A detailed lesson looking at Simon’s character in Lord of the Flies. The lesson is geared around helping students prepare an exam response to the following question and includes detailed annotations of 8 key Simon quotations. How does Golding present Simon as different from the other boys on the island? Write about: • what Simon says and does that suggest he is different from the other boys • how Golding presents him as different. Also includes a grade 9 response on Simon.

4 detailed essay plans on A Christmas Carol to convert into 4 essays. A detailed success criteria is provided for each paragraph. This A Christmas Carol resource offers 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.

Complete lesson analysing key quotations from Chapter 8. Includes starter, comprehension questions and answers, simple plot summary, notes to annotate key quotations and an extension activity.

20 slide PowerPoint for a 2 lessons looking at Chapter 10. Includes an engaging starter, 10 comprehension questions, detailed notes to help students discuss and annotate 10 key quotations from the chapter and extension activities looking at Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and defence mechanisms. You may also wish to consider my bundle which includes lessons on all chapters alongside useful knowledge organisers and other revision activities. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lord-of-the-flies-mini-bundle-12072617

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.

A full lesson analysing Chapter 1. Includes a context recap page, starter, comprehension questions and notes for students to annotate over 30 key quotations from the chapter. Ends with some extension questions. Also includes a lesson analysing an extract from Chapter 1 about the island with specific questions to elicit perceptive inferences.

A lesson looking at Act 2 Scene 1 with annotations and follow up questions and various resources to support the teaching of this key scene.

Revision lesson. Students identify language features in 8 short key extracts from the novella. Can be printed in A4 but A3 is recommended.

Students revise the information sheet about sentences and then go on to complete the knowledge test. Also contains detailed guidance on what makes a powerful sentence.

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

6 revision cards looking at 6 quotations that show the joy and happiness of Christmas in A Christmas Carol. Inspired by the November 2021 AQA question. Colour coded to link to A01, A02 and A03. Authorial methods are underlined. Also contains a 24 slide lesson guiding students on how to write about how Dickens presents Christmas as a time of joy and happiness.

A grade 9 response exploring how Macbeth is presented in the play. Also includes a planning grid for students to follow It would comfortably fit into the top band of the mark scheme 26-30 marks due to the perceptive debate with judicious quotations and assured analysis of methods and exploration of wider ideas. Also includes a grade 8 version that does not quite meet the grade 9 requirements for a comparison. Also includes a differentiated writing frame for students working towards a grade 4 at the other end of the ability spectrum. The question is freely available here: https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/sample-papers-and-mark-schemes/2019/june/AQA-87021-QP-JUN19.PDF

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.

Detailed lesson analysing the character of Roger aimed at high ability students. It goes through detailed analysis of quotations with perceptive inferences and prepares students for an exam-style question. Also includes a full-length grade 9 response on Roger’s character. Also includes a revision poster on Roger for a visual revision aid.

A lesson comparing the leadership of Snowball and Napoleon in Animal Farm to prepare students for answering an exam style question on the theme of leadership in the novella. A range of activities include: What makes an effective leader Explore Orwell’s message about how power corrupts Adjectives to describe each character Analyse 5 quotations by each character with answers Find alternatives to This shows/This suggests Writing frame included for lower ability students

An sample exam response 24/30 to the following question which is on the AQA sample exam for 2021. How does Orwell use the character of Squealer to explore ideas about truth and lies in Animal Farm? Grade boundaries are subject to change but I am confident this would attain a grade 7 or 8. Also includes a revision sheet on Squealer. I give students the blank version then go through the more detailed explanations for each quotation later in the lesson.

Lesson introducing Act 1 Scene 3 with comprehension questions and a task analysing a key Juliet quotation.

A lesson analysing the character of Boxer from Animal Farm. Includes detailed annotations of 10 key Boxer quotations to prepare students for answering an exam style question on Boxer. The lesson is aimed at students with a grade 5/6 target.

A range of resources for teaching War Photographer. Includes a full PowerPoint lesson, line by line annotations, line by line questions. listening questions, a high grade model answer, planning sheet/writing frame.

Complete lesson covering Chapter 9 with notes to help annotate key quotations along with an engaging starter, chapter summary and extension questions and activities looking at 2 key extracts from the chapter. Also includes a lesson looking at Language Paper 1 Question 4 with detailed annotations of the violent scene in the chapter to prepare students for responding to a student statement for the 20 mark question.