A document I designed to guide my students through Section A of AQA's Literature Paper 1. Would work well if printed as a stapled booklet or pages could be printed individually to complement a number of revision lessons/homeworks. Includes: - an overview of this section of the exam - an annotated example answer - the step-by-step approach to this question I have used to scaffold for my mixed ability group - a mock exam question - a step-by-step planning sheet, ideal for less able students (or could be planned in class then written up for homework) - a scene-by-scene summary of the play that I wrote to help my group revise the overall structure of Macbeth

- Differentiated worksheet guiding students to make meaningful annotations on Lady Macbeth's dialogue in Act 5 scene 1. - Includes two annotation/colour coding tasks and an extension task. Will fill a whole lesson alongside the reading of the scene. - Analyses Shakespeare's language and structural choices (AO2 - 12 marks on the exam). - Could easily be used as a springboard/planning sheet for writing up an extract-based exam question in the style of AQA Literature Paper 1 as a follow up lesson or homework task.

Just a simple and fun final lesson before Christmas that helps students recap the four Keats AQA tragedy poems in a 24 question quiz (enabled me to use an advent calendar as prizes for the first student to buzz in with the correct answer for each question). The final slides provide resources for the slightly silly 'Pin the Beard on the Beardsman' as a possible game to finish off the lesson (I enlarged the Beardsman onto A3).

Complete lesson powerpoint on Before You Were Mine. Includes some contextual/structural notes but also designed to encourage independent thinking and for students to make their own annotations/colour codings onto their copy of the poem. Resource includes an additional worksheet (preferably to be enlarged to A3) comparing with Heaney's Follower which could then be used to plan a practice essay using the MITSL structure; this could be set as a homework or used for a follow up lesson.

Lesson focuses on Act 3 sc. v and Act 4 sc. i introducing the characters of Hecate and the Apparitions and their link to the key theme of Equivocation in the play. This was an observation lesson and resources were praised as Outstanding, so there is differentiation throughout to challenge the more able in my mixed ability group. There is quite a lot of content so I have included my lesson plan but there is scope to adapt it to your own teaching style; more time could be spent looking at Act 3 sc. v and expanding on AO2 ideas in the Hecate’s soliloquy activity so some teachers may choose to spread this over two lessons if you have the time. Some teachers may also choose to revisit the A3 sheet after reading Act 5 depending on how much of an overview your students already have of the play’s ending.

Learning Objective: To understand how Shakespeare creates tension in the build-up towards the final battle. A lesson with 2 accompanying worksheets, guiding students through Act 5 sc. ii to Act 5 sc. v and helping them begin to evaluate the ending of the play. Resource focused on developing AO2 for the AQA GCSE Literature Paper 1.

This interactive activity encourages students to place themselves in the footsteps of young soldiers during WW1, guiding them through the choices and key events that faced young men: from signing up right through to the war’s end in 1918. It deals with key topics including conscription, conscientious objectors , trench foot and the Battle of the Somme. The powerpoint basically works like an educational version of the ‘choose your own adventure’ books! Students are given three ‘choices,’ each of which are hyperlinked to allow them to choose their own individual experience of WW1. Depending on time, you can let several different students play or play as a class by voting and going with the majority. I’ve used it many times throughout my career, as a contextual activity alongside teaching war poetry or Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful, as well as when teaching both Year 6 and Year 7 History.