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Lord of The Flies Essay Guide »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, Prose, Lord Of The Flies, Trial, Writing, Essays, Prose Analysis
A Scaffolded Essay Guide to Lord of the Flies
At the beginning of the novel, Ralph stands on his head and celebrates the fact that there are no adult survivors.
This is a dream come true. How does this dream turn into a nightmare?
It is true that at the beginning of the novel that in conversation with Piggy that Ralph celebrates the fact that there are no adults on the island. I think he…
Within hours of celebrating the lack of adult supervision. Ralph assumes the role of…
The dream really turns into a night mare when…
Another key...
[ read full article ] »Developing Writing Skills: Practising Comparison »
Categories: Hot Entries, Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, Trial, Writing, Comparative Analysis, Comparing & Contrasting
Several specifications require comparison: of known texts, of known with unseen texts, or of all unseen texts. These may be literary or linguistic comparisons, or there may be a requirement to combine both techniques. The activities here include ways of developing comparative skills that will benefit all of these kinds of exam and coursework tasks. Each activity has a short introduction in italics to indicate the kind of task that it is most suited as preparation and practice for. The majority of these activities are about allowing...
[ read full article ] »DARTs and the Teaching of Literary Analysis »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, AQA GCSE, OCR GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Hot Entries, Prose, Wuthering Heights, Trial, Writing, Prose Analysis
Associated Resources
DARTs Literary Analysis and Wuthering Heights.doc
I teach some students with special needs and I found one particular technique really useful when tackling Pre-Twentieth Century Literature recently.
To put the lesson in context, I try to enter my autistic students for GCSE English examination as soon as possible.
This gets them used to the system and the particular demands of the syllabus, particularly in coursework and the examination itself.
Some students thus take the examination as early as Year 8 or Year 9 in the...
[ read full article ] »English Literature ‘Frameworks’ 14: Context »
Categories: Courses, A Level, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Literature A, LITA1, LITA2, LITA3, LITA4, AQA A Level English Literature B, LITB1, LITB2, LITB3, LITB4, EDEXCEL A Level, EDEXCEL A Level English Literature, 6ET01, 6ET02, 6ET03, 6ET04, OCR A Level, OCR A Level English Literature, F661, F662, F663, F664, WJEC A Level, WJEC A Level English Literature, LT1, LT2, LT3, LT4, Hot Entries, Trial
Introduction
The fourteenth in the EnglishEdu series on ‘frameworks’ for A Level English Literature.
This guide explores how to help students analyse the context of novels, short stories or prose extracts in order to allow them access to the highest grades.
Context: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The most straightforward way of demonstrating how to analyse a text closely in terms of context is to exemplify it. The extract below is followed by a series of bullet points which demonstrate how to analyse closely using carefully chosen...
[ read full article ] »AQA GCSE Literature Anthology Poems: The Clown Punk - Simon Armitage »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English A, AQA GCSE English B, AQA GCSE English B (Mature), AQA GCSE English Literature A, AQA GCSE English Literature B, Different Cultures & Traditions, Poetry from Different Cultures, Hot Entries, Poetry, Analysing Poetry, Trial, Writing, Poetry Analysis
Click on the link below to download Jo Winwood’s PPT on The Clown Punk by Simon Armitage.
The Clown Punk.pptx
The Clown Punk.ppt
This resource is relevant to the following courses:
AQA GCSE English spec code 4700
AQA GCSE English Language spec code 4705
AQA GCSE English Literature spec code 4710
The anthology can also be used for Controlled Assessment in the following:
AQA English Literature Unit 5: Exploring Poetry
AQA English Unit 3: Understanding and producing creative texts
AQA English Language Unit 3: Understanding spoken and...
Lord of the Flies PPT by Jo Winwood »
Categories: Hot Entries, Prose, Lord Of The Flies, Trial
Click on the link below to download Jo Winwood’s PowerPoint on Lord of the Flies.
