Powerpoint and differentiated resource to match the ‘Discoveries’ paper 2 that another author has already uploaded on TES. Please leave a review if you found this useful.

I have put many hours into the creation of this resource to make Romeo and Juliet accessible to the very weakest students and those who need very heavy differentiation. I’m unsure how to allow a preview so I have uploaded separately a sample lesson for you to preview. This knowledge- rich booklet includes 43 lessons (99 pages), fully resourced and ready to print off and use. You could use it to teach the full play or pick and choose sections. Each lesson includes a low-stakes recall quiz, an accessible knowledge phase, knowledge check quizzes and suggested questions along with a range of activities on the way through. For KS3 it can be used alone but I would recommend that for KS4, it is used alongside your readings of the original text. It does include contextual information to support assessment objective 3 (context) at GCSE. The booklet will occasionally refer to the chosen formulaic response structure I use with my students along with sentence stems to scaffold a response so you may wish to replace these references to your own response structure/ acronyms if you prefer. I am selling this incredibly cheaply for what it is but please be aware that while it has been a labour of love, it may not be perfect. While I know it is not littered with errors, you may find a very occasional missing punctuation mark or ‘typo’. Do please let me know what you think of this resource!

Fully resources evaluation lesson with planning grid, model answer and mark scheme. The grid is pre-populated for lower ability but this can be removed for higher ability.

2 lessons (maybe 3 if you spend one lesson each for Q2, 3 &4) for paper one reading section based around the Ready Player One book with matching resources. Model answer for structure given and evaluation question planning grid (which can be used to tackle any evaluation question!) Links to film trailers also included for engagement. This really engaged my students so I hope it may be useful for some of yours! Can be easily differentiated: narrowing the structural features offered to students/ adapting the model answer evaluation grid could be pre-populated with evidence for low ability students As this is my first resource upload, I’d love to know if you found it useful. If so, please leave a review!

Fully guided and resourced evaluation lesson complete with model answer, differentiated planning grids and mark scheme.

These lessons have been created to support low ability students or those who need heavy differentiation. These could also work well for cover or homework. Included in this pack are lessons on Ozymandias, London, Prelude and My Last Duchess. Each lesson includes simple context, summary of the poem and some questions based on the learning. Every poem also includes a ‘translation’ to simple, modern English to help them grasp the content. The final task is a grid students can complete to include a summary of the poem and a notes box on some key quotes from each. These are incredibly helpful to refer back to for revision and analysis tasks. I have also included a writing frame example for Ozymandias that you could ue or adapt for more extended analytical responses. Do please let me know if you found these helpful for your students.

Engaging lesson using Steven Avery (Making a Murderer series on Netflix) and Jack the Ripper articles. Comparing the writers’ attitudes to police and criminals. Suggestions: Students are given just one source initially and write up an analysis response for one topic before matching with a partner who has the same source and topic to peer assess using the discussion tracking sheet before improvement. Students then match up to someone with the opposite source to complete a venn diagram. Also included is differentiated planning sheets to explore the attitudes to police and victims in the sources.

I use these after each chapter we read. Students complete a short plot summary and use the spaces provided to record key quotes. They can do this individually or you can give groups/ pairs a character or the setting which they mind map quotes for and then they have time to circulate and ‘harvest’ the quotes up from each other. Invaluable revision resource created by students themselves and very useful for reference when completing exam responses. Also included are key quote gap fills for each chapter. I use these at the start of lessons after reading each chapter. Students complete the missing words. Weaker students are given the book to complete the activity. They can then take these home to revise. I am finding this is helping with retention of quotes.

This lesson begins with a focus on what dystopia is and some short activities related to the genre. This could support higher ability students to make links to the genre in their responses. This lesson focuses on an extract from ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and supports the planning and writing of a full question 4. Included is a planning grid (you will find a differentiated version on the powerpoint that could be printed out for differentiation or to support a full group) that can be easily adapted and re-used for different extracts in the future. There is a model example of a response paragraph along with a writing frame for students. Again, this could be used for differentiation. This lesson is tried and tested and works well across the GCSE ability range.

AQA Language Paper 1 question 2 & 3 lesson plan with prompts and guidance for students.

This is a sequence of lessons I delivered live but also supplied the following instructions to enable students who did not attend the live lessons to access the work (you would just need to change the character names): Read the instructions below and follow them carefully: Open up the powerpoint attached. Slide 1- you will see 3 pictures. For each, tell me how they link to the character of Inspector Goole. Slide 2- read the 4 quotes I have chosen. It says next to each when the Inspector says it. Slide 3- read the example PEFIC I have written. Slide 4- Use the ideas from the PEFIC to fill in the quote explosion sheet on the next slide. The sections in the PEFIC are numbered and so are the sections on the explosion so make sure you use the right sections. Slide 5- I would like you to fill in the next explosion sheet with your own ideas for the quote I have written in it. If you need any help with this, there are some questions in red. For those of you who love a challenge, you could choose a different quote from the 4 on slide 2 and delete the questions because they won’t apply to quote 3 or 4. Slide 6- using our sentence starters, use the ideas from your quote explosion to write up your PEFIC. Don’t forget that the sentences starters are numbered so if you’re not sure what ideas from your quote explosion go where, match the numbers in the quote explosion boxes up to help.

Here is an example of one of the 40+ lessons you will find as a paid resource in my shop. This will allow you to see the pitch of the lessons to evaluate if it would be suitable for your own group.

Guided paper 1 reading and writing based on Dark Tower. Questions for extract on slides with step by step guidance for each question for students.