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English Language Paper 1 Q5 AQA 2018 - Describing an old man's face using 275 precise adjectives
This lesson was inspired by the AQA 2018 English Language Paper 1 Question 5. Students were asked to describe the face of an old man. To help students improve their description, I have created a bank of 275 words that students can use to add precision to their descriptions.
The follow up tasks gives students 8 images of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth (Polanski version). Students must select the adjectives carefully to describe one of the 8 images. Peers then have to work out which image they have described from the quality of the description.
The plenary asks students to write down their favourite words to describe each aspect of the face.
Romeo and Juliet Final Revision Lesson: Revise 6 Big Ideas using 3 knowledge organisers
I like to revise BIG IDEAS for my final revision lesson. This lesson is student led.
Students create a mind map 6 BIG IDEAS about Romeo and Juliet using the 3 knowledge organisers to help them form their ideas.
Also includes 6 sample exam questions on one A3 sheet for ease of photocopying. The 6 questions are my predictions for what might come up in 2019.
Grade 9 response to attitudes to supernatural in Macbeth
A lesson aimed at preparing students on how Shakespeare presents Macbeth’s and Banquo’s attitudes to the supernatural.
It includes an exam question and a grade 9 model answer.
To start with, the PowerPoint annotates the set extract and then annotates 7 quotes from outside the extract that link to the supernatural. There is also a slide explaining how to link to context for A03.
I have also added a writing frame to help mid-ability students a coherent response that explores a theme in an extract and the play as a whole.
Also includes a timeline tracing the supernatural across the play.
Other popular Macbeth resources include:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revise-20-extracts-11868136
Revision cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-theme-revision-cards-ambition-supernatural-guilt-violence-deceit-courage-11868831
Grade 9 model ansers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-7-9-model-responses-12187985
Knowledge organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-character-revision-sheet-quotations-themes-context-aqa-9-1-11868119
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/how-is-lady-macbeth-presented-in-act-5-scene-1-worksheets-and-a-model-response-11422450
Macbeth's Character Revision Flash Cards
12 Flashcards containing 30 quotations about the character of Macbeth.
Available as a single resource or as a bundle with my other flashcards on themes.
Also includes 6 theme revision cards and 6 revision cards covering the 6 main characters in the play.
Bundle
5 high grade Power and Conflict responses
5 grade 8/grade 9 model responses to the Power and Conflict poems.
Poppies and Exposure
War Photographer and Exposure 2 versions
Prelude and Storm on the Island
Ozymandias and Tissue
Bayonet Charge and Remains
I do have other power and conflict resources available:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-11626301
Revision cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049
Stave 4. Key extracts with exam style questions on A Christmas Carol
I have carefully selected what I consider to be the 5 key extracts from Stave 4 . They are differentiated by colour. Each extract has an AQA style GCSE question attached to it. This works well as a home and away task. There is also a grid for students to fill in to show their understanding of each extract.
Also includes a revision PowerPoint which guides students on how to make a mindmap of the key quotations from the chapter.
Macbeth: descriptive writing inspired by Act 1 Scene 1 Updated 2022
Two lessons. One lesson aimed at covering the themes and ideas in Act 1 Scene 1 with annotations and comprehension activities.
Lesson two is aimed at getting students to produce a powerful piece of descriptive writing based on image from the opening scene of Polanski’s Macbeth. The PowerPoint goes through examples of vocabulary, sentence types, punctuation and literary techniques to help achieve a high level.
There is also an A3 graphic organiser to encourage students to plan a piece of descriptive writing inspired by Act 1 Scene 1 of Macbeth.
The graphic organiser includes:
Act 1 Scene 1
an opening paragraph model to annotate
a long list of useful words
a paragraph planning table
a link to 3 film versions of Act 1 Scene 1 to evaluate
a success criteria of descriptive techniques
some images to help generate ideas
Checking out me History. Annotations, objectives, questions, worksheets for AQA Power and Conflict
A PowerPoint containing carefully selected annotations on the poem, learning outcomes, questions and opportunities for making comparisons to other poems in the Power and Conflict section of the anthology. There is also a 4 page booklet containing a copy of the poem and two sets of comprehension questions.
A Christmas Carol
There are lots of good A Christmas Carol teaching resources on this site but this bundle is, arguably, the most comprehensive.
Please check the many previews to see what I mean.
It includes:
Detailed lessons on all 5 Staves
Lessons and revision sheets on the main characters
10+ High level responses to familiar past exam questions
Revision Cards
Revision knowledge organisers
Comprehension questions
And lots more.
Grade 9 essay on Scrooge's transformation in A Christmas Carol. Includes planning and task sheets.
A grade 9 model response to the following question:
How does Dickens present Scrooge as charitable towards the poor? (30)
Also included:
An A3 planning sheet
Useful zoom in/out quotations
Also includes a full lesson powerpoint comparing 12 quotations from Stave 1 and 5 with detailed inferences included for each.
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.
Abuse of power in Animal Farm
Ideal to set as an assessment after reading the first 5 chapters.
