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🔎 Explore the collection and discover engaging worksheets, interactive presentations, and creative activity packs that will captivate your students' imaginations while supporting their learning journey. 🌈🔬
Aim : Students will be able to construct their own sentences with the restriction of the selection of literary devices and explanations provided to them. Students will be able to identify and analyse the use of literary devices in extracts.
Objectives :
To be able to understand the definitions and concepts of different literary devices.
To be able to use these literary devices in constructive sentences.
To help aid in the interpretation and analysis of literary texts when used critically to identify the motivation of the author to use these literary devices in their poems/ narratives.
Great Gatsby extract
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Juxaposition
Oxymoron
Personification
Foreshadowing
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Richard and History
Richard and Tragedy
Machiavellian Richard
Approaches: Feminism; New Historicism; Cultural Materialism; Psychoanalytic Criticism; Disability Studies – rejecting Tillyard’s Elizabethan World Picture
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Examine cultural, social and historical contexts out of which this poetry arises
Consider some of the issues that arise out of these poems
Attempt some close reading of the poems
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The hauntings of gothic romantic poetry
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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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Overview:
Gothic Romanticism could (should?) be considered as an aesthetic, rather than a genre.
The Gothic was extremely popular with readers, and extremely unpopular with critics.
There was money to be made from writing Gothic.
Gothic Romantic poetry explores the relationship between modernity and the past, and between rational and supernatural, and does these things through various means: form, meter, language, style, appearance.
There is often a tension between popularity and ‘seriousness’
Gothic and ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’
Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
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What do you understand by the term ‘author’?
What do you understand by the term ‘work’?
The Author Function
What idea do you have of what an ‘author’ is or does?
Barthes’s ‘The Death of the Author’
Barthes and language
Our ideas of ‘author’ and ‘reader’ are historically and culturally determined, and are subject to change.
Language is a system of signs used to produce a facsimile, or simulacrum, of the real world either in speech or writing.
Language, and the meanings associated with words, are all recycled by writers. There is, therefore, no ‘author’, or single ‘authority’ in a text.
Instead, there is Foucault’s ‘author function’, an idea or process which is socially constructed and which transforms (by ‘superstition’ for Barthes or ‘magic’ for Foucault’) a person into an Author: it is a role or an idea, not a person.
Does Food Advertising Encourage Healthy or Unhealthy Eating? Is it Always Truthful and Ethical?
Example of students speaking and listening presentation
Includes presentation notes
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Writing Instructions
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Topics covered:
What is an instruction text?
Types of Instruction Texts
Instruction Text – Needs and Purpose
Instruction Writing – Audience
How to plan instruction writing
Organising instruction texts
Instruction language features
Third person instructions
Alternative note taking frameworks
Instruction Example - Papier Mache Bowl
Overview of planning – Papier Mache Bowl
Writing to Persuade
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Topics covered:
What is a persuasive text?
Types of persuasive texts
Persuasive texts needs and purpose
Persuasive Writing – Audience
Planning Persuasive Writing
Elaborating a point
Persuasive Language Features
AFOREST
Alternative note-taking frameworks
Example - Mary Queen of Scots
Analysis of the planning for Mary Queen of Scots exemplar
Ideal for low ability students
Worksheet: Comparing Two Poems: “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning and “Remains” by Simon Armitage.
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Instructions:
Read the poems “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning and “Remains” by Simon Armitage. Use your knowledge of the poems and the techniques used by the poets to answer the following questions. Write your answers in the provided spaces.
Materials Needed:
• Pen or pencil
• Copy of the poems
Answer sheet provided for easy marking
Understanding the Character of The Nurse Worksheet in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
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Instructions:
• Read each question carefully.
• Answer the questions by referring to your knowledge of The Nurse’s character in William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.
• Write your answers in the blank spaces provided.
• Refer to the Reflection section at the end to think about what you have learned.
Materials Needed:
• Pen or pencil
• Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet (textbook or online resource)
Dangers of Vaping and Electronic Cigarettes – Comprehensive Reading
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Focuses on developing the following skills – Word Meaning, inferences, Summaries, Analysis and Evaluation, Content, structure and quality, retrieval, predicting, explaining and exploring, Comparison and Synthesis
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer – Reading Comprehension
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Focuses on developing the following skills – Word Meaning, inferences, Summaries, Analysis and Evaluation, Content, structure and quality, retrieval, predicting, explaining and exploring, Comparison and Synthesis
Introducing the 19th Century Novel
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A (very brief) history of the novel: a ‘new’ form?
Origins of the novel: 17th & 18th century
The novel in the 19th century: ‘the best of times; the worst of times’