A teach-along task booklet for Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’, designed to be used chronologically as students read. Aimed at Grades 4-9. Includes: Context: Life of Charles Dickens, Poor Laws, Utilitarianism vs Humanitarianism, Novellas, Circle structures, Death in Victorian Britain, Communal bake-houses. Scenes: Includes tasks and core & stretch vocabulary for: Stave 1: Opening page, Solitary as an oyster extract, Scrooge’s counting house, Stave 1 interactions. Stave 2: Scrooge’s past episodes, Foiling of Scrooge and Fezziwig, Scrooge causation chain. Stave 3: Sensory description of the shops, Depicting the Victorian poor, The Cratchits’ dinner, Evaluation of Scrooge’s growth. Stave 4: Reactions to Scrooge’s death, Scrooge’s body in the house, Comparison of Tiny Tim’s vs Scrooge’s resting places, Neglected grave extract. Stave 5: Comparison of Scrooge’s physical descriptions, Stave 5 mirror structure extracts Characters: Jacob Marley, The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, The Cratchits, Fred, Ignorance and Want, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Themes: Social criticism, Human connection and family, Time, Greed vs Generosity, Forgiveness vs Redemption, The Christmas Spirit.

A teach-along task booklet designed to be used chronologically as students read ‘An Inspector Calls’. Aimed at Grades 4-9. Includes: Context: 1912 vs 1945, Capitalism vs Socialism, J.B. Priestley, Genre context, rights for women, Ouspensky’s Theory of Time. Scenes (includes tasks and core & stretch vocabulary for): Act 1: Opening stage directions, Birling’s speeches, Knighthood, Inspector vs Birling first meeting, Mr Birling’s involvement, Birling vs Inspector (ideology), Sheila’s involvement, Sheila’s development, treatment of women in Act 1, Inspector’s ideology, Sheila confronting Gerald Act 2: Act 2 - thesis statement & Sheila’s warnings, Gerald’s involvement, Gerald character analysis, Sheila’s emotional responses, “Public men” & Impertinence extract, Mrs Birling’s involvement, “confess in public his responsibility” extract (end of Act 2) Act 3: Eric’s involvement, Eric confronting Mrs Birling & Inspector’s final statements, Immediate reactions of The Birlings, Responses of the Birlings + Gerald, Analysis of the three phone calls, Final page extract. Themes: Power, Responsibility, Class, Justice and Morality

A task booklet for Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, designed to be used chronologically as students read the text. Aimed at Grades 4-9. Includes: Context: King James (life, relationship with witchcraft, and shipwreck), Freytag’s Pyramid, Greek tragedies, The Great Chain of Being & The Divine Right of Kings, female gender roles in Shakespearean England, A Treatise of Equivocation. Scenes: Active learning tasks; core & stretch vocabulary for: Act 1: Scene 1 (witches), Scene 2 (Captain’s account), Scene 3 (reaction to the witches’ prophecies), Scene 4 (characterisation of kingship), Scene 5 (Lady Macbeth), Scene 7 (vaulting ambition soliloquy & the Macbeths’ argument) Act 2: Scene 1 (disrupted nature & “Is this a dagger”), Scene 2 (omens, the Macbeths’ reactions to Duncan’s murder), Scene 3 (the porter, reactions to Duncan’s murder, Macbeth’s diminished humanity), Scene 4 (omens) Act 3: Scene 1 (fruitless crown soliloquy), Scene 2 (the Macbeths’ changing dynamic), Scene 4 (banquet scene) Act 4: Scene 1 (apparitions), Scene 2 (Macduff’s castle), Scene 3 (true vs false kingship & masculinity) Act 5: Scene 1 (sleepwalking & comparison to Act 1, Scene 5), Scene 3 (“flesh be hack’d” scene), Scene 5 (“tommorow & tomorrow”), Scene 8 (confirmed prophecies), Scene 9 (return to order) Character pages: The witches, Macbeth, Duncan, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, Macduff, Malcom. Theme pages: Masculinity & Violence, Guilt & Madness, Fate vs Free Will, Ambition, The Supernatural.