Contains 3 carefully selected short extracts from chapters 2, 3 and 5.
Students analyse how power is abused in each extract and answer the overall question: who is worse the humans or the pigs?
There is a writing frame for students to follow to help analyse each extract and ensure they meet the criteria for A01, A02 and A03.
Ghosts Grade 9 Analysis in A Christmas Carol
Detailed lessons analysing the significance of the 4 ghosts in the novel.
A differentiated worksheet to invite students to explore the impact of each ghost in A Christmas Carol independently. A key extract is selected for each ghost and students answer the tough, tougher or toughest challenges.
Also includes a full lesson analysing the Ghost of Christmas Past extract in greater detail.
Also includes a grade 9 style response on the importance of ghosts to Scrooge’s change and transformation.
Writing frame to compare Ozymandias and Tissue (Power and Conflict) with helpful annotations.
Selected annotations on Tissue and Ozymandias followed by a writing frame to compare the ways power presented in the two poems. Ideal for low ability students or for students writing comparative responses for the first time.
To push the more able, there are questions to encourage students to annotate Tissue independently.
Also includes a high level exemplar response.
Bundle
Power and Conflict: 11 comparative writing frames for AQA poetry
4 differentiated writing frames to 4 actual AQA power and conflict past exam questions. Each writing frame has 3 tiers of difficulty to allow for the fact different students in the class require different levels of support and guidance in the run up to the examinations.
Tier 1: Students add the analysis of the quotations. The topic sentences and recommended quotations are already filled in for them.
Tier 2: Students must pick their own 3 quotations from each poem and analyse the quotations.
Tier 3: Students must pick their own topic sentences, quotations and then analsyse the quotations.
The questions covered are as follows:
2021 question: Compare how poets present ideas about power and control in ‘London’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
Nov 2020 question: Compare how poets present the ways people are affected by difficult experiences in ‘Remains’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
May 2019 question: Compare how poets present the ways that people are affected by war in ‘War Photographer’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
May 2018 question: Compare how poets present ideas about power in ‘Ozymandias’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
Also includes a selection of more than 10 other writing frames that I created a few years ago but are still fairly popular on here.
Includes:
Bayonet Change and Charge of the light brigade
Ozymandias and Prelude x2
War Photographer and Remains
Ozymandias and My Last Duchess
London and Emigree
Storm on the Island and Exposure
Poppies and Remains
Ozymandias and Tissue
Checking out me History and My Last Duchess
A Christmas Carol: Revising 25 key extracts for A01, A02 and A03 (Revision Booklet)
In this six page A3 revision booklet, students read 25 carefully selected key extracts covering all Staves. It usually takes around 2/3 lessons for students to complete the booklet or you can set it as an extended homework task.
After reading each extract, students must complete the following process:
WHAT: Identify what ideas are being communicated in each extract and pick 2 quotations. (A01)
HOW: Analyse how the use of methods and language in the extract impacts meaning. (A02)
WHY: Consider why Dickens made the decisions he did. What was his wider message within the context of the 19th century. (A03)
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A Christmas Carol: The 9 STEP METHOD
Students plan responses to four GCSE style theme questions on A Christmas Carol using my simple 9 Step method. Includes a model response that uses the 9 STEP METHOD.
Set up to be printed as a 6 page revision booklet.
Students have found this method really helpful in structuring their responses to the text.
New for 2023 is a resource which 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.
Romeo and Juliet: The 9 STEP METHOD for Grade 9 responses. Structure exam response. Revise Revision
Students read the Grade 9 GCSE model answer on the theme of love and trace how the 9 step method has been used to write about the extract and the play as a whole.
They then plan 3 GCSE style questions on the themes of death, fate and family honour using the 9 step method.
I have made it so you can print them separately or as part of a 4 page booklet.
AN INSPECTOR CALLS 5 KNOWLEDGE ORGANISERS
Four A3 revision sheets for An Inspector Calls.
Sheet 1 revises character points, quotations and context and has 3 differentiated activities.
Sheet 2 revises themes and has an exam style question for each of the 5 themes:
age
gender
class
responsibility
wealth
power and influence.
Sheet 3 explores the stage directions for each character across the play and asks students to evaluate the changes.
Sheet 4: Revision cards on the 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
50 quotations: 'A Christmas Carol' Revision
50 carefully selected concise quotations to learn by heart.]
The revision activity is differentiated.
Bronze: Explain what the quotations reveal.
Silver: Identify language features in each quotation
Gold: Explore deeper meanings by linking to wider themes, context and Dickens' purposes.
I have also included an answer sheet which briefly explains why each quotation is important.
WJEC Unseen Poetry 2017 question EXAM WALK-THROUGH
An exam walk-through lesson for the 2017 unseen poetry questions. The poems that featured were ‘A Child’s Sleep’ and ‘Night Feed’.
This lesson can easily be adapted for an AQA revision lesson by simply changing the marks awarded for the two questions:
AQA awards 24 marks for the single poem analysis and 8 marks for the comparison.
EDUQAS awards 15 marks for the single poem analysis and 25 marks for the comparison