DETAILED notes for students on Grimbert’s UN SECRET: teachers - use as a bases for lessons. Covers: themes; guilt; identity; history/context; motifs; l’occupation; storytelling; form and structure of the novel; Laval; treachery; motifs of dogs, the body and bodies. History covered - occupied France, Laval, the Holocaust. This resource is in English. 2994 words, 7 sides. Successfully used with A level French students.

Student guide to punctation of long quotations/short quotations/indenting from the margin/punctuating poetry quotations/embedded quotations. Most GCSE and A level students don’t punctuate quotations properly and it can irritate examiners. This guide shows students how to do it and therefore, how to impress the examiner!