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Revising language features in Macbeth
Students identify the meaning of a range of language features which are divided into 3: words, imagery, sentences. They then have to find examples of each technique in Macbeth.
This activity can be differentiated by allowing weaker students access to a list of answers which have been mixed up into random order.
Describing the weather in the style of Charles Dickens (KS2/KS3/KS4)
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.
Bundle
Oliver Twist Bundle
A growing collection of resources on Oliver Twist.
Includes a close focus on Chapter 2 (workhouse and Fagin) and Chapter 48 (Nancy’s death) with exam style activities.
Oliver Twist: Letter to Mr Sowerberry: 3 levels of differentiation
Write a letter in role as Oliver to Mr Sowerberry.
3 levels of differentiated offered in the 3 worksheets.
A Christmas Carol: Stave 1 assessment, prep sheet and model essay. 3 lessons.
PowerPoint covering 4 lessons on Stave 1.
Lesson 1: Prepare for assessment on Scrooge in Stave 1 using GCSE style extract and help sheets.
Lesson 2: Complete assessment
Lesson 3: Respond to feedback using model essay to help. Differentiated.
Lesson 4: Test on 28 key quotations from Stave 1.
Scrooge in Stave 1 lesson. 5 short extracts with questions, activities and writing frame.
A lesson exploring how Scrooge is presented in Stave 1 with questions, model answers, writing frames, starter, plenary and success criteria.
Speed marking in English
Some templates and ideas for making marking more time efficient for teachers.
It includes generic targets that can be set for any creative writing or any reading analysis task.
Also contains a writing wheel which is useful for self, peer or teacher assessment.
Also includes a literacy tracker that can be used by all departments across a school to check that students are maintaining high standards of literacy across all the different subject disciplines.
Speed Marking Sheet - useful for marking any reading response to a text.
Using this marking code will speed up your marking without compromising the quality and specificity of your marking because it moves the time-consuming job of writing the targets from you to the students.
Your marking will look something like this:
WWW
1.
3.
7.
EBI
4.
10.
15.
Read the work and select 3 ways they have met the generic success criteria (WWW) and 3 ways they can improve further (EBI). The students have to then write out the target before trying to meet the target. The 20 criteria start with the basics of using P.E.E. to more advanced targets such as exploring more than one interpretation and commenting on the overall structure of the text. They should work with any text.
Also includes a version for A level English literature.
A Christmas Carol: comparing quotations from Stave 1 and Stave 2
A worksheet for comparing quotations from Stave 1 and 2 of A Christmas Carol.
Also includes detailed PowerPoints containing analysis of the key quotations in Stave 1 and 2. Students complete a mind map on each Stave with the PowerPoint guiding students through each section.
Stave 2 A Christmas Carol differentiated resources on Scrooge for AQA 1-9
2 differentiated worksheets to support students with gaining a perceptive understanding of how Dickens presents Scrooge’s past in Stave 2.
Worksheet 1: I have broken up Stave 2 into 5 extracts. Each group will explore the an extract in detail and carousel to share their ideas with the other groups.
Worksheet 2: Differentiated questions to help students explore Stave 2.
Analysing quotations in Stave 2 for Grades 7-9 A Christmas Carol
A grid of key quotations from Stave 2, a model example and a success criteria.
Students analyse the quotations which have the biggest impact on Scrooge.
Bank of ambitious vocabulary for creative writing
Just a bank of ambitious vocabulary for creative writing.
Bundle
Romeo and Juliet
A huge bundle of detailed lessons and resources to comprehensively cover the play.
PowerPoints include annotations, questions, revision activities, starters.
There are also posters and revision cards for the whole play.
Hopefully the previews will offer a good guide to the range of resources on offer.
For best value, try my bundles that provide detailed lessons, high grade model answers, various theme and character revision sheets, quizzes, writing frames and lots more.
Lord of the Flies Full Unit | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Lord of the Flies - 12 Chapters 12 Lessons | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Macbeth 2023 Bundle | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Power and Conflict | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Power and Conflict | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Christmas Carol Bundle for 2023 | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
A Christmas Carol Revision | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
A Christmas Carol | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
High grade A Christmas Carol Exam Responses | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Animal Farm | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Romeo and Juliet 2023 | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
ROMEO AND JULIET 9-1 | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Romeo and Juliet | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Macbeth Revision BUNDLE | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Macbeth | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
EDUQAS POETRY BUNDLE | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Literature Revision Booklets - Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, Power and Conflict | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
An Inspector Calls revision booklet | Teaching Resources (tes.com)
Ghost of Christmas Present
A 25 slide lesson analyses the initial description of the ghost of Christmas Present at the beginning of Stave 3.
Stave 3 Christmas Carol: Five key extracts with 5 exam questions.
Stave 3 Christmas Carol: five key extracts with 5 exam questions looking at the presentation of Christmas in this stave.
Works well as a home and away carousel.
Grade 9 Response on Places in A Christmas Carol
A grade 9 response to the following question:
Starting with this extract, how does Dickens explore the importance of places in the novel? (30 marks)
Explore how Dickens presents a place in the extract
Explore how Dickens presents places across the novel as a whole.
The extract (included) is from the start of Stave 3 when the ghost of Christmas Present transforms Scrooge’s room.
This was written in one 45 minute sitting to reflect the amount of time students would have to write their response in the exam.