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Synopsis and Overview In 2008 Jason and Chris are released from prison, having served time for the horrific injuries they inflicted on Stan, a bar-keeper and Oscar, his assistant, in the violent brawl in 2000, which forms the climax of the action. Jason is still angry and belligerent with Evan, his parole manager; Chris is softer: repentant, and later claims that Bible has ‘saved my life’. Subsequently we see them with their respective mothers: Tracey: like Jason, is belligerent,…
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Sweat | Mock Exam C »
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Remember that you are being tested on your knowledge and understanding of the whole text from which you are expected to make relevant and judicious selections of detail to frame your answer. Mock Exam Question Paper C New PDF Either Question 1 How does the following passage from the end of 1.5 develop and comment on the centrality of work to the characters’ lives and personalities in the play? One is reminded of Charley’s eulogy of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s ‘Death…
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Sweat | Mock Exam B »
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Remember that you are being tested on your knowledge and understanding of the whole text from which you are expected to make relevant and judicious selections of detail to frame your answer. Mock Exam Question Paper B New PDF Question 1 Look again at this extract from Act One Scene Two: our introduction to Tracey, Cynthia and Jessie. How does Nottage create our first impressions of the three of them and how any two of those impressions are developed at particular moments, later in the play?…
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Sweat | Mock Exam A »
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Cambridge AS and A Level 8695 IGCE, Drama, Sweat Lynn Nottage, Lynn Nottage
Remember that you are being tested on your knowledge and understanding of the whole text from which you are expected to make relevant and judicious selections of detail to frame your answer. Mock Exam Question Paper A New PDF A Either:- Question 1 Read through this extract from Act Two Scene Four very carefully. How does Nottage develop conflict and tension here and what are their outcomes later in the play? You might have considered some or all of the following:- There is conflict between…
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Sweat | Lesson 3 »
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Cambridge AS and A Level 8695 IGCE, Drama, Sweat Lynn Nottage, Lynn Nottage
2008: Act 1.1, and 2.7: the scene with Evan, Chris and Jason The learning objective is to develop our understanding of Chris and Jason eight years after the fight when they have served their jail terms. Re-read these scenes out loud and make sure you are very familiar with them. The split into two groups, one per scene. Printable Activity Sheet New PDF Starter Activity What impressions of the characters do you form as you read through each scene? How effective is Evan in his role of Parole…
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Sweat | Lesson 2 »
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Cynthia’s promotion and its consequences: Act Two Scene Three. The learning objective is to develop and complete our understanding of Cynthia, and appreciate the ways in which Stan acts as the good friend to support her. Read through the scene between Cynthia and Stan from the opening, up to the entrance of Tracey and Jessie. Cynthia: On a cruise, Panama Canal. That’s where I’d like to be right now………. ……………….…
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Sweat | Lesson 1 »
Categories: KS5 Resources, KS5 Literature, Cambridge AS and A Level 8695 IGCE, Drama, Sweat Lynn Nottage, Lynn Nottage
In this lesson we will look at a very famous poem by the leading artist of the Harlem renaissance, Langston Hughes, the end of which Nottage quotes as her preface to the play. The demise of loyalty and patriotism, the fracturing of the country and bitter discontent of the ‘have nots’ in the play find a potent parallel in Hughes’ depiction of social inequality in the 1930’s depression. We are back to a significant proximity to the alleged ‘American…
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