A set of 5 descriptive/ narrative writing 200 word challenges. These are designed to be displayed on the IWB and can be used to practise the skills required for AQA paper 1 section b whilst providing students with a bit of festive spirit.
This resource is a good platform fro beginning to analyse poems on an individual basis rather than a comparative basis. The question is 'How does Browning present madness in 'Porphyria's lover'? Students have a table to guide them on how to structure a response to such question.
This is a collection of 10 200 word challenge activities. These can be printed and used as a revision booklet or timed in class at the beginning of a lesson to encourage students to revise for AQA English Language Paper 1 Section B.
This slideshow makes the concept of war relevant to students by looking at modern day warfare. It then goes on to encourage students to analyse 'Dulce et decorum est' using a structured grid.
The students should glue these to the margin of their page and then use them for guidance when completing a persuasive writing task. They are designed to help students include more of the features of this specific style of writing as they should tick the bullet point as they include it.
This resource contains flashcards for revision purposes using word by word analysis of key quotations from the play. They can be printed off and made into handy revision flashcards or shown to the class via a whiteboard or even displayed on a screen in a corridor in order to aid students with memorising quotations.
This resource can be used as a checklist in the margin of student's books when they are practising responses to question 3 on the AQA English Language Paper 1.
This resource aids students to understand the concept of explicit/ implicit information by using the 'iceberg method'. Students are guided through how to analyse meaning using this nifty placemat.
This is a 48 page resource which covers context and takes you through the staves of the novella providing opportunity to complete activities and highlighting key quotations.
This resource works in a similar way to a structure strip. It can be put in the margin of an exercise book when a student is completing AQA English Language question 2 and they are able to tick off content as they include it/ look at what they should be focusing on/ how they should be structuring their response for this particular question.
A way to structure literature responses in order to hit the AQA mark scheme, I developed this after marking the new literature exam in 2017 and feel it ensures students hit all the aspects of the mark scheme and encourages them to develop their answers.