This uses another extract from The Hunger Games where Katniss’ sister Prim is chosen to take part in the games and Katniss volunteers herself. The question looks at the tension built by the writer. The lesson begins with short questions to check the students’ understanding of the extract. Answers given. Then, the slides go through the break-down of the question and mark scheme. The students have an opportunity to practice annotating their ideas, which is scaffolded, before writing their answers using the sentence stems provided. Peer/self/teacher assessed.

This lesson checks students’ comprehension of the text as a whole. Goes through the question and mark scheme in detail. Gives the students a task to annotate the extract with colour-coded guidence and a model paragraph before students complete and self-assess the answer. The extract is taken from ‘The Hunger Games’. This is a great introductory lesson to question 4 of Language Paper 1. There is plenty of scaffolding and modelling.

A revision activity to get students to understand and show understanding that the writer is making deliberate choices (AO2).

Mini SOW introducing students to Language Paper 2 Part B (writing). The first few lessons focus on understanding, evaluating and making choices about perspective, viewpoints, audience, purpose and tone. The next week of lessons focus on identifying, revising and applying an effective structure for a speech.

A 40/40 students creative writing piece used to get the students thinking about how to structure their narratives in interesting and engaging ways but also explain the effect of writer’s structural choices.

Practice question 4 from Language Paper 1. Not a past paper. Potential question. Encourages the students to give a personal response and group methods/ideas together.

Exam Question Beginning of a level 6 response Activities to finish and self-assess essay using students- friendly success criteria

Activity to get students to structure their essay according to their introduction making sure their response fully supports their ideas. Students are to read the introduction, identify the points that need to be proven in their essay, add relevant examples from the text and organise their essay into a coherant argument e.g. chronologically through the text. A Christmas Carol and Poetry.

Task: Cut out and order the moments in Act 3. Stick them onto an A3 sheet leaving space for key quotations. Challenge: add contextual links. Option: You could get them to plots them onto a tension graph deciding which is the most tense reveal/moment for the audience. 1-2 lessons to complete - can set as homework/ revision to finish.

Key quotations to analyse for thh Last of the Three Spirits - a ghost often forgotten in essays on ‘A Christmas Carol’.

Includes: Pre-reading task on Victorian relationships Active reading starter activity with challenges and extension tasks. Recall activity on the poem ‘Before You Were Mine’ to gain an understanding of the similar themes in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ with challenge an extension. The poem is split into nine sections with prompts for thoughtful analysis.

A complete lesson and resources introducing students to a range of genres and fiction texts. Identifying and analysing writer’s methods in the opening of ‘A Monster Calls’ to convey the gothic genre. Support, challenges and extensions for all activities. Range of activities for all abilities and learning styles. Promotes reading!

Poetry comparison response and activities. Including exam question, poem and mark scheme (AQA).

A 20 question quiz on the play ‘DNA’. Questions that range and encourage critical thinking.

A planning sheet to help students meet the assessment objectives for Literature Paper 2 Section A.

This resource contains practice exam questions for Language Paper 1 provides guidance to ensure they are focusing on the question and not writing about elsewhere or writing too much. Extension tasks are included to stretch and challenge their understanding of question 1 and even give them a chance to be creative.

After an ‘A Christmas Carol’ exam, I realised my year 10s were including any quotations they could remember and trying to squeeze them into their answers rather than selecting the most relevant moments/phrases from the novella. I created this match-up activity for the themes and quotations in ‘A Christmas Carol’. This can be completed quickly by writing the beginning letter of each theme into the quotation box or they can colour code them. I chose colour coding so that it can become a useful revision resource. This can be adapted to add more quotations or this can be done by the students as an extension task. I also extended this task by asking the students what Stave it is from and getting them to explain why this quotation is significant to the theme.

Gap fill activity to recall the student’s memory and synthesis of Stave 3 in ‘A Christmas Carol’.

An extract from Stave 3. Question on the importance of family. Differentiated. Suitable for all abilities.

Extract and Question in exam format. Can be used as a mock exam or practice for the Shakespeare element of the exam.