A “fun” project for students to revise the plot of Macbeth. Tasks are differentiated with support, challenges and extension tasks. This encourages students’ independent learning on a very teacher-led topic.

Each scene, summary, characters that appear in that scene, important quotations and relevant themes. Quotations in bold are those that you can write a lot about in terms of methods.

Task encouraging students to note what theme they could link to these points about context - literary, society and Dickens’ life.

Poetry comparison response and activities. Including exam question, poem and mark scheme (AQA).

This is a revision activity for animal farm which is topical and engaging for the students. It follows the latest television show ‘The Masked Singer’ where students are given hints which reveal the masked character such as key quotations, descriptions, allegorical links, Orwell’s views etc. Students can also ask for a hint which tells them a bit more about the character or their link to the text and context. The quotations and hints are more cryptic than the obvious to broaden students’ knowledge of the key characters and the text and thus allow them to make developed personal responses. Answers and teacher guidance in the notes of each slide.

This double-sided worksheet makes reference to the mark scheme for achieving higher grades and explains the skill of embedding evidence. The resource contains three activities: correcting answers, filling in the blanks, and skill practice answering questions. These tasks are clearly explained with supporting examples, challenges and extensions to meet all abilities. It is also differentiated by outcome and so can be used with all ages and abilities. This resource can be peer/self/teacher assessed. This worksheet was used as feedback from a DNA essay to intervene and develop this skill of embedding references and using subject terminology to develop answers.

This template can be used for plays, novels, creative writing etc. 6 SECTIONS PER PAGE. Can print again for longer plays.

A 20 question quiz on the play ‘DNA’. Questions that range and encourage critical thinking.

This workbook contains a range of activities on each scene in the play ‘Macbeth’ (28 scenes). The activities range from plot sorts, summaries, quotations, cloze activities, mind-maps, creative writing tasks, annotating an extract, character tables and many more!! This workbook once completed will be a revision resource covering plot, characters, themes, quotations and exam practice! This resource is already differentiated to make it accessible for all sets and created for self or peer-assessment. This resource can be used as a homework booklet, lockdown/self-isolation work, revision or class work. This is a scanned copy ready to print!

This essay is a poetry comparison answering the question: Compare how poets present a sense of longing in ‘Love’s Philosophy’ and in one other poem from the ‘Love and Relationships’ [30 marks] AQA Mark scheme Love and Relationships cluster- full marks.

Mini SOW introducing students to Language Paper 2 Part B (writing). The first few lessons focus on understanding, evaluating and making choices about perspective, viewpoints, audience, purpose and tone. The next week of lessons focus on identifying, revising and applying an effective structure for a speech.

Recall questions on the family poems in the anthology. Each question requires students to answer with references from the poems: Before You Were Mine, Eden Rock, Climbing My Grandfather, Follower, Walking Away and Mother, any Distance. To be peer-assessed. Teacher answer sheet included.

This resources is a complete exploration of the context, from, language and structure of the poem ‘Sonnet 29- ‘I think of thee!’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This contains the key terminology and multiple interpretations and readings of the poems’ form, language and structure. This covers a couple of lessons and so has starter activities testing students’ recall. The final slides consist of the key quotations that students should remember for the AQA Literature Paper 2 exam.

This uses another extract from The Hunger Games where Katniss’ sister Prim is chosen to take part in the games and Katniss volunteers herself. The question looks at the tension built by the writer. The lesson begins with short questions to check the students’ understanding of the extract. Answers given. Then, the slides go through the break-down of the question and mark scheme. The students have an opportunity to practice annotating their ideas, which is scaffolded, before writing their answers using the sentence stems provided. Peer/self/teacher assessed.

This lesson checks students’ comprehension of the text as a whole. Goes through the question and mark scheme in detail. Gives the students a task to annotate the extract with colour-coded guidence and a model paragraph before students complete and self-assess the answer. The extract is taken from ‘The Hunger Games’. This is a great introductory lesson to question 4 of Language Paper 1. There is plenty of scaffolding and modelling.