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Lord of the Flies Chapter 8
Complete lesson analysing key quotations from Chapter 8. Includes starter, comprehension questions and answers, simple plot summary, notes to annotate key quotations and an extension activity.
Lord of the Flies Chapter 5
Complete lesson which gives guidance on how to annotate 15 key quotations from Chapter 5. Also includes a starter, plot summary activity, and guidance on analysing the 3 most significant quotations from the chapter in more depth. Ends with a discussion question on the effectiveness of Ralph’s leadership.
Lord of the Flies Chapter 6
Full lesson with starter, chapter summary task and notes to help students annotate 15 key quotations from Chapter 6 following by a task encouraging students to look for deeper inferences in the 5 most important quotations in the chapter.
Lord of the Flies Chapter 3
Lesson analysing key quotations from Chapter 3 to guide students with annotating the text. Includes a starter, chapter summary and an extension task.
Lord of the Flies Chapter 4
Complete lesson on Chapter 4 which guides students through the annotation of 17 key quotations from the chapter. Includes a starter and various extension tasks to deepen understanding of the main symbols in the chapter.
Lord of the Flies Chapter 2
Lesson analysing key quotations to annotate from Chapter 2 of Lord of the Flies.
Lord of the Flies Chapter 1
A full lesson analysing Chapter 1.
Includes a context recap page, starter, comprehension questions and notes for students to annotate over 30 key quotations from the chapter.
Ends with some extension questions.
Also includes a lesson analysing an extract from Chapter 1 about the island with specific questions to elicit perceptive inferences.
Animal Farm Plot Summary Cloze
Animal Farm one page plot summary turned into a cloze passage activity. Useful for recapping the plot to help begin revision.
A Christmas Carol 100 Comprehension Questions with answer sheet
100 comprehension questions on A Christmas Carol. 20 questions on each Stave that is useful to use at the end of scheme of work to test students’ understanding of the novella. All the questions are in chronological order. I have put them all onto one A3 sheet to allow for easy printing.
I have also included an answer sheet for students to mark the quiz themselves.
NEW: Also contains the questions in the form of a board game.
Also includes analysis of the top 10 single words to analyse in the novella with high level explanations of how to zoom in and then how to zoom out to explore Dickens’ authorial purpose.
Also includes 5 lessons to accompany a first reading of the text with direct knowledge, comprehension questions and a summary activity on each stave.
A Christmas Carol significance of the (seemingly) insignificant
Lesson analysing 4 more obscure extracts from A Christmas Carol. Over time, examiners tend to set more challenging extracts. This features 4 of the more obscure extracts that could come up in May 2021 or May 2022.
Boat out at sea (Stave 3)
Facetious snowball (Stave 3)
Fred’s Party (Stave 3)
Cheap funeral (Stave 4)
Each extract includes exploratory questions, answers and there is a model paragraph for the first 3 extracts.
Bundle
Analysing character 7 full lessons - A Christmas Carol
7+ high quality lessons covering the following characters.
Fred
The four ghosts
Fezziwig
Tiny Tim
Women (Belle, Mrs Cratchit, Mrs Fezziwig, Fan)
The Cratchit Family
Scrooge
Also includes a lesson covering all 4 ghosts.
Women in A Christmas Carol
A lesson which explores how women characters are presented in A Christmas Carol. It looks at key quotations from Belle, Mrs Cratchit, Mrs Fezziwig, Fan and other characters. Then it encourages to examine and evaluate whether or not Dickens presents women characters in a positive or problematic way in the novel.
Fezziwig - A Christmas Carol
Lesson exploring the importance of Fezziwig in the novel.
There is a differentiated starter with answers followed by analysis of 8 quotations. Once again possible answers are provided.
Then students attempt to write an analytical paragraph using one or more of the quotations.
Ghost of Christmas Past Lesson
Lesson analysing the initial description of The Ghost of Christmas Past.
Includes a differentiated starter, detailed analysis of 5 key quotations, activity to boost analytical word power followed by an analytical writing task.
Bundle
Christmas Carol Revision Bundle 2025
Updated bundle for 2025 containing all my best resources on A Christmas Carol.
Includes:
9 grade 9 model answers
Comprehension questions on all staves
Revision Flash Cards
Writing frames
Scrooge Analysis lessons
Fred Analysis lesson
Bob Analysis lesson
9 Step method for grade 9
Quotation/Knowledge organisers.
Sample exam questions
Revision of big ideas
Top 50 quotation revision task with answers
Differentiated worksheets for exploring the ghosts
Lesson on Fezziwig
Lesson on women in the novel
Lessons on the ghosts
30+ page printable booklet.
Plus lots more.
I have tried to fit all my best A Christmas Carol resources into here. If I have missed any, send me a message and I will send them over.
To save time on the download, click on the resource called ‘A Christmas Carol - everything you need to teach the novella’. Most of the resources can be found in here.
Fred Analysis A Christmas Carol
Complete lesson analysing Fred’s character in A Christmas Carol.
Differentiated starter activity.
Detailed annotation of 8 key Fred quotations with 4 detailed inferences for each quotation. The annotations are animated to appear one by one so you can talk them through.
Students are then given a model paragraph and asked to use their notes to write the next paragraph(s).
The plenary invites students to consider the strengths and weaknesses of Dickens’ characterisation and asks students to think about Fred’s one-dimensionality.
Bundle
Macbeth 2025 Bundle
An updated collection of my top 20 most popular resources on Macbeth updated for the 2023 exam. Check out the wide range of previews.
Includes the following:
9 high grade model answers to GCSE questions.
104 slide PowerPoint providing annotations for every scene of the play
20+ lessons covering almost all scenes in the play.
100 question Knowledge quiz with answers
various revision/quotation knowledge organisers
Various revision cards
20 key extracts revision booklet
Revision of big ideas in the play
7 writing frames for 7 exam-style questions
50 key quotation task with answer question
Scene plot questions with answer sheet
Sample exam-style questions
Quotation revision game
Selfishness - An Inspector Calls - high grade exemplar
An example of high level analytical writing in An Inspector Calls about how Priestley presents ideas about selfishness in An Inspector Calls.
Includes an examiner comment and grade at the end.
This resource is also available as one 9 sample responses at different grades:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-an-inspector-calls-model-responses-11453529
It is also available as a bundle covering the whole play:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310
Grade 9 Macbeth response about ambition
A grade 9 response about the theme of ambition.
This is one of a number of high level Macbeth responses that can be purchased in a bundle from here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-9-responses-12242190