I created this resource because students said they were getting confused over the different historical contexts of the texts we are studying. This is useful if you are studying the following combination of texts for English Literature: Romeo and Juliet A Christmas Carol An Inspector Calls Alternatively, the concept can be adapted if you are studying a different combination of texts.

Themes in Animal Farm. Differentiated carousel activity to push more able students. Assign each coloured group a theme in explore in the novel. Ask them to prepare a presentation on that theme. During the presentation, students fill in the carousel grid to make notes on how all 5 themes are presented in the novel.

Animal Farm. Writing frame for analysing deception in Chapter 3.

Animal Farm. 20 questions quiz with answer sheet

A useful revision tool to revise themes and key extracts in Animal Farm.

Starter: List words associated with rain. Learning outcomes: To identify features of Dickens’ style To apply knowledge in a piece of descriptive writing To evaluate against the success criteria Next students examine the methods Dickens uses to describe the fog in an extract from ‘Bleak House’ and the snow in an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’. There is differentiation so students of different ability can examine different methods used by the author. Students must then try to write a paragraph in the same style about rain. There is a differentiated success criteria. The plenary can be done in the form of peer and self assessment and has sentence stems linked to the success criteria.

Push more able towards the highest grades by using this worksheet to explore contrasting quotations to bring out the complexities and contradictions within the language of the 5 main characters. I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls: Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310 Revision Cards: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143 Knowledge Organisers https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057 Revision quotations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293

Metaphor, Alliteration, Personification, Simile. 3 worksheets for a full lesson.

A useful for activity for helping students to remember key quotations while also testing their understanding of the novel as a whole. The quotations have been carefully selected to cover a range of themes. The answer sheet is also included.

Various resources to help lower ability students understand Macbeth’s ‘Is this a dagger soliloquy’. Worksheets include: Create a visual storyboard to break down key lines. Use the writing frame to write a summary of the scene. Give two interpretations to key lines Give instructions for how an actor should perform the speech using the writing frame.

Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2. Table and writing frame to compare how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth react after the murder. Structured for lower ability students. Includes the extract.

Lesson resources to analyse I wanna be yours by John Cooper Clarke. The worksheets are designed to encourage students to come up with two ways of interpreting key lines in the poem to help them answer the overall question: would the speaker be a good boyfriend?

Engaging task which asks students to compare how women are presented in two adverts for Coca Cola from the 1950s and now. Includes a planning sheet. Really useful for getting students to comment on context.

Resources based on music for ensemble (classical chamber music). Students must define terminology associated with chamber music and then categorise this onto a summary sheet (answers on the pp). There is also an emphasis on the difference between baroque/classical/romantic music and what students could spot in a score reading question. There are also a listening question with answers with you tube links on the pp. Differentiated tasks are including for all stages of the lesson.

A storyboard to teach students the basic plot to the novel. There is also a Freytag’s pyramid activity to push the more able.

2 worksheets to 2/3 lessons which encourage students to explore the impact of the stage directions in An Inspector Calls. Sheet 1: 18 differentiated questions based on the initial stage directions. Sheet 2: A knowledge organiser which picks out key quotations for each member of the Birling Family before, during and after the interrogation. The students then answer the 15 questions to explore the characters’ subtle changes in behaviour through the play. I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls: Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310 Revision Cards: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143 Knowledge Organisers https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057 Revision quotations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293

Resources for 2 lessons or 1 lesson and a homework based on music for ensemble (jazz and blues). Students must define terminology associated with jazz and blues and then categorise this onto a summary sheet (answers on the pp). There are also 3 listening questions with answers with you tube links on the pp. One of these is based on the longer answer format and firstly ask students to make notes on each section (a hint sheet is available) and then put this into continuous prose to be marked according to a SAMS mark scheme. Differentiated tasks are including for all stages of the lesson.

PowerPoints on both poems containing questions and activities followed by a writing frame for answering an AQA style exam question which is structured in the following way: P1. Compare how both poems present the horror of conflict in war. P2. Compare how both poems present the bravery of soldiers. P3. Compare how the structure helps show the conflict. Includes the two poems on one page for ease of printing and to encourage independent analysis before giving students the option of the writing frame.