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How to improve grades when writing for Othello
This EnglishEdu guide on Shakespeare’s popular A Level play, Othello, aims to supplement rather than replace other readily available Internet and printed material for the teaching of the play.
The guide explores the issues, themes and characters in the play that are particularly relevant to the current (2010) A Level Literature specifications. To add to the usefulness, and with an eye to the central AO requirement of close textual analysis of form, structure and language, each exploration gives close textual references for each statement and provides alternative views with the intent of assisting teachers in guiding their students through text-based explorations of the issues, themes and characters. Suggested tasks are also occasionally offered.
- The guide also suggests how you might find free Othello resources on the internet and points you to some useful lesson plans and schemes which particularly suit the current A level Literature specifications.
- We also suggest useful sources of critical analysis.
In the section ‘Improving Grades’, the guide offers a sample analysis, guidance on writing a focused critical response; how to include context and alternative viewpoints.
For those teachers looking at what the various examination boards require, a separate...
