Rather than giving a list of classroom expectations, this PowerPoint leads you to create them with your class. Putting onus onto students in more successful than creating success criteria for them.

Print these sheets on A3 for revision before the exam The sheets have clear timings on for the exam and clear instructions on how to approach each question type

A simple but effective resource that allows students to consider snapshots for zoomed out images The second page gives tips for more able students and how to cleverly craft their writing

There are 5 sheets to this that need printing in A3 Place the A3 sheets around the department area on the floor Year-by-year, ask members to stand by the number where they perceive their learners to be Then, open the dialogue up between your department Ask learners to consider body posture and passivity

Family Fortunes style game to make students consider the content of their descriptive writing This activity worked really well with boys in particular

Perfect to display or perfect to use in the classroom Created for poetry, but could definitely be used for other topics

Here is an article linked to the modern world The female is murdered as a result of her husband's jealousy There are some deeper thinking questions to go with it You could explore this article in many ways Links nicely with My Last Duchess

I used these key quotes with students before giving them the poem They had to use them as evidence for what they think might have happened to the Duke's Duchess

4 slips per page The slips have been created with a linked image in the background and turned black and white These look lovely in anthologies, with notes on context recorded on and kept neat This resources covers the first 8 poems (heritage poems) from the AQA Power and Conflict anthology Slips included for the following poems: Ozymandias London My Last Duchess Extract from the Prelude Charge of the Light Brigade Exposure Storm on the Island Bayonet Charge

The sheet contains a box outlining what needs to go in each paragraph of their essays Their is a PETAL drawing on the sheet, along with a question related to My Last Duchess This has been created in preparation for the Power and Conflict cluster for AQA

This sheet allows students to take charge of their own learning by researching and finding the definitions of key poetic forms

5 quotes per poem. Students loved this sorting activity for matching key quotes to each title.

This approach chunks down for students exactly what they need to do

This takes students through the exam literacy of AQA Unseen Poetry Section C

With this resource, I place key quotes around the classroom. Students then had 10 minutes to find a key quote for each character. Following this, they then zoomed in on a key word and explored connotations.

A quick resource to test students' prior knowledge of poetry before starting the Power and Conflict unit

I had the poems printed and displayed all around the English classrooms Students then had to find a quote for each poem and then have a go at looking at key words and connotations in the explosions

A series of 4 practice GCSE style questions to use as revision

A task that has been created in preparation for Paper 1 Section B AQA

A colourful and tasteful display of key quotes for the theme of power in Macbeth.