Differentiated PowerPoint with learning outcomes to help students answer the following question based on Chapter 8 and 9 of Oliver Twist:
To what extent is Fagin an out and out villain?
Lower ability students will look at how Fagin is an absolute villain.
Higher ability students will also look at his redeeming qualities.
Also includes a model response to annotate to help students improve their second draft or respond to feedback.
Starter: List words associated with rain.
Learning outcomes:
To identify features of Dickens’ style
To apply knowledge in a piece of descriptive writing
To evaluate against the success criteria
Next students examine the methods Dickens uses to describe the fog in an extract from ‘Bleak House’ and the snow in an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’. There is differentiation so students of different ability can examine different methods used by the author.
Students must then try to write a paragraph in the same style about rain. There is a differentiated success criteria.
The plenary can be done in the form of peer and self assessment and has sentence stems linked to the success criteria.
Full lesson analysing the arrival of Marley’s ghost in Stave 1.
Worksheet 1: Differentiated questions (Bronze A01, Silver A02, Gold A03) on the Marley’s ghost extract.
Worksheet 2: Storyboard activity to sum up the scene with Marley’s ghost with 3 levels of differentiation.
Sheets to assist with speed marking. This will save you the time-consuming job of writing out the full targets while not compromising the specificity of your marking.
The reading response sheet should work with any reading/comprehension response to a text where students are expecting to answer in PEE style paragraphs.
The writing response sheet should work with any task in which students produce a creative response.
The 20 targets are differentiated - starting with the basics before moving on to higher skills.
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.
Revision cards which featured detailed analysis of 6 quotations for each of the following 4 themes:
Ambition
Motif of blood/violence
Guilt
Supernatural
Also included are revision cards for big ideas/themes in the play.
A ‘because, but, so’ paragraph can act as a useful tool for starting off an exam response on a character to demonstrate the depth of a students’ thinking.
Here are 6 ‘because, but, so’ sample paragraphs on the 6 main characters in the novel: Ralph, Jack, Simon, Piggy, Roger, The Beast.
Also includes a template for students to practise their own introductions.
For my Lord of the Flies resources, check out my bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12072617
Full lesson exploring the role of the narrator in Blood Brothers written in a TEEP style will success criteria.
Includes a vocabulary building activity, a diamond ranking activity and apply questions.
PowerPoints on both poems containing questions and activities followed by a writing frame for answering an AQA style exam question which is structured in the following way:
P1. Compare how both poems present the horror of conflict in war.
P2. Compare how both poems present the bravery of soldiers.
P3. Compare how the structure helps show the conflict.
Includes the two poems on one page for ease of printing and to encourage independent analysis before giving students the option of the writing frame.
Two paragraph writing frame on language and structure.
These two poems go well together if the question is on identity or speaker’s feelings as they both use a dramatic monologue to express frustration but in very different ways.
53 page revision booklet for Power and Conflict which compiles my most popular resources into one place. Include knowledge organisers, model answers, key vocabulary, context, quizzes, writing frames and more.
A 23 page booklet containing detailed analysis and annotations for all 18 poems alongside knowledge organisers covering the main ideas, context and structure in each poem.
A 76 slide lesson aimed at lower ability students which guides them through 30 key quotations from Macbeth.
Each quotation is introduced with a prompt question. The next slide then explains the quotation. This process continues for all 30 quotations.
There is a knowledge retention test worksheet attached to check how much knowledge students have retained.
A simple plot summary cloze activity and card sort to help students become familiar with the basics of the plot.
For more Macbeth resources try the following links:
grade 9 model responses:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-7-9-model-responses-12187985
Revision Cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-cards-12173097
Full bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-bundle-2019-12115685
Other popular Macbeth resources include:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revise-20-extracts-11868136
Revision cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-theme-revision-cards-ambition-supernatural-guilt-violence-deceit-courage-11868831
Grade 9 model ansers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-7-9-model-responses-12187985
Knowledge organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-character-revision-sheet-quotations-themes-context-aqa-9-1-11868119
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/how-is-lady-macbeth-presented-in-act-5-scene-1-worksheets-and-a-model-response-11422450