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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.
The Supernatural in Macbeth: Planning an essay
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.
AQA GCSE Chemistry: Rates of reaction (C6) and energy changes (C9)
5 slide powerpoint on rates of reaction (calculating by equations and graphs, collision theory, factors affected rate of reaction, catalysts). Designed for C6 of the GCSE AQA Chemistry Dual Award Specification.
2 further slides on energy changes in reactions to explain endothermic and exothermic reactions (C9).
GCSE History: Answering Source Questions
3 page resource explaining how to answer GCSE history questions on sources.
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+.
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.
Tennessee Williams Biographical Context (for A-Level Streetcar)
2-page handout of biographical information about Tennessee Williams, focusing on details particularly relevant to the play A Streetcar Named Desire for use as context in A-Level essays.
Essay Plan: Theme of Language in Animal Farm
Essay plan on the theme of language in Animal Farm (designed to be used for the AQA GCSE syllabus).
Points also applicable to rhetoric, propaganda and manipulation.
The Aeneid: Detailed summary Books I-V
Detailed summary of Books 1 to 5 of Virgil’s Aeneid. 9 pages total. Focus on plot, imagery and important Homeric or Augustan parallels. Useful for revision.
GCSE Religious Studies: Life after death (Unit 2)
15 slide powerpoint covering Unit 2: Life after death. Explains key terms and gives points for discussion on the following: Christian beliefs on life after death, non-religious reasons for believing in life after death, why some do not believe in life after death, abortion (discusses different Christian attitudes and the film ‘Juno’), euthanasia (types, moral issues, Christian responses), should the media critique religious views on life after death, poverty and Christian Aid.
GCSE Religious Studies: Believing in God (Unit 1)
10 page powerpoint covering Unit 1: Believing in God.
Explains key terms and gives points for discussing: Christian upbringings, religious experiences, the argument from design, the argument from causation, scientific explanations, prayer, suffering.
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).
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).
Spanish Useful Phrases
5-page powerpoint containing useful phrases for giving arguments and opinions, expressing time, linking sentences, or introducing impressive structures.
Level: advanced GCSE/more basic AS and 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.
A Streetcar Named Desire: Analysis and Symbolism
Powerpoint containing notes for analysing A Streetcar Named Desire. Includes points about 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.
Designed for the Edexcel English A-Level.
Approaching a Latin Translation: Step-by-step guide
Step-by-step, easy to follow guide on how to approach a Latin translation. Helpful tool for pupils who get in a muddle with the word order. I tend to use this with 13+ or Y8-9 pupils.
Latin Confusable Vocab
I compiled a list of vocab which pupils I was tutoring for Latin 13+ regularly found confusing or mixed up in translations - this proved extremely helpful.
Attached a copy with English meanings and a Latin-only copy that can be used as a vocab test.
Complete GCSE Food Technology Exam Revision
Powerpoint (59 slides) covering all exam topics for ‘DT: Food Technology’ AQA GCSE.
Includes product design questions, functions of ingredients, nutrition, methods of making, product development and prototype stages, packaging, new technologies, ethical/environmental considerations, manufacturing processes.
