Blood Brothers
The Complete Teacher Pack

Blood Brothers, taught from the frame to the exam, for whichever board marks it. Thirty one-hour lessons in six units, in the play’s own order after a week on the Narrator. Every lesson is one card: a five-minute retrieval, the passage to read, the main activity in numbered steps with minutes, the writing, the check, an exam-focus line for each board, and what changes for a student who is stuck or ahead.

Six knowledge organisers, one per unit — the facts, the people, the quotations with who says them and why they matter, the concepts, the three ages, and the one misconception that caps the mark. Six printable diagnostics, one sheet a unit for the first ten minutes, with what each answer tells you. Support, core and challenge in every unit, where the task changes and not only the label, plus what changes for SEND, EAL, stretch and disadvantaged students.

Three boards, three mark schemes, one play. AQA: one essay, 30 marks plus 4 for SPaG. Edexcel: a whole-text question, 40 marks, no extract, no AO2. Eduqas: an extract printed, 40 marks, no AO3. Weak, middling and strong answers are written separately for each, marked against that board’s own descriptors, with why each gets the mark it gets. A class sees its own board, the teacher sees all three. There is also a mock paper in each board’s format, with a DIRT redraft built in. The pack says at every exam line what each board ignores, so nobody writes a paragraph a board will not mark.

Every figure about the exam was read from the boards' own papers and mark schemes; every figure about the 1970s and 1980s from the Office for National Statistics. Where the play is commonly got wrong (the bank that is a garage, the villain who is a victim), the pack says so. The play itself is not included: it is in copyright, and every student needs a copy.

Written to

AQA 8702, Pearson Edexcel 1ET0 and WJEC Eduqas, read from each board’s own papers and mark schemes; every figure about the 1970s and 1980s from the Office for National Statistics

Intended for

English teachers and heads of English. A six-week scheme taught to a class, not a student revision guide

Extent

96 pages · 60 sections