6 lessons building towards an assessment comparing two literary texts: Touching the Void and Red Dust by Ma Jian. Focus on the author’s perspectives on survival. Lots of differentiated embedded into the lessons. Lessona 1 and 2. Analyse Red Dust Lessons 3 and 4. Analyse Touching the Void Lesson 5. Prepare for comparative assessment through the learning journey. Lesson 6. Complete assessment

A lesson aimed an understanding and analysing the prologue to Romeo and Juliet. Originally aimed at a relatively low ability group but there are extension tasks on the main activity to stretch the more able. There is a further optional extension worksheet attached.

A detailed 19 slide lesson analysing the character of Piggy. Includes detailed inferences for several key Piggy quotations and also includes advice and model paragraphs for how to write an introduction and conclusion for answering the following exam-style question: How far does Golding present Piggy as a character with useful and important ideas in Lord of the Flies? Write about: • what Piggy says and does that can be seen as useful and important • how far Golding presents Piggy as a character with useful and important ideas. Also includes a full length grade 9 exemplar response.

This lesson helps students write the introduction to a persuasive speech for a Year 8/9 assembly on which subject to take at GCSE. Includes a differentiated starter, model examples and a review task within a 4 page student booklet.

A prompt sheet to help students to peer assess poetry comparisons against the marking criteria. I have used this with the AQA Power and Conflict poems; however, it can easily be adapted for other specifications.

This lesson was inspired by the AQA 2018 English Language Paper 1 Question 5. Students were asked to describe the face of an old man. To help students improve their description, I have created a bank of 275 words that students can use to add precision to their descriptions.

Example high level comparison of War Photographer and Exposure. Save money by purchasing as part of a bundle of grade 9 responses: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-grade-9-model-essays-12213236 Or buy my full power and conflict bundle also containing lessons and various revision activities: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-bundle-2018-11881499

Writing frame for comparing Storm on the Island and Exposure (AQA Power and Conflict). The AQA style exam question is as follows: Compare the ways the poets in Storm on the Island and one other poem (Exposure) present conflict with nature.

A grid of key quotations from Stave 2, a model example and a success criteria. Students analyse the quotations which have the biggest impact on Scrooge.

40 questions on Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol. Useful to set after reading the Stave to check understanding. Includes 8 extension questions based around A03 to develop understanding of context and Dickens’ purpose. Also includes a revision PowerPoint guiding students on how to make a mind map to revise the key quotations from the Stave.

A lesson for exploring Storm on the Island in the Power and Conflict AQA anthology. Step 1: Students use the hint questions to prompt them to gain an independent understanding of the poem. Step 2: Read through the answer and complete. Step 3: Questions to test understanding of new annotations. Step 4: Review by creating thesis statement about Heaney’s purpose.

PowerPoint revising theme and character quotations. Each quotation is click activated so you can go through them one by one after first giving students a chance to select and explaining quotations themselves. Covers 4 themes: Don’t trust the supernatural Don’t trust appearances Ambition is toxic Guilt is inescapable and covers 3 characters Macbeth Lady Macbeth Banquo

Comprehension questions on Stave 4 of A Christmas Carol.

2 differentiated worksheets to support students with gaining a perceptive understanding of how Dickens presents Scrooge’s past in Stave 2. Worksheet 1: I have broken up Stave 2 into 5 extracts. Each group will explore the an extract in detail and carousel to share their ideas with the other groups. Worksheet 2: Differentiated questions to help students explore Stave 2.

Comprehension questions and detailed revision lessons to recap the plot and key quotations in Stave 1 and 2 of A Christmas Carol.

Stave 4 differentiated comprehension questions on A Christmas Carol.

Stave 3 Christmas Carol: five key extracts with 5 exam questions looking at the presentation of Christmas in this stave. Works well as a home and away carousel.

This acts as useful stimulus for travel writing about a place. There are short extracts on Liverpool, Blackpool. Llandudno and Milton Keynes. The questions ask students to locate positive and negative information about each place. Alternatively in the second worksheet they can be adapted into GCSE Paper 2 Eduqas style exam questions.

Various resources looking at Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol. Includes an exam question, key quotations to analyse and revision activities. An activity asking students the examine the evidence in Stave 2 of each past vision and write an analysis explaining which past vision affects Scrooge the most. This would also work as a speaking and listening group activity. Vision 1: school Vision 2: Fan Vision 3: Fezziwig Vision 4: Belle’s release Vision 5: Belle’s family

Various resources to help lower ability students understand Macbeth’s ‘Is this a dagger soliloquy’. Worksheets include: Create a visual storyboard to break down key lines. Use the writing frame to write a summary of the scene. Give two interpretations to key lines Give instructions for how an actor should perform the speech using the writing frame.