This lesson explores the theme of Christmas, encouraging lower ability students to consider their own values around this festival, as well as the ways Victorian attitudes were different.

A lesson designed to explore the introduction of Scrooge’s character to the novel at a lower ability level. The lesson focuses on the connotations of coldness, through a range of tasks which support lower ability students to explore concrete and abstract interpretations of key quotes used to describe Scrooge.

This lesson introduces low ability students to the use of a structure strip to guide them through the written analysis of Scrooge’s character in the early part of the novel. The structure strip uses the ‘what? How? Why?’ model promoted by AQA in their recent examiner’s report for English literature. The lesson takes students through am ‘I do, we do, you do’ approach, before they used a simplified AQA Literature mark scheme to self / peer assess / or the class teachers assesses their analysis.

Designed for the needs of low ability learners, these lessons take students through a range of tasks which explore the form, language, structure and context of the poem.

Across 2 lessons, a variety of activities explore the form, structure, language and context of Bayonet Charge. Tasks are designed to support the needs of lower ability learners.

Designed for the needs of low ability learners, these lessons take students structure a range of tasks to explore the form, structure, language and context of the poem.

Designed for the needs of low ability learners, these lessons take students through a range of tasks which explore the form, language, structure and context of the poem.

Designed for the needs of low ability learners, these lessons take students through a range of tasks which explore the form, language, structure and context of the poem.

Designed to support the needs of low ability learners, these two lessons take students through a range of tasks to explore the form, structure, language and context of the poem.

Designed to support the needs of low ability learners, this lesson takes students through a range of tasks that explore the form, structure, language and context of the poem.

Designed for the needs of low ability learners, these lessons take students through a range of tasks which explore the form, language, structure and context of the poem.

Designed for the needs of low ability learners, these lessons take students through a range of tasks which explore the form, language, structure and context of the poem.

Designed for the needs of low ability learners, these lessons take students through a range of tasks which explore the form, language, structure and context of the poem.

A context lesson to the study of A Christmas Carol where students are taken through a range of tasks in which they recall prior knowledge and are introduce to knew contextual knowledge about the Poor Law revelent to study of the novel. All tasks are designed for the needs of lower ability students.

An introductory lesson to the study of A Christmas Carol where students are taken through a range of tasks in which they recall prior knowledge and are introduce to knew contextual knowledge revelent to study of the novel. All tasks are designed for the needs of lower ability students.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson starts by considering Scrooge’s character arc through the novel and the ways in which his character has changed and developed. Students then read Stave 5 and collect a range of sentence and language techniques used by Dickens to show ways his character has developed.

This lesson is designed for low ability learners. It begins by asking them to consider why charity exists before exploring information relating to charity in the Victorian era. The lesson then moves on to consider the attitudes towards charity presented by Fred and the Portly Gentlemen through a range of close textual analysis tasks.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson explores Scrooge’s childhood. Through a range of acvitivities, students explore how a person’s past experience can shape them as an adult.

This lesson explores the description of the Ghost of Christmas Past for low ability students, focusing on Dickens’ use of symbolism in its physical appearance.

Designed for low ability students, this lesson explores the theme of rejection through key quotes from the section between Belle and Scrooge.