Powerpoint containing detailed notes on context for A Streetcar Named Desire (this includes historical background, biographical details of Tennessee Williams, setting and music, gender attitudes, literary allusions, key film and stage performances, and useful secondary source quotes).
Designed for the Edexcel English A-Level.
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.
Notes and model essay plan looking at essay technique and using context in essays through a focus on the theme of the supernatural in Macbeth. (3 pages, used for 1hr of tutoring)
Designed for GCSE AQA English.
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.
Bullet-point essay plan exploring gender, femininity and masculinity in Macbeth - raises questions and context points for the class to think about, discuss further and find quotes for.