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🔎 Explore the collection and discover engaging worksheets, presentations, and creative activity packs that will captivate your students' imaginations while supporting their learning journey. 🌈🔬
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Introduction to Main Characters A Christmas Carol
Covers Characters
Scrooge
Fred
Marley
Ghost of Christmas Past
Bob Crachit
Ghost of Christmas Present
Ghost of Christmas yet to come
Aimed at lower ability
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Perspective
Covers -
Introducing Perspective
How Perspective Works
Different Perspectives in Literature
The Power of Perspective
Note - Teaching ideas! (Not included in the powerpoint for guidance purposes only!)
Activities to Understand Perspective
Here are a few activities you can try to deepen your understanding of perspective:
Role-play an interview: Pair up with a friend and take turns interviewing each other. Pretend to be characters from a story you’re reading. Ask and answer questions from your character’s perspective. This will help you understand how different characters think and feel.
Debate club: Organize a mini debate at school around a topic you care about. Assign each team or individual a different perspective to defend. This will challenge you to see the topic from multiple angles and learn how to argue persuasively.
Alternative endings: Choose a story you enjoy and rewrite the ending from a different character’s perspective. This will help you understand how different viewpoints can change the outcome of a story.
Remember, perspective is like a superpower that helps you empathize with others and appreciate different opinions. It enhances your reading, writing, and communication skills. So, let’s put on those magical glasses and explore the world from different viewpoints!
Please find the PDF download of a non-editable teaching resource focusing on the Victorian Society in the United Kingdom (1837-1901). This resource is designed to provide comprehensive information on various aspects of the Victorian era, covering the class system, society, gender roles, education, and key historical events.
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Contents :
What is Literary Criticism?
Why do we do Literary Criticism?
How do we do Literary Criticism?
Examples of Literary Criticism
Teaching Ideas
This educational resource provides an in-depth exploration of the life and reign of Queen Mary of Scotland, spanning the period from 1542 to 1587. Ideal for history enthusiasts and students alike, this fact file offers a comprehensive overview of Queen Mary’s significant historical contributions and the tumultuous events that shaped her reign.
Queen Mary of Scotland, also known as Mary, Queen of Scots, ascended to the throne at a tender age, facing numerous challenges and political intrigue throughout her rule. This resource delves into the key milestones and defining moments of her reign, shedding light on her character, decisions, and the complex web of relationships that influenced her time as monarch.
In addition to focusing on Queen Mary’s reign, this fact file also provides valuable insights into the concurrent historical events unfolding in the United Kingdom during the same period. By contextualising Queen Mary’s reign within the broader historical landscape of the time, students can gain a deeper understanding of the political, social, and cultural dynamics at play in sixteenth-century Britain.
This teaching resource is designed to engage students with lively and informative content, presenting historical information in a clear and accessible manner. With a blend of insightful analysis, engaging storytelling, and thought-provoking discussion points, this fact file invites readers to delve into the rich tapestry of Queen Mary of Scotland’s era and the wider historical context in which she lived.
Please note that the PDF is not editable to preserve the integrity of the content and ensure its accuracy and reliability for educational purposes.
Inspector Calls Sheila Exam question exemplar response - PDF download
Ideal for students to critic for revision
Includes extract from Inspector Calls
Question - Write about Sheila Birling and how she is presented at different points in the play. In your response
you should:
refer to the extract and the play as a whole.
show your understanding of characters and events in the play.
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Overview
David Lodge, 1935 - : A Select Bibliography
Language of Fiction: Close Reading Poetry and Prose
Language of Fiction: Translation and Bad Writing
Language of Fiction: These Words in This Order
Language of Fiction: Particularity
Nice Work: ‘Semi-what?’ ‘Semiotics. The Study of Signs’
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by Robert Louis Stevenson and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
Exemplar Essay Victorian Literature
Word Document
Word Count 2807
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The hauntings of gothic romantic poetry
Overview
In what ways, and with what effects, might we consider Gothic poetry to be ‘haunted’?
We’ll be focusing on the voices to be found in poetry, and we’ll be thinking about how Gothic poetry might be ‘haunted’ by history.
We’ll also be considering whether Gamer’s Anglo-centric definition of Gothic is adequate, or whether Gothic means different things in different places, in different nations.
