Act 3 Scene 1 ‘To be thus is nothing’;<br /> Act 5 Scene 5 ‘She should have died hereafter’</p> <p><strong>I have included a taster of a few randomly chosen slides from the Act 2 Scene 2 powerpoint/slideshow…</strong></p>

<p>Aim:</p> <p>The aim of this pack is to develop comprehension skills for the new GCSE Level 4 (standard pass) and Level 5 (strong pass). Level 3 work is also included if needed.</p> <p>Progression:</p> <p>The pack can therefore allow progression from Level 3 to Level 4 and then on to Level 5.</p> <p>Key areas:</p> <p>The comprehension skills focus on: understanding key ideas, explaining, summarizing, analysing language and implied meanings. These outcomes are taken from GCSE Level Descriptors.</p> <p>This pack includes:</p> <p>a) Ghostly Goings On work booklet ( 27 pages)<br /> b) Answer booklet for all activities (15 pages)<br /> c) A separate parent/teacher guidance document<br /> d) A sheet explaining what I need to show I can do in regard to comprehension skills at Levels 3, 4 and 5</p> <p>There are three passages of fiction - short, medium length and longer - with questions to develop these comprehension skills on each passage. The three passages are all from major and respected authors. They are in the ‘ghost story’ genre (hence the title of the pack) .</p> <p>Differentiation:</p> <p>The questions are set at different levels - Levels 3, 4 and 5 - for each section - beginning, middle and end - for each passage.</p> <p>The image you can see is from a painting called The Red Room by Felix Valloton 1898. The classic ghost story ‘The Red Room’ by HG Wells is one of the three extracts from famous ghost stories included in this pack…</p> <p>Taster sheet included…</p>