Lesson on The Soldier by Rupert Brooke for Eduqas GCSE 9-1

A simple Paper 2 Question 5 revision activity for lower ability. Students read the modelled opening paragraph and have to try and write the next paragraph in a similar style. w

20 starters focused on technical accuracy

An extract and helpsheet for tackling Paper 1 Question 5 for Eduqas.

A free 20 slide lesson covering suffixes.

Simple VCOP to help students produce a book review.

A simple blank table to encourage students to recall 3 quotations for the following combination literature texts: Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, Power and Conflict. Useful when used in conjunction with my other revision sheets on the site.

An AQA Paper 2 Question 4 activity based around comparing a Donald Trump presidential speech (2019) with the Gettysburg address by Abraham Lincoln (1864). The first two tasks guide students towards writing up their comparison.

A 2 hour training session on how to teach functional writing for GCSE Paper 2. Can be used to train both teachers and students. Contains 64 slides. Includes exam requirements, a sample lesson, model openings to evaluate, exercises on using a range of sentence types and paragraph formats, a range of different questions to plan and a group carousel writing task to end the session. All resources are included and can be previewed.

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

A model answer analysing the blurb in Skellig.

PowerPoint that goes through 4 ways to use a colon. Also addresses the common misuse of a colon by explaining the rule about it preceding a complete sentence.

A grade 7 and grade 6 model answer to an old Edexcel GCSE question involving writing an article describing the greatest modern invention.

2 Worksheets with a range of activities to show students how to use a colon to introduce a list, speech or definition and a semi colon to join two sentences.

English Language Paper 1 Section A. An anthology of 20 printable fiction extracts and put together to form a printable anthology. Each extract contains some context about the extract and 1-3 Eduqas style 10 mark questions.

Engaging PowerPoint with various resources to teach ‘London’ by William Blake. Wow word differentiated starter Freeze frame activity Listening questions Frame for analysing language, structure, form, context Detailed annotations Annotation activity

This lesson is focused on Paper 1 Question 3 (AQA - commenting on the structure of the whole text). This seems to be a popular topic for interviews at the moment. I have used a very short extract with lots of shifts which widen and narrow the focus - Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. Starter: Students rate their understanding of structural devices. Construct: Students try to identify narrative shifts in focus in the text. Main: Students look in more detail at the narrative shifts in the text. This activity is in the form of an A3 table and is differentiated. Bronze Level: Identify what is happening during each shift. Silver: Apply structural devices. Gold: Comment on the effect of structural devices. I have also included the lesson plan. For a more challenging class, students can use the extract from the opening of Kite Runner.

A homework sheet to support students with the old AF2 - producing texts suitable for task, purpose and audience.

A useful model response for students to annotate which focuses on how the play interests a modern day audience.

Heroes by Robert Cormier historical context