Lesson introducing Act 3 Scene 2 of Macbeth. Includes annotations of key lines in the play, comprehension questions based on the annotations and a detailed exploration of the ‘scorpion’ image along with an example paragraph.

A lesson that guides students through Act 3 Scene 1 of Macbeth, Includes a 3 question starter, a scene summary to read, detailed annotations of the scene following by some comprehension questions based on the annotations.

60 quotations from Animal Farm each with a brief explanation on one helpful sheet. This resource is very adaptable. It can be used to memorise quotations and explanations or to support exam-style answers on characters or themes. Includes a pdf version and an editable version. Also includes a blank version without the explanations which you can use to help test students on whether they can explain the quotations. Also includes a test on the 30 quotations to get students to actively engage with the revision grid.

A lesson analysing the character of Boxer from Animal Farm. Includes detailed annotations of 10 key Boxer quotations to prepare students for answering an exam style question on Boxer. The lesson is aimed at students with a grade 5/6 target.

A lesson aimed at low ability boys which uses the topic of Tyson Fury to teach the skills required for Language Paper 2 Question 4. Rather than use a 19th century text, I chose to use two 21st century texts to provoke the comparison to help build the comparative skills required for this question… Students read two articles about Fury. One was written in 2020 and one in 2015 when Fury was a more controversial figure. They then find quotations and follow a writing frame to compare the writers’ viewpoints about Fury in the two texts. There is also an example grade 6 paragraph to help guide students. I have also added a similar task looking at two contrasting articles about Peppa Pig. This works well with introducing KS3 students to the style of question they will encounter at KS4.

Just a simple list of characters, events and places in Animal Farm alongside their political allegorical parallel.

A full lesson analysing the character of Old Benjamin in Animal Farm that offers support for weaker students and challenge to higher ability students. The PowerPoint/pdf includes the following: 3 question starter with detailed answers on slide 2. Then student attempt to explain 6 key quotations before comparing their explanations to the teacher explanations. Students are then given a grade 5/6model paragraph and asked to write their own paragraph analysing Benjamin. Higher level students can instead be shown an aspirational grade 9 paragraph. The included writing frame is optional for weaker students.

A lesson comparing the leadership of Snowball and Napoleon in Animal Farm to prepare students for answering an exam style question on the theme of leadership in the novella. A range of activities include: What makes an effective leader Explore Orwell’s message about how power corrupts Adjectives to describe each character Analyse 5 quotations by each character with answers Find alternatives to This shows/This suggests Writing frame included for lower ability students

A list of alternatives to this shows, this suggests, this highlights and this interests the reader to help sharpen your academic expression. Includes a PDF version and an editable version

Lesson introducing the character of Squealer. It starts by looking at adjectives to describe Squealer and his function of the play. Then students make inferences about 11 Squealer quotations and then compare their explanations to my teacher explanations. The lesson is aimed at a mid ability class. However, there are some concepts aimed more at higher ability students such as obfuscation and gas-lighting and contextual links to Molotov and Pravda that can be explored in greater depth with higher-ability classes.

A handy revision grid containing key quotations for the main characters in Animal Farm. Can be used in lots of ways such as to help plan exam responses on characters and themes. Contains an activity where students convert the character revision grid into a theme revision grid by finding character quotations to transfer onto the theme grid. I also have a similar version which also includes brief explanations of the key quotations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/dashboard/resource-management/add-resource/12272556/published

A simple free storyboard activity to help recap the plot to the novel. Useful at an early stage of the scheme of learning.

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.

Comprehension Questions covering all 10 chapters from Animal Farm. Useful to accompany a first reading the novel.

A task involving transforming a simple 3 paragraph grade 3 piece of narrative writing into a grade 4/5 response. Students rewrite the grade 3 description with improvements in the following areas: varied sentence types varied openers varied punctuation ambitious vocabulary similes and metaphors

Worksheets aimed at helping students consciously use a range of simple, compound and complex sentences to describe an image. Task 1: Students combine the sentences already provided to describe the image. Task 2: Students must come up with their own examples of simple, compound and complex sentences and then produce their description. This task is very repeatable - just change the image each time. It is worth repeating until students find it easy to come up with simple, compound and complex sentence examples.

This free resources contains a walk-through of an AQA English Language Paper 1 extract using the Mr Fisher extract. I have managed to fit the extract and the questions onto one sheet of A4 to save on printing costs. The writing frames are aimed at students targeting a grade 4/5. However, I have also included the aspirational AQA sample model responses at a higher level in case they are useful. Also contains a walkthrough for the Paper 2 2019 exam about elephants.

20 questions to accompany a reading of the short story. The first column are simple retrieval comprehension questions. The second column are more analytical questions.

A PowerPoint lesson with starter, detailed animated line by line annotations of the poem, along with questions, extension activities and a grade 9 exemplar comparing Bayonet Charge with Remains.

This learning journey contains 10 tasks to prepare students for a descriptive writing task based on an image for AQA Paper 1 Question 5. The 10 tasks gradually increase in difficulty. Linking the completion of a set number of tasks to rewards works as a motivating factor for students.