Students read a model response to the following question:
How does Shakespeare present the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet. (34).
Then then have to annotate each sentence to analyse what the essay writer is doing in each section of the response.
There is also a building better answers sheet included.
Differentiated A3 worksheet analysing the stage directions to ‘An Inspector Calls’. Ideal to use at the start of the scheme of work. Includes an answer sheet.
Low ability:
Green/Blue group: A01. Retrieve information about the characters.
Mid ability:
Yellow group: A02. Comment on the effect of language
High ability:
Red/Green group: A03. Relate points to context and Priestly’s purpose.
A differentiated activity to get students to engage with the grade 8/9 assessment criteria for the new AQA 1-9 English Literature Paper 2 GCSE. Modern texts.
Bronze level: students look for the meanings of difficult vocabulary.
Silver level: students convert the criteria into student speak.
Gold level: students write advice for how to meet the criteria for A01, 2 and 3.
Various resources looking at Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol.
Includes an exam question, key quotations to analyse and revision activities.
An activity asking students the examine the evidence in Stave 2 of each past vision and write an analysis explaining which past vision affects Scrooge the most.
This would also work as a speaking and listening group activity.
Vision 1: school
Vision 2: Fan
Vision 3: Fezziwig
Vision 4: Belle’s release
Vision 5: Belle’s family
3 differentiated worksheets to explore what Scout learns during the course of the novel.
Bronze: Includes possible answers
Silver: Includes page numbers and points
Gold: Students select all points independently.
Differentiated starter activity on the character of Scout.
Bronze: Define the words
Silver: Make links between the words
Gold: Use the words in a paragraph about Scout.
A lesson aimed at getting students to be more conscious of the sentences types they use in their descriptive writing. Images from A Christmas Carol are used as the stimulus for the descriptive writing. After each task, students complete extension tasks to review their combination of sentence types.
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.