KS3/KS4 Quotation Explosions Worksheet and How-To Guide - In-Depth Analysis for English Literature

This quotation explosion package is ideal for encouraging KS3/KS4 students to think deeply about a particular text, be it poetry, a play or a novel. This easy-to-follow flowchart uses an example from Macbeth (which students don’t necessarily have needed to have studied in order to understand how the quotation explosion flowchart works) to demonstrate how information can be extracted from a single quotation, and how those ideas can be carried across into a GCSE-style paragraph.

This resource is a six-page document that includes the following:

• A blank, ready-to-use quotation explosion flowchart that can be used again and again for students working on worksheets, or can be glued into exercise books as a reference.
• An explanation of how to the use the flowchart effectively.
• An example of how the flowchart has been used to explode a quotation from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
• A step-by-step example of how the ideas from the flowchart can be transformed into a full paragraph.
• An example GCSE-style paragraph response to a question on Macbeth.

This resource has been repeatedly used with success in KS3 and KS4 classrooms to help grow student confidence with developing their ideas in relation to quotations from key texts. It is also ideal for low-prior attainers in GCSE to help them memorise quotations and key ideas to talk about in their English Literature exam. This is also a useful exercise for Language Paper 1/2.

The PDF and Word versions of the document have been included dependent on user preference.