This is a 7-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s My Grandmother poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing. YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF

Are you teaching Jackie Kay’s Darling: New and Selected Poems to your A-level students? Don’t know where to start? This scheme of work shows you how I teach the 32 poems (organised by theme) and essay questions for each section we cover.

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This free resource is for both, teachers and students. The writing checklist allows students to check their work before submitting for grading and acts as a marking rubric for busy teachers. The questions are in line with the Cambridge Curriculum but can work with any type of written assignment. The correction codes are simplified codes that can be used when grading work. We can use these codes to make grading simple and effective. Students can use the correction code list to identify their mistake and try to correct themselves, meaning that students are actively involved in the editing and re-drafting stages of writing. Simply print and you’re ready to go!

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FULL ANSWER KEY INCLUDED! Get pupils excited about Indian Ink, and prepare them to score top marks in the process with this 65-page engaging workbook! Have pupils work through the activities and questions as you study Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink. WORKBOOK CONTENT: Assessment Objectives Marking Criteria (CAIE) Assessment objective 5 suggestions and notes pages Literary lenses and notes pages How to develop drama analysis Story summary Contextual information Key things to know and Indian Ink Character overview Character analysis guiding questions Character analysis pages for all major characters Minor character analysis Thematic concerns Themes tracker Symbols introduction Symbols tracker Act one analysis questions Act two analysis questions Indian Ink exam questions Made for the Cambridge (CAIE) 9695 syllabus. However, it can be adapted for any course! HOW I SPLIT THE SCENES: Since we will all be using different texts, I thought it best to share the first line of each scene to help you save time! 1.1 ACT ONE Dusk. FLORA sits alone on a moving train. 1.2 The Shepperton garden is now visable. Here, MRS SWAN and PIKE are having tea while occupied with a shoebox of Flora’s letters. 1.3 FLORA: ‘So far, India likes me. My lecture drew a packed house, Mr. C’s house, in fact…’ 1.4 FLORA: ‘Then I met my painter…’ 1.5 FLORA: (Recorded) Yes, I am in heat like a bride in a bath,… 1.6 Anish stands up at the approach of Mrs Swan who comes from the bungalow with tea for two on a tray, and two kinds of cake. 1.7 Flora and Das sit at the table with lemonade. 1.8 We have already heard the horse. We do not see the horse. 1.9 Flora waves and turns aside. She sits at her table and starts to write. 1.10 FLORA: (Recorded) ‘…Yes, think of a woman in a blue dress…’ 1.11 FLORA: Thank you Nazrul … And two kinds of cake! 1.12 Pike enters dressed for India. He is staying at the best hotel in Jummapur… 1.13 DAS: Thank you. (He lights a cigarette.) You were writing to your sister? 1.14 Das leaves the bedroom and goes along the verandah towards the servants’ quarters and disappears round the corner. 1.15 Das enters the bedroom. DAS: (Approaching the bed Should I pour the water for you? 2.1 ACT TWO The Jummapur Club after sundown. 2.2 FLORA: ‘My suitor-I suppose I must call him that…’ 2.3 The scene becomes exterior. The actors remain astride the gym horses. 2.4 *Dilip and Pike are in the garden/courtyard of the Jummapur Palace Hotel… * 2.5 RAJAH Entering The spiritual beauty of Jummapur has been increased a thousandfold by your presence, Miss Crewe! 2.6 PIKE: Augustus de Boucheron enjoyed brief celebrity as a millionaire philanthropist and patron of the arts. 2.7 Mrs Swan and Anish are sitting in the garden with gin-and-tonic.Mrs Swan is looking at the watercolour. 2.8 Nirad Das and Coomaraswami are sit 2.9 PIKE AND 2.10

This is a 5-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s My Grandmother’s Houses poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination!