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Creative Writing: Using similes and metaphors
Resource with tips on how to use similes and metaphors effectively, with some activities to practice.
Aimed at KS3 level students or could also work for 11+.
Subtlety in Creative Writing
A resource with guided activities (inspired by Anne of Green Gables) and tips on how to help your students ‘show, not tell’ in their creative writing.
Designed for 11+, but relevant for 13+/KS3.
Creative Writing: Adjectives and Adverbs
Resource helping students to use adjectives and adverbs effectively and strategically, and to find alternative ways of describing.
Includes both notes and activities.
Aimed for 11+ and KS3, but many of the ideas could also be suitable for older students.
Creative Writing: EDINGLY
Resource with notes and activities on different ways of starting a sentence, suggesting -ed, -ing and -ly words.
Aimed primarily at students going for the 11+, but could be relevant to KS3 students as well.
A Christmas Carol Comprehension: Christmas Dinner with the Cratchit Family
A festive themed past-paper style passage followed by comprehension questions, and a choice of two creative writing prompts.
Questions are a mixture of short-answer (testing understanding of the passage), vocabulary,
Passage taken from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Would be suitable for 13+ entrance practice, or high-level 11+ entrance/scholarship practice.
GCSE English Language: Touching the Void
Powerpoint and handout containing language analysis notes on the extract from ‘Touching the Void’ (from the Edexcel GCSE English Language course).
Approaching a Comprehension (KS3/11+)
Guidance on how to approach comprehension questions on an unseen passage. Useful for KS3 English and for 11+ entrance examinations.
GCSE English Language: Tips
3 page document outlining tips for GCSE English Language exams.
Covers: answering longer questions about an unseen passage, suggestions of language and structure techniques to look out for, how to approach creative writing exam questions (writing to persuade, explain or describe).
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Detailed notes on context (historical background, biographical details of Tennessee Williams, setting and music, gender attitudes, literary allusions, key film and stage performances, and useful secondary source quotes).
Detailed notes on analysis and symbolism (includes the play’s structure, genre/style, characterisation, diction, significance of characters’ names, key symbols and motifs (including further detail about light, the streetcars, colours, animal symbols), setting of the apartment, music and sound, interactions in the street.
A more in-depth biography of Tennessee Williams
Designed for the Edexcel English A-Level.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Detailed context notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes: Courtly Love, gender, Queen Elizabeth I, the supernatural, Shakespeare’s other plays, Classical/mythological references, literary influences and conventions, historical context of the contemporary theatre, modern productions.
Critical quotes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both from the prescribed anthology and from elsewhere.
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level English specification.
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Poems of the Decade
Detailed analysis of all poems on the Poems of the Decade Edexcel A-Level English Literature specification (as of 2018), with the exception of ‘Out of the Bag’ (omitted for exam strategy).
Eat Me Patience Agbabi 3
Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass Simon Armitage 6
Material Ros Barber 10
History John Burnside 25
An Easy Passage Julia Copus 37
The Deliverer Tishani Doshi 43
The Lammas Hireling Ian Duhig 51
To My Nine-Year-Old Self Helen Dunmore 52
A Minor Role U A Fanthorpe 57
The Gun Vicki Feaver 62
The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled Leontia Flynn 64
Giuseppe Roderick Ford 66
Effects Alan Jenkins 92
Genetics Sinéad Morrissey 125
From the Journal of a Disappointed Man Andrew Motion 127
Look We Have Coming to Dover! Daljit Nagra 129
Please Hold Ciaran O’Driscoll 132
On Her Blindness Adam Thorpe 170
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn Tim Turnbull 172
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn (Tim Turnbull): Poem Analysis
4 pages analysing the poem ‘Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn’ by Tim Turnbull. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
On Her Blindness (Adam Thorpe): Poem Analysis
4 pages analysing ‘On Her Blindness’ by Adam Thorpe. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
Please Hold (Ciaran O’Driscoll): Poem Analysis
3 pages analysing ‘Please Hold’ by Ciaran O’Driscoll. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
Look we have coming to Dover! (Daljit Nagra): Poem Analysis
4 pages analysing ‘Look We Have Coming To Dover!’ by Daljit Nagra. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
From the Journal of a Disappointed Man (Andrew Motion): Poem Analysis
4 page analysis of ‘From the Journal of a Disappointed Man’ by Andrew Motion. From ‘Poems of the Decade’, for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
Genetics (Sinéad Morrissey): Poem Analysis
Analysis of the poem ‘Genetics’ by Sinéad Morrissey. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
Effects (Alan Jenkins): Poem Analysis
Over 4 pages of analysis of ‘Effects’ by Alan Jenkins. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
Giuseppe (Roderick Ford): Poem Analysis
3 1/4 pages analysing the poem ‘Giuseppe’ by Roderick Ford. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ from Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
The Furthest Distances I've Travelled (Leontia Flynn): Poem Analysis
3.3 pages analysing ‘The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled’ by Leontia Flynn. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.