Effective for building skills in answering the 8 mark Question 2 on AQA English Language Paper 1. Uses 3 short extracts from Chapter 5 of Frankenstein to practise writing 3 answers to Q2 - commenting on language. Each short extract has animated annotations to talk through. There are also model paragraphs for students to peer assess. Includes success criteria.

Lesson guides students through an exam question on Piggy. Aimed at students with a target grade of 7-9. Includes help with writing a thesis style introduction and an exemplar. For the main body there are a selection of quotes students can pick to support a specific idea that links back to the thesis. There is also an exemplar conclusion.

A worksheet on subordinate clauses for a 20 minute intervention session.

Use the revision cards to test yourself on 4 key quotations for each of the 6 main characters. There are also a list of key adjectives to describe each character.

Lesson analysing Blake’s poem The Garden of Love. Includes detailed line by line annotations and extension activities to explore the deeper meanings.

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.

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.

Full lesson and annotations of Act 1 Scene 3.

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.

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

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.

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.

A complete lesson with a range of resources to help students understand War Photographer.

15 exam style questions (one for each poem) for the Power and Conflict section of the AQA examination. If you would like to purchase the revision grid as well as the questions, follow the link below: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-planning-responses-to-15-exam-questions-using-a-revision-grid-11538288

Students use the worksheet to follow the 9 step method for approaching an exam question on a theme in A Christmas Carol for the 9-1 GCSE examination. Includes an exam style question, a suggested writing frame using prompts from the AQA website, a table for planning a response and recommended extracts to zoom out to. Ideal for examination revision. Also included is a resource offering 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.

2 worksheets that look at key extracts showing Macbeth’s character in Act 5 Scene 5 and Scene 7. Students answer the questions using the prompts to help them use P.E.E. Aimed at lower ability students. Includes modern translations for each extract.

Relationships Poems Edexcel quiz

Experiment with writing short poems in 6 different styles.