This is a comprehensive 45-page booklet that covers all of the key skills required for success with AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5. There are over 10 model responses and a comprehensive range of tasks which develop in complexity from sentence-level work to composing full responses. Whilst this was designed for delivery in-class (and has been used successfully to that end in inner-city contexts), it contains full explanations so it could be used as independent revision, homework or catch up work.

This is a 21 lesson (230+ slides) SoW, covering a variety of reading and writing skills. There are interleaved reading and writing tasks with a full range of exemplars. The final assessment of the unit is a comparative essay between ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. The final assessment could easily be adapted to be just about OMaM or to compare with other texts. The scheme explores the following sets of skills and ideas: The significance of social, historical context on literature. Marxist and feminist approaches to literature. The relevance of Biblical allusions/Christianity on Western literature. Comparison of two thematically linked texts, building to a comparative essay between Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird. Developing the full range of writing skills, emphasising variety of sentence structures, techniques and tone.