This popular revision sheet that I created back in 2016 but updated in subsequent years contains concise notes for all 15 poems under the following headings:
Power
Conflict
5 Key quotations
Structure
Context
In addition to the main resource, there are various differentiated suggestions and resources to ensure students use the revision grid effectively.
I have added an enhanced version for 2023 which includes explanations of the top 5 quotations for each poem and a PowerPoint full of ideas about how to use the knowledge organiser to revise.
There are 3 differentiated accompanying worksheets that direct students towards effective use of the revision grid by writing the opening to a range of questions with different levels of prompting.
Includes 15 sample AQA style questions (one per poem) and PowerPoint containing some annotations for every poem.
You may wish purchase this as part of a power and conflict bundle which also includes lots of other revision resources on the poems along with several writing frames.
Several helpful and printable revision sheets and activity sheets covering key quotations for characters, themes and stage directions with links to examination questions and context.
The themes covered include:
Responsibility
Class
Age
Gender
Wealth, Power and Influence.
PowerPoint revising theme and character quotations.
Each quotation is click activated so you can go through them one by one after first giving students a chance to select and explaining quotations themselves.
Covers 4 themes:
Don’t trust the supernatural
Don’t trust appearances
Ambition is toxic
Guilt is inescapable
and covers 3 characters
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Student-friendly, double-sided revision cards to cover 6 themes in Macbeth:
ambition
supernatural
deceit
violence
courage
*guilt
Each revision card has 3 sections:
key parts of the play that link to the theme
key quotations linked to each theme
ideas about context/Shakespeare’s purpose for each theme.
The back of the card has space for students to make analytical notes on quotations.
I have now added revision cards for the 6 main characters and 9 revision cards to cover the character of Macbeth.
I have also added a sheet to revise quotations for 6 motifs in the play.
A Macbeth revision sheet that organises 25 quotations and explanations into characters and themes. Also includes some ideas about context for each theme.
I give students the blank version first and compare it to the final version after they have attempted to fill each box.
This resource now also includes a resource that explores how BIG IDEAs are presented in the text. There are two version. The Grade 5 version provides 6 quotations with clear and relevant inferences for each BIG IDEA. The Grade 9 version provides 6 quotations with perceptive and assured inferences to meet the top band of the mark scheme.
For more Macbeth resources try the following links:
grade 9 model responses:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-7-9-model-responses-12187985
Revision Cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-cards-12173097
Full bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revision-bundle-2019-12115685
Other popular Macbeth resources include:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-revise-20-extracts-11868136
Revision cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-theme-revision-cards-ambition-supernatural-guilt-violence-deceit-courage-11868831
Grade 9 model ansers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-6-grade-7-9-model-responses-12187985
Knowledge organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-character-revision-sheet-quotations-themes-context-aqa-9-1-11868119
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/how-is-lady-macbeth-presented-in-act-5-scene-1-worksheets-and-a-model-response-11422450
This comprehensive revisions sheet contains key points, quotations and context to help students write essays responding to exam style questions on 6 different themes:
Poverty
Christmas
Supernatural
Isolation
Charity
Family
I have also included my older revision sheet that includes key Scrooge quotations from each Stave and differentiated activities.
I have also included some theme revision cards.
High grade analysis of 20 key quotations.
Mid grade analysis of 50 key quotations.
Brief explanation of 100 key quotations.
These resources can be used in multiple ways. For example RAG rate, paired questioning, find 5 quotations on each of the following themes etc.
Also includes a slide for how to use the revision sheet as an extension activity by pairing up similar or contrasting quotations or by comparing the surface and hidden meanings.
Also includes a test on the top 50 quotations to match them to 50 brief explanations.
Also includes analysis of the top 10 single words to analyse in the novella with high level explanations of how to zoom in and then how to zoom out to explore Dickens’ authorial purpose.
Revision cards that cover 5 key quotations for 6 themes that might come up on the exam. There is also an overview of Priestley’s purpose with regard to each theme.
Also includes top 10 quotations for each character and character revision cards too.
Also includes a resource encouraging students to closely examine the stage directions.
Two lessons. One lesson aimed at covering the themes and ideas in Act 1 Scene 1 with annotations and comprehension activities.
Lesson two is aimed at getting students to produce a powerful piece of descriptive writing based on image from the opening scene of Polanski’s Macbeth. The PowerPoint goes through examples of vocabulary, sentence types, punctuation and literary techniques to help achieve a high level.
There is also an A3 graphic organiser to encourage students to plan a piece of descriptive writing inspired by Act 1 Scene 1 of Macbeth.
