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GCSE English Paper 2 – Poems from Different Cultures Is this an A* Essay? Why? »
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Compare the ways an event is described in ‘Blessing’ with the ways an event is described in ‘Island Man’.
Imtiaz Dharker and Grace Nichols are both clearly concerned with issues of identity and clashing cultures when exploring the main events in their poems ‘Blessing’ and ‘Island Man’. Despite the fact that Dharker originates from Pakistan, and Nichols from Guyana, each seems able to use similar poetic techniques to get to grips with wider issues beyond the apparently mundane occurrences in their poetry.
The concept of identity is...
[ read full article ] »Compare the ways in which Duffy and Larkin use language to create a sense of isolation »
Categories: Exemplars, Exemplar Materials, Hot Entries, Poetry, Analysing Poetry, Duffy, Mean Time, Larkin, Whitsun Weddings, Students' Work, Students' Essays, Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, Writing, Poetry Analysis, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4
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Both Duffy and Larkin use language in their poetry to express how it feels to be isolated, or to be on the outside of society. The poems I have chosen here present this theme in different ways, providing examples of different ways in which the poets work. Larkin often offers us the persona of an outsider, but is not...
[ read full article ] »Compare the ways in which Plath and Duffy use language to convey the theme of anger »
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- Compare the ways in which Plath and Duffy use language to convey the theme of anger.doc
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- Using exemplar essays to improve students’ work
Both Plath and Duffy express attitudes towards the theme of anger, through the use of language. Both poets’ ideas though are conveyed in different ways. Plath expresses her emotions through reference from her own experiences which have given her inspiration, but with Duffy, she uses the persona of other people to explore deeper meaning and...
[ read full article ] »Compare the ways in which Larkin and Duffy use language to explore relationships »
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- Compare the ways in which Larkin and Duffy use language to explore relationships.doc
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Both poets Philip Larkin and Carol Ann Duffy write about relationships. Using different language techniques, they can show how they portray their feelings towards them. The poems I have chosen to show this are “Valentine” and “Disgrace” by Duffy and “Self’s the Man” and “Talking in Bed” by Larkin.
Duffy’s poem titled “Valentine”...
[ read full article ] »Compare the ways in which Plath and Duffy use language to convey a sense of childhood »
Categories: Exemplars, Exemplar Materials, Hot Entries, Poetry, Analysing Poetry, Duffy, Mean Time, Plath, Ariel, Students' Work, Students' Essays, Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, Writing, Poetry Analysis, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4
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- Compare the ways in which Plath and Duffy use language to convey a sense of childhood.doc
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Plath and Duffy both explore the theme of childhood in their poetry from different angles. In the poems selected here, Duffy presents childhood as a memory: vague and tantalising in Beachcomber and specific and threatening in Welltread, while Plath presents childhood by exploring the development of an unborn child and...
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- Compare the ways in which Plath and Larkin use language to convey ideas of violence.doc
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- Compare the ways in which Plath and Duffy use language to convey a sense of childhood.doc
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- Compare the ways in which Larkin and Duffy use language to explore relationships.doc
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Compare the ways in which Plath and Larkin use language to convey ideas of violence »
Categories: Exemplars, Exemplar Materials, Hot Entries, Poetry, Analysing Poetry, Larkin, Whitsun Weddings, Plath, Ariel, Students' Work, Students' Essays, Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, Writing, Poetry Analysis, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4
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Violence is an aspect which is clearly present in some of Plath and Larkin’s poetry, but each conveys this theme in different ways and forms. Larkin tends to express his ideas about society by means of a persona different to himself, which he does in the two poems selected here, using violent imagery and connotations to...
[ read full article ] »LTA1A Student Response 1 »
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January 2010
Annie Besant makes her thoughts entirely clear from the first sentence she writes: a ‘Bitter memory’ about an issue extremely close to many Victorian women’s hearts, gender inequality. The ‘woman question’ was present in many literary pieces of the ‘golden age’. Hardy, a poet, was known for his idealisation of women, especially in the ‘Emma poems’, however few writers tackled head on the persecution women faced. Besant also talks of gender discrimination in the...
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June 2009
Cultural commentator John Ruskin comments on the ‘separate characters’ of men and women. Strict Victorian values dictated that the male’s role was in the outside world and the woman’s in domestic settings. There is no room for individuality, love or an upset order-like cogs in the machine men and women could function together if they kept their separate roles. In the article he describes this as an agreeable working relationship for men and women alike but Victorian...
