A huge collection of my popular revision cards ideal for students who are studying any of the following combination texts for English Literature.
Paper 1:
Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet
A Christmas Carol
Paper 2:
An Inspector Calls or Animal Farm or Lord of the Flies
Power and Conflict
The multiple low-resolution previews should give you a pretty good idea about the quality of the resources.
Also includes a quote revision game for Macbeth and A Christmas Carol and quiz on the Power and Conflict poems.
Revision cards and a 23 page booklet of revision pages for the Eduqas GCSE poems.Also has a PowerPoint with annotations for all 18 poems.
Links to other Eduqas poetry resources:
Revision Cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-wjec-poetry-revision-cards-gcse-12107545
Lessons on all poems
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-anthology-bundle-2-lesson-on-each-poem-11896591
Revision resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-revising-all-poems-11894072
Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-bundle-gcse-9-1-11815065
7+ high quality lessons covering the following characters.
Fred
The four ghosts
Fezziwig
Tiny Tim
Women (Belle, Mrs Cratchit, Mrs Fezziwig, Fan)
The Cratchit Family
Scrooge
Also includes a lesson covering all 4 ghosts.
Complete lesson which gives guidance on how to annotate 15 key quotations from Chapter 5. Also includes a starter, plot summary activity, and guidance on analysing the 3 most significant quotations from the chapter in more depth. Ends with a discussion question on the effectiveness of Ralph’s leadership.
A Grade 9 909 word response answering a question that I have made up myself in the same style as AQA.
How does Golding use the character of Roger to explore ideas about evil? Write about:
• what Roger says and does
• how Golding uses Roger to explore ideas about evil.
The response would achieve Band 6 in the mark scheme because it has a conceptualised approach with a careful selection of judicious references from across the novel. There is fine-grained and insightful analysis of language
supported by judicious use of subject terminology as well as convincing exploration of contextual factors and different interpretations.
4 detailed essay plans on Macbeth to convert into 4 essays.
The resource is differentiated with an easier and harder version.
There is a also a list of 100 quotations and explanations to support students.
A detailed success criteria is provided for each paragraph.
Great as a revision lesson or as a homework task.
Also contains help with thesis-style introductions.
‘A thesis-style introduction that demonstrates your understanding of the question can be a really helpful way of starting your answer. It shows that you are ‘in charge’ of your essay and that you know what you think. It can provide a strong foundation for the rest of the essay. Keep referring back to the introduction to create a coherent response.’ AQA examiner’s report 2022
Creating a thesis-style introduction is a challenge for many students but is essential in helping students to reach levels 4-6 in the mark scheme. I have produced a simple 3 point structure to help students quickly generate a thesis statement in timed exam conditions. There is an example of the 3 point structure being used and then students attempt to imitate the structure for 4 other exam-style questions.
A full lesson analysing Chapter 1.
Includes a context recap page, starter, comprehension questions and notes for students to annotate over 30 key quotations from the chapter.
Ends with some extension questions.
Also includes a lesson analysing an extract from Chapter 1 about the island with specific questions to elicit perceptive inferences.
A huge range of material containing lessons on key characters and Staves, revision cards, lots of high level model responses, key extract analysis, contextual points about Dickens’ intentions, writing frames, comprehension questions on each stave, quotation knowledge organisers, revision of big ideas/themes.
Check out the many previews to appreciate the full scale of resources available here.
Check out my shop for other A Christmas Carol resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-theme-revision-cards-poverty-isolation-ghosts-christmas-family-11869145
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-gcse-differentiated-revision-sheets-on-themes-and-context-11387723
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/stave-1-and-stave-5-scrooge-s-transformation-in-a-christmas-carol-11503154
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-grade-9-lesson-and-essays-on-ghosts-11552659
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-100-comprehension-questions-with-answer-sheet-12450748
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/revise-themes-in-a-christmas-carol-family-isolation-poverty-charity-christmas-supernatural-11577227
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-9-a-christmas-carol-exam-responses-12220340
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-top-50-quotations-11901568
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-3-grade-9-model-answers-for-eduqas-gcse-exam-style-11797550
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-9-response-on-poverty-in-a-christmas-carol-12512988
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/6-grade-9-model-essays-on-a-christmas-carol-for-aqa-or-eduqas-11896608
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-aqa-1-9-super-bundle-11532059#
Students look at the 40 images and try to work out which quotation each image is referring to. This is great for quotation revision because students often come up with lots of different suggestions for each image.
The answer sheet is included too.
I use this as an end of term activity and invite students to colour in the images to help them remember each image.
