180 slides of a full scheme of work. A complete, exam-ready scheme of work for AQA A-Level English Literature B (7717) Paper 2A: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner through the lens of Elements of Crime Writing. Fifteen Rosenshine-structured lessons, a landscape MTP, five Knowledge Organisers, four Retrieval Grids with answer keys, an A* Extension Pack and an Annotated Mark Scheme bundle covering Band 3 to Band 5 exemplars. Branded, validated and ready to teach.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the most studied pre-1900 poetry texts on the AQA Elements of Crime Writing component. This bundle gives you everything you need to teach the text from first lesson to mock exam, with full coverage of AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO5 and explicit alignment to the AQA Text

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Built for departments that want consistency, rigour and time back. Suitable for first-year teachers and experienced practitioners alike.

What’s Included

• Medium Term Plan (Word, 8 pages, A4 landscape). A 15-lesson scheme of work mapped to the AQA crime writing elements, with learning outcomes coded to AOs, key quotations with part and line references, Rosenshine 8-stage activity sequences, exit-ticket assessment and resource cross-references. Includes delivery notes on differentiation, literacy and oracy, cross-curricular links, homework cycle, AfL strategies and a risk register.
• Knowledge Organisers (Word, 14 pages). Five phase-aligned KOs covering context and form; Parts I and II; Parts III and IV; Parts V to VII; whole-poem synthesis. Concludes with a curated list of twenty quotations students must memorise for the exam.
• Retrieval Grids (Word, 9 pages). Four phase-aligned grids of 15 closed-recall questions each (60 questions total, 104 marks), with full answer keys for self-marking or whole-class review. Designed for ten- to fifteen-minute starter or homework use.
• A* Extension Pack (Word, 15 pages). Eight chapters of advanced material for the highest grades: the 1817 marginal gloss; three critical readings; ecocriticism and the One Life; the Warren-Empson debate; the psychoanalytic reading; Coleridge’s sources and the spectre-bark; AO5 sentence stems and critical vocabulary; a bank of twenty examiner-style questions.
• Annotated Mark Schemes (Word, 9 pages). A Band 3 exemplar and a Band 5 exemplar of a Section B essay on Rime, side-by-side with examiner commentary colour-coded by strength, weakness and neutral observation. Includes an eight-axis side-by-side comparison and a six-move toolkit for lifting Band 3 responses to Band 5.