PowerPoints covering a number of the poems studied for this specification. I inherited this spec from another teacher and needed to make some quick resources. These may help you out!

A basic introduction to writing an A Level English Literature essay. This is aimed at AQA English Literature Specification B, but would fit with the other specification. It includes basic information, a self-assessment task on experiences of writing essays, pointers for successful essays, pointers for the specific kinds of essays which AQA require in exams, a section on troubleshooting, guidance on the mark scheme and some space to summarise written feedback/set personal targets. You could include the mark scheme itself alongside this pack.

Harvest by Jim Crace. Paper 2 of the AQA English LIterature B syllabus - Political and Social Protest Writing. This range of resources covers every chapter of the book by turn. It uses comprehension, recap, discussion and mind-mapping to build written skills. We taught this text for Section C (alongside Blake) but if your text combinations are different or you teach this text for Section B, there is still plenty of relevant material throughout. There is also a reading log, and two sets of revision session resources to revisit at the end of the term/year. Please note that where the resources mention an exemplar, this refers to the exemplar material available via AQA itself. References to the text refer to the Picador paperback edition (2013).

Some unseen text extracts which could be useful for students to practice ahead of Paper 2 - Political and Social Protest Writing, as it can be tricky to find these at times! For one of the extracts there are some prompts to get them going. Obviously, all rights are retained by the authors.

Some revision presentations with tasks and questions in-built. There are also some 5 minute revision tasks for starter activities. These are intended to prepare students for the Aspects of Tragedy Paper 1A (AQA 7717)

A revision resource targeted towards AQA’s English Literature B A Level (7717). This tests understanding of the Aspects of Tragedy Keats poem ‘Lamia’, with a blend of independent learning tasks, discussion points, contextual info and some sample written activities, with a ‘to what extent?’ question to begin building towards essay-writing skills/exam skills.

A one-stop resource to support weaker learners with identifying word types.

This is a selection of activities based on a selection of spoken language and transcript texts from the AQA English Language and Literature Paris Anthology. Please note that these resources also appear in a complete bundle of activities based on the whole anthology. This is a range of activities based on: Lonely Planet - Fine French Food Lonely Planet - Visiting Paris Memories of Places in Paris - Isabelle and Sophia Eating in Paris - Mike, Isabelle and Sophia Visiting Paris - Mike and Sophia Personal narratives - Zara and Anna Stories are Waiting in Paris There is a range of teacher-led and student-led activities with scope for independent learning and/or homework.

This is a range of activities intended to support: **AQA English Language and Literature - Paris Anthology ** There is a range of different activities on each of the texts, taking a number of different approaches. There are specific language focuses throughout, to encourage students to get to grips with the ‘language levels’ AQA encourages. The activities range from planning grids, to sample assessment questions, to presentations (many of which are interactive and could be used for independent study) and structured booklets. I have also included some introductory grammar resources, which will help students to work with the texts. I make mention of two acronyms during the resources - PETE paragraphs (point, evidence, technical term, explain/elaborate) and GAPS - discussing a text’s genre, audience, purpose and structure. These could easily be modified to fit in with your centre’s usual methods. There is an abundance of material here which I hope you will find helpful.

A resource intended for students of A Level English Language to work through after completing their work on UK accent & dialect as part of their ‘language diversity and change’ content. This resource has been put together with AQA’s new specification in mind, but could potentially be adapted. The pack recaps diversity within the UK, so with some tweaking to the final task could suit the AS specification. The pack asks students to self-reflect on their current levels of knowledge before undertaking a range of revision activities: simple recall, table-filling, mind-mapping, discussion, evaluating key ideas and recapping key theorists. The theorists and key ideas here can be found in the Cambridge English Language A/AS Level for AQA textbook (Giovanelli et al), so this would be a good support for students who have used this book. The development activities at the end of the pack are based on Paper 2 exam tasks and students could do some or all of these.

