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Resources are meticulously crafted to align with the UK's educational standards. You can trust that they are created with your students' needs in mind. 🎓
🔎 Explore the collection and discover engaging worksheets, interactive presentations, and creative activity packs that will captivate your students' imaginations while supporting their learning journey. 🌈🔬
Resource 1 - Detective Fiction Creative Writing Student Exemplar - PDF Download - Ideal for students to critic
Resource 2 - Detective Fiction: A Mysterious World Unveiled - PDF Download - Hand out containing adjectives, expanded noun phrases, simile and metaphor examples and focusing on the 5 senses.
Resource 3 - Detective Fiction Creative Writing and Peer Assessment Worksheet - PDF Download - Instructions:
In this worksheet, you will explore detective fiction and apply your knowledge by writing your own detective story. You will also have the opportunity to peer assess a classmate’s story. Follow the instructions carefully and complete all activities to the best of your ability.
Materials Needed:
• Pen/pencil
• Paper/notebook
English Worksheet: Analysing ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake
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Instructions:
• Read the poem ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake.
• Complete the activities and answer the questions below.
Materials Needed:
• Copy of the poem ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake.
• Pen or pencil.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare Play Context Worksheet
Overview:
This comprehensive worksheet is designed to enhance a range of critical thinking and analytical skills. It offers a wide variety of engaging exercises to improve your word meaning, inference, summarizing, analysis and evaluation, content evaluation, structure comprehension, retrieval skills, prediction, explanation, exploration, as well as comparison and synthesis abilities. It also includes an answer sheet for convenient marking.
Key Features:
• Word Meaning: Enhance your vocabulary by exploring and understanding the meanings of various words.
• Inferences: Master the art of drawing logical conclusions from given information.
• Summaries: Develop the skill to condense complex texts into concise and meaningful summaries.
• Analysis and Evaluation: Improve your ability to analyze and critically evaluate information.
• Content, Structure, and Quality: Assess the content, structure, and quality of different texts.
• Retrieval: Enhance your ability to locate and extract specific information from texts.
• Predicting: Predict the outcome or future developments based on available information.
• Explaining and Exploring: Expand your knowledge and understanding by explaining and exploring different topics.
• Comparison and Synthesis: Compare and combine information from multiple sources to gain deeper insights.
Ideal Usage:
• Cover Lesson: Perfect for covering lessons when the primary educator is absent.
• Homework Task: Assign as homework to reinforce learning outside the classroom.
• Revision: An excellent resource for revising and consolidating key skills and knowledge.
Don’t miss out on this valuable resource that will undoubtedly accelerate your academic progress and help you become a more proficient and critical thinker.
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The Gunpowder Plot – Reading Comprehension
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Answer sheet provided for easy marking
Focuses on developing the following skills – Word Meaning, inferences, Summaries, Analysis and Evaluation, Content, structure and quality, retrieval, predicting, explaining and exploring, Comparison and Synthesis
A Journeys End Character Worksheets
Variety of tasks
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Great for cover lessons
Covers the characters:
Osborne
Raleigh
Stanhope
The Colonel
Hibbert
Trotter
Mason
Officer Hardy
This comprehensive teaching resource focuses on providing students with a thorough understanding of the contextual elements surrounding William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. The resource is available in PDF format, consisting of a lesson plan, a student workbook, and additional reading comprehension exercises.
Topics
What is context: Explore the importance of contextual understanding in literature.
Gun Powder Plot: Investigate the historical event and its influence on Macbeth.
Globe Theatre: Gain insight into the theatre where Shakespeare’s plays were performed.
Political Tensions: Analyze the political climate during the time Macbeth was written.
King James I: Examine the monarch’s role and his connection to Macbeth.
Moral of the Play: Discuss the overarching moral message conveyed in the play.
Medicine: Explore medical practices during Shakespeare’s era and their relevance to Macbeth.
Divine Right of Kings: Understand the concept and its significance in Macbeth.
Macbeth as a Tragedy: Analyze the key characteristics of tragedy in the play.
Good vs Evil: Examine the central theme of the battle between good and evil in Macbeth.
Tragic Hero / Tragic Waste: Explore the tragic hero archetype and its portrayal in the play.
External and Internal Conflict: Discuss the various conflicts faced by the characters in Macbeth.
Catharsis and the Supernatural: Explore the role of supernatural elements in the play and their impact on the audience.
Lack of Poetic Justice and Comic Relief: Analyze the absence of poetic justice and the use of comic relief in Macbeth.
The Norse Invasion: Explore the historical context of the Norse invasion and its influence on the play.
Witchcraft and the Supernatural: Investigate the belief in witchcraft during Shakespeare’s time and its representation in Macbeth.
King James I and Witchcraft: Examine King James I’s fascination with witchcraft and its connection to the play.
The Gowie Conspiracy: Explore the conspiracy that inspired the subplot in Macbeth.
Moreover, the resource includes modeled exam answers to assist students in understanding how to approach exam-style questions. It also features a quiz/assessment section to evaluate students’ comprehension of the topics covered.
With this comprehensive teaching resource, students will develop a deep understanding of the contextual elements surrounding Macbeth, enabling them to appreciate the play’s themes and messages on a more profound level.
Exploring the Character of Osborne in A Journeys End by R.C Sherriff worksheet
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Ideal for cover lessons
A Journeys End
Variety of tasks and questions
Answer sheet provided for easy marking
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Overview
Sexual / Textual Politics
What is a woman?
Waves
Gilbert and Gubar
Monster v Angel
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Intersectionality
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Masculinity in Wide Sargasso Sea
Woman in Black by Susan Hill – Reading Comprehension
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Answer sheet provided for easy marking
Focuses on developing the following skills – Word Meaning, inferences, Summaries, Analysis and Evaluation, Content, structure and quality, retrieval, predicting, explaining and exploring, Comparison and Synthesis
Christopher - A Curious Incident of the dog in the night time
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A series of questions regarding Christopher’s character in ‘A curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime’
Questions assess: Knowledge retrieval, critical thinking and application skills
10 questions in total and ends with an answer sheet.
William Shakespeare – Reading Comprehension
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Answer sheet provided for easy marking
Focuses on developing the following skills – Word Meaning, inferences, Summaries, Analysis and Evaluation, Content, structure and quality, retrieval, predicting, explaining and exploring, Comparison and Synthesis
Silas Marner by George Eliot - Reading Comprehension
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Answer sheet provided for easy marking
Focuses on developing the following skills – Word Meaning, inferences, Summaries, Analysis and Evaluation, Content, structure and quality, retrieval, predicting, explaining and exploring, Comparison and Synthesis