The Lord of the Flies by Jo Winwood.ppt
Improving Writing | Discourse Markers: A Teacher’s Guide and Toolkit »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English A, AQA GCSE English B, AQA GCSE English B (Mature), AQA GCSE English Literature A, AQA GCSE English Literature B, OCR GCSE, OCR GCSE English, OCR GCSE English Literature, WJEC GCSE, WJEC GCSE English, WJEC GCSE English Language, WJEC GCSE English Literature, KS3, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, Trial, Writing, Essays, Persuasive Writing
Associated Resources
- Discourse Markers Toolkit.doc
- Discourse Markers PowerPoint.pptx
- DISPLAY Discourse Markers.doc
A ‘discourse marker’ is a word or phrase that helps to link written ideas. These words are generally more formal lexical items that find little use in speech – which is perhaps why they do not always come naturally to students.
Discourse markers can be used, for example, to link ideas that are similar (e.g. the adverbs, also and similarly); and they can be used to link ideas that are dissimilar (e.g. however, alternately)....[ read full article ] »
Writing to Describe: Writing an exam-type answer »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, Hot Entries, Trial, Writing, Descriptive Writing
Describe a visit to a fairground.
You should aim to write 1½-2 sides, perhaps 4-500 words, spending 40 minutes on the question.
Click on the link below to download this resource in Word format.
Writing_-_Describe_Exemplar_Fairgound.doc
LITA3 Student Response 1 »
Categories: Courses, A Level, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Literature A, LITA3, Exemplars, Exemplar Materials, Students' Work, Students' Essays, Trial
Click here to download this response as a PDF file.
[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 image of death does play an...
[ read full article ] »Cream Cracker Structure »
Categories: Dramatic Monologues, A Cream Cracker under the Settee (ACCUTS), Trial
Cream_Cracker_Structure.doc
Talk Features Notes »
Categories: Courses, A Level, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature B, ELLB3, Trial
ELLB3 Talk in Life and Literature
A Comprehensive Guide to the vocabulary needed and how it can be used to gain a top grade
ELLB3 is a module that requires a detailed understanding of how conversations work within life, and through this understanding that comments can then be made on how playwrights manipulate language, structure and form to create drama within a play. The following terminology can be used to answer both Question 1- the text based question and Question 2- the unseen question comparing a transcript with an extract from a...
[ read full article ] »Poetic Techniques Stealing and My Last Duchess »
Categories: Poetry, Analysing Poetry, Trial, Writing, Poetry Analysis
Poetic Techniques used in Stealing and My Last Duchess
Write examples of the poetic technique on the left from the two poems.
There may be just one example or several. Include as many as you can.
Leave the space blank if there are no examples of the technique in the poem.
Download
Poetic Techniques Stealing and My Last Duchess.doc
A Teaching Guide to Macbeth GCSE Shakespeare Coursework (Oral Response) »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English A, Drama, Macbeth, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Plays, Trial, Writing, Drama Analysis
Macbeth
This teaching guide is designed as a self-contained unit for students of medium to high ability. It can be used to produce the AQA A GCSE Shakespeare coursework and has been designed for assessment via the EN2/Lit Oral Response Option (although it could easily also be adapted to provide a written 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), the student will need to be...
[ read full article ] »Lord of The Flies Essay Guide »
A Scaffolded Essay Guide to Lord of the Flies
At the beginning of the novel, Ralph stands on his head and celebrates the fact that there are no adult survivors.
This is a dream come true. How does this dream turn into a nightmare?
It is true that at the beginning of the novel that in conversation with Piggy that Ralph celebrates the fact that there are no adults on the island. I think he…
Within hours of celebrating the lack of adult supervision. Ralph assumes the role of…
The dream really turns into a...
