A term’s worth of ready-to-teach resources created for the 2021 examination on A Christmas Carol.
Includes:
Revision sheets containing key quotes and context points and differentiated revision tasks
Context match up sheet
9 grade 9 model answers
Writing frames
5, Sample AQA-style questions
Partially completed essay plans to finish
Difficult vocabulary glossary activity
Carousel activity on key extracts
Differentiated questions on stave 2
Differentiated questions on Marley’s ghost
Which vision in Stave 2 affects Scrooge the most worksheet
Activities with model responses on how Dickens presents ideas about Christmas in Stave 3
Comprehension questions on all staves
Top 50 quotations revision sheets
Fred lesson
Fezziwig lesson
Lesson on more obscure extracts
Lesson on women in the novella
Plus lots more
Updated bundle for 2023 containing all my best resources on A Christmas Carol.
Includes:
9 grade 9 model answers
Comprehension questions on all staves
Revision Flash Cards
Writing frames
Scrooge Analysis lessons
Fred Analysis lesson
Bob Analysis lesson
9 Step method for grade 9
Quotation/Knowledge organisers.
Sample exam questions
Revision of big ideas
Top 50 quotation revision task with answers
Differentiated worksheets for exploring the ghosts
Lesson on Fezziwig
Lesson on women in the novel
Lessons on the ghosts
30+ page printable booklet.
Plus lots more.
I have tried to fit all my best A Christmas Carol resources into here. If I have missed any, send me a message and I will send them over.
To save time on the download, click on the resource called ‘A Christmas Carol - everything you need to teach the novella’. Most of the resources can be found in here.
Use for a final revision session or series of sessions on A Christmas Carol
Present the students with 6 big ideas about the novel.
Students use the attached top 50 quotations sheet to help add their ideas about each big idea.
I have also included a top 100 quotation version for higher ability students.
Then go through possible answers on the PowerPoint. The PowerPoint is animated and each answer appears on the mouse click so you can talk through each one as it appears.
I have also included 6 predictions about what extract might come up. Now we are 3 years into the 9-1 syllabus, I predict they might use a more obscure extract so I have picked 6 less obvious extracts. Students read each extract and complete the planning grid.
Also includes some sample exam style responses to different generic questions.
New for 2022 is a large PowerPoint encouraging students to choose and explain their top 3 quotations for 9 different themes.
20 premium resources created specifically for the GCSE examination on A Christmas Carol. This is a bundle full of lessons and resources that I have consistently developed and improved over the past 7 years based on student and teacher feedback.
Includes:
10 grade 9 model answers
Multiple exam style questions
25 extract revision booklet
19th century context resources
Bob Cratchit analysis and response
Fred lesson
Scrooge’s transformation lesson
Scrooge in Stave 1 analysis
Theme revision cards
Analysis of the ghosts
Generic and specific writing frames
Analysis of Christmas in Stave 3
Comprehension questions on each Stave
Lessons and activities on Stave 2
Analysis of Ignorance and Want extract
Knowledge organiser quotation revision sheets
Revision lesson of big ideas
Revision sheet and task based on 50 key quotations
100 question knowledge quiz
Plus a lot more. Check out all the previews!
Use for a final revision lesson on Macbeth.
Present students with the 6 big ideas about the play.
Give students the attached top 50 quotations revision sheet.
Ask them to make notes on each big idea using the sheet.
Then go through the model answers on the PowerPoint. Each answer appears on a mouse click so you can talk through each answer one by one.
Also includes 6 exam questions to plan on one printer-friendly planning sheet.
Also includes a 100 question quiz on the play with accompanying answer sheet that is useful to use throughout Year 11 to assist with knowledge retention.
Also contains the top 100 quotations with a brief explanation to help students get started with developing their inferences on each quotation. Alternatively, ask students to use a code to link each quotation to one or more themes such as a for ambition, g for guilt, s for supernatural.
Also includes theme and character revision cards.
The 50 quotation quiz comes in two forms. One will take a full lesson while one is ideal as a repeatable recap activity (spaced learning).
An updated collection of my top 20 most popular resources on Macbeth updated for the 2023 exam. Check out the wide range of previews.
Includes the following:
9 high grade model answers to GCSE questions.
