Resources based on ‘Lose Yourself’ by Eminem and ‘Shake It Out’ by Florence and the Machine. Questions, planning support and model response for GCSE unseen poetry exam.
Introductory resources and prompt questions for approaching the annotations of Heaney’s Poetry. Model of an appropriate essay intro/thesis statement is also included.
Prompt questions provided for annotations of ‘Digging’, ‘Follower’, ‘Mid Term Break’, ‘Personal Helicon’.
A series of extracts to suit a range of abilities for the reading section of Language Paper 1. Questions 1-4 are provided for each extract.
Extracts have been taken from the following novels:
‘Dracula’ - Bram Stoker
‘1984’ - George Orwell
‘Bleak House’ - Charles Dickens
‘Enduring Love’ - Ian McEwan
‘The Wasp Factory’ - Ian Banks
‘Northern Lights’ - Philip Pullman
‘Of Mice and Men’ - John Steinbeck
‘Rebecca’ - Daphne du Maurier
‘The Kite Runner’ - Khaled Hosseini
A full scheme of work that introduces the AQA Combined Lang/Lit A Level and accompanies a reading of Atwood’s novel.
Includes:
Example analytical paragraphs
Exploration of background and context
Key terminology
Various class discussion activities