A fully sequenced, exam-targeted 25-lesson A-Level scheme of work on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, built specifically for AQA English Literature A (7712), Paper 1: Love Through the Ages, Section A. The scheme drives towards the closed-book, passage-based Section A question and focuses on the assessment objectives that carry the marks: AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO5. Because Shakespeare is out of copyright, this scheme quotes the play directly and teaches close analysis of his own language. Five Gamma-ready lesson decks plus five richly detailed companion Word documents.

Full 25 Lesson Scheme of Work

• Lessons 1 to 5: Foundations, context and the Sicilian catastrophe. The text and the Section A task, the assessment objectives, contexts (kingship, jealousy, romance convention), genre and structure, the eruption of jealousy, the trial and the catastrophe
• Lessons 6 to 10: Time, pastoral Bohemia and the journey home. Time the Chorus, pastoral Bohemia, Autolycus and comic disguise, the journey to recognition, loss and renewal
• Lessons 11 to 15: Methods, themes and exam writing. Language and imagery, structure and stagecraft, forgiveness and reconciliation, writing the Section A essay, mid-unit assessment
• Lessons 16 to 20: Character, the statue scene and criticism. Leontes, Hermione and Paulina, the statue scene, the contested ending, critical perspectives
• Lessons 21 to 25: Synthesis, Love Through the Ages, exam mastery and assessment. Love and time, building a conceptualised argument, exam technique masterclass, final assessment preparation, final assessment and reflection

Five companion Word documents:

• Medium Term Plan (landscape): full 25-lesson table with objectives, sequenced Rosenshine activities, outcomes and the dominant AOs per lesson, plus an accurate note on the Section A mark allocation
• Knowledge Organiser (portrait): play in brief, ten characters, six themes, seven methods, a nine-quotation closed-book bank, contexts, a critical interpretations table, terminology, and the Section A answer method
• Retrieval Practice Grids (portrait): three interleaved grids with a full answer key, spanning plot, method, context, interpretation, quotation and terminology
• Critical Perspectives and Wider Reading pack (portrait): the major critical debates in depth, a worked escalation in deploying interpretation, conceptualised essay questions, and independent study tasks for AO5
• Assessment and Mark Guidance (portrait): best-fit band descriptors reflecting the Section A mark scheme, the analysis-versus-identification lever, the closed-book context, an annotated A-Level model answer, a two-response comparison, and AO-mapped success criteria