3 Grade 9 model responses to Eduqas GCSE style exam questions to analyse and annotate. Includes the question and extract.
Essay topics.
1. Supernatural
2. Bob Cratchit
3. Christmas
3 Grade 9 model responses to annotate and analyse to 3 different GCSE-style questions on the following topics:
1. The supernatural
2. Bob Cratchit
3. Importance of Christmas
A series of lessons based around producing a piece of creative writing inspired by images of Hiroshima.
All lessons include differentiation and learning objectives. There is also a model response to annotate.
Also includes a lesson that looks at high grade exemplars of a lighthouse description.
6 lessons building towards an assessment comparing two literary texts:
Touching the Void and Red Dust by Ma Jian.
Focus on the author’s perspectives on survival. Lots of differentiated embedded into the lessons.
Lessona 1 and 2. Analyse Red Dust
Lessons 3 and 4. Analyse Touching the Void
Lesson 5. Prepare for comparative assessment through the learning journey.
Lesson 6. Complete assessment
50 carefully selected concise quotations to learn by heart.]
The revision activity is differentiated.
Bronze: Explain what the quotations reveal.
Silver: Identify language features in each quotation
Gold: Explore deeper meanings by linking to wider themes, context and Dickens' purposes.
I have also included an answer sheet which briefly explains why each quotation is important.
A clearly structured worksheet to help students vary sentence openers in 6 different ways.
Students can use the 3 model examples and the word bank at the bottom to help them create interesting versions of the boring sentences in 6 ways:
ing word
ly word
ed word
preposition
abstract noun
adjective
There is also a tougher version looking at 10 different openers.
Various resources to help students explore Stave 2. PowerPoint included.
Worksheets include:
Stave 2 questions
Stave 2 exam style question
Stave 2 revision poster activity
Comparing Stave 1 and 2
Analysing key quotations
Lesson analysing the Ghost of Christmas Past
Lesson Analysing Fezziwig
A guide for how to write a comparison of Ozymandias and Hawk Roosting using a 13 step guide to ensure comparisons are discriminating. Includes lesson and worksheet.
Also includes an alternative differentiated version of the writing frame with more scaffolding.
Full lesson and worksheet for analysing the setting at the start of Chapter 6. The focus is on commenting on the impact of word choices and the impact of the cyclical structure.
Includes powerpoint and planning resources for an assessment analysing Crooks in Chapter 4.
Also includes a model essay to help with responding to feedback.
Also includes 6 tasks based on Chapter 4 that works well as an independent learning task or as a cover lesson.
PowerPoint covering 4 lessons on Stave 1.
Lesson 1: Prepare for assessment on Scrooge in Stave 1 using GCSE style extract and help sheets.
Lesson 2: Complete assessment
Lesson 3: Respond to feedback using model essay to help. Differentiated.
Lesson 4: Test on 28 key quotations from Stave 1.
Lessons and resources looking at key extracts to prepare Year 9 students for studying prose at GCSE. Also includes context and revision lessons.
The areas of the novel I particular focus on are as follows
Curley meets Lennie (foreshadowing)
Curley’s wife meets Lennie (foreshadowing)
fight between Lennie and Curley (violence)
Crooks (character)
Setting in Chapter 6
Death of Curley’s Wife
Lesson On Curley
Lesson on Slim in Chapter 2
Lesson on Curley’s Wife in Chapter 2
20 question multiple choice quiz