This lesson helps students write the introduction to a persuasive speech for a Year 8/9 assembly on which subject to take at GCSE.
Includes a differentiated starter, model examples and a review task within a 4 page student booklet.
3 lessons building students up to compare Prelude and As Imperceptibly as Grief for the WJEC comparative poetry question.
Lesson 1. Teach Prelude using PowerPoint lesson and worksheet.
Lesson 2. Teach As Imperceptibly as Grief using PowerPoint and worksheet.
Lesson 3. Write a comparison. There are two versions. One version is very structured; the other version gives higher ability students more scope for structuring their comparisons independently.
Updated for 2024 bundle containing lessons, writing frames, revision grids, grade 9 model answers for the power and conflict poems. flashcards, revision powerpoints.
I do have other power and conflict resources available:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-11626301
Model answers:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-grade-9-model-essays-12213236
Revision cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-cards-12107049
A wide range of lessons and worksheets aimed at getting students to use a full range of punctuation accurately.
Take a look through the previews to see the variety of resources on offer. These can be used as starters, homeworks or to promote literacy across the curriculum.
Includes lessons and worksheets on colons, apostrophes, brackets, semi colons, relative clauses, subordinate clauses and avoiding comma splices.
A bundle of resources to use in the final few weeks after you have taught all 18 poems.
The resources encourage students to learn quotations, explore comparisons and write up comparative paragraphs.
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
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
Following on from my lesson on revision 3 quotations from each poem, this lesson revises 3 key words from each poem. Remembering the key words should activate students to remember the whole quotation and the significance of it.
There are also two extension acitivites:
an A to Z code for comparing the poems
a quiz on context in all 18 poems.
Simple but effective revision lesson.
Starter: Ask students to try and remember quotations for the main characters using the A4 worksheet.
10 Romeo, 10 Juliet, 5 Capulet, 5 Tybalt, 5 Friar, 5 Mercutio.
Main: Give out the list of the 40 best quotations on the A3 sheet and ask students to analyse the quotations.
Review: Go through answers which appear on the PowerPoint one by one on each mouse click.
There is also a worksheet with more detailed answers on.
A second bundle of GCSE resources for Romeo and Juliet containing 20 resources I could not fit into my primary 2018 Romeo and Juliet bundle as there are only 20 resources allowed in one bundle.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-grade-9-and-grade-7-model-responses-to-aqa-gcse-questions-11580421
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-notes-for-top-quotes-11894589
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-theme-revision-cards-violence-love-family-honour-fate-death-isolation-11869598
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-6-exam-questions-on-one-a3-page-2019-predictions-12119104
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-analyse-20-key-short-extracts-with-answers-11601152
Lesson on similes, metaphors, and personifications with worksheet and PowerPoint.
Includes 5 activities and extension tasks.
Update: I have added a complete lesson PowerPoint.
20+ lessons covering the anthology poems in the EDUQAS GCSE anthology. Also includes revision cards and a revision quiz.
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
Use the 9 Step Plan to help students structure their responses to 4 different questions on A Christmas Carol.
Also includes a quote revision sheet to help students plan the answers.
Step 1: Explain why the given extract is a pivotal moment in the novel. (A01)
Step 2: Analyse 3 quotes from the extract. (A02)
Step 3: link to extract to Dickens’ purpose/context (A03)
Step 4: Choose a 2nd part of the novel linked to the question. How is is similar and different (A01)
Step 5: Analyse up to 3 quotes from second part of novel. (A02)
Step 6: Link 2nd extract to Dickens’ purpose/context (A03)
Step 7: Choose a 3rd part of the novel linked to the question. How is is similar and different (A01)
Step 8: Analyse up to 3 quotes from 3rd part of novel. (A02)
Step 9: Link 3rd extract to Dickens’ purpose/context (A03)
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 lesson exploring how Romeo reacts to his banishment in Act 3 Scene 3 with a sample EDUQAS exam question on the extract, annotations and a writing frame.