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Lesson - The Rise and Fall of the Reading Public
Overview
Q. D. Leavis, 1906-1981: A Select Bibliography
What is a Bestseller?
Q D Leavis and the Bestseller
Leavis and the Reading Public
Leavis vs the Bestseller
The Leavises and the Eighteenth Century
Leavis and the Eighteenth-Century Bestseller
The Growth of the Reading Public
Jane Austen (1775-1817), A Select Bibliography
Leavis: from Eliza Haywood to Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s ‘Love and Freindship’
The Disintegration of the Reading Public
Less of a Lecture and More of an Entangling - Lesson/Lecture
Overview
The Lecturee
The Mock Student
The Implied Student
The Ideal Student
The Real Student
How do literary texts represent readers?
Learning Communities
Reader-Response vs Formalism
How does reader-response differ from formalism?
Reading Paradise Lost
How Big is Satan’s Spear?
Surprized by Sin
Why Read Paradise Lost?
How does Milton represent the reader in Paradise Lost?
The Failing Critic in The Figure in the Carpet
The Implied Reader in The Figure in the Carpet
Towards the Death of the Author
How does James represent the reader / critic in The Figure in the Carpet?
(Im)Practical Criticism - lesson
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I A Richards, 1893-1979
I A Richards’ Hieroglyph
Visual Sensations
Tied Images
Free Imagery
Impulses and References
Emotions and Attitudes
The Neurology of Literary Criticism
Practical Criticism: Poem VIII
Close Reading: Stanza 1
Close Reading: Stanza 2
Close Reading: Stanza 3
Close Reading: Poem VIII
Close Reading: Rhyme Scheme
Impractical Criticism?
Once Upon a Time: Eight Stories about Narrative
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Overview
Pat Hutchin’s Rosie’s Walk
The Ontogeny of Narrative
Five Propositions
Homer, The Odyssey (transl. Robert Fagles)
The Oral Tradition
Mimesis
The Brothers Grimm, ‘The Frog King, or Iron Henry’
Folk and Fairy Tales and Formalism
Against Formalism’s Dual Approach
The Coen Brothers, The Big Lebowski
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Plot, Story and Narrative
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Modernism
John Barth, ‘Life-Story’
Metafiction
The Postmodern Condition
Graham Gibbs, ‘Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing’
The Love Song of F. Raymond Leavis
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Overview
F R Leavis vs Mass Civilization
Culture vs Civilization
Leavis, Minority Culture, and Literary Criticism
Leavis, Teaching, and Collaboration
Collaboration vs Discipleship
Leavis and the Great Tradition
T. S. Eliot and Tradition
The Mind of the Poet and the Shred of Platinum
Tradition and T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot on Civilization and Culture…… and Savagery
Leavis vs Eliot
Eliot’s England: East Coker
Leavis vs Eliot’s England
Leavis’s England
Literary Englands
PDF Download - The Apathetic Fallacy - Lesson
Overview
W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley: Select Bibliographies
Part One: The Affective Fallacy
Against Affective Criticism
Distinctions between Affective Critics
Hamlet and His Problems: The Objective Correlative
Poetry, Emotions, Objects
The Fallacy of the Affective Fallacy
Part Two: The Intentional Fallacy
The Way of the World
Wimsatt and Beardsley’s Axioms
Intentionality and Romanticism
Eliot’s Intentions in ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
Part Three: The Apathetic Fallacy
David Lodge Nice Work Essay Exemplar
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‘If a literary text does something to its readers, it also simultaneously reveals something about them.’ – Wolfgang Iser
Discuss the relationship between a text and its reader(s) in ONE of the literary texts you have studied over the course of the module. You should reference at least TWO of the critical texts to make your arguments.
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Overview
New Criticism
Flashforward to T. S. Eliot
Flashback to I. A. Richards (and the Russian Formalists)
Against Paraphrase
Total Meaning
Irony
Democracy, Reality, Ambiguity
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (1892)
Close Reading
Agrarianism and New Criticism
The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism
New Criticism: Literary Modernism and Social Change
John Crowe Ransom vs. Shakespeare
Rereading Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet XXXIII
After the New Criticism