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.

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.

PowerPoint for 2 lessons on Poppies. Lesson 1 uses differentiated prompt questions to give students enough hints to allow them to be more engaged and independent with their annotations. Lesson 2 involves applying knowledge and developing deeper annotations. Lesson comes with success criteria, annotations, starter, plenaries. Also includes a revision sheet to prepare students for an exam style question on the poem: How does the writer present the effects of war. Also includes a responding to feedback helpsheet for after students have attempted to write about the effects of war in the poem.

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

Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth soliloquy with modern translation and writing frame for lower ability.

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.

A famous extract from Chapter 2 of Oliver Twist with an exam style question and a writing frame to help students explore the extract. Ideal to use with Key Stage 3 to prepare them for Key Stage 4.

Full lesson and annotations of Act 1 Scene 3.

2 lessons/PowerPoints. Lesson 1 has carefully selected annotations followed by 13 comprehension questions based on the annotations. There is also a starter activity involving an 8 minute clip from the film ‘The Not Dead’. Lesson 2 recaps the first lesson before looking at how to improve grade 3 paragraphs by adding zoom ins and deeper inferences. The final activity asks students to compare the poem to Prelude, War Photographer and Bayonet Charge. To help with this, students are provided with matching quotations and a suggested basic writing frame.

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.

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.

Stave 4 differentiated comprehension questions on A Christmas Carol. Includes a differentiated starter which asks students to summarise the Stave using 7 images. Aimed at mid - ability GCSE with target grades 4-6.

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

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.

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

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.