LO: How do I compare language, form and structure used by writers to create meanings and effects? A complete lesson including starter, unseen poems, exam question, model responses, plenary that explores a Paper 2-style AQA English Literature unseen poetry question based on the following poems: Grace Hazard Conkling: Cedars and Nicolaus Lenau: The Oak-Wood. Powerpoint: 15 slides. AQA English Lit Paper 2 Section C Unseen Poetry Purpose of unit of work: To master questions 27.1 and 27.2 Form: Exam paper responses Assessment Objectives: AO1 - Read, understand and respond to texts, maintaining a critical style and developing an informed personal response, using textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations (12 marks). AO2 - Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate (12 marks). AO2 - Comparison of AO2 (8 marks) STIMULATE AND GENERATE Focus on engagement, discussion and building cultural capital CAPTURE, SIFT AND SORT Sifting the outcomes from the first phase to fit where we are heading. What skills do pupils need to learn in order to be successful in the next phase? Focus on teaching, modelling and developing key skills and processes linked to success criteria CREATE, REFINE AND EVALUATE More independent application of skills learnt. This is the stage that needs most differentiation and allows/enables writers to work at different rates and pitches. Self, peer and teacher review happens throughout this phrase. Write extended responses to exam questions, provide feedback and refine work Starter: Which words make the forest sound MYSTERIOUS? Which words make the forest sound SACRED? Key question: What language form and structural techniques can I compare? Unseen poems: Read both poems: Grace Hazard Conkling: Cedars and Nicolaus Lenau: The Oak-Wood¬ – 7 steps to read and understand Exam question: In Cedars and The Oak-Wood the speakers describe the woods. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the woods are presented? How do I structure my poetry comparison essay?: 5 steps Task: Comparison table. The structure of a comparative paragraph: Go through points. I DO: Model comparative paragraph (first half). YOU DO: Use this model to help you write the second half of the comparative paragraph. SELF-ASSESSMENT: Check the model paragraph. Now write your own paragraph comparing form and structure. What makes this comparative paragraph successful? Use the example to help you write your own comparative paragraph about a DIFFERENT method and effect. Plenary: Peer Assessment - Read through your partner’s response. Highlight and annotate their response to show where they have demonstrated WHAT WHERE HOW WHY. Write a brief commentary below their work in which you explain the following: What went well (WWW). What do they need to do in order to improve? (EBI).

Stevenson’s vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

English Homework - Sentences and Punctuation 6 weeks’ worth of homework activities in an A4 Powerpoint editable and printable booklet. Easy and quick to peer or self-assess in class. Tasks focus on the following: Homework 1 – Identifying sentences Label the subject and the verb in each sentence Identify the sentences Homework 2 – Simple or compound? Turn the simple sentences into compound sentences Identify whether the sentences are simple or compound Homework 3 – Simple, compound or complex? Turn the simple sentences into complex sentences Identify whether the sentences are simple, compound or complex Homework 4 – Demarcating sentences Rewrite the sentences using correct punctuation Homework 5 – Correcting punctuation Rewrite the sentences using correct punctuation, removing comma splice or run-on sentence errors Homework 6 – Colons and semicolons Rewrite the sentences placing a colon where required Rewrite the sentences placing a semicolon where required

LO: How do I develop an informed, personal interpretation supported by textual references? A complete lesson including starter, unseen poem, exam question, model responses, plenary that explores a Paper 2-style AQA English Literature unseen poetry question based on the following poem: Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken. These resources can be adapted for use with different poems and questions by other exam boards. Powerpoint: 13 slides. AQA English Lit Paper 2 Section C Unseen Poetry Purpose of unit of work: To master questions 27.1 and 27.2 Form: Exam paper responses Assessment Objectives: AO1 - Read, understand and respond to texts, maintaining a critical style and developing an informed personal response, using textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations (12 marks). AO2 - Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate (12 marks). AO2 - Comparison of AO2 (8 marks) STIMULATE AND GENERATE Focus on engagement, discussion and building cultural capital CAPTURE, SIFT AND SORT Sifting the outcomes from the first phase to fit where we are heading. What skills do pupils need to learn in order to be successful in the next phase? Focus on teaching, modelling and developing key skills and processes linked to success criteria CREATE, REFINE AND EVALUATE More independent application of skills learnt. This is the stage that needs most differentiation and allows/enables writers to work at different rates and pitches. Self, peer and teacher review happens throughout this phrase. Write extended responses to exam questions, provide feedback and refine work Starter: ‘two roads diverging’ Which road would you take? Why? How important is the choice you make? Key question: who is ‘in charge’ of the meaning of a poem? Unseen poem: Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken. Glossary Comprehension check: Show summary of meaning of the poem Interpretation check: Focus on the feelings and the overall message of the poem. What do you think the point being made might be? Exam question: In The Road Not Taken, how does the poet present ideas about making choices? Steps to understanding an unseen poem: AO1 4 steps. Task: Show 3 different interpretations of the poem. Which do you agree with most and why? Discuss: Are there any comments that you disagree with? Why? Do you have your own interpretation of the poem which is different? Plenary: Key question: who is ‘in charge’ of the meaning of a poem?

