Very detailed AQA GCSE Literature Paper 1 lesson and resources on how to approach the Jekyll and Hyde exam essays, includes:
Exam technique
Chapter Breakdown
All main and secondary characters
Women in the novella
Contextual overview for both texts
Key Vocabulary including homosocial
Mark Scheme
Annotated exam extracts
Colour-coded introductions with thesis statements
Colour-coded Student exemplar response with examiner’s comments
Easily adaptable
Detailed Lessons on How to Approach the OCR A Level Literature Exams, includes:
Hamlet
Dystopia (The Handmaid’s Tale)
Ibsen and Rossetti
Detailed early modern context lesson
Resources include extracts and model responses
Detailed lesson for AQA A Level Literature, Aspects of Tragedy, covering all the assessment objectives. Includes:
Audio of poem being read
Annotated poem slides
Context, inc. overview of the Romantic movement
Language, form, and structure
Alternative reading (feminist)
Exam question
Breakdown of Tragedy paper
Mark scheme
Pre-2024 exam lesson in line with the Assessment Objectives
Includes:
List of previous and possible question foci
Plastic theatre, music, lighting, and scene-by-scene
Annotated analysis slides of the play’s ending
Detailed plan for a question on vulnerability
Marked student answer on confrontation question
Extremely detailed lesson in line with Assessment Objectives – you can get at least three hours from this.
Includes:
Breakdown of Paper 1
All past paper questions up to 2023 inc. possible questions
Tragic conventions (Aristotlelean) and unusual context
Candidate responses
Annotated extract slides
Introductions
Marked Streetcar student response and more!
Detailed lesson for AQA A Level Literature Aspects of Tragedy covering the poem and all assessment objectives, includes:
Annotated extracts of the poem
Breakdown of narrative
Context, inc. the gothic movement
Language, form and structure
Embedded video of poem recital
Feminist and tragic readings
Practice Question
Detailed lesson in line with Assessment Objectives.
Includes:
Summary of Paper 1, Section 2 with sample exam questions
Broad Victorian context on women narrows to Rossetti
Form and structure
Analysis and alternative interpretation
Annotated poem slides
Two detailed lesson on the Ibsen/Rossetti question for the OCR Drama and Poetry Pre-1900 paper, including:
Summer 2022 grade boundaries
Mark scheme
Candidate responses
Examiner’s comments
Literary and socioeconomic context
Structure and Form
Practice question June 2019
Simple walk-through of AQA Language Paper 1 [Reading and Writing Sections] using an extract from The Great Gatsby. Simple strategy for Q3: structure and colour-coded model paragraphs for both Q3&Q4.
A GCSE Year 9 into 10 Transition Booklet including vital information and a range of differentiated tasks for the step up to GCSE English Language, and a complete English Language Paper 1 scheme based on Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men - both sections of the paper are explored in detail with differentiated tasks and resources. This is ideal for teaching at the beginning of Year 10.
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
Very detailed AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 1 lesson and resources recapping knowledge of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, includes:
Basic plot of story for visual learners
Detailed chapter summaries
Chapter list and some contextual overview
Quiz with answers
Key vocabulary
Exam technique
Mark Scheme
Annotated exam extract (atmosphere of suspicion)
Success Criteria
Detailed plan
Model introduction and thesis statement
Colour-coded model paragraph
Easily adaptable
Very detailed AQA GCSE Literature Paper 1 lesson and resource for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde focusing on past paper questions 2017-2022. It includes:
Chapter list
Chapter summaries (resource)
All past exam questions from 2017-2022 with indicative content
Exam question (sympathy: June 2017)
Exam technique
Success Criteria
Mark Scheme
Annotated exam extract
Detailed plan
Guided introduction and thesis statement
Colour-coded model paragraph
Easily adaptable
Very detailed AQA GCSE Literature lesson and resources on the supernatural in Macbeth includes:
Quiz with answers
Supernatural context, and early modern versus modern audience interpretation
Each relevant scene in the play annotated
All the characters in the supernatural plot
Exam question (1.3)
Colour-coded model introduction with thesis statement
Colour-coded student response
Planning focus
Easily adapatable to other exam boards
AQA English Literature A Level, Elements of Crime ‘Porphyria’s Lover’
Very detailed lesson covering all AOs
Includes socioeconomic context and elements of crime
Form and Structure
Symbolism
Theme
Alternative Readings
Exam question
Examiner advice
Colour-coded model paragraph
Edexcel A Level Paper 1 Drama, Section B: A Streetcar Named Desire Overview and Exam Questions in line with the Assessment Objectives
Includes:
Mark Scheme
All past paper question up to 2023
Plot, tragic form and structure
Context
Overview of Theme, Symbol, Motif, Language
June 2017 Practice Question
Guided Plan
Very detailed lesson in line with Assessment Objectives.
Includes:
Key Terminology
Brief individual publishing context for all texts on the main reading list
General contextual overview – manifest destiny and the American Dream
Advice from the exam board and model paragraph
Question 1 Extract Analysis (Thomas Wolfe) with full candidate response and examiner’s commentary
Detailed lesson on how to approach the Hamlet (Drama and Poetry Pre-1900) exam questions, including:
Overview of course
2022 grade boundaries
Exam questions A&B
Candidate responses
Mark Scheme
Examiner’s commentary
Stichomythia extract
Detailed lesson on Hamlet & Ibsen/Rossetti question for the OCR Drama and Poetry Pre-1900 paper, including:
Summer 2022 grade boundaries
Mark scheme
Candidate responses
Examiner’s comments
Literary and socioeconomic context