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A Teaching Guide to Titus Andronicus GCSE Shakespeare Coursework (Written or Oral Response) »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English A, Drama, Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Plays, Speaking & Listening, Individual, Group, Drama-Focused, Writing, Drama Analysis
Titus Andronicus
This teaching guide for higher ability students is designed as a self-contained unit which can be used to produce the AQA A GCSE Shakespeare coursework.
- The unit uses one of the lesser-known and less critically-acclaimed Shakespeare plays in order to encourage a high-quality and truly original response.
- The AQA A Shakespeare coursework is what is termed as a ‘cross-over’ piece; therefore, if you are using it for assessment for both English and English Literature GCSEs (the most common approach), you need to be able...
GCSE Speaking and Listening Drama Focused Task: Titus Andronicus »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English A, Drama, Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Plays, Speaking & Listening, Group, Drama-Focused, Writing, Drama Analysis
In your group of 4 or 5, you will be performing and improvised scene based on Titus Andronicus. Imagine you are a modern version of one of the characters from the play. Choose from the following two groups:
1. Titus Andronicus
Lavinia (before she has her tongue cut out!)
Marcus Andronicus (Titus’s brother)
Lucius (Titus’s son)
Young Lucius (Lucius’s son)
2. Tamora
Chiron
Demetrius
Aaron
Saturninus
If you choose Group 1, improvise a scene lasting 3-4 minutes where you discuss the problems caused by the election of the new emperor and...
[ read full article ] »Improvise Task Based on Lord of the Flies »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, Prose, Lord Of The Flies, Speaking & Listening, Drama-Focused, Writing, Productive, Creative or Original Writing
If you have read the last page of the novel Lord of the Flies, you will realise that William Golding had the novel Coral Island in mind when he wrote his tale.
The Task
The following playlet explores some of the issues involved. Once you’ve read the script, improvise a response then write it up.
- What exactly DOES he think?
- Does he sympathise with Golding or attack his views?
The following scene takes place in the common room of a public school. One teacher is sipping coffee and marking some school exercise books. The other, William...
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