A Powerpoint designed to accompany the reading of Keats' Isabella. Will fill 3-4 lessons alongside the reading of the poem. The 15 slide Powerpoint includes a range of activities for exploring the poem: - questions close reading specific stanzas - matching exercise with modern translations - mini essay and practice essay questions - success criteria that allow students to peer assess each other's responses to the poem - contextual research task - tasks exploring a Marxist interpretation of the poem - checklists of Tragic and Romantic conventions to help students explore the genre of the poem - homework task for between lessons The primary purpose is for students to understand the poem, with some questions specifically focusing on aspects of tragedy ready for the AQA A2 exam. The Powerpoint includes an additional worksheet for once students have completed the poem, defining and reflecting on tragic Keats' use of tragic conventions.

A Powerpoint designed to accompany the reading of Keats' The Eve of St Agnes. Will fill 3-4 lessons alongside the reading of the poem. The 18 slide Powerpoint includes information and activities on: - context - structure - meaning - difficult vocabulary - language techniques - imagery - the ending of the poem The primary purpose is for students to understand the poem, with some questions specifically focusing on aspects of tragedy ready for the AQA A2 exam. I have also included an additional worksheet for once students have completed the poem, reflecting on tragic features.

A differentiated planning sheet based around the extract question for Jekyll and Hyde. This whole-lesson worksheet involves preparing an answer for the extract used on the AQA specimen paper, where Utterson first comes across Hyde. The planning sheet is carefully divided into the three assessed AOs to help students to understand how they must meet all three objectives within their answer. Available with more/less scaffolding within this one resource.

Are your students finding the 16 mark Question 4 daunting? This is a gentle introductory lesson, using two much shorter, yet relevant and engaging extracts. The first 2 slides introduce students to what the examiner is looking for in Question 4. The final 2 slides can be printed back to back as a worksheet that helps students to plan the key points and quotations they would need to include in a Question 4 answer. The planning sheet is carefully based on the three guiding bullet points provided by AQA for the Question 4s on their specimen papers.

Learning Objective: Use quotations from the play to justify whether Macbeth is presented to the audience as a hero or a villain. Extension Objective for More Able: Identify and analyse where Shakespeare uses figurative language techniques in Act 1 sc. ii A complete full lesson; a differentiated resource for engaging students in the second scene of Macbeth, ready for studying the play at GCSE. This lesson powerpoint is colourful with a helpfully annotated script to ease students into Shakespearean language. There is also a fun 'Would I lie to you' starter to introduce students to contextual information about the play. Plenary with sentence starter scaffolds to help students write in an evaluative tone about the play for the first time.

Lesson Objective: To use supporting quotations to evaluate Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship in Act 3 sc.ii The resource is a complete Powerpoint lesson with an accompanying script for colour-coding that enables students to evaluate the power dynamic between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in this scene. This resource includes: - a starter focused on imagery - a main task that encourages students to actively read and analyse key language choices - a transition card sort to generate discussion - a plenary paragraph that encourages students to use supporting quotations - an extension challenge for the more able which links to AO3 (context on the new AQA spec) A thorough, ready-to-use complete lesson.