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Developing Writing Skills: Practising Comparison »
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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 ] »AQA A A Level English Language & Literature A2 Coursework Booklet (ELLA4) »
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ELLA4 A2 Student Coursework Booklet.doc
This booklet is intended to have the coursework mark scheme as the final pages of the booklet. For copyright reasons this has not been included. You will need to download the spec and add these pages to complete it. This should be easy as our ELLA4 A2 Student Coursework Booklet is an editable .doc file.
Link to AQA website See pages 10 and 11.
A Guide to Comparative Analysis »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, Hot Entries, Writing, Comparative Analysis, Comparing & Contrasting
To undertake a comparative analysis of the two texts, you can concentrate on a number of areas. I have made general comments here and this ‘model’ could be used with other texts.
Essentially, one of these versions of “The Monkey’s Paw” (Text B) has a lower reading age than the other (Text A). I study this story with a number of classes. It is VERY popular and we often do drama based on the action in the tale.
I use Text B because some of my students cannot understand what is happening when I read Text A to them.
How? Read on…
We...
[ 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...
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