The graphic organiser includes:
Act 1 Scene 1
an opening paragraph model to annotate
a long list of useful words
a paragraph planning table
a link to 3 film versions of Act 1 Scene 1 to evaluate
a success criteria of descriptive techniques
some images to help generate ideas
GCSE Revision sheet containing key quotations linked to main characters and themes.
Includes an answer sheet for the test on key quotations for each character.
Also includes the play divided into scenes using page numbers with an activity asking students to find key quotations from each scene.
Double sided revision cards on 6 themes in A Christmas Carol.
Before giving students the cards, I go through the lesson and make them fill in notes for each quotation on the separate worksheet to ensure they understand the importance of each quotation.
Includes PowerPoint lesson with success criteria, starter, differentiated tasks, plenary.
Includes a test on the key quotations for each theme with answers on the PowerPoint.
Also includes concise notes on 20 key words from the novella.
A comprehensive bank of 20 resources for ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. This is arguably ‘worth’ a lot more but I have reduced the price considerably since the novel was taken off the GCSE spec; however, this may still be essential for teachers in international schools or for teachers who are now teaching it at Key Stage 3 to prepare students for Key Stage 4.
Includes:
Essay responses
Differentiated learning journeys
Writing frames
Planning frames
Revision booklet
Differentiated character investigation lessons
This PowerPoint guides students through how to plan and structure 5 exam responses.
Each plan has click-activated animations to talk through the process of constructing an answer. The plan is written in short hand to help students with note-taking.
Each plan guides students to work through the text chronologically.
Each question plan includes:
Thesis
Context
4 topic sentences for 4 content paragraphs
Quotations for each paragraph
Inferences and methods (A02)
Conclusion considering authorial purpose and universal truths (A03)
The 5 questions cover the following topics:
How is Banquo presented? (2023 prediction)
How is Macbeth presented as a violent character?
How does Shakespeare present Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s marriage?
How do the witches influence the play?
How does Shakespeare present hallucinations?
New for 2023. Also includes a sixth essay plan and a step by step essay plan and grade 9 response looking at how the concept of kingship is presented in the play.
Popular Macbeth revision resource that are repeatable and can be adapted in lots of ways. Includes the following:
A Quotation organiser grid containing quotations linked to characters, acts themes, context and exam-style questions.
Also includes a second page activity which gets students to use the revision sheet to plan 6 AQA style theme questions.
Various Revision flash cards covering characters and themes in Macbeth
Revision of 50 quotations in Macbeth.
A grade 9 response on the theme of greed in A Christmas Carol.
It includes a thesis style introduction.
Point 1 explores the Marley’s Ghost section.
Point 2 explores the Belle section.
Point 3 explores the criminals stealing Scrooge’s possessions in Stave 4.
Also presented in the form of 6 revision cards.
A handy revision sheet covering characters, themes and context with key quotations and examination style questions.
Also I have added the scenes from which all the quotations have been taken.
Updated for 2023, 4 differentiated writing frames to 4 actual AQA power and conflict past exam questions. Each writing frame has 3 tiers of difficulty to allow for the fact different students in the class require different levels of support and guidance in the run up to the examinations.
Tier 1: Students add the analysis of the quotations. The topic sentences and recommended quotations are already filled in for them.
Tier 2: Students must pick their own 3 quotations from each poem and analyse the quotations.
Tier 3: Students must pick their own topic sentences, quotations and then analsyse the quotations.
The questions covered are as follows:
2021 question: Compare how poets present ideas about power and control in ‘London’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
Nov 2020 question: Compare how poets present the ways people are affected by difficult experiences in ‘Remains’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
May 2019 question: Compare how poets present the ways that people are affected by war in ‘War Photographer’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
May 2018 question: Compare how poets present ideas about power in ‘Ozymandias’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and conflict’. (30)
Also includes more writing frames to help structure comparisons that I made a few years ago. The poems that feature in the writing frames include:
Storm on the Island and Exposure (conflict with nature)
Prelude and Ozymandias (power)
Tissue and Ozymandias (conflict)
Bayonet Charge and Charge of the light brigade (conflict)
Storm on the Island and The Prelude (conflict)
London and The Emigree (power of a place)
Remains and Poppies (conflict)
War Photographer and Remains (conflict)
My Last Duchess and Ozymandias (power of pride)
My Last Duchess and Checking out me History (frustration)
A composite of various resources combined together to form one A3 revision sheet on the poem.
This is a free taster from my Power and Conflict bundles which are available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-2019-revision-bundle-12072615