Worksheets looking at using commas and complex sentences. Answers not included.

In my experience, students find beginning comparative paragraphs to be the hardest aspect of writing comparisons on the power and conflict anthology poems. These two worksheets offer help with starting off discriminating comparisons. Students use the prompts to complete the opening sentences to various comparative paragraphs.

2 differentiated planning sheets with writing frame for writing an essay exploring who is responsible for Macbeth’s downfall. Stronger students can use the version which explores how Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and The Witches are to blame. Weaker students can use the version that only focuses on how Macbeth is responsible. Includes an accompanying PowerPoint. Also includes a model 4 person discussion about who is to blame to showcase the way students should respond to each other’s points.

Students read the Grade 9 GCSE model answer on the theme of love and trace how the 9 step method has been used to write about the extract and the play as a whole. They then plan 3 GCSE style questions on the themes of death, fate and family honour using the 9 step method. I have made it so you can print them separately or as part of a 4 page booklet.

I have carefully selected 20 brief key extracts from the play. They are the 20 extracts I consider to be most likely to come up in the exam. To complete the revision activity, students must work out what is happening in each extract, analyse two key quotations and make links to context, themes and ideas. This booklet is helping my students revise for the closed book examination. There are 4 A3 sheets covering Acts 1-5. Of the hundreds Romeo and Juliet resources I have created, this is probably the most effective. Also includes a PowerPoint with suggested answers for each extract. Includes an AQA version (with context) and an Eduqas version (without context).

Oliver Twist: Nancy’s Death. How does Dickens use language to make the scene dramatic? There are two differentiated versions of the task with differentiated writing frame guidelines. There are also differentiated resources to help students answer this GCSE style question. Includes a revision of language features in the extract.

Students plan responses to four GCSE style theme questions on A Christmas Carol using my simple 9 Step method. Includes a model response that uses the 9 STEP METHOD. Set up to be printed as a 6 page revision booklet. Students have found this method really helpful in structuring their responses to the text. New for 2023 is a 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.

A complete lesson about ghosts in the novel to help lead students towards creating a grade 9 response to a GCSE style question on the theme of ghosts in A Christmas Carol using a 9 step process. Students go on to read the grade 9 exemplars and trace how I have followed the 9 step process. Also includes 6 revision cards about the supernatural in the novella.

Students identify the meaning of a range of language features which are divided into 3: words, imagery, sentences. They then have to find examples of each technique in Macbeth. This activity can be differentiated by allowing weaker students access to a list of answers which have been mixed up into random order.

Students use the worksheet to follow the 9 step method for approaching an exam question on a theme in A Christmas Carol for the 9-1 GCSE examination. Includes an exam style question, a suggested writing frame using prompts from the AQA website, a table for planning a response and recommended extracts to zoom out to. Ideal for examination revision. Also included is a resource offering 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 exploring the presentation of religion in Animal Farm. Students contrast the pigs’ hatred of Moses in Chapter 2 with the way his presence is tolerated on the farm in Chapter 9 when the animals are hungry.

2 differentiated writing frames to help students answer the following question: Compare the ways the poets in My Last Duchess and one other poem (Ozymandias) present the power of pride. (30). The tough version includes sentence starts for the initial conceptual comparisons while the tougher version offers more independence.

A writing frame to guide students through the following exam style question: Compare the ways the poets in War Photographer and one other poem (Remains) present ideas about conflict. (30). The writing frame encourages students to make discriminating comparisons between the poems.

Updated for 2023, 4 differentiated writing frames to 4 actual AQA power and conflict past exam questions. Each writing frame has 3 tiers of difficulty to allow for the fact different students in the class require different levels of support and guidance in the run up to the examinations. Tier 1: Students add the analysis of the quotations. The topic sentences and recommended quotations are already filled in for them. Tier 2: Students must pick their own 3 quotations from each poem and analyse the quotations. Tier 3: Students must pick their own topic sentences, quotations and then analsyse the quotations. The questions covered are as follows: 2021 question: Compare how poets present ideas about power and control in ‘London’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30) Nov 2020 question: Compare how poets present the ways people are affected by difficult experiences in ‘Remains’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30) May 2019 question: Compare how poets present the ways that people are affected by war in ‘War Photographer’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30) May 2018 question: Compare how poets present ideas about power in ‘Ozymandias’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30) Also includes more writing frames to help structure comparisons that I made a few years ago. The poems that feature in the writing frames include: Storm on the Island and Exposure (conflict with nature) Prelude and Ozymandias (power) Tissue and Ozymandias (conflict) Bayonet Charge and Charge of the light brigade (conflict) Storm on the Island and The Prelude (conflict) London and The Emigree (power of a place) Remains and Poppies (conflict) War Photographer and Remains (conflict) My Last Duchess and Ozymandias (power of pride) My Last Duchess and Checking out me History (frustration)

2 differentiated writing frame to help students write a comparison of how Prelude and Storm on the Island present conflict with nature. There are 2 writing frames so students can select their level of challenge and independence.

A complete lesson with a range of resources to help students understand War Photographer.

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.

Worksheet to allow students to write an analysis of how Macbeth reacts to the vision of Banquo’s 8 sons.

15 exam style questions (one for each poem) for the Power and Conflict section of the AQA examination. If you would like to purchase the revision grid as well as the questions, follow the link below: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-planning-responses-to-15-exam-questions-using-a-revision-grid-11538288

In this six page A3 revision booklet, students read 25 carefully selected key extracts covering all Staves. It usually takes around 2/3 lessons for students to complete the booklet or you can set it as an extended homework task. After reading each extract, students must complete the following process: WHAT: Identify what ideas are being communicated in each extract and pick 2 quotations. (A01) HOW: Analyse how the use of methods and language in the extract impacts meaning. (A02) WHY: Consider why Dickens made the decisions he did. What was his wider message within the context of the 19th century. (A03) I