Student friendly PLC for new AQA English Literature exam 8702/1. Paper 1 Shakespeare and the 19th -century novel

Here's a student friendly PLC/mark-scheme aimed at Year 9 students. It's aimed at giving them a rough idea of what they're required to do to reach Band 6. Any suggestions on how to improve the boundaries, with the new Grades 1-9 in mind, would be very much appreciated!

Our Year 9 students completed the specimen question on Romeo and Juliet as a mock exam. SLT want to focus on giving Year 9 a realistic idea of what they're expected to do in their GCSE exams.

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Comparing poems - getting ready for the AQA English Literature Unit 2 exam (Section A - Relationships Cluster)

Here's a method that I've suggested to several students on how they could approach the task of comparing two poems. It's not the be all and end all - it's merely aimed at encouraging students to build a structure of some sort in their essay writing. Most students don't know where to start from. This can help. (<click)

Quote Hunt update!

The lesson went smoothly. Students, in my foundation class, loved the process of hunting for quotes and they enjoyed choosing relevant quotes from a wide range of quotes (from across the novel).

The only alternative changes I would like to make would be to have a pre-lesson! A lesson before the quote hunt where students are set out in groups to identify quotes from a particular chapter for a particular theme. That way it will help them memorise their quotes even more so. The pre-lesson would also focus on language techniques, examples and their definitions.

Quote hunt!

Year 11 revision can be quite repetitive. In the spirit of making revision fun...I'm going to give my Foundation Year 11 class a chance to hunt around for relevant quotes (hidden around the classroom). I'm going to hide relevant historical information around the class too. Different past exam questions will also be placed around the room. Students will be told to choose an exam question and start their hunting for at least four relevant quotes and two pieces of relevant historical information!

In respect of the Learning Objective, the table below will encourage them to consider how relevant their quotes are to their essay questions as most students choose irrelevant quotes just to follow the P.E.E. method.

Don't be put off by the need to collect lots of quotes before the lesson. I downloaded some fantastic resources from @TeachitEnglish for OMM quotes instead of spending an eternity typing up lots of relevant quotes for every character and theme. @TeachitEnglish to the rescue!

I'll keep you posted on how it goes. :)

Filter your quotes - not your coffee!

Some of my students seem to ignore the importance of dissecting a quote to reveal its connotations and language craftwork. As a result, I've created this little gem to see if I could guide students on how to search for meanings independently.

Filter your quotes can be downloaded here!