Selection of 20 premium resources to support the teaching of GCSE 9-1 specification. Includes:
popular revision sheets
9 grade 9 model answers
revision cards
exam-style questions
20 key exam length extracts
7 writing frames
model responses
comprehension questions on select scenes
20 lessons covering almost all scenes in the play
Very simple writing frame to help students .ompare how ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ and one other poem (‘Prelude’) present the passing of time. (25 marks)
Just a short wordsearch to introduce 18 adjectives to describe Mr Birling’s character.
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
Brief PowerPoint with annotations for Act 2 Scene 4 and a model analytical paragraph for explaining the importance of this often overlooked scene.
Also includes a test on ten quotations from Act 1 and Act 2.
For more Macbeth resources try the following links:
grade 9 model responses:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-7-9-model-responses-12187985
Revision Cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-cards-12173097
Full bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-bundle-2019-12115685
A simple but effective and ready to go worksheet to promote a group activity exploring who is responsible for the death of Eva Smith.
After splitting your class into 5 groups, ask students to create their argument for their character by finding further quotations to support their point and adding them to the structured grid.
Students can then share their ideas in a carousel style.
Resources to teach ‘To Scavengers in a Truck’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Includes help sheets, questions, writing frames and a model essay to help with responding to feedback.
Revision cards for the main characters in the play.
I have also included a blank templates for students to create their own version.
Also includes a colouring in activity which is ideal for the end of term.
3 lessons exploring Chapter 3.
Lesson 1: A differentiated comprehension worksheet to help students of different abilities engage with Chapter 3 of Steinbeck’s novel.
Tough: Storyboard
Tougher: Comprehension Questions
Toughest: Analysis Questions
There is also a differentiated writing task included on the PowerPoint:
Tough: Lennie wanted poster
Tougher: Diary entry for girl from Weed
Toughest: Newspaper report of what happened in Weed
Lesson 2 involves analysing the language to describe the fight between Lennie and Curley.
Lesson 3 is a skills lesson which looks at how to deliberately use a combination of simple, compound and complex sentences in paragraphs.
Lesson explaining how to answer a Macbeth question on the theme of guilt for AQA GCSE.
Also includes a clear level 4 example response and a more thoughtful level 5 response so students can examine the difference between these two bands on the AQA mark scheme.
Also includes worksheets for exploring the extract.
Also includes a grade 5 model paragraph to assist lower ability students with writing about the extract and then moving to outside the extract.
A grade 9 exemplar essay to the 2018 AQA question on Romeo and Juliet which was as follows:
Starting with this moment in the play, explore how Shakespeare presents relationships between adults and young people in Romeo and Juliet. (30+4 marks)
Includes some examiner comment for A01, A02, A03.
3 lessons on Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol
Lesson 1:
Introductory lesson covering the main events, quotations and big ideas in Stave 3 with accompanying worksheet.
Lessons 2:
Using 5 carefully selected short extracts, students are encouraged to select precise quotations (A01), analyse language choices (A02) and make wider links to context (A03) to explore how Dickens presents ideas about Christmas in Stave 3.
The 5 extracts are coloured to allow for a differentiated group carousel activity.
This resource contains the worksheets and a powerpoint for 1-2 lessons with learning outcomes for exploring how Dickens presents ideas about Christmas in Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol.
There is a differentiated version with boxes for lower ability students to complete.
I have also written 5 model answers for each extract for students to annotate.
Lesson 3:
Also includes a lesson which asks students to compare Scrooge’s room in Stave 1 and 3.
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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Full lesson and worksheet for analysing the setting at the start of Chapter 6. The focus is on commenting on the impact of word choices and the impact of the cyclical structure.
A huge bundle of resources created specifically for the new 9-1 GCSE Romeo and Juliet examination. Several resources have received 5 star reviews. There are over 100 pages of resources, worksheets and powerpoints sharply focused meeting the assessment objectives A01, A02 and A03.
Includes:
- differentiated revision sheets for the characters of Romeo and Juliet
- activity revising the 20 key extracts
- grade 9 model essays
- planning sheets using my 9 step method
- differentiated revision sheet for supporting characters (Capulet, Mercutio, Nurse, Friar)
- differentiated AQA style exam questions
- differentiated worksheets on the prologue and Act 1 Scene 1
- Comprehension questions on Acts 1-5
- model responses
- Activities working on double zoom ins to explore Romeo's desperation in Act 3 Scene 3
- Is Capulet a good father essay guide
- Is Juliet a conventional Elizabethan woman essay guide
- exam walk through for male aggression
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-grade-9-and-grade-7-model-responses-to-aqa-gcse-questions-11580421
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-notes-for-top-quotes-11894589
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-theme-revision-cards-violence-love-family-honour-fate-death-isolation-11869598
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-6-exam-questions-on-one-a3-page-2019-predictions-12119104
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-analyse-20-key-short-extracts-with-answers-11601152
Resources to prepare for a comparison of Dulce et Decorum Est and The Manhunt.
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
An essay plan with suggested answers on the character of Eric Birling.
The PowerPoint lesson gives a basic introduction about the character of Eric and is suitable for lower ability students.
The planning sheet is more suited to pushing higher-attaining students.
Also contains a 10 quotation revision sheet and a blank template for students to have a go at explaining the quotations first.