Full Lesson includes the following:
Engaging Starter.
Comprehension Questions.
Chapter Summary
Notes for identifying and annotating key quotations
Task analysing 2 key quotations about Roger in more detail
Also includes a lesson on Roger who is key in this chapter.
Full lesson with starter, chapter summary task and notes to help students annotate 15 key quotations from Chapter 6 following by a task encouraging students to look for deeper inferences in the 5 most important quotations in the chapter.
Differentiated lesson looking at an extract from Chapter 5 of Frankenstein - when the creature comes to life.
For higher ability there is a PowerPoint with annotations and model exemplars to stretch the more able.
For lower ability students there is a structured worksheet:
Task 1: Draw images to demonstrate understanding.
Task 2: Find the meaning of difficult words.
Task 3: Find contrasting phrases of beauty and ugliness in the poem.
Task 4: Plan some PEE paragraphs.
Task 5: Write up an analytical answer.
Animal Farm. Writing frame for analysing deception in Chapter 3. Also includes 2 lessons exploring Chapter 3 with a particular focus on the milk and apples incident.
With Lady Macbeth being the focus for the AQA May 2024 exam, here are a range of resources exploring Lady Macbeth’s character in detail. Includes timeline, poster, model answers, lessons and worksheets.
3 lessons building students up to compare Prelude and As Imperceptibly as Grief for the WJEC comparative poetry question.
Lesson 1. Teach Prelude using PowerPoint lesson and worksheet.
Lesson 2. Teach As Imperceptibly as Grief using PowerPoint and worksheet.
Lesson 3. Write a comparison. There are two versions. One version is very structured; the other version gives higher ability students more scope for structuring their comparisons independently.
Lesson introducing Prelude for the Power and Conflict anthology.
Includes detailed annotations followed by questions on the annotations to test understanding.
There is also a revision sheet with extension questions.
A3 revision sheet that explores the characters of Snowball and Napoleon. Includes thesis style introductions and detailed and thoughtful analysis of 11 key quotations for each character. Also includes 3 lessons on Snowball, Napoleon and leadership.
Comprehensive Animal Farm scheme of learning with over 20 lessons alongside a wide range of reivison resources to support knowledge retention. Ideal for students studying Animal Farm for GCSE. Resources are collated into a 44 page student booklet.
Differentiated Writing frame that can be adapted to any text from Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet to A Christmas Carol and Jekyll and Hyde. Ideal to use with lower ability students.
Aiming for Grade 4: Point, evidence, analysis
Aiming for Grade 5: Double zoom in to language
Aiming for Grade 6: Double zoom in and alternative interpretations
Aiming for Grade 7: 2 contrasting quotations, double zoom in, alternative interpretations, summative comment
Also contains advice on how to write thesis statement introductions in an easy to emulate 3 sentence structure.
Resources to teach ‘To Scavengers in a Truck’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Includes help sheets, questions, writing frames and a model essay to help with responding to feedback.
12 lessons covering all 12 chapters of the novel. Each PowerPoint typically includes animated annotations of the key quotations in each chapter to go through with students alongside an engaging starter, a chapter summary, comprehension questions and a range of extension activities.
Each lesson is clearly labelled to aid organisation.
A full unit of work on Lord of the Flies that covers a full term alongside comprehensive revision resources to revise content in Year 11.
Full lesson PowerPoints included on the following
12 detailed lessons on each of the 12 chapters clearly labelled
40 page revision booklet
Full lesson on mob mentality
Full lesson Roger with grade 9 full essay
Full lesson on Ralph
Full lesson on Piggy with structure to follow for writing up own essay
Full lesson Jack with grade 9 full essay
Full lesson on symbols
Full lesson on Simon
Revision lessons with revision cards containing the top 50 quotations, top 10 quotations per character, differentiated writing frames, sample questions, knowledge organisers and a big ideas mind map
Also includes extensive notes to help students annotate over 200 quotations from the novel independently.
Check out the previews by clicking on each individual resource to gain an idea about a wide range of resources on offer.
A full lesson analysing the character of Old Benjamin in Animal Farm that offers support for weaker students and challenge to higher ability students.
The PowerPoint/pdf includes the following:
3 question starter with detailed answers on slide 2.
Then student attempt to explain 6 key quotations before comparing their explanations to the teacher explanations.
Students are then given a grade 5/6model paragraph and asked to write their own paragraph analysing Benjamin.
Higher level students can instead be shown an aspirational grade 9 paragraph.
The included writing frame is optional for weaker students.
A full lesson analysing the character of Old Benjamin in Animal Farm.
The PowerPoint/pdf includes the following:
3 question starter with detailed answers on slide 2.
Then student attempt to explain 6 key quotations before comparing their explanations to the teacher explanations.
Students are then given a model paragraph and asked to write their own paragraph analysing Benjamin.
The included writing frame is optional for weaker students.