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An Inspector Calls Character Revision
Use the A3 sheet to revise inferences for 10 quotations per character then compare against the answer sheet. The animations on the PowerPoint reveal each answer one by one so you can go through them in turn.
Activity is differentiated to encourage higher-level students to push for more advanced inferences and to identify and comment on language features and Priestley’s wider purpose.
I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310
Revision Cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143
Knowledge Organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057
Revision quotations:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293
Romeo and Juliet Final Revision Lesson: Revise 6 Big Ideas using 3 knowledge organisers
I like to revise BIG IDEAS for my final revision lesson. This lesson is student led.
Students create a mind map 6 BIG IDEAS about Romeo and Juliet using the 3 knowledge organisers to help them form their ideas.
Also includes 6 sample exam questions on one A3 sheet for ease of photocopying. The 6 questions are my predictions for what might come up in 2019.
To Kill a Mockingbird - over 100 key quotes on one page
The worksheet contains over 100 key quotes from the novel in chapter order.
Students are asked to link each quotation with one of the main themes using a code.
Students found this to be a highly effective revision tool.
Effects of greed in A Christmas Carol - 6 key quotation revision cards
6 quotations exploring the effects of greed in A Christmas Carol based on the May 2023 AQA exam question.
The revision cards are aimed at students look to develop grade 7-9 comments about the key quotations which meet the requirements for A01, A02 and A03.
Bundle
EDUQAS POETRY REVISION LESSONS
A bundle of resources to use in the final few weeks after you have taught all 18 poems.
The resources encourage students to learn quotations, explore comparisons and write up comparative paragraphs.
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
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
Animal Farm Plot Summary Cloze
Animal Farm one page plot summary turned into a cloze passage activity. Useful for recapping the plot to help begin revision.
Power and Conflict Revision Quiz (AQA Poetry).
Ideal lesson to check the students’ understanding of the 15 poems and work out which poems to go over again.
In each round there are 15 questions (one on each poem).
Round 1: Opening Lines
Round 2: Conflict
Round 3: Power
Round 4: Key phrase
Round 5: Structure
Round 6: Context
Extra quiz on thesis statements for each poem.
Also includes an extra quiz on 5 questions per poem.
Another quiz is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-revision-quiz-12352453
Revise: Themes in A Christmas Carol. (family, isolation, poverty, charity, Christmas, supernatural)
Revision sheet and revision cards for 6 themes in A Christmas Carol.
Includes key quotations for each theme from each Stave and notes on context.
The 6 themes I have selected are
Isolation
Supernatural
Poverty
Christmas
Family
Charity
Mrs Birling
This comprehensive lesson and pack contains a full range of resources to help students understand the character of Mrs Birling in ‘An Inspector Calls’. The resources have been created for the AQA 9-1 2017 onwards English Literature Paper 2 examination.
A list of her lines throughout the play
A mid/high level model essay
An incomplete model essay to develop
A differentiated carousel activity to promote insightful thinking about the character
An essay plan
An essay checklist
An evidence finding worksheet
A mind map to complete
There is also an essay plan for a response on Mr Birling.
Macbeth Act 1 Scenes 6 and 7
Updated PowerPoint with annotations, differentiated question worksheets and differentiated writing frames for analysing Act 1 Scene 6 and Act 1 Scene 7 from Macbeth. Also includes questions to recap the main events in Act 1 as a whole.
9 An Inspector Calls model responses grades 4-9
This resource contains 8 exemplar responses on character and theme questions for An Inspector Calls with marks and examiner comments. The model essays range in quality from grade 4 to a full mark grade 9 response. This is an excellent resource to use in departmental moderation or to show students the different quality expected at each grade from 4 to 9.
Thanks for your feedback. I have taken on board your comments and made significant improvements to the resource.
Include model answers to the following questions about Sheila, Mr Birling, Gerald, Eva Smith, Mr Birling, Mrs Birling, responsibility, egotism.
UPDATE 2022: I have converted this popular resource into a 36 page booklet combining essay plans, model essays, plot summary, theme revision cards, quotation revision tasks into one document for ease of printing.
Update 2023: new responses added on the following:
cruelty
anger
chain of events
Power and Conflict Revision Cards
15 revision cards for the Power and Conflict cluster.
Each card has 4 sections:
Themes of power and conflict
5 key quotations
Structure
Context/Author’s intentions
A Christmas Carol 100 Comprehension Questions with answer sheet
100 comprehension questions on A Christmas Carol. 20 questions on each Stave that is useful to use at the end of scheme of work to test students’ understanding of the novella. All the questions are in chronological order. I have put them all onto one A3 sheet to allow for easy printing.
I have also included an answer sheet for students to mark the quiz themselves.
NEW: Also contains the questions in the form of a board game.
Also includes analysis of the top 10 single words to analyse in the novella with high level explanations of how to zoom in and then how to zoom out to explore Dickens’ authorial purpose.
2 ways to structure a comparative essay for AQA power and conflict
This resource summarises two ways of structuring a comparative poetry response for the power and conflict poems: the 4 paragraph ‘methods-based’ approach and the 2 paragraph ‘conceptual’ approach.
Romeo and Juliet: Grade 9, Grade 8 and Grade 7 model responses
This popular resource includes 3 grade 9 Romeo and Juliet responses, 1 grade 8 response and 1 grade 7 model response to 5 AQA style GCSE examination questions on Romeo and Juliet. The exam questions and extracts are included beside the model responses.
I have tried to produce responses at the level reasonably expected of a high-level GCSE-aged student within 45 minutes of examination time.
Sometimes when teachers write exemplar responses, they produce such a high level of analysis that students find them overwhelming. I tried to avoid that.
Includes a grade 9 model response to a question on adults and children.
Includes a grade 8 model response to a question about male hostility and asks students how they could turn it into a grade 9 response through deeper language analysis (A02).
This resource is ideal to use to show students how to write successful answers that meet the criteria for A01, A02 and A03.
I have also included a sixth examination question so that students can have a go at an exam question themselves using my 9 step method.
Romeo and Juliet Revision Quiz
50 Questions over 50 Slides on Romeo and Juliet. The questions go through the key plot points and quotations chronologically. There is the answer slide at the end to allow students to mark the quiz themselves.
Act 3 Scene 3 Romeo and Juliet - Banishment
A lesson exploring how Romeo reacts to his banishment in Act 3 Scene 3 with a sample EDUQAS exam question on the extract, annotations and a writing frame.
Inspector Goole
A lesson aimed at helping mid/low ability students expand their analysis of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls.
Includes a planning sheet for expanding analysis of quotations, starter questions, a planning sheet and an exemplar response.
Writing frame for comparing how War Photographer and Remains present ideas about conflict
A writing frame to guide students through the following exam style question:
Compare the ways the poets in War Photographer and one other poem (Remains) present ideas about conflict. (30).
The writing frame encourages students to make discriminating comparisons between the poems.
MACBETH TOP 50 and TOP 100 QUOTATIONS EXPLAINED
My top 50 Macbeth quotations on one sheet with some analysis about why each quotation is important in the play as well as the scene each quotation has been taken from. Also now updated to contain the top 100 quotations too.
Also includes a blank version with space to add the explanations in to test yourself.
A good way to use the sheet to revise is to group the quotations into themes to help prepare for the possible exam questions that might come up.
a) ambition
b) appearance versus reality
c) guilt
d) animal imagery
e) supernatural
Also includes an additional sheet matching the 50 quotations to 50 brief explanations.
Also contains a Macbeth quotation random generator quiz and a sheet to revise 6 motifs in Macbeth.