A complete teaching bundle for The Great Gatsby as an Aspects of Tragedy text, aligned to AQA English Literature B (7717), Paper 1A, Section C. Designed for closed-book exam preparation across 22 structured lessons.
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Scheme of Work (22 lessons)
Full lesson-by-lesson scheme in The English Expert format: DNA starter, I DO explicit teaching, WE DO guided practice, YOU DO independent task, Stretch/Challenge, and Exit Ticket. Includes a full lesson overview table, AO reference table, Eight Elements of Tragedy framework mapped to the novel, Key Critical Perspectives reference table, and a Key Quotations bank.
Medium-Term Plan (MTP)
Branded landscape Word document. 22-row planning table with lesson number, title, learning question, key content, AO focus, key vocabulary, resources, and assessment. Formatted for display, department sharing, or lesson observation preparation.
Knowledge Organiser (A3 landscape)
Five-column organiser covering: Fitzgerald’s biographical and historical context, the Eight Elements of Tragedy, exam format and terminology, hamartia/hubris quotations, nemesis and AO2 methods, novel structure, anagnorisis/catharsis, character tragic functions, tragic geography, all seven critical perspectives (Aristotle, Miller, Churchwell, Tredell, Evans, feminist, Marxist), and essay sentence starters.
Annotated Model Essay
Question: “Gatsby is a man destroyed by his own greatness.” How far do you agree? Full model response with colour-coded AO annotations (AO1 purple, AO2 amber, AO3 green, AO5 navy). Includes examiner commentary after each paragraph explaining exactly what makes the response Band 5 — argument, close reading, contextual embedding, and critical integration.
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