The History Boys: Activity Pack for GCSE
Unearth the significance of the literary and cultural allusions and clever interchanges in Bennett’s witty and intelligently written play, with a variety of stimulating, ready-to-use activities covering all aspects of the text.
A fabulous variety of activities to challenge and engage students of all levels
Carefully considered structure develops understanding:
- Build a foundation for learning and get students interested with introductory pre-reading exercises.
- Dig deeper with text-based activities. Every chapter is explored through a range of thought-provoking tasks. A focus on close reading, writing style and vocabulary develops essay skills throughout the pack.
- Consolidate knowledge with whole-text activities focusing on: Characterisation • Relationships • Setting • Themes • Ideas and Messages • Language • Form • Structure • Context
All activities are perfectly matched to the GCSE Assessment Objectives.
Activities include:
- Insightful questions
- Stimulating reading and writing tasks
- Pair and group work
- Creative activities for visual and kinaesthetic learners
- Knowledge-check activities including quizzes, crosswords and word searches
- Extension activities
- Exam-focused ‘stop and think’ activities
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What do teachers say about this resource? (11886)
A brilliant resource with a fabulous variety of activities to challenge and engage students of all levels. I like it a lot! I like the fact that the resource could be used equally as an individual resource for students to work through (or for teachers to set as cover work!) and as a class work book. It's great and is clearly written by someone who knows the play well.
Recommended! An excellently planned resource. I really like the way that the resource is split into acts, and then the content is divided into easily searchable activities... The titles of the focus pages are interesting and thoughtful... The answers section is particularly helpful for teachers new to the text, or in need of a new angle to their teaching.