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Anita & Me by Meera Syal – Reading Comprehension
Overview:
This comprehensive worksheet is designed to enhance a range of critical thinking and analytical skills. It offers a wide variety of engaging exercises to improve your word meaning, inference, summarizing, analysis and evaluation, content evaluation, structure comprehension, retrieval skills, prediction, explanation, exploration, as well as comparison and synthesis abilities. It also includes an answer sheet for convenient marking.
Key Features:
• Word Meaning: Enhance your vocabulary by exploring and understanding the meanings of various words.
• Inferences: Master the art of drawing logical conclusions from given information.
• Summaries: Develop the skill to condense complex texts into concise and meaningful summaries.
• Analysis and Evaluation: Improve your ability to analyze and critically evaluate information.
• Content, Structure, and Quality: Assess the content, structure, and quality of different texts.
• Retrieval: Enhance your ability to locate and extract specific information from texts.
• Predicting: Predict the outcome or future developments based on available information.
• Explaining and Exploring: Expand your knowledge and understanding by explaining and exploring different topics.
• Comparison and Synthesis: Compare and combine information from multiple sources to gain deeper insights.
Ideal Usage:
• Cover Lesson: Perfect for covering lessons when the primary educator is absent.
• Homework Task: Assign as homework to reinforce learning outside the classroom.
• Revision: An excellent resource for revising and consolidating key skills and knowledge.
Don’t miss out on this valuable resource that will undoubtedly accelerate your academic progress and help you become a more proficient and critical thinker.
Hannah Cowley, The Belle’s Stratagem - Powerpoint
Topics -
The Theatre in the 18th Century
The Belle’s Stratagem
The Belle’s Stratagem: the masquerade
The Belle’s Stratagem – a comedy
The Belle’s Stratagem and National Identity
Zoe Skoulding - The Museum of Disappearing Sounds - Example Essay
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Exemplar Essay - ‘What have you discovered about the art of writing poetry from reading The Museum of Disappearing Sounds?’
Green Tea by Sheridan Le Fanu - Mr Jennings Character Analysis
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Table of quotations for Mr Jennings
Language
Appearance
Interactions with the supernatural
Reliability
Interactions with other characters
‘Listen Mr Oxford Don’ by John Agard
How can the critical strategies of post-colonial, race and ethnicity studies be used to analyse your chosen poem?
Word Document
Word Count - 325
Exemplar Essay
Tasks including identifying literary devices and students coming up with their own examples.
Based around the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
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Ideal Homework Task.
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Exemplar Analysis essays
Word Count - 1505
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Exemplar Essay - Sexuality and Taboo for Contemporary readers verses Today’s Readers In J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Novella : Carmilla
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Word COunt - 1207
What is a Shakespearean ‘Romance’? How does The Tempest (as a Romance) differ from a Comedy, Tragedy, or History?
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Exemplar Essay
403 words
Do ghost narratives question the existence of a just and loving God? Or do they reinforce His existence and humanity’s need of Him? Answer this question with reference to any TWO texts studied on this module.
Exemplar Essay
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly
Kate Mosse’s The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales
Margery Lawrence’s ‘The Haunted Saucepan’
Mary E. Wilkins ‘The Vacant Lot.’
Discuss, the treatment of one of the following in the work of two texts you have studied on the module: urban life; work; families.
Essay Exemplar
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The Collector by John Fowles and A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow
Word Count: 2431
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Covers -
Where we were and where we are now
Victorian Theatre: critical contexts
G. B. Shaw: the ‘exultation’ of moral panic
Mrs Warren’s Profession: Key themes and critical issues
Form and content in the Postmodern Short Story
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Overview
Realism
Modernism
Pastiche
Alienation, identity and the ‘Postmodern Condition’ in ‘Psychopolis’
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Reading as a writer exemplar essay - Poems from the Ecco Anthology
Umberto Saba’s poem The Goat
A Land Not Mine by Anna Akhmatova
Deco and Sex in the City by Tim Cockburn
Word Count 966
Mrs Warren’s Profession: Working Girls and Wayward New Women
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Overview
The (New) Woman Question in the nineteenth century
Working Girls: Wayward New Women: the Great Social Evil?
Keeping it ‘in the family’: the taboo of incest
MWP: “morally rotten and defending debauchery” : Shaw and the critics
Contemporary Poetry
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Overview
Reading and analysing poetry
Reading poetries: identity, plurality and diversity; the marginal becoming central.
Identity, plurality and diversity: place and space
Making new ‘newer’: a few concluding thoughts