Also includes a second activity with 100 key quotations all missing a key word that needs to be added.
If you find this resource useful, try my bundle for more Macbeth resources including lesson on all scenes, writing frames, model answers, theme and character revision cards and lots more.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-full-unit-12584291
Useful as a final revision lesson, this lesson revise key quotations for the main characters and themes that might come up in the 2024 Lord of the Flies exam.
The 40 slide PowerPoints goes over a large key quotations and students note down and explain their top 3 quotations for each.
7 attractive and informative literature revision booklets covering the following 7 popular GCSE texts. I have compiled my most popular resources for each set text into 7 easy to print pdfs. There are also word versions if you wish to edit and add to the booklets yourself.
The 7 texts that are covered should hopefully cover the 4 set texts you will be studying or teaching:
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet (98 pages)
A Christmas Carol (56 pages)
Power and Conflict (51 pages)
An Inspector Calls (43 pages)
Lord of the Flies (46 pages)
Animal Farm
All the booklets contain knowledge organisers, revision cards, plot/knowledge tests, high grade model exemplars, writing frames, support with planning and much more.
Please look at the previews to sample the wide range of resources on offer.
Can be printed in A4 or A3. Some pages may benefit from an A3 print out.
Newly updated for 2024, a 51 page revision booklet which compiles my most popular resources into one easy to print document.
Includes:
Knowledge organisers
Revision page of key quotations (with detailed inferences) for every poem
Knowledge tests
Revision cards
Writing frames
Model responses
Planning sheets
and a range of activities to complete focused on making comparisons.
This A Christmas Carol resource offers 3 levels of differentiation to help guide students on how to structure a full length response on the following 4 themes/topics: children, materialism, ghosts, Christmas.
Tier 1 difficulty (I do): Big idea, topic sentences and quotations are provided. Students add the analysis of the quotations.
Tier 2 difficulty (We do): Students must choose 2 quotations to support each topic sentence and analyse the quotations.
Tier 3 difficulty (You do): Students have to generate the big idea, the topic sentences, 2 quotations a paragraph and the quotation analysis.
Also contains a worksheet looking at how to construct thesis statements.
‘A thesis-style introduction that demonstrates your understanding of the question can be a really helpful way of starting your answer. It shows that you are ‘in charge’ of your essay and that you know what you think. It can provide a strong foundation for the rest of the essay. Keep referring back to the introduction to create a coherent response.’ AQA examiner’s report 2022
Creating a thesis-style introduction is a challenge for many students but is essential in helping students to reach levels 4-6 in the mark scheme. I have produced a simple 3 point structure to help students quickly generate a thesis statement in timed exam conditions. There is an example of the 3 point structure being used and then students attempt to imitate the structure for 4 other exam-style questions.
A high grade response to the May 2019 AQA question on A Christmas Carol presented in the form of a handy printable revision poster.
The question was …
Starting with this extract, explore how Dickens uses the ghosts to help Scrooge change his attitudes and behaviour.
Write about:
• how Dickens uses Marley’s Ghost in this extract
• how Dickens uses the ghosts to help Scrooge change his attitudes and behaviour in the novel as a whole.
The influence of all 4 ghosts is analysed in detail. The response is broken up into clear sections with an introduction and conclusion.
Also includes:
A timeline revision activity for A Christmas Carol that asks students to offer 3 layers of analysis for 13 key Scrooge quotations to help track his transformation in the novel from a solitary miser to a redeemed philanthropist.
A01: What is the meaning of the quotation?
A02: What is the impact of words/methods?
A03: What is Dickens’ message in this quotation?
Comprehensive answer sheet is included. I give this out at the end of the lesson so students can compare their answers to it.
Ideal revision activity in the run up to the May examinations.
7 character revision sheets which explore and make thoughtful comments about 10 key quotations for each of the primary characters in the novel:
Mrs Birling
Mr Birling
Gerald Croft
Eric Birling
Sheila Birling
Eva Smith
Inspector Goole
An excellent revision resource to prepare for whatever may come up in an exam.
A context sheet to support the teaching of Lord of the Flies. It looks at 8 contextual factors to deepen students’ understanding of the novel:
Golding’s life
WWII
Cold War
British Imperialism
Coral Island
Religion
Existentialism
Thomas Hobbes
A complete ready to teach lesson containing a starter activity, 6 pages of line by line annotations of Act 4 Scene 1 followed up with various extension activities to test students’ understanding of this scene. Ends with students completing an analytical paragraph on the scene. Includes a modelled example.