This resource comprises two parts and is tailored towards the AS Level/A Level in English Language & Literature (AQA new specification). The first part is a straightforward piece of independent study which students could do on Hemingway to give them some broad context for reading from the Anthology. The second resource is a booklet containing a range of activities to boost understanding and analytical skills. It has an AO1 focus but encourages students to forge links between language levels and meanings, which is something which my first year students have found tricky this year. The PETE paragraph structure mentioned refers to ‘point, evidence, technical terms, explain’ but could easily be tweaked to reflect any writing models you may use. It is bite-sized so that work can be reviewed as students go along, or for more able students, it could be used as homework. The development activity at the end of the booklet is more suited to the AS specification exams, but could be used as a way of engaging students with the Hemingway texts.

Based on the AS/A Level Paris Anthology for AQA English Language & Literature. Contains activities, centred around exam-relevant skills like language and structure, and ways to approach unfamiliar texts and genres. Intended to support students of all levels. The slides make mention of ‘PETE’ paragraphs (point/evidence/technical terms/elaboration) but could easily be modified for whatever structured paragraph model you use!

This is a bundle of resources and a SOW for tackling Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’ for the Dramatic Encounters element of the AQA A Level English Language & Literature qualification (new spec). The SOW spans 14 weeks, although this is based on my centre, which has 90 minute sessions (there was one lesson per week on the play). It provides directed reading activities, starters, extract analyses and presentations on aspects of the play. Some sample essay questions are provided. Quizzes to test understanding, sometimes mentioned in the SOW, can be found on Moodle: search for username ‘KeriLO’. There is also a revision booklet. (Where I refer to PETE paragraphs, this means Point, Evidence, Technical Term, Elaboration - it’s something we use here to encourage students to write in enough detail.)

This is intended as a last-minute, 'look at this' resource for students taking the new GCSE English Language exams, on 6th and 12th June 2017. It breaks down what they will be doing for each question on each paper.

Some of the Paris Anthology texts are very tricky; this resource is intended to support students as they read The Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne. It breaks down the text into manageable chunks, providing summaries and glossaries for each section. There are some illustrations to aid understanding, and at the end there are some short development tasks. This would be suitable for AS or A Level students studying this text. * Edited to add: after a couple of disappointed reviews, please may I ask you to be clear on what this resource is: it’s a reading guide. It is not a scheme of work or a lesson plan. Thank you. *

A Level English Language (AQA): Some sample 'evaluate' questions to test understanding of 'World Englishes'.

This set of resources contains a number of presentations, tasks and a guide booklet tailored towards a bite-sized approach to the new specification coursework. It assumes that you will be taking students through the different elements in class, with scope for them to then go away and work independently. I make mention of 'the textbook' on some of the slides - I'm referring to the Cambridge textbook. I've left this on (the book has been useful!) but feel free to remove if you're not using it. I go through: - Getting started on the NEA - Different kinds of investigations - The importance of data and research - The introduction and methodology sections (with examples) - The analysis section - Concluding and evaluating (with examples) - An introduction to the original writing component - An introduction to style models, with a short sample text - Writing the commentary (with an embedded mark scheme). This has worked well for my students this year. I hope it's useful to some of you!

I have put together some practice questions for The Lovely Bones, as there are only a very small number on AQA's website at the moment. These try to follow the extract size suggested by AQA's sample material and may be useful for revision.

This activity pack is intended to be used with AQA’s new specification English Language & Literature course - developing understanding of one of the texts in the Paris Anthology, Understanding Chic by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni. The workpack includes a discussion of the key term ‘chic’, work on language techniques such as sensory language, more focused work on language techniques (such as how a sense of the dramatic is created in the text), mind-mapping, written extension tasks, and a recast activity which links in with other texts in the anthology.

To finish off work on Language and Gender - Representation, we did some work on the #thisgirlcan campaign, which was a good opportunity to get up-to-date and think again about the semantics of the terms 'girl' and 'woman'. The PowerPoint has a link to the most recent advert, with some starter questions. Then there is some reading from The Guardian Online (an opinion article on the campaign) with further questions and an annotation exercise, with some case studies taken from the This Girl Can website which asks students to consider whether any stereotypes are present, and whether theorists they've studied can be linked in any way to this data.