Unit including: full text by slide with full glossary questions for discussion ranging from low to high- ability on each slide longer tasks based on Literature and Language skills Word of the Day linked to the text and recall questions Language Paper 2 on the representation of Father Christmas over the years. I made this unit for a KS4 class who are familiar with the story, but have not yet looked at the text in any great detail. It is designed to prepare them for the GCSE Literature examination (AQA). They struggle with the vocabulary and so I have created a glossary for every single part of the text (which took absolutely ages!). The whole text is shown on these slides, enabling a teacher to use the slides as a standalone with groups, set the reading of it as for homework as a download, print off extracts from the Gutenberg copy of the text to annotate in class, or follow with their own copy. You could also use an audio version of the text to read it for you, as it is completely unabridged. Each slide comes with questions for that particular section of the text, ranging from very easy (bronze), language and structure focused (amber) and social and historical focused (yellow). I have designed these questions to develop the skills required for their Literature GCSE and also the skills required for their Language GCSE (Recall, Language, Structure, Response to Statements). These questions could be used for class discussion or you could actually get students to write the answers to the questions on some slides as class work or complete for homework. For each unit of the text, there is a task. You may want to interchange these with exam questions that have either been published by the exam boards or which have been produced by other TES authors. There are some excellent questions available for use on the TES resources pages. I have added some writing to describe and argue tasks, as well as a Paper2 Language Style paper on Santa Clause throughout the years. Best wishes, Lindsey

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I’m a big fan of Charlotte Bronte so this is one of my favourite Paper 2s; via her diary we learn about her hatred for teaching (we’ve all been there, Charlotte). It contrasts with a piece from The Guardian about a student teacher full of enthusiasm for teaching. I’ve included the Word and PDF document so you can tinker with it if you want to, and I’ve put the GCSE boundaries for 2017 and 2018 on the front so that students can see how far away they were from the next grade. Please have a look at my paid resources. The ‘Easy GCSE Mark Scheme’ works very well with this for quick and efficient marking.