A complete model essay based on the AQA English Literature Paper 2 exam for 'An Inspector Calls.' The question is about Sheila and to what extent she is presented as a character who changes her ways. Down the side of the essay are notes on what skills and assessment objectives the essay is addressing. This is useful for going through with students to help them understand what has been included and why. Designed for my set 4 out of 5 Y11 class with target grades 4-6.

There are two parts to this resource - firstly a practice exam paper based on the AQA Literature Paper 1 Section A GCSE paper. This includes an extract focusing on Hyde and how he is portrayed as unusual and frightening. The second part is an exemplar answer. This is written to meet the Grade 8/9 standard. The answer includes comment boxes down the sides and around the essay explaining the way the essay has been structured; what it includes and why. The Assessment Objectives have been included in this document.

The main resource here is an exemplar paragraph for helping students understand how to answer Q3 on Paper 2 of the AQA English Language exam (new spec). The texts that I was writing about have been included to help you understand the context of the information. I've also included a method table to use as a framework for the answer.

This resource contains model answers for Q1 and Q2 in the unseen poetry section C for the AQA English Literature exam Paper 2. The answers are based on the poems 'Against Road Building' by Sophie Hannah and 'I am very bothered' by Simon Armitage.

This is a paper designed around an extract from Frankenstein. It includes questions for both Section A and Section B.

This is a PPT guiding students on how to approach a literature assessment. It is designed with the new AQA Literature format in mind - the final assessment takes an extract and then leads into a more general essay question focusing on the presentation of the pigs. The pack includes a model essay and advice on how to plan and structure their response. Made with a high ability top set Y7 class in mind.

This document outlines for students how Paper 1 Section A of the AQA A Level English Language exam works. It explains how long the paper is; what it involves; what it's worth; what the assessment objectives are; what the marking criteria is (in 'student speak') and gives advice on how to answer each of the questions. The back of the document offers a detailed guide on how to approach each question, complete with suggested sentence stems. I know my Year 12 class found the sentence stems particularly helpful when revising for their mock exam in this area.

This document outlines for Year 11 students the details about the Macbeth section of the AQA exam (Literature Paper 1 Section A, new GCSE). The first part of the document explains where the play fits into the AQA GCSE Literature course and what it's worth. It also outlines the assessment objectives and their value. It also gives guidance on how to approach revision effectively. The back of the document offers a detailed guide in how to structure an essay answer, with sentence stems for each part. There are also two exemplar exams for students to revise from. Please note that I have made this resource with my grade 4-5 Year 11 class in mind, so those of you with higher achieving students might find the essay structure advice a bit too simplistic! The resource can be easily adapted.

This is a set of two lessons and a workbook designed to transition KS2 pupils into KS3. Give the workbooks to your feeder primary schools in July and they can complete a series of activities to introduce the Y6s to the project. They will create a character inspired by the Roald Dahl stories. The students will then bring their booklets with them to their new secondary school and their first few English lessons will focus on the writing a story assessment in the second half of the booklet. The story will include the character they created in Year 6. No planning is required at all for your whole department's first week or two of Y7 lessons, and it provides great baseline data. Any students who arrive from outside the feeder schools can easily pick up this unit of work in Year 7 with very little additional thinking/planning.

This is an exemplar essay designed to model the standard required for a Grade 8-9 in the AQA English Literature Paper 2 Section B. The exemplar includes an introduction and conclusion and ONE main paragraph. I do indicate on the paper that approximately 2-3 more of these main paragraphs would be required, but I found that one example was enough for my top set class to get the idea! The main paragraph focuses on how to compare structure and also include references to context. The essay is written to focus on 'Before you were mine' and 'Follower', the question being 'Discuss how the poems present the relationship between a parent and child.'

A lesson on Act 3 Scene 1 from Macbeth. This lesson starts by focusing on what each main character is thinking at the end of Act 2, before going on to specifically analyse the language in Banquo's soliloquy; the interaction between Macbeth and Banquo; followed by Macbeth's soliloquy. Visual aids are used to help LA students understand Macbeth's position. There is a creative opportunity at the end of the lesson to help students reflect on how they think the scene should be performed.

This is a revision document that outlines the details of this section of the AQA course (Language Diversity and Change). The first page gives details about the section, looking at what it will involve and how it will be assessed. The second page has a guide on how to structure the essay and what needs to be in it. This is combined with a writing frame with some suggested sentence starters.

