A wide selection of my best revision resources for Macbeth combined into one bundle. The previews should give you a good idea about the wealth of material available in this bundle. You will see various resources revising key quotations, themes, big ideas, characters and a 40 page easy to print booklet too to make it easy to print the best resources.
This revision sheet contains 100 key quotations in chronological order alongside a brief explanation of the quotation which covers meanings, methods and message. This can be used by students to revise in many ways.
4 Ways to use this revision sheet.
RAG rate your understanding of each quotation/explanation using 3 coloured highlighters. This will help find areas of strength and gaps in knowledge.
Apply a code to link each quotation to a theme e.g. C = Christmas, F = Family, P = poverty S = Supernatural, G = Greed. This will help will planning exam questions.
Find pairs of contrasting quotations to help show changes in how a character or theme is presented at different points in the text.
Pick 10 quotations and develop your inferences of them by focusing on the effect of methods and how these methods help communicate Dickens’ authorial intentions.
Revision lesson looking at 12 key extracts from A Christmas Carol. Using the revision clock concept, students spend 5 minutes on each extract by answering 3 questions which focus on A01, A02 and then A03.
Works really in the run up to mock exams or actual exams.
Includes a 5 minute PowerPoint timer embedded into the slides which has an alarm so you don’t lose your timings.
Also includes analysis of the top 10 single words to analyse in the novella with high level explanations of how to zoom in and then how to zoom out to explore Dickens’ authorial purpose.
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.
PowerPoint revises 6 quotations for each of the following big ideas in the novel:
Poverty is a serious problem
Material leads to isolation
Supernatural as a catalyst for redemption
The rich have a responsibility to help the poor
Christmas is a joyful time
Family is important
For each quotation, the inferences are written in short hand to help students make precise and concise notes.
They are animated so teachers can talk through them one by one to build up the layers of inference.
The 100 most important quotations from Macbeth, in my opinion, placed onto one A3 sheet to assist with revision. Each quotation has a brief explanation of its importance in the text.
There are lots of ways you can use this in lesson/to revise.
OPTION 1: Create a code for themes e.g. a for ambition, g for guilt, k for kingship, d for deception, s for supernatural. Apply the code to link each quotation to one or more themes.
OPTION 2: Ask students to add to each quotation explanation by adding deeper inferences, comments on the impact of language and the wider symbolic significance of each quotation in helping to communicate Shakespeare’s message.
OPTION 3: Give students a range of exam questions and ask students to pick 5 quotations they would use to answer each question.
OPTION 4: Find pairs of contrasting quotations and explain the contrast to show you can explain how a character or theme develops and changes across the novel.
Also contains a top 30 quotation lesson and resource (76 slides) aimed at lower ability students.
Updated sheet has meanings, methods and message explored for 100 quotations.
A lesson that walks students through how to structure a high level Macbeth response on the theme of the supernatural.
It gives students the start of each paragraph and asks them to finish each off with analysis of methods and context.
It then goes over model examples for each section of the essay.
Also includes a prior learning activity and a timeline for knowledge retention to prepare for writing up the response.
Simple little lesson aimed at helping low ability students to vary their sentence types and openers.
This is a free resource that offers a small glimpse into the large number of resources in my shop. Here are links to some of the best-selling resources in my shop.
