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10 Jekyll & Hyde Sample Extracts (Edexcel)
This resource contains ten Edexcel (Paper 2) exam-style sample extract questions for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Edexcel GCSE Language: 8 (Section A: Reading) Extract Samples
This pack contains eightextract samples for ‘Section A: Reading’ of the edexcel GCSE Language exam.
Each sample includes a line numbered extract and questions 1 - 5. They are titled as follows:
19thC-extract-BonteC
19thC-extract-EBonte
19thC-extract-DickensGE
19thC-extract-DickensOT
19thC-extract-PoeTTH
19thC-extract-Shelley
19thC-extract-Thackeray
19thC-extract-DoyleSB
These would prove useful samples or as revision documents for GCSE students.
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'The Kite Runner' Recasting and Commentary (31 Sample Questions)
This resource includes 30 complete sample questions for the AQA A Level Language and Literature exam. They are geared to the Recasting and Commentary question for Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’.
The questions cover a range of enagaging themes:
fathers and sons
parenthood
redemption, healing
loss, grief and pain
games, playing and innocence
power, education and religion
ethnicity and culture
The sample questions use extracts from Chapter 2 to 25, excepting Chapter 18.
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Five Exam Style Creative Writing Tasks for English Language (Story or Description)
This resource is a fantastic bank of creative writing questions, which great for students who are practicing their timed exam techniques.
Includes 5 high quality PDF versions of AQA-style creative writing questions for Section B of the English Language Paper 2 examination.
The topics include:
A busy environment (Airport)
Travel and patience (Bus Stop)
Surfing and adventure (Surfers)
Traffic and frustration (Traffic Jam)
Commuting on trains and crowds (Underground)
All questions are suited to an AQA exam but can be used for most descriptive writing exercises.
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A Christmas Carol: Contextual Guide
An informative and attractive, yet in-depth, PowerPoint that outlines a variety of relevant contextual points for students to consider while reading Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’. Perfect teaching resource for introducing key aspects about Victorian England to students studying the novella. Contains 11 slides: Dickens’ Background, Life in Victorian England, the Industrial Revolution, the Poor Laws, Workhouses, Religion, and references to the novella’s highly informative Preface.
The information in this PowerPoint can be delivered over an hour, or several hours, depending on whether additional supplementary reading or writing tasks accompany it.
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An Inspector Calls Context Timeline (1912-1945)
Timeline resource designed for students to study the 1912 to 1945 British context of Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, which includes direct links to major themes and key quotations from characters.
The resource is packed with 35 quotes from the play, over 20 contextually relevant facts and statistics relating to the key themes, and insights into Priestley’s own life.
Easily printable onto a landscape A4 page.
An accompanying visual aid poster can be found on the second page, providing contextually relevant images (including contemporary posters and cartoons) that can be printed on the reverse-side of the timeline itself.
This resource package also includes the ‘Inspector Calls Theme Map’ resource advertised within my shop, as a complimentary activity sheet that works alongside the poster. Theme maps are immensely useful for generating personalised quotation banks for the play’s major themes and key characters.
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Jekyll and Hyde Context
An informative and attractive, yet in-depth, PowerPoint that outlines a variety of relevant contextual points for students to consider while reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. Perfect teaching resource for introducing key aspects about Victorian England to students studying the novella. Contains 11 slides: Stevenson’s Background, Life Experiences of Stevenson, the Industrial Revolution, Class in Victorian London, Gender and Respectability, Science and Medicine and Technology, Religion, Darwinism and Evolution, Physiognomy and Criminals, and Allegorical texts & Shilling Shockers.
The information in this PowerPoint can be delivered over an hour, or several hours, depending on whether additional supplementary reading or writing tasks accompany it.
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An Inspector Calls Context PowerPoint
An informative, attractive, in-depth, PowerPoint that outlines a variety of relevant contextual points for students to consider while reading J.B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. Perfect revision or teaching resource for introducing key aspects of early-20th Century England to those studying the play.
Contains 11 slides, including: Priestley’s writing background; Life Expriences of note; Class & Work; World War 1; Culture, Strikes & Technology over the 1920s; the Great Depression & Class; Politics & World War 2; a slide laying out the setting date (1912), play production date (1945) and today to ensure that students bear in mind the various timeframes and perspectives at work while they write; a slide to invite students to consider the Inspector character as Priestley and another about the importance of staging.
The information in this PowerPoint can be delivered over an hour, or several hours, depending on whether additional supplementary reading or writing tasks accompany it. This is a full reworkable PPTX that can be amended as purchasers see fit.
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15 A Christmas Carol Sample AQA Extracts
This pack contains 15 editable documents to help students study less well known extracts from Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol. They are in AQA format, but can be adjusted. The question titles are as follows:
London society
Marley’s influence (warning)
sympathy for Scrooge
the poor couple
Fred’s Christmas spirit
poverty (Cratchits)
wealth (Fred)
Ghosts’ role (Past’s introduction)
responsibility (holiday pay)
isolation (school)
Belle’s family
relationships (businessmen)
change (prize turkey)
forgiveness (Fred in stave 5)
Christmas (Present’s power)
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Macbeth Exam Style Questions (31 for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas)
This bundle of 31 exam style questions are perfect for AQA, edexcel and eduqas (WJEC) exam boards.
Each resource contains an extract for analysis on a new theme, followed up with the correct question equivalents of each examination board. Simply use the exam board question style that you require!
The extracts and questions themselves cover over 15 different themes, including, fate, morality, power, supernatural, honesty, duality, guilt and gender.
Use each exam style question twice (if you like) by using the secondary theme tag and amending your questions as needed. An exam question on Fate might be reconstructed into a question about Fear, for example.
This resource includes PDF and Word doc versions of each exam question so that teachers may easily amend as needed.
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Macbeth: Jacobean Context
An informative, attractive, in-depth, PowerPoint that provides great contextual points for students to consider while reading Shakespeare’s Jacobean plays, such as Macbeth, Tempest and King Lear. Perfect revision or teaching resource for introducing key aspects of Jacobean England to those studying the play.
Contains 10 slides, including: Shakespeare’s biography; Jacobean England; Power and monarchy (including the medieval feudal system, great chain of being and two swords doctrine); court life and class; marriage and sexuality; religion; witchcraft; and settings and genre.
The information in this PowerPoint can be delivered over an hour, or several hours, depending on whether additional supplementary reading or writing tasks accompany it. This is a full reworkable PPTX that can be amended as you see fit.
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Romeo and Juliet Theme Map
An engaging resource that encourages GCSE students to re-read their copy of Romeo and Juliet and fill in the themed boxes as they go. A fantastic way for students to build a bank of personalized quotes for their literature exams. Once completed, the student can practice essay writing on any given theme they choose. This is an incredibly diverse worksheet that can be easily altered to work for any play, novel or even poetry anthology.
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An Inspector Calls Theme Map
An engaging resource that encourages GCSE students to re-read their copy of An Inspector Calls and fill in the themed boxes as they go. A fantastic way for students to build a bank of personalized quotes for their literature exams. Once completed, the student can practice essay writing on any given theme they choose. This is an incredibly diverse worksheet that can be easily altered to work for any play, novel or even poetry anthology.
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A Christmas Carol Theme Map
An engaging resource that encourages GCSE students to re-read their copy of A Christmas Carol and fill in the themed boxes as they go. A fantastic way for students to build a bank of personalized quotes for their literature exams. Once completed, the student can practice essay writing on any given theme they choose. This is an incredibly diverse worksheet that can be easily altered to work for any play, novel or even poetry anthology.