Stevenson’s vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

Stevenson’s vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

Stevenson’s vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

Writing Practice Homework: Sentence Demarcation - 6 Weeks 6 weeks’ worth of homework tasks including one page of learning and one page of related activities Easy and quick to self-assess in class . Tasks focus on the following: Homework 1 – What is a sentence? Types of sentences The parts of a sentence Complete the activities: Find the sentences Distinguish the clause elements Homework 2 – How simple and compound sentences are structured Simple sentence Compound sentence Complete the activities: Simple or compound? Compound out of simple Homework 3 – How complex sentences are structured Complex sentence Complex sentence with embedded clause Complete the activities: Simple, compound, or complex? Complex out of simple Homework 4 – Punctuation to demarcate sentences The full stop [ . ] The question mark [ ? ] The exclamation mark [ ! ] The semi-colon [ ; ] The colon [ : ] Speech marks [“ ”] Complete the activities: Add punctuation to demarcate the sentences Homework 5 – Comma Splice and Run-On Sentences Comma splice Run-on sentence How to correct comma splices and run-on sentences Complete the activities: Correct the punctuation Homework 6 – Colons and semi-colons The colon and its functions The semicolon and its functions Complete the activities: Put a colon in each of the following sentences Replace the commas with semicolons

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from texts set or written in the 1920s. 27 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (2 to 4 sheets per lesson, including extract and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts from: 1 - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 2 - The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury 3 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 4 - The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings 5 - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot 6 - Ulysses by James Joyce 7 - We by Yevgeng Zamyatin

5 weeks’ worth of homework tasks including one page of learning and one page of related activities as A4 Word editable and printable booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class . Tasks focus on the following: Homework 1 – Functional paragraphing Functional paragraphing examples TIP TOP Complete the activities: Insert the paragraphs Correct the paragraphs Homework 2 – Purposeful paragraphing Purposeful paragraphing examples Complete the activities: Insert the paragraphs Homework 3 – Paragraphing direct speech What is indirect speech? What is direct speech? The general rules of direct speech Complete the activities: Insert the paragraphs Homework 4 – Making paragraph choices Sustain or maintain the same style Develop Contrast Complete the activities: Develop Contrast Homework 5 – Organising a text Topic sentences Sentence expansion Complete the activities: Add the topic sentences and discourse markers Sentence expansion

5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. This is the teacher copy, with correct answers already highlighted. A separate file is available to purchase, without correct answers highlighted, designed for pupil use. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems: 1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias 2 - William Blake - London 3 - William Wordsworth - Extract from, The Prelude 4 - Robert Browning - My Last Duchess 5 - Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade

5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 5 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems: 1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias 2 - William Blake - London 3 - William Wordsworth - Extract from, The Prelude 4 - Robert Browning - My Last Duchess 5 - Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade

A printable A3 Knowledge Organiser for Macbeth including Context, Plot, Characters, Quotations, Key Terms and Themes. Designed as a large flashcard: Part 1: Learn the content Part 2: Test yourself (turn sheet over and fill empty template) Perfect for exam revision.

A printable A3 Knowledge Organiser for Macbeth including Context, Plot, Characters, Quotations, Key Terms and Themes. Part 1: Learn the content Part 2: Test yourself (turn sheet over and fill empty template) Perfect for exam revision.

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from American texts published in the 1930s. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts from: 1 - The 42nd Parallel by Jon Dos Passos (1930) 2 - As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 3 - Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934) 4 - The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway (1936) 5 - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) 6 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 7 - The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1939)

A Christmas Carol Stave 1 Quiz and Answers worksheet A post-reading resource or revision activity to check understanding of Stave 1. Pupils can peer or self-assess using the answers sheet which can be read out by teacher, projected or printed. Worksheet includes: 15 multiple choice questions on 2 A4 pages - pupils to select options a) b) c) d) Questions cover a range of topics from basic comprehension, to inference, to grammar, quotation recall, and contextual understanding. Also included, the answers worksheet where correct answers are highlighted in red.

Stevenson’s vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.