Revise 64 carefully selected mini quotations for the closed book examinations.
Also includes a short summary of each scene to help students work out when each mini quotations is said.
I have kept the quotations as concise as possible to aid with memory.
An exam walk-through lesson exploring the importance of masculinity in Macbeth. The lesson includes annotations for the given extract (Act 1 Scene 7) and then examines 3 other parts of the play that could be used to complete the response. There is also a model paragraph to help get students started on their response.
This revision lesson includes 9 possible exam questions for English language paper 2 writing. For each task, students are asked to come up with 3 ideas and to write an effective opening paragraph.
The starter activity asks students to analyse 9 effective openings to letters, articles and speeches.
6 AQA-style examination questions on characters and themes in A Christmas Carol.
A structured planning sheet to plan responses to various questions.
Best value when bought as part of my much larger bundle.
Now we are several years into the new syllabus, I predict they might go for a more obscure extracts.
I have been through the text and come up with 6 predictions about extracts that might come up in 2025.
Students read each extract and complete the planning grid for each. Ideal to use in a final revision lesson.
Also includes a planning resource which 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.
Lesson revising 4 war poems from the Eduqas GCSE anthology:
Dulce et Decorum Est
Mametz Wood
The Manhunt
The Soldier
Includes carefully selected essential annotations for each poem following by an extension activity asking students to write the opening sentences to discriminating comparisons that identify similarities and differences.
Links to other Eduqas poetry resources:
Revision Cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-wjec-poetry-revision-cards-gcse-12107545
Lessons on all poems
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-anthology-bundle-2-lesson-on-each-poem-11896591
Revision resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-revising-all-poems-11894072
Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-bundle-gcse-9-1-11815065
PowerPoint lesson with differentiated worksheets to help students explore the importance of the Friar.
Students read the key quotations and decide how far they think Shakespeare presents The Friar as a wise man.
Includes GCSE exam style question adapted for AQA (34 mark question) and EDUQAS (25 mark question)
Questions to encourage students to annotate Act 1 Scene 4 from Romeo and Juliet.
Also an activity analysing the 3 key moments from Act 1 Scene 4:
1. Romeo and Mercutio’s witty exchanges
2. Queen Mab speech
3. Romeo’s premonition of death
I have blanked out the key words from my original revision sheet. To help students remember the quotations for Monday they must work out what is the missing word.
A handy revision sheet covering characters, themes and context with key quotations and examination style questions.
Also I have added the scenes from which all the quotations have been taken.
An exam-style question on Romeo and Juliet with an attempt at a Grade 9 response. Students can annotate the model example and then try to write another paragraph of their own in the same style.
Romeo and Juliet into 15 pages to help students with revising the plot and key quotations to the novel.
The abridged version includes:
- A short summary of each scene.
- The key quotation(s) from each scene.
- Extended extracts from what I consider to be the key scenes from the play.
Lesson 1 introduces the poem Hawk Roosting and prepares students for an exam style question using the writing frame.
Lesson 2 includes a writing frame to help compare how power is presented in Ozymandias and Hawk Roosting.