Introduction
At EnglishEdu our aim is to help the overworked English teacher (including this writer!) with something that you will feel is both very useful and – where possible – very different from what might be found elsewhere, either on the Internet or in print.
All of the guides, schemes of work and classroom materials on Englishedu have been produced by experienced and well-respected English teachers. The guides are based on their best experience of teaching particular units of work.
This new guide is something a little unusual. We are aiming to offer you a series of guides that will offer you and your students a rather different way of approaching and analysing literary texts.
The idea has been borrowed from English Language teaching and the guides – of which this is the first – will offer a methodical series of linguistic ‘levels’ or ‘frameworks’ that can be applied to many different literary texts. Each guide will offer many worked examples – just the kind of thing students always ask for – from a selection of literary texts.
At the core of all current English Literature syllabuses is the need for students to carry out a ‘close reading’ or close analyses of texts at the levels of form, structure and language, looking for the effects these create and identifying the purpose intended by the writer.
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