GCSE
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Romeo and Juliet: Pupil essay: Youth and Age. Should Friar Lawrence and the Nurse have been more careful about the way they encouraged Romeo and Juliet’s love? To what extent does Shakespeare present them as being to blame?
Youth and Age Should Friar Lawrence and the Nurse have been more careful about the way they encouraged Romeo and Juliet’s love? To what extent does Shakespeare present them as being to blame? Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet were aided in their love. It was according to Romeo and Juliet love at first sight […]
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Romeo and Juliet: PUPIL ESSAY: What do you think that Shakespeare is trying to say about the feud in this play?
William Shakespeare tries to set a scene with two families that have pure hatred for each other. Right from the first scene he tries to introduce us to the conflicts between the Montagues and the Capulets. He tries to give us a sense that the feud has been going on for a long long time. […]
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Romeo and Juliet: Compare Romeo and Juliet’s different attitudes towards love in the play — a pupils essay with teacher comments
TEACHER COMMENTS ARE IN CAPITALS AND ITALICS Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet’s attitude towards love changes dramatically. Both of the characters at the end of the play are willing to die for each other in the name of love. At the beginning of the play we are introduced to Romeo and we are shown […]
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Useful grammar exercises
Log onto: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/exlist/exlist.htm
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Quiz questions on Far From The Madding Crowd
Oak 1. In brief, how does Gabriel Oak’s social position change in this novel from the beginning to the end? 2. What are the most important aspects of Oak’s character? 3. When does Oak come to Bathsheba’s rescue and why? 4. What does Oak warn Bathsheba of? 5. What was Hardy trying to say when […]
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Romeo and Juliet revision quiz
Please answer all the quiz questions on Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, Act 4, and Act 5 on this page, checking the answers as you go along. You may use the e-text version of Romeo and Juliet and do a search and find if necessary. http://www.shakespearehelp.com/romeo/main.htm
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Analysis of Celebrity
Starter activity – focus upon adjective associations: In the space below, circle the adjectives you must associate with celebrity Wonderful Fantastic Corrupting Marvellous Terrible Appalling Bad Good Thought-provoking Moronic WRITE DOWN SOME OTHER ADJECTIVES YOU ASSOCIATE WITH CELEBRITY MAIN ACTIVITIES – preparation for media exam: 1. Read the following article and write a summary of […]
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The role of families in war poetry; Spring Offensive; In Flanders’ Field and ‘The Falling Leaves’
Compare and contrast two poems which show how the families of soldiers suffer as a result of the conflict. OR Compare and contrast ‘Spring Offensive’ with one other poem of your choice which uses vivid imagery to convey the horrors of war. OR Compare and contrast the differing attitudes of the […]
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How to make your child succeed at GCSE
The truth about exams So just what is the key to success at GCSE? As a teacher in various state schools for the past two decades, I still chew over the issue virtually every day! Just recently, I was talking late into the night at a Year 11 Parents’ evening. The parents of these sixteen-year-olds […]
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Rewarding the bad, punishing the good
I knew he’d be difficult to teach: a child who had learnt that violence is generally rewarded with bribes, and good behaviour is ignored or punished.