104 slide PowerPoint providing annotations for every scene of the play
20+ lessons covering almost all scenes in the play.
100 question Knowledge quiz with answers
various revision/quotation knowledge organisers
Various revision cards
20 key extracts revision booklet
Revision of big ideas in the play
7 writing frames for 7 exam-style questions
50 key quotation task with answer question
Scene plot questions with answer sheet
Sample exam-style questions
Quotation revision game
Selection of 20 premium resources to support the teaching of GCSE 9-1 specification. Includes:
popular revision sheets
9 grade 9 model answers
revision cards
exam-style questions
20 key exam length extracts
7 writing frames
model responses
comprehension questions on select scenes
20 lessons covering almost all scenes in the play
A wide selection of my best revision resources for Macbeth combined into one bundle. The previews should give you a good idea about the wealth of material available in this bundle. You will see various resources revising key quotations, themes, big ideas, characters and a 40 page easy to print booklet too to make it easy to print the best resources.
Huge bundle starting with 25 lessons covering every scene of the play with detailed annotations and a range of comprehension activities to engage students with the scene.
Open the file called ‘Macbeth Scheme of Learning: lesson on every scene’ to save time having to sort through the different files.
Also includes revision cards, knowledge retention quiz and board game, lots of high grade model answers, creative writing activities, revision lessons on big ideas, home learning booklets and lots more.
A lesson revising key themes and quotations for Macbeth and A Christmas Carol. It goes over 6 themes in each text in detail. Students fill in the grid as the teacher goes through the PowerPoint and make notes.
Also contains detailed analysis of 6 quotations for each theme in both texts for students to takeaway with them to revise.
A list of ambitious vocabulary and short definitions of words I noticed from reading lots of grade 9 level Lord of the Flies exam responses. Hopefully this is useful for students aiming for the top grades.
A grade 7 and a grade 8 slightly improved response to the following exam style question about Lady Macbeth. This is pretty similar to the May 2024 question but the featured extract was from Act 1 Scene 7 rather than Act 1 Scene 5.
Starting with this speech (Act 1 Scene 5 ‘The raven himself is hoarse’) explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a powerful woman.Write about:
• how Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth in this speech
• how Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth in the play as a whole.
Includes a grade 7 version and a grade 8 version for comparison. The grade 8 version has a more thoughtful introduction and conclusion and creates more of a debate.
The PowerPoint contains colour coded annotations to showcase a deliberate and easy to imitate method for helping students structure a successful response.
Also contains a grade 9 response analysing Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s marriage.
9 High level Macbeth responses to a range of GCSE style questions.
Includes essays on guilt, Macbeth, Banquo, women, Lady Macbeth, witches.
All responses have been designed to reflect the realistic achievements of the highest achieving students in Year 11.
Some responses are clearly grade 9. Others you may feel could be grade 8 depending on the grade boundaries in any particular year but all have moments of critical exploration required for the top band.
With Lady Macbeth being the focus for the AQA May 2024 exam, here are a range of resources exploring Lady Macbeth’s character in detail. Includes timeline, poster, model answers, lessons and worksheets.
A bundle of resources covering the WJEC/EDUQAS grade 9-1 anthology poems with lessons on individual poems and resources to revise the whole collection.
Includes: revisions cards and a revision grid, revision lessons by theme, lessons on learning key quotations, quizzes and lots more. Have a look through the previews.
If you don't want to buy the full bundle, here are some ;inks to some of my other Eduqas poetry resources:
Revision grid:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-poetry-revision-grid-11388967
Revision Cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-wjec-poetry-revision-cards-gcse-12107545
Lessons on all poems
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-anthology-bundle-2-lesson-on-each-poem-11896591
Revision resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-revising-all-poems-11894072
Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-bundle-gcse-9-1-11815065
20+ lessons covering the anthology poems in the EDUQAS GCSE anthology. Also includes revision cards and a revision quiz.
Links to other Eduqas poetry resources:
Revision Cards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/eduqas-wjec-poetry-revision-cards-gcse-12107545
Lessons on all poems
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-anthology-bundle-2-lesson-on-each-poem-11896591
Revision resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-revising-all-poems-11894072
Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wjec-eduqas-poetry-anthology-bundle-gcse-9-1-11815065