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“Every silver lining has a cloud behind it”. (The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Twain). Explore the presentation of Urbanisation in your literature, based on the quotation above. In your writing you should focus on Great Gatsby and other sources you have read.
I have set this title to the U6 as they approach the end of their teaching. We have used all the possible past papers and several of my wider exploratory essay questions, many of which can be heard in discussion …
On Modernism in US Lit….
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Unseen for OCR Elit: Bricks without Straw, Tourgee
We have a 'voluntary'mock A level today. Students choose their poison and are given a suitable question with mark scheme to use around 2 hours. They should write and review and assess... My students received this unseen, from Albion Tourgee's …
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OMAM: a lecture on contexts and other quite interesting things
One of my team was ill today, so with Art GCSE exams reducing the size of classes significantly I piled 2 together and gave a lecture... planning was minimal and the talk was designed to cover a wide remit - …
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Class notes discussion of family in US Lit
Based on essay 3 in the previous post, here is the copy of the notes promised to the Upper 6th. The ideas discussed in the lesson.... How is the 'family' presented in the literature which you have studied? Use Huck …
Possible exam themes for OCR A level ELit: American Literature
I have found this list of questions from the University of North Carolina. Whilst the University are asking very specific questions at times, the themes under consideration are useful and give students a good idea of the nature of …
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Chris Froome on Africa: non fiction comparison
This passage works as a comparison to George Alagiah's Passage to Africa or Jamie Zeppa's Bhutan passage, found in the Edexcel IGCSE anthology. I have scanned the opening of Froome's book as he looks back at his youth in Africa, …