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June 2009
During the Victorian Era, women were expected by society’s standards to be the carers for their home and their families. ‘The Gilded Age’ showed women how they were to be and how they were to act, highlighting the corruption of society with no free speech or lifetime ambitions fulfilled. John Ruskin makes it clear to the audience that men were ‘the creator, the discoverer, the defender’ whereas women were to stay at home and attend to the man’s needs, rather than their...
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June 2009
The ‘Golden Age’ of the Victorian Era was a time when women were looked upon in the toughest of lights. Society watched closely with a judging eye at any female breaking the conventions that other women such as Mrs Beeton had set. John Ruskin, being a cultural commentator, would have been all too aware of ‘the Angel of the house’. He sees the domestic expectation forced upon Victorian women while their husbands ‘create’, ‘discover’ and ‘defend’.
Ruskin seems...
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[This is a response to the January 2010 LITA3 paper.]
Both extracts C and D, Stoppard’s ‘The Invention of Love’ and Hall’s ‘The Well of Loneliness’, explore the idea of forbidden love and challenge the traditional view of what ‘love’ really is, and means.
Both of the extracts have a dominant character: Stoppard’s is the dead ‘AEH’ whilst Hall’s is Stephen. Their dominance can be seen in their overwhelmingly long speeches, compared to the other character’s...
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[This is a response to the Specimen Question Paper at:
http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gce/pdf/AQA-LITA3-W-SQP-07.PDF]
Both ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare and ‘The Woodlanders’ by Thomas Hardy display similar views of the love after and beyond death, despite the large time gap between their publications.
Hardy’s portrayal of Marty South’s deep and everlasting love for Giles Winterborne in her weekly visits to his grave show this theme of love beyond death. Despite the...
[ read full article ] »LITA3 Student Response 1 »
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Hardy and Shakespeare both write about the parting of those who love each other. However, the partings contrast greatly in that the love of Romeo and Juliet is reciprocated, whilst Marty and Giles were never a couple. This is emphasised by Romeo and Juliet being alive and together on stage and Giles being dead in ‘The Woodlanders’. However, the image of death does play an...
[ read full article ] »Feedback on Media Coursework »
Categories: Exemplars, Exemplar Materials, Media & Non-Fiction, Media & Non-Fiction Activities, Students' Work, Students' Essays, Writing, Media Analysis, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English A
1) I am pleased at the first drafts: you have clearly attempted to capture the tone of an Empire magazine article.
2) I am, however, concerned at the amount of copying and pasting (or copying and pasting and “changing a few words”) that appears to have taken place. This is not acceptable. You must credit your sources (see below) and put quotations from websites in quotation marks (see below). If you have used a website in any way at all, you must credit it (see below). You risk failing your GCSEs in all subjects if you plagiarise.
3) You...
[ read full article ] »A Letter to Lady Macbeth - An A Grade GCSE Response to Shakespeare »
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An A Grade GCSE Response to Shakespeare
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It fulfils the requirements of GCSE Language and/or Literature as a inventive and enterprising personal response to a Shakespeare play. It would be an excellent example of coursework.
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LITA3 Student Response 1 »
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[This is a response to the Specimen Question Paper at:
http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gce/pdf/AQA-LITA3-W-SQP-07.PDF]
Hardy and Shakespeare both write about the parting of those who love each other. However, the partings contrast greatly in that the love of Romeo and Juliet is reciprocated, whilst Marty and Giles were never a couple. This is emphasised by Romeo and Juliet being alive and together on stage and Giles being dead in ‘The Woodlanders’. However, the...
[ read full article ] »A Letter to Lady Macbeth - An A Grade GCSE Response to Shakespeare »
AQA GCSE English
An A Grade GCSE Response to Shakespeare
An Alternative Coursework Assignment for GCSE English Language and/or Literature?
It fulfils the requirements of GCSE Language and/or Literature as a inventive and enterprising personal response to a Shakespeare play. It would be an excellent example of coursework.
Egghead Productions
Dear Ms Holden,
Congratulations!
We are delighted to inform you that you have successfully made it through the auditions and have been chosen to portray the role of Lady...
[ read full article ] »(1 pages)