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Dr Faustus Tasks and Activities for A level
A student-friendly activity pack with teacher answer section. Tasks provide a structured and progressive learning programme to complement the reading of the play in varied and stimulating ways.
Has lots of in-depth activities, which are well varied and really got my students thinking
Every scene has a wide range of tasks to help focus teaching and study on important aspects of the play. Includes:
- Quick quides to literary terminology to ensure student’s use the correct terms in their essays
- Tasks to help clearly identify themes, genre, form, structure and language
- Close reading and analysis activities to reinforce understanding of the influence of context
- Key quotations to help students prepare for the exam
The author clearly understands what the board is asking of students
- Includes teacher version with answers!
- Did you know? Includes handy factoids
Importantly includes exam guidance to give students control over their own exam preparation [for AQA B and WJEC]:
- Plan – guide to essay plans
- Practise – exam-style sample questions
- Practice – exemplar essays with self-assessment tasks
- Check – checklists for writing good essays
- Check – student-friendly mark schemes
The exam focused materials on the specification are superb and the student friendly mark scheme is extremely helpful
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What do teachers say about this resource? (4645)
I love it! The depth and detail is impressive and would certainly make our jobs a lot easier. The exam focused materials on the specification (AQA B 'The Gothic') are superb, and the 'student friendly mark scheme' is extremely helpful. The board-specific practice exam questions are great, and the author clearly understands what the board is asking of students. I would have complete confidence in handing the exam advice given here directly to students.
Excellent... Really good activities for the Elizabethan Theatre web quest – these are interesting as well as allowing pupils to get a feel for the times... I really like the glossary at the start of each scene. This makes new terms easier to manage and far less intimidating... Structured really well.
I loved it. It has lots of in-depth activities, which are well varied and really got my students thinking. It helps to keep me on track as a new Literature teacher and it really focuses the students and makes the text accessible.
The resource contains excellent activities for pupils to do independently...and has given guidance by dividing the analysis of each scene into themes/form, structure and language.