Two detailed essay plans on ‘Othello’. These have been put together to aid the teaching of AQA’s spec A English Literature course ‘Love Through the Ages’ but would be suitable for any A level course or to support more able students at GCSE. The pdfs include the essay titles and the passage with suggested ideas on both the passage and elsewhere in the play.
Everything you need to teach the ‘war’ poems from the GCSE Eduqas poetry anthology. 77 slides, include lessons on all of the following: Armitage, Sheers, Owen, Brooke, Hardy. Slides include close analysis of each poem, plus context and essays plans and structures to follow. I also have other resources on the other poems in the anthology and a bundle covering a full term’s work (with over 250 slides)
The slides are arranged with some just containing the quotations for students to ponder and build an argument around and other ‘teacher’ slides padded out with more notes and ideas. Suitable for any A level spec, the essay plan follows the structure of the following key ideas:
Aggression and physical dominance - manifested in violence, in order to subjugate the women and preserve his authority.
Male pride/ego
Sexual desire - manifested in animalistic behaviour, suggesting masculine sexuality is base and primal
Detailed essay questions, including passages for analysis with key quotations, analysis and links to context highlighted in yellow - some plans with written paragraphs as a model. Essay topics covered include:
how Scrooge changes throughout the novel
poverty
community
transformation
supernatural
This is a brilliant book covering lots of thoughtful issues around friendship, grief and it is also utterly magical and enchanting. This unit of work contains over 170 slides covering comprehension skills, reading implicit meaning, punctuation, report writing, descriptive writing, speech writing to name a few. It was used for year 8 students but could be used for top primary as well as early secondary. Lots of consolidated work here, fun and enough to keep students busy for at least a term.
A background presentation on Bronte, a contexts presentation, close analysis and chapter by chapter close textual analysis throughout the central Thornfield chapters plus other helpful banded answers
An essay title written for the AQA spec A Love Through the Ages paper 1 section A with a question onRead the passage from Othello, provided below, and respond to the following:
• ‘In Othello, love makes women helpless victims’.
• In light of this view, discuss whether Shakespeare presents women as victims in this passage and elsewhere in the play.
• [25 marks]
This includes an annotated extract to support teaching.
Two essay titles with all the appropriate quotations gathered together for students to analyse:
Why do you think it is important that Golding portrays the natural world as a character with malevolent characteristics?
How does Golding establish a contrast between the two boys in the first five pages?
Poetry often manages to engage our interest in issues and characters which we do not necessarily like or admire. How far would you support this remark?
A detailed essay plan on ‘The Wife of Bath’ with quotations
This test provides you with quotations from the text and invites students to make links to relevant contexts. A filled in version is supplied for the teacher.
This was a really useful task which invited students to visualise the town of Maycomb and to answer the question: How does Harper Lee use the settings of Maycomb to reflect aspects of life in 1930s America. I’ve included my filled in version for teacher use.
A presentation covering the various plot narratives students could choose from when planning a short story. Towards the end are a series of detailed questions helping students to think about their own characters and how to create jeopardy and therefore a plot.
A mini unit on writing a Gothic chapter or scene. This includes material suitable for key stage 3. There are prompts within the tasks as well as scaffolded sheets.
These presentations have been written to support the Eduqas sample paper ‘Megan’ and includes a critique of exemplar answers and encourages students to improve their own work.