Greed in A Christmas Carol FULL LESSON

A lesson on Greed in the novella designed for mixed ability y11 classes with differentiated tasks throughout.
Tasks include: entry work on using quotes to identify the theme of greed; challenge objective with key definition. Starter is an interleaving task (mild, medium, hot questions on comparing Mr Birling and Scrooge). Development is a choose you own (gimme five) context task with choice for more and less able students. The mini-plenary is random questions using the pose, pause, pounce, bounce method. For the main task, students must read an extract from the text and exam-style question then write one analytical paragraph about the effects of greed. Sentence stems are included. The plenary is a self-assessment checklist to use on the paragraph they’ve written.