I have carefully selected 20 brief key extracts from the play. They are the 20 extracts I consider to be most likely to come up in the exam.
To complete the revision activity, students must work out what is happening in each extract, analyse two key quotations and make links to context, themes and ideas.
This booklet is helping my students revise for the closed book examination. There are 4 A3 sheets covering Acts 1-5.
Of the hundreds Romeo and Juliet resources I have created, this is probably the most effective.
Also includes a PowerPoint with suggested answers for each extract.
Includes an AQA version (with context) and an Eduqas version (without context).
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.
Writing frame for comparing how London and Emigree present the power of a place. AQA power and conflict.
Also includes comprehension questions on London and Emigree to prepare for the comparison.
Also includes revision sheets on the two poems.
A lesson exploring Chapter 7 with a specific focus on the mob mentality when Ralph joins in with the hunt and finds the desire the hurt ‘overmastering’.
My Last Duchess 25+ slide lesson or lessons with line by line annotations, comprehension questions, cloze summary activity, extension questions and a writing frame to compare the poem to Ozymandias.
A fully resourced model lesson based on analysing an extract in Romeo and Juliet for GCSE 9-1. The lesson is focused on building skills in A01 and A02. The extract is taken from Romeo’s soliloquy in Act 5 Scene 3.
Includes:
TEEP lesson plan
engaging starter activity
learning outcomes
differentiation throughout
PowerPoint
writing frames
Student-friendly mark scheme
50 question multiple choice quotation quiz on An Inspector Calls with answer sheet. I use it a drill for the first 5 minutes of a lesson every week until all the class can memorise each one.
3 lessons exploring the presentation of The Cratchit Family, Tiny Tim and the wider concept of family in the novel.
Includes 2 high level model answers about The Cratchit’s for higher ability and a writing frame for supporting weaker students.
Ozymandias: PowerPoint for at least 3 lessons with worksheets and resources.
Also includes annotations focused on power and a writing frame for comparing the poem to Tissue.
Worksheets 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.
PowerPoint lesson on Owen with colour coded animated annotations covering language, structure and form.
Includes exemplar paragraphs, notes on 5 key quotations, questions on each stanza and a range of follow up activities and 4 worksheets looking at the exploring 4 different types of conflict in the poem:
4 types of conflict in Exposure
Conflict with the weather
Conflict with religious faith
Conflict between the present and the past memories of home
Conflict between anticipated action and inaction.
Updated PowerPoint with annotations, differentiated question worksheets and differentiated writing frames for analysing Act 1 Scene 6 and Act 1 Scene 7 from Macbeth. Also includes questions to recap the main events in Act 1 as a whole.
How to use appositive phrases in English literature texts.
Includes examples for Animal Farm, An Inspector Calls, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Lord of the Flies and A Christmas Carol.
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.
A partially completed plan for an essay response focusing on how Scrooge is presented as cold heart.
The big points and quotations are included. Students must add language analysis and context.