Lord of the Flies:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lord-of-the-flies-mini-bundle-12072617
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lord-of-the-flies-character-revision-12854559
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lord-of-the-flies-40-page-study-booklet-12841597
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lord-of-the-flies-theme-revision-cards-2023-12827767
Macbeth:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-top-50-and-top-100-quotations-explained-12088304
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-resources-quotations-themes-context-aqa-9-1-11868119
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-2023-12768948
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-timelines-12715015
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-cards-on-6-themes-12852726
Romeo and Juliet:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-2018-bundle-11881390
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-gcse-9-1-exam-bundle-11833024
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-notes-for-top-quotes-11894589
An Inspector Calls:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-character-revision-sheets-12862156
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-revision-sheets-11573775
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-43-page-gcse-revision-workbook-12626676
Animal Farm:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-40-page-revision-booklet-12846365
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-bundle-11499747
A Christmas Carol:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-theme-revision-cards-poverty-isolation-ghosts-christmas-family-11869145
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-character-revision-sheets-12853860
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-cards-and-sheets-12852711
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-revision-12829089
Power and Conflict:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-poetry-revision-grid-extended-version-11530298
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-booklet-2023-12827207
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/how-to-structure-a-comparative-paragraph-for-aqa-poetry-power-and-conflict-11387714
Eduqas Poems:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-anthology-poetry-4-revision-lessons-11888938
A timeline that traces the development of the supernatural across the whole play.
Also included as a cut and stick kinesthetic activity where students must put the boxes into the correct order.
Also contains revision cards containing high level analysis of 6 key quotations linked to the supernatural.
Also contains a high grade response to a question on the supernatural in the play.
Comprehension revision for this key theme that could come up in the 2023 exam.
Also includes a lesson looking at how to structure a response.
A revision timeline that explores Lady Macbeth’s journey through the play. Also contains a high grade model exam answer exploring how Lady Macbeth’s character changes during the play.
Also included as a cut and stick activity where students cut out the boxes and place them in the correct order.
Also includes a Lady Macbeth quotation revision sheet and 2 quizzes on Lady Macbeth,
A timeline that charts the progression of Macbeth’s fears across the play. Useful for helping to plan any exam response. Also includes a high grade response about Macbeth’s fears.
Has a version with questions and a version with just quotations to explain.
Also included as a cut and stick in the correct order activity.
My attempt at producing a grade 9 full mark (or close to full mark response) to a question about how Macbeth’s fears are presented in the play. 2022.
The response is on the long side (1266) words. It has been written to try and meet the top band criteria for A01, A02 and A03.
Rather than starting with the extract, the response is chronological and charts the journey of Macbeth’s fears from being seemingly fearless at the start to forgetting the ‘taste of fears’ by the end of the play.
Also includes a planning timeline that charts Macbeth’s fears across the play.
A full lesson that prepares students for how to write a speech about the benefits of reading for pleasure.
Includes an example and invites students to follow the same 4 part structure.
A description writing lesson based on the Tempest.
Students complete exercises which encourages them to make conscious choices about their sentence lengths, sentence types, sentence openers and use of punctuation.
A highly detailed 31 slide lesson or series of lessons focused on challenging students to develop their own critical stance about Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire. Students start with an exam style question and are given asked a series of challenging questions to discuss and tasks to complete. They then go on to plan and write their own response and compare it to an A* example.
A lesson aimed at teaching students how to write an informal article for Paper 2 Question 5 in a lively and compelling way.
It uses the popular TikTok debate about wheels and doors to engage students in the the topic.
Students read and annotate the two exemplar paragraphs for the techniques that are being used such as hyperbole, chatty phrases, withholding, parallelism, triplets, rhetorical questions.
They then go on to write their own response in the same lively style as the exemplar - using the list of chatty phrases as a handy crib sheet,
My students really enjoyed this lesson and produced some amazing work.
Two revision resources covering big ideas in Macbeth which allow students to chart how the major themes of the novel develop through the course of the play.
There is a version aimed at grade 9 students which contains perceptive inferences for the key quotations linking.
There is also a version aimed at students working towards grade 4 or 5 with clear and relevant comments on the quotations.
A revision sheet covering 6 big ideas in Macbeth with 6 accompanying quotations and brief explanations to help students chart how the big idea is developed across the play.
This is aimed at students working towards grade 5.
I have a similar sheet but aimed at students working towards grade 9 which covers each quotation in much more detail with perceptive inferences.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-big-ideas-revision-cards-aiming-for-grade-9-12685801
Choose the one that you think will best suit the ability of your class.