Very detailed lesson for the coursework question: How does Priestley present the Inspector in An Inspector Calls? but this can be adapted to many different questions. You could probably get two-three lessons from this, depending.
It includes:
Coursework overview and guidelines
AOs
Mark scheme
Quiz with answers
Historical context
Form and structure
Language analysis slides
Theme
Key quotes
Scaffolded essay plan
Slides on ‘lesser’ characters
Easily adaptable
Detailed lessons and resources including:
Act One recap
Essay structure and ‘lesser’ characters
How to approach a theme question
How to approach the exam question on gender
Planning and structure
Colour-coded model responses
Easily differentiated
Adaptable to other exam boards
Lessons and resources for the Edexcel A Level Course including:
Wuthering Heights , The Handmaid’s Tale, and Frankenstein Recaps
Unseen poetry
Exam questions - how to approach them, and model responses
AO focused
AQA English Literature A Level Elements of Crime: Poetry, ‘Peter Grimes’ by George Crabbe
Very detailed lesson covering all AOs
Includes socioeconomic context for background and elements of crime
Poem includes helpful annotations on key sections
Exam question
Easily adaptable
A lesson/lecture covering the socioeconomic conditions of the early modern - English renaissance - era. This can be taught as a masterclass to the Most Able at Year 11, or as general contextual background for an early modern A Level text. The focus in the second part is Macbeth but having personally taught many early modern texts, I know it can easily be adapted to all exam boards for GCSE and A Level.
Some quick and easy resources to aid GCSE English Literature students with retrieval practise [and revision] for Macbeth
Resource includes Acts One to Five on separate documents, and the whole play on one document.
Simple, straightforward revision guide for AQA English Language Papers 1 and 2 focusing on how to use the language of the mark schemes to your advantage. Includes Question 5s. Can be used in tandem with any paper.
A scheme of ten differentiated lessons and resources - seven reading, three writing - based on a Language paper 1 I created on the opening of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men . This can be taught at the beginning of Year 10, and is easily adaptable. There are model responses and, also, some homework tasks.
An extended lesson/intervention lesson on narrative and descriptive writing for AQA English Language Paper 1 based on the June 2017 Question 5 - with differentiated tasks and resources.
Differentiated resource for both AQA English Language Papers, section As only
Numbered sentence frames to avoid use of complex and often limiting answer formulas
Colour-coded model examples provided for all reading questions on both papers
Ideal for revision practise
Full, comprehensive GCSE scheme of differentiated lessons and resources for An Inspector Calls includes:
Three lessons per act, each with differentiated resources
Retrieval practice
Focus on language, form and structure
Detailed analysis of character and theme
Exam practice and building convincing essays from planning to thesis statement to argument and conclusion
It is designed for AQA but can be adapted to suit the other boards.
There is a separate lesson on exam practice with lots of exam-style questions.
The lessons were planned for doubles, but can easily be adapted to singles.
There is a good ten weeks of teaching here, depending on timetabling.
Lesson on AQA GCSE Literature Paper 2 An Inspector Calls Act One Recap. It includes:
Form and structure
General historical context
Key speeches from Act One
Detailed plot resource
Exam question and model paragraph
Sentence starters
This can be easily adapted to your class or to other exam boards, hence no AOs on slides
Detailed lesson on Macbeth Act Five focusing on the key moments
includes:
The plot of Act Five
Crucial moments from the playscript
Key Vocabulary
Mark Scheme
Exam Question
Detailed AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1 lesson on the character of Banquo- his status, motivation and significance to plot and context. It includes:
Banquo’s Character and Purpose
Banquo’s Scenes with relevant excerpts from the playscript
Exam question (3.1) - extract pre-annotated
Colour-coded model introduction with thesis statement
Colour-coded model paragraph (aimed at Grade 5)
Easily adaptable to other exam boards and iGCSE
Very detailed lesson on exam essay structure for AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1 focusing on Macbeth, Jekyll and Hyde, and An Inspector Calls. It includes:
Exam technique
Contextual overview for all three texts
Key Vocabulary
Mark Scheme
Annotated exam extracts (MacB /J&H)
Colour-coded introductions with thesis statements
Student exemplar responses (graded)
Scaffolded lesson with resources
Easy to differentiate
Do Now starter
Tabloid and Broadsheet articles for analysis of rhetorical devices
Worst possible introduction task
Adaptable to other exam boards