GCSE
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Comparing Lake Isle of Innisfree and A Dead Harvest In Kensington
How to write a fandaglistic hyperpolished poetry essay in timed conditions. Use this frame to help you! Explore the different ways in which the poets portray nature in ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’’ and ‘A Dead Harvest in Kensington’ Introduction: where you introduce the poems by explaining BRIEFLY what they are about. Remember you get…
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War Poetry – analysing and thinking about the poem, improving essays
Learning objective: to learn how to use quotation to develop your criticisms of the poems Key quotes: “German guns” Eyes were wild blindfolded English bullet in his heart Abject fear of death Deserter’s grave Panicked down the trench Mother’s grief The Deserter “To add more sympathy at the end, the poet goes on to say…
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Compare in which the poets movingly portray sympathy for the loss of life in wartime in these two poems: The Deserter and The Hero.
Format: Explain poem 1 Explain poem 2 Similarities In imagery and language Structure and themes Differences In imagery and language Structure and themes Conclusion to the question.
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The Opening of the Novel — True or false questions, analysing the opening
True or false? Gabriel Oak complains about Bathsheba’s vanity in the first chapter. Gabriel Oak is a shepherd NOT a farmer at the beginning of the novel. Oak rescues Bathsheba from dying of suffocation in his hut. Bathsheba doesn’t want to marry Oak because she does not love him. Oak would have been financially…
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Review of autobiography
Task: Write a review of an autobiography Summarise briefly why you chose the book and what happened in your person’s life. Explain what interested you about their life, relating it to your life if you can. Explain what were your favourite parts of the book, quoting from your favourite passages and saying WHY the language and…
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Re-writing autobiographical extracts, editing and improving them
Read these passages and answer the questions that follow: he looked like a turtle his little bald head with his oversized blazer, it looked like a home on his back! What is effective about this image? we seized every opportunity to get him back we didn’t care, we was going home after this and…
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How successfully does Hardy open Far From The Madding Crowd?
Learning Objectives To learn about the techniques Hardy uses to create a suspenseful opening to Far From The Madding Crowd To learn about the contexts of Hardy’s novel An important point Starter activity: put these elements of the opening in the correct order Gabriel Oak loses his sheep Oak is rescued from suffocation in his…
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Steps towards writing an excellent essay on the play
Lesson objective To learn how to use your notes to write an essay To collect your thoughts together quickly and write them down Starter activity – put these events in the right order Willy commits suicide Biff and Willy agree to set up the Loman brothers Willy remembers when there were trees in the yard…
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Coursework — writing a sequel to the play or writing an essay which analyses the use of suspense
English Death of a Salesman coursework To be completed in CONTROLLED CONDITIONS in class Either: Sequel plus commentary (COUNTS as ONE piece of coursework) Write a sequel to the play, set ONE year later, where Biff returns home to visit Happy and Linda. Set the scene in the house. DO NOT…
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The bully — reading an FGI extract and planning your answer
Read this passage, written by me and use it to help you plan your own autobiographical extract. Although I don’t know him at all, a kid, Andrew Mintern, in the year above senses my difference and decides to pick on me. One break-time there’s a massive surge after all the “spazzies” in the school…
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Complications leads to a crisis, chapters 24-43, attraction
Learning Objective: To explore the concept of attraction and explore what it is… What makes a person attractive? Rank these qualities and add your own, with the most important first Good looks? A kind and generous personality? A dangerous and risk-taking personality? A high-status, respectable profession such as lawyer/celebrity A dangerous, romantic profession such as…
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Far From The Madding Crowd – complications, chapters 13-26
Learning objectives: to learn how Hardy develops complications in Far From The Madding Crowd Hardy takes some time to ‘open’ the novel – justify your answers Why is this? Because he was a writing in serial form and therefore needed to put cliffhangers in his opening which meant it was longer than most modern openings.…
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Far From The Madding Crowd — CHARACTERISATIONS
Learning objectives To learn how to answer exam questions To learn about CHARACTERISATIONS as opposed to CHARACTERS Important definition – COPY THIS, LEARN IT! CHARACTERISATION is how and why an author presents a character in the way he does. CHARACTER is a person in a novel WHY does more sophisticated analysis discuss CHARACTERISATIONS as opposed…
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Betrayal — Chapters 27-46
What is betrayal? What’s your definition of it? Situations – what would you do? You learn that your partner is havinng an affair You learn after you have committed to each other that you partner had an important relationship they haven’t told you about You learn your partner has a secret love child An attractive…
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Write your own autobiography
Writing to inform, describe and explain Using these prompts to write about it. Give it a unique title. The details of your birth? Where were you born? Was it a traumatic birth? Caesarean section? Parents thoughts and recollections on this. Your first memories: your first smell, your first accident, your first day at…
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Complications — The intrusion of Serjeant Troy
Complications – The Intrusion of Serjeant Troy Revision of Chapters 1 – 24 Who did what? STARTER ACTIVITY Caused a stir in the Casterbridge Corn Exchange and set the farmers’ pulses racing. Lost his sheep, became a tramp and then got a job as a shepherd. Missed a wedding because of going to…
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Teacher’s comments on two Romeo and Juliet essays on hatred
Important note TEACHER COMMENTS ARE IN CAPITALS. Pupils’ work are in lower case. Essay 1 ‘This play is as much about hate, as it is about love.’ Analyse how the theme of hatred is explored in Shakespeare’s play, discussing how it is represented in the language of the play and could…
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‘This play is as much about hate, as it is about love.’
Analyse how the theme of hatred is explored in Shakespeare’s play, discussing how it is represented in the language of the play and could be presented dramatically. Hate plays a pivotal role in the play. The long feud between the families (‘from ancient grudge’) and when individuals fight like Tybalt and Mercutio (‘Tybalt, you…
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Romeo and Juliet: To what extent does Shakespeare present Capulet as being to blame for the death of his daughter?
A pupil’s essay with teacher comments TEACHER COMMENTS ARE IN CAPITALS AND ITALICS Capulet’s character is very deceiving form the very beginning and Shakespeare makes it very clear at the end that both Capulets and Montague’s actions were to blame for the outcome as, “heaven found a means to kill your joys with love”. This…
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Romeo and Juliet: Revision Quiz for Romeo and Juliet
Act OneWhat are the causes of the fight in the square? List FOUR important factors that lead to the fight. What does the Prince threaten to do if there is another fight? Why is Romeo not at the fight? How do we know Lady Montague and Montague are caring, concerned parents? What does Benvolio find…