A PPT and worksheet to scaffold a debate about Lady Macbeth's role in Duncan's death / Macbeth's downfall. This has worked well with set one and set 8! Links to assessment objectives throughout.
Can be edited.
50 slide PPT with a week of lessons on the context of Macbeth. Includes Kagan activities and 12 worksheets/resources to scaffold this and a poster about contextual factors. Lesson plans also provided.
Links to AQA objectives throughout but can be edited.
Two weeks of lessons - PPT and work book. Includes notes and tasks for Scrooge and Marley in Stave 1.
I used these with a lower ability GCSE class but they would suit a variety of classes.
Full scheme also available.
Thinking mats to help students revise the anthology poems. This is for Love and relationships but the titles could be changed very easily to suite power and conflict.
Each mat has activities linked to the AOs / magenta principles and an inspirational quote.
Weekly tasks for revision of the AQA lit and lang exams. This is a homework booklet but could be adapted for use in lessons.
Each week there is an exam task with a prompt to help students.
A revision guide for pupils - key quotes for each poem from the love and relationships cluster. Fully analysed with terminology in bold. Includes a comment on the structure of each poem to challenge pupils.
Also includes what to do for AQA Literature Paper 2.
Particularly useful if pupils have gaps in knowledge or have made poor notes.
Four lessons on risk - one of the topics that must be covered when PSHE becomes statutory in 2020.
PPTs and worksheets/booklets as well a child friendly version of the Sensation Seeking Scale Questionnaire designed by Dr Marvin Zuckerman. Also includes an end of topic evaluation to demonstrate progress.
Can be editted.
A lesson to help students think about structuring their responses and creating more imaginative pieces.
Suitable for 11-16 with a focus on the AQA GCSE English Language mark scheme.
Students write a description of New York using extended metaphors - worksheet to scaffold understanding of this.
Several worksheets on using subordinate clauses, colons and semi colons.
Worksheet for developing a character - we first discussed this as a class and used mini drama tasks to bring the character to life and generate more interesting descriptions (show don’t tell)
Additional story mountain sheet if students need support with planning.
A Powerpoint with several worksheets to scaffold analysis of The Manhunt. Students from Y7 to Y11 have always loved this lesson.
Worksheet on semantic fields
Worksheet based on an article in National Geographic about PTSD and art therapy
Worksheet on selecting relevant evidence from poems
Sentence starters for PETAL paragraphs
WWW EBI sheets
A booklet used for homework with a KS3 literacy class.
The focus is researching Syria and writing for purpose.
There are small links to The Bone Sparrow but these can be removed easily.
A useful booklet for class work but also for cover work or homework.
A series of tasks looking at rhetorical devices and writing to inform, advise, persuade and argue. Tasks could easily be stretched out to cover a term of work.
The initial theme is teenage runaway/issues facing teens but this can easily be adapted.