Writing frame for analysing Ignorance and Want extract in Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol for AQA 1-9. The basic PowerPoint includes 2 model examples to explore, compare and annotate.

A worksheet and PowerPoint to support the study of the character of Eva Smith in An Inspector Calls. Students read the 32 carefully selected quotations about Eva Smith and work out who said each one. They can plot the utterances into a table to enable further analysis. Also includes a worksheet examining who is responsible for her death and an essay planning sheet with and without answers. The PowerPoint then encourages students to create a revision page on Eva by explaining what the key quotations reveal. Students look at a grade 5/6 full response on Eva. Students then write a model paragraph. I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls: Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310 Revision Cards: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143 Knowledge Organisers https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057 Revision quotations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293

A cloze activity based around selecting word choices for effect and then commenting on the word choices. Students then listen to the song and compare their word choices with the original.

Lesson and resources to help students produce a high quality response on the character of Eva Smith. Eva Smith essay planning sheet with answers for AQA 1-9 An Inspector Calls style question. The planning sheet contains perceptive points with carefully selected quotations and space for students to make deeper insights into language and theme. This is aimed at students with a target grade of 7-9. There is also a PowerPoint version aimed at students with a target grade of 4-5.

4 tasks to help students prepare for a descriptive piece of writing based on an image of ‘Hitler in Hell’.

I created this resource because students said they were getting confused over the different historical contexts of the texts we are studying. This is useful if you are studying the following combination of texts for English Literature: Romeo and Juliet A Christmas Carol An Inspector Calls Alternatively, the concept can be adapted if you are studying a different combination of texts.

Themes in Animal Farm. Differentiated carousel activity to push more able students. Assign each coloured group a theme in explore in the novel. Ask them to prepare a presentation on that theme. During the presentation, students fill in the carousel grid to make notes on how all 5 themes are presented in the novel.

Animal Farm. Writing frame for analysing deception in Chapter 3.

Animal Farm. 20 questions quiz with answer sheet

A useful revision tool to revise themes and key extracts in Animal Farm.

Starter: List words associated with rain. Learning outcomes: To identify features of Dickens’ style To apply knowledge in a piece of descriptive writing To evaluate against the success criteria Next students examine the methods Dickens uses to describe the fog in an extract from ‘Bleak House’ and the snow in an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’. There is differentiation so students of different ability can examine different methods used by the author. Students must then try to write a paragraph in the same style about rain. There is a differentiated success criteria. The plenary can be done in the form of peer and self assessment and has sentence stems linked to the success criteria.

Push more able towards the highest grades by using this worksheet to explore contrasting quotations to bring out the complexities and contradictions within the language of the 5 main characters. I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls: Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310 Revision Cards: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143 Knowledge Organisers https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057 Revision quotations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293

Metaphor, Alliteration, Personification, Simile. 3 worksheets for a full lesson.

A useful for activity for helping students to remember key quotations while also testing their understanding of the novel as a whole. The quotations have been carefully selected to cover a range of themes. The answer sheet is also included.

Various resources to help lower ability students understand Macbeth’s ‘Is this a dagger soliloquy’. Worksheets include: Create a visual storyboard to break down key lines. Use the writing frame to write a summary of the scene. Give two interpretations to key lines Give instructions for how an actor should perform the speech using the writing frame.

Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2. Table and writing frame to compare how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth react after the murder. Structured for lower ability students. Includes the extract.

Lesson resources to analyse I wanna be yours by John Cooper Clarke. The worksheets are designed to encourage students to come up with two ways of interpreting key lines in the poem to help them answer the overall question: would the speaker be a good boyfriend?

Engaging task which asks students to compare how women are presented in two adverts for Coca Cola from the 1950s and now. Includes a planning sheet. Really useful for getting students to comment on context.