[ read full article ] »Developing Writing Skills: Practising Comparison »
Several specifications require comparison: of known texts, of known with unseen texts, or of all unseen texts. These may be literary or linguistic comparisons, or there may be a requirement to combine both techniques. The activities here include ways of developing comparative skills that will benefit all of these kinds of exam and coursework tasks. Each activity has a short introduction in italics to indicate the kind of task that it is most suited as preparation and practice for. The majority of these...
[ read full article ] »DARTs and the Teaching of Literary Analysis »
Associated Resources
DARTs Literary Analysis and Wuthering Heights.doc
I teach some students with special needs and I found one particular technique really useful when tackling Pre-Twentieth Century Literature recently.
To put the lesson in context, I try to enter my autistic students for GCSE English examination as soon as possible.
This gets them used to the system and the particular demands of the syllabus, particularly in coursework and the examination itself.
Some students thus take the examination as...
[ read full article ] »English Literature ‘Frameworks’ 14: Context »
Introduction
The fourteenth in the EnglishEdu series on ‘frameworks’ for A Level English Literature.
This guide explores how to help students analyse the context of novels, short stories or prose extracts in order to allow them access to the highest grades.
Context: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The most straightforward way of demonstrating how to analyse a text closely in terms of context is to exemplify it. The extract below is followed by a series of bullet points which demonstrate how to analyse closely...
[ read full article ] »AQA GCSE Literature Anthology Poems: The Clown Punk - Simon Armitage »
Click on the link below to download Jo Winwood’s PPT on The Clown Punk by Simon Armitage.
This resource is relevant to the following courses:
AQA GCSE English spec code 4700
AQA GCSE English Language spec code 4705
AQA GCSE English Literature spec code 4710
The anthology can also be used for Controlled Assessment in the following:
AQA English Literature Unit 5: Exploring Poetry
AQA English Unit 3: Understanding and producing creative texts
AQA English Language Unit 3:...
Lord of the Flies PPT by Jo Winwood »
Click on the link below to download Jo Winwood’s PowerPoint on Lord of the Flies.
The Lord of the Flies by Jo Winwood.ppt
Improving Writing | Discourse Markers: A Teacher’s Guide and Toolkit »
Associated Resources
A ‘discourse marker’ is a word or phrase that helps to link written ideas. These words are generally more formal lexical items that find little use in speech – which is perhaps why they do not always come naturally to students.
Discourse markers can be used, for example, to link ideas that are similar (e.g. the adverbs, also and similarly); and they can be used to link ideas that are dissimilar...
[ read full article ] »Writing to Describe: Writing an exam-type answer »
Describe a visit to a fairground.
You should aim to write 1½-2 sides, perhaps 4-500 words, spending 40 minutes on the question.
Click on the link below to download this resource in Word format.
Writing_-_Describe_Exemplar_Fairgound.doc
LITA3 Student Response 1 »
Click here to download this response as a PDF file.
[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 ] »Cream Cracker Structure »
Talk Features Notes »
ELLB3 Talk in Life and Literature
A Comprehensive Guide to the vocabulary needed and how it can be used to gain a top grade
ELLB3 is a module that requires a detailed understanding of how conversations work within life, and through this understanding that comments can then be made on how playwrights manipulate language, structure and form to create drama within a play. The following terminology can be used to answer both Question 1- the text based question and Question 2- the unseen question comparing a...
[ read full article ] »Poetic Techniques Stealing and My Last Duchess »
Poetic Techniques used in Stealing and My Last Duchess
Write examples of the poetic technique on the left from the two poems.
There may be just one example or several. Include as many as you can.
Leave the space blank if there are no examples of the technique in the poem.
Download
Poetic Techniques Stealing and My Last Duchess.doc
A Teaching Guide to Macbeth GCSE Shakespeare Coursework (Oral Response) »
Macbeth
This teaching guide is designed as a self-contained unit for students of medium to high ability. It can be used to produce the AQA A GCSE Shakespeare coursework and has been designed for assessment via the EN2/Lit Oral Response Option (although it could easily also be adapted to provide a written 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),...
[ read full article ] »(1 pages)
