I have included the Past Paper (2022) along with the mark scheme and extract.
I have included model answers for Questions 3 and 4 which I have written. The language/structural terminology has already been highlighted.
In this lesson my G.C.S.E class rotated the information sheets and made their own notes on the provided grid.
The resources help students gain an understanding of the socio-historical context Robert Louis Stevenson was writing in.
There are four worksheets (I have used these as homework in the past). Each sheet has ten words linked to the play for students to learn the definition and spellings of.
Students will learn the higher level vocabulary needed for a sophisticated response (A01 and A04).
This was set as a homework task but could be adapted for classwork.
Students are given an AQA-style description and then asked to answer the following questions:
Research was a ‘cyclical narrative’ is. How is this writing cyclical?
What examples of interesting or higher-level vocabulary can you find? Highlight them.
List all the types of punctuation you can see:
Label where you can see each of the following: pathetic fallacy, simile, metaphor, personification.
Bill Bryson: Mother Tongue
Tasks:
Read through the opening chapter of Bryson’s book which explores the history of the English language.
Highlight any information you find interesting.
Summarise each page of the book in a sentence.
An extract of the book is included in this activity.
Useful for any SOWs relating to linguistics.
Students are given an article along with a comprehension sheet.
Students are assessed on their ability to retrieve explicit information as well as inference.
Here is a set of four spelling sheets, forty words total. I used this for homework with my top set G.C.S.E class to ensure they had relevant higher level vocabulary for their ‘An Inspector Calls’ essays.
I used this as cover for my top set Year 11 class to consider themes, politics and context in more detail. There are three worksheets in the set: Gender, Morality and Responsibilty.
You could use this as a whole class worksheet or as a homework task too.
In this lesson my G.C.S.E class rotated the information sheets and made their own notes on the provided grid.
The resources help students gain an understanding of the socio-historical context J B Priestley wrote ‘An Inspector Calls’ for and in.
Here is a set of four spelling sheets, forty words total. I used this for homework with my top set G.C.S.E class to ensure they had relevant higher level vocabulary for their ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ essays.
I used these spelling sheets for homework with my top set G.C.S.E class in my first school and Key Stage 3 in my current school when studying ‘A Christmas Carol’.
There are three sheets, each list at least 10 words (one has a few extra!) with space to write the definiton of each word, practice the spelling and write which character it applies to.
The characters covered are: Marley, Fred, The Ghost of Christmas Past, Scrooge, The Ghost of Christmas Present and The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
This ensured my students had ambitious vocabulary across the novella for all characters.
I have used these homeworks sheets with a top set G.C.S.E class and more recently a KS3 class.
The attached tasks are:
Ambitious Vocabulary - which words apply to which character
Didactic Dickens - exploring the Author’s intentions
Poetry and Dickens: considering poverty in Dickensian London
Comprehension Task: The Ghost of Christmas Past
In this lesson my G.C.S.E class rotated the information sheets and made their own notes on the provided grid.
The resources help students gain an understanding of A Christmas Carol’s context and Dickens’ London.
Here are the homeworks tasks I have used for both KS3 and KS4 Orwell Study.
Research Task: Banned Books
Language Analysis and Comprehension of Old Major’s Speech
Characteronyms
Political Compass
The homework tasks included are:
A comprehension sheet based on the foreword to the novel.
Three spelling sheets, each with ambitious vocabulary relating to the novel.
Research tasks on World War One.
There are four worksheets (I have used these as homework in the past). Each sheet has ten words linked to the novella for students to learn the definition and spellings of.
Here are three homework tasks designed with my Year 9 in mind.
Reading and responding to thought pieces written by Susan Hill for ‘The Guardian’.
Research tasks on single mothers in different time periods.
1980s Songs.