KS4: EDEXCEL:
Here are some success criteria which I created for each element of the exam. The idea is to create a guide to the key skills needed for each element of the exam (or the elements where more than one or two marks is needed). When marking an assessment, you can quickly use the codes and ask students to refer to their sheets. It makes feedback quicker and more specific once content has been learnt and you need to work on exam skills.
English Language Exam Success Criteria
Edexcel English Lit Examination Success Criteria
Revision Guides: Revision Guides for Edexcel English Lit and Language Easter Revision
Relationships Poetry:
We are foscuing on the relationships cluster so here is a giant knowledge organiser and a PowerPoint which could be used as a starter or around school to support revision:
Romeo and Juliet:
The huge and whole Romeo and Juliet collaborative Scheme of work from my department including success criteria, assessments, lesson powerpoints for key scenes can also be found here.
Here are some key extracts from Act 1-3 of Romeo and Juliet (ignore the title of the document!) – there are key questions on the side and some other documents to support teaching and annotation of the text. These can be used to support extract based question skills. Act One extracts
Also for Romeo and Juliet are these ‘top trump’ cards. Not very snazzy but very effective. Students simply decide how much of each character (in a percentage) should be assigned to each personality trait. They can then discuss, argue or write about what evidence they can remember to prove these traits. Romeo + Juliet top trumps
Jekyll and Hyde:
Our very popular collaborative Jekyll and Hyde scheme of work can be found here.
This includes lessons, key extracts, success criteria and assessment materials.
Here are some more resources to revise with – transactional writing tasks inspired by Jekyll and Hyde.
Journey’s End:
These elaborative interrogation cards were made to support revision. The idea is that students will better remember the facts if they can make links as to the fact and these help them with the whole text question as they force them to make links. Students can make their own for revision using the basic questions stated.
JE Elaborative Interrogation cards
Literature Interleaving Revision:
Revision tasks for R&J, An Inspector Calls, Journey’s End, Jekyll and Hyde and A Christmas Carol (or any combination of them!) for Edexcel syllabus. It also includes Language tasks – a reading and writing task each week.
Task: Jekyll and Hyde, An Inspector Calls and Romeo and Juliet Tasks
Homework Check questions: Jekyll and Hyde, An Inspector Calls and Romeo and Juliet – Homework task checks
Tasks: Jekyll and Hyde, Journey’s End, Romeo and Juliet Homework
Homework Check questions: Jekyll and Hyde, Journey’s End and Romeo and Juliet Homework task checks
Tasks: A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls and Romeo and Juliet Year 11 Homework
PPT quizzes and answers for revision of: Jekyll and Hyde, Romeo and Juliet, Journey’s End, Relationships anthology poetry
Literature Interleaving Quizzes
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