Here is a list of quotations to support memory learning for The Merchant of Venice. These can be used as part of your teaching in order to support the exploration of these quotes, applying them to different questions and consolidating them to memory.

Here is a timeline I made for my LPA on the key events in Jekyll and Hyde.

These two handouts help students to peer review one another’s written work. There is one for reading and one for writing. There is room for 3 students’ responses in a gallery feedback type activity. There are sentence starters included to help.

This useful handout can be stuck in to books as a useful reference for academic language and vocabulary. This is really useful in training students on how to upgrade their tone and language.

Here are 4 weeks worth of starters/plenaries to help support memory learning of key ideas/context for Macbeth.

Here is a ‘tick list’ aimed at LPA/MPA of how to approach the AQA Literature Paper 1. This is written for the Jekyll and Hyde and Romeo and Juliet texts, but can easily be adapted for other texts. This resource consists of useful reminders of how to approach each question that students can work through at their own pace. They can use this approach every time and can use it at home too.

These revision activities are tailored to Anita and Me, Power and Conflict and Unseen poetry, but can easily be adapted for other texts. This resource encourages students to engage with the text to select their own extract, thus consolidating their knowledge of the text. They should then use this mat to have a go at prospective exam questions.

Here is a lesson focusing on the presentation of Dr Lanyon in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

This works over a series of lessons. It allows students to present what they have learned about the novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in a creative way. In presenting their ideas on key events, themes, characters back to the class they are revising and peer teaching. This works really well with HPA/MPA students.

This resource encourages students to apply everything they have learned about Jekyll and Hyde to these key quotations. This will allow them to engage fully with key quotes and ensure that they are achieving AO2 by thoroughly exploring and consolidating these quotes.

This resource is useful for memory learning and covers a range of quotes from Lord of the Flies. Students can make games/tests out of them, you can allocate a key quote to a student and get them to recall it regularly.

This resource shows students a point made at different levels of the mark scheme. This is useful to get the students annotating for what both responses have done well with reference to the AQA mark schemes. The important thing is to fully understand what the ‘student’ has done to gain a level 6 response and how to replicate this in their own writing. This is really useful for those with the highest forecast grades.

This is a resource I produced for my HPA students on how to approach the Lord of the Flies section of the exam. There is a list of exam questions at the bottom that they can be practising with in class or at home.

This resource models how to upgrade basic points to a more academic style/tone. The model uses Lord of the Flies. Students should spend time spotting the difference between the first and second paragraph and what makes the second one sound more impressive. They should then apply what they find to upgrading the ‘An Inspector Calls’ paragraph at the bottom. Encourage crafting/re-drafting.

This resource focuses on how to maximise marks for AO2 on the Literature, Modern Texts question. Students can often forget to do this in their haste under timed conditions so this resource helps to re-focus students on the importance of this Assessment Objective. I used this with my HPA learners and found that it really supported their exam analysis.

This lesson focuses on exploring the Biblical parallels in Lord of the Flies. This encourages a more thoughtful response to the text and a way in to accessing AO3 by integrating contextual information into a written exploration of the text. I used this with HPA students and they got a lot out of it and their AO3 was much more integrated thereafter.

This lesson focuses on accessing chapter 4 of Lord of the Flies at a high level. Students will explore this chapter in lots of depth for students to apply key ideas and themes that emerge/develop in this chapter to almost any exam response.

Here is one PowerPoint of condensed activities for The Merchant of Venice. Originally produced for HPA students.

Some key quotes put into categories of characters/themes to support memory learning for MPA/HPA students. Can be used alongside teaching of the play to ensure students begin to commit key quotes to memory.

I used this resource with HPA students to support their approach to the exam. There are a list of exam questions for them to begin working with in class/at home too.