A planning sheet to help students meet the assessment objectives for Literature Paper 2 Section A.

Activity to get students to structure their essay according to their introduction making sure their response fully supports their ideas. Students are to read the introduction, identify the points that need to be proven in their essay, add relevant examples from the text and organise their essay into a coherant argument e.g. chronologically through the text. A Christmas Carol and Poetry.

A 40/40 students creative writing piece used to get the students thinking about how to structure their narratives in interesting and engaging ways but also explain the effect of writer’s structural choices.

Practice question 4 from Language Paper 1. Not a past paper. Potential question. Encourages the students to give a personal response and group methods/ideas together.

A revision activity to get students to understand and show understanding that the writer is making deliberate choices (AO2).

A 36 question gap-fill quiz that checks students’ memories of the family poems in the ‘Love and Relationships’ cluster. Peer-assessed and answer sheet included.

A clear criteria which teachers/students can use to assess newspaper articles. Ensures that all areas of the mark scheme are covered. This resources encourages students to see more than one area they can improve on and encourages them to respond to feedback making revision resources and redrafting work.

This is a great revision resource for students or teachers to work through together, planning possible questions for DNA. This includes previous exam questions and possible questions relating to characters an themes.

Encourage students to think more critically about the character Lady Macbeth. Resource: This resource has statements from critics, sharing different viewpoints on the character Lady Macbeth. In groups, students will explore moments in the play to support or challenge the point of view. Each section has a challenge and an extension task extending student responses. Lesson: Recall questions which are open ended enabling for greater discussion and developed responses. A kinesthetic task to encourage more critical judgements. This visual aid will be returned to at the end. *All of my students had changed their view about Lady Macbeth by the end of the lesson understanding her to be a more complex character than first believed. * Group task. Each group feeds back their ideas and findings with the rest of the class. Other groups add to their resource to complete the table of different viewpoints and perspectives. Students then write a conceptualised, critical, exploratory introduction to an essay on Lady Macbeth. This can develop to an essay. 2-3 lessons

The beginning of a grade 9 response - a great example of the criteria being met and broadening students’ vocabulary. Can be completed with any ability. The following tasks can be completed in pairs, as a class or independently. I completed this task after reading A1 and A2 with my set 6 class. The next step would be writing the first paragraph as a class, then pairs, then independently. This will be achieved as we read more of the play.

Ambitious vocabulary for students aiming for the highest levels. This resource provides students with a wide range of specific and high level vocabulary to meet the top of the assessment criteria. It challenges students to demonstrate their understanding of these terms by writing the meaning and using it in a an example answer. Students should then feel more confident and get used to using ambitious vocabulary and key terms in their written responses. Extension task encourages students to identify where these terms can apply to other Literature texts. Support is given in the form of examples and more challenging meanings completed for them.

A complete lesson and resources introducing students to a range of genres and fiction texts. Identifying and analysing writer’s methods in the opening of ‘A Monster Calls’ to convey the gothic genre. Support, challenges and extensions for all activities. Range of activities for all abilities and learning styles. Promotes reading!

Task: Cut out and order the moments in Act 3. Stick them onto an A3 sheet leaving space for key quotations. Challenge: add contextual links. Option: You could get them to plots them onto a tension graph deciding which is the most tense reveal/moment for the audience. 1-2 lessons to complete - can set as homework/ revision to finish.

Exemplar creative writing piece for Language Paper 1 - part B.

Exemplar introductions and tasks encouraging students to identify the phrasing that meets the top of the Literature Mark Scheme of a conceptualised, well-structured and focused essay, planning the essay clearly laid out in the introductions, redrafting examples to their own idea/focus and writing their own. A Christmas Carol but can be used as examples for any Literature text.

Question created for A Christmas Carol. Not past paper.

A practice paper one a question and extract that hasn’t come up yet.

An extract from Stave 3. Question on the importance of family. Differentiated. Suitable for all abilities.

This resource contains practice exam questions for Language Paper 1 provides guidance to ensure they are focusing on the question and not writing about elsewhere or writing too much. Extension tasks are included to stretch and challenge their understanding of question 1 and even give them a chance to be creative.

A “fun” project for students to revise the plot of Macbeth. Tasks are differentiated with support, challenges and extension tasks. This encourages students’ independent learning on a very teacher-led topic.