This is the 8th lesson in my scheme of work for 'Animal Farm' designed for top set Y7. This lesson focuses on reflection on the key events in Chapter 5. It starts by guiding the students to focus on Napoleon's actions with the dogs towards Snowball. Then students are encouraged via Think/Pair/Share to develop more independent reactions and reflections on what has taken place. This should develop into a detailed class discussion. The lesson ends on reflecting on the most 'important' character right now in the novel, at its crucial half way point.

This resources contains: - A practice paper for students to complete based on AQA's English Language GCSE Language Paper 2. - An exemplar paper answering all four questions. This is designed to achieve a grade 4-5 and so is best used for lower ability classes, or to help as a starter for a discussion on how it can be improved.

This lesson has a lot of potential content to it that could take a couple of lessons to go through if required. It starts by revising language terminology and the use of pathetic fallacy to set the tone for the chapter. Later content includes analysing the chicken rebellion, exploring the difference between truth and perception as a key theme and an 'independent thinking challenge' where students can choose what to focus on from the content later in the chapter. A homework task to research links to Trotsky and Stalin is included at the end. Designed with a high ability KS3 class in mind.

This is designed as a revision document for one of the key characters from the novel. It contains key quotes, key moments and ideas that could go into an essay about Enfield's role in the novel. I designed this as a model example of a revision page for a class project making a revision booklet together. Each student was assigned a character/theme to complete a similar sheet on. Hence the slightly obscure choice of Enfield - it doesn't tread on any toes of what the students could do!

Please note this lesson does not cover the whole of chapter 8 - its focus finishes shortly after the poem about Napoleon is included. Content to this lesson includes discussing titles and the hierarchy of power they insinuate; discussing the continued changes in the commandments; analysis of Napoleon's poem and writing an analytical paragraph as a form of formative assessment. This lesson has been designed with a high ability KS3 class in mind. It's the 11th lesson in my scheme of work on 'Animal Farm'.

This is an essay on 'The Farmer's Bride' compared to 'Walking Away' focusing on the use of nature to present ideas. I've deliberately aimed the essay at gaining a grade 5-6 for my Year 11 class. It hits all of the assessment objectives and discusses both language and structure, but there are areas that could be more developed or more technical. Students can pick out these areas by reading the essay and looking for examples of the assessment criteria that I've put in a box at the top of the essay. Good for AFL and in preparation for having a go at writing one of these essays.

A 28 page workbook and lessons with poetry themed around animals and the natural world for teaching to KS3. Designed with Y7 in mind to introduce them to poetic techniques, writing using PEE and being able to respond to unseen poetry. The workbook includes: - Poems - The Eagle, Hyena, Pikes, The Raven, Daffodils, The Tyger, In A Station of a Metro, I am a parrot and A Storm at Sea. The last two are just practice poems for the unseen assessment. - Comprehension tasks for every poem (except for the last two). - Creative writing tasks for several poems. - PEE paragraph practice for some poems. - Speaking and Listening tasks. - Advice on how to write an unseen poetry assessment. - End of unit response questions. There is also: - An end of unit poetry assessment - unseen PEE paragraph writing for 'The Sea' by James Reeves. - Several PPTs for some of the tasks e.g. active punctuation, imagist poetry and how to write using PEE. - An introduction to poetry PPT - A PPT on similes and metaphors.

The key part of this resource is a workbook which contains: - 4 short stories (The Lamb to the Slaughter, The Red Room, The Signalman and The Black Cat) - An extensive set of comprehension questions after each story, as well as space to do a 'personal response'. - A 'Creative response' homework task at the end of the unit. I have also included other resources I made when teaching the unit: - Analysis of language from an extract in 'Lamb to the Slaughter' - A non-fiction 'create a leaflet' task for 'The Red Room' - Assessment preparation resources - Summative assessment extract and question for 'The Black Cat'. I used these resources for a mid-ability Year 9 group as an introduction to the type of skills they'll need for Literature analysis at GCSE. They enjoyed the unit and found the workbook useful as it allowed them to annotate and collate their ideas on each story. The comprehension questions proved a great way to approach their initial understanding, as well as a starting point for discussion of the characters.

This is a set of some lessons for the play version of Frankenstein. This resource includes: - An introduction lesson focusing on the context and some HOT questions about Frankenstein's themes. - A comprehension and PEE paragraph practice lesson based on Act 1. - A drama task themed on Jeremy Kyle and Frankenstein. - An end of unit assessment essay on Frankenstein, with a preparation grid resource and a assessment support sheet.