This resource is aimed at Yr7 low ability. The extract is taken from Harry Potter (Diagon Alley) and has a set of analysis questions that the students can work through.
This resource is ideal for a lesson or a cover lesson - this has been used as part of a creative writing SoL that encourages students to understand writers intentions before they then apply it in their own writing.
This document provides essay plans for:
Ambition
Conflict
Fear
Death
Evil
Guilt
Control
Deception
Good vs Evil
Power
Supernatural
Violence
Kingship
All essay plans come with ambitious synonyms that students can use in their essays.
These essay plans can be used for all exam boards. I have used them for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas.
This document provides essay plans for:
Eric
Eva/Daisy
introduction for Eva/Daisy
Social Class (beginning & middle)
Gender (beginning & middle)
Morality (full)
Sheila (full)
All essay plans come with ambitious synonyms that students can use in their essays.
These essay plans can be used for all exam boards. I have used them for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas.
This resource gives a brief plot summary and goes through each stave providing the following:
Key Quotes (3x per stave)
Writer’s Technique
detailed analysis per quote
Dickens’ intent per quote
thematic links per quote
This is an excellent resource primarily for AQA however can be adapted to meet the needs of Equas (focussing more on meaning) and Edexcel.
I have created student friendly markschemes using for Macbeth Extract and ACC extract.
These marksheets have 3x sections:
banding
what the student is expected to do
what formula the student should use - with highlighted sections to show the difference in each band.
These have been created to aid students understanding of the markschemes.
I have put together a literature paper 1 Eduqas with extracts and poems that have not yet been examined as of June 2025.
This paper includes:
Extract - Lady Macbeth & Macbeth ‘sorry sight’
Whole text - fear
Poem - Hawk Roosting & power
It also includes a tracking table for Macbeth whole text Q.
This resource details key quotes for Macbeth via thematic links.
It uses a body of quotations that are repeated showing students how to manipulate their explanations to suit the different themes that could be examined.
The resources covers the three main characters: Lady Macbeth, Macbeth and the Witches.
This resources provides a model letter that writes to persuade Sherlock Holmes to take on an aspiring detective (a.k.a. the student) alongside a letter checklist.
This is aimed at Yr7 low ability students.
This resource gives 2x spelling resources that can be used as homework or as a starter activity - I have used them for both.
This is aimed at Yr7 low ability students.
This resource gives extracts from chapters 4, 6 & 10 of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of 4. It is aimed at Yr7 low ability students and reiterates the analysis structure with short extracts.
Two of the extracts are characater specific and one is on a theme.
I have used these in class and as homework in preparation for assessments.
This document provides essay plans for:
Kindness
Time
Bob Cratchit
Fear
Regret
Christmas
Isolation
The Cratchits
All essay plans come with ambitious synonyms that students can use in their essays.
These essay plans can be used for all exam boards. I have used them for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas.
I have put together a literature paper 1 Eduqas with extracts and poems that have not yet been examined as of June 2025.
This paper includes:
Extract - Malcolm and Macduff A4S3
Whole text - Good vs Evil
Poem - Living Space & place
The document also includes a tracking table for Macbeth Whole text Q.
This is a Literature Paper 1 Quiz tailored to the WJEC Eduqas exam board. The purpose of this quiz is retrieval. Can be done as group work or independently.
This resource summarises the plot of Macbeth - appropriate for GCSE level. There is also a space available for students to attach the relevent quotes next to the plot points.