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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.
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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
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.
A Valediction of Weeping (John Donne): Analysis
2.5 pages of notes analysing ‘A Valediction of Weeping’ by John Donne (summary, technical terms, title, structure, five important quotes, context).
Designed for A-Level English Edexcel Metaphysical Poetry.
History (John Burnside): Analysis
Just over 4 pages of notes analysing ‘History’ by John Burnside. From the ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Quotes
A collection of relevant quotes from a range of secondary sources on A Midsummer Night’s Dream (on a 19-slide Powerpoint).
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level specification.
Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass (Armitage): Analysis
3.5 pages of notes analysing ‘Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’ (Simon Armitage), from ‘Poems of the Decade’ for the A-Level Edexcel English Literature syllabus.
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.
Great Gatsby: Daisy and Myrtle Comparison
Bullet points comparing and contrasting the characterisation of Daisy and Myrtle. Discusses what their presentation reveals about social class, gender and the perspective of the narrator.
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.
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.
Midsummer Night's Dream: Context notes
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.
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level English specification.
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.
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).
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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.