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In this lesson students will be introduced to persuasive writing and travel writing through looking at an article advertising Copenhagen.

For students studying AQA’s ‘Worlds and Lives’ anthology or for Unseen Poetry this worksheet identifies poetic devices and asks student to comment on their effect.

Used as part of a 19th Century (Charles Dickens SOW) this lesson explores Dickens’ use of language for the workhouse boys using an extract from Chapter 2.

This bundle includes eight lessonS for a Year 7 class studying Matilda. It would also suit KS2 learners. There are eight PowerPoints with accompanying extracts, scaffolds and tasks.

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.

Students will need to make a key and colour context. Texts studied: Macbeth, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, An Inspector Calls

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 will read an article about Paul Newman’s ‘Serious Fun’ camps and then answer comprehension questions.

Students will read an article about Japanese Culture and then answer a series of questions requiring explicit retrieval skills and inference.

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 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