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American Lit unseen practice: Babbitt (1922)
My Upper VIth boys wrote an unseen on this passage earlier in the week as part of their A Level Mini Assessments. I wrote this after the event to aid my marking of their papers. The passage is found after …
Thomas Wolfe: Unseen response
A model response to the Thomas Wolfe unseen 'The Far and Near' found here : 2 Passages for A level unseen practice. The passage opens with a description of the kind of Mid-Western setting which embodies the American Dream and the …
2 Passages for A level unseen practice
I watched the film 'Genius' recently which focuses on the life of Thomas Wolfe. Thus inspired, here are two Wolfe openings from short stories for A level Unseen Practice: Circus at Dawn by Thomas Wolfe THERE WERE TIMES IN EARLY …
The significance of Candy: 10 minute plan
A ppt to explore how students might begin to plan for a 'significance of the character' essay. omam-candy-significance-10-min-plan-1Download Read More "The significance of Candy: 10 minute plan"
OMAM essays for Edexcel – Loom link
I have made a short video on Loom to help students approaching Edexcel IGCSE write clear essays to the criteria for success in English Literature. It is focused on OMAM, but the ideas are relevant to all. https://www.loom.com/share/80db88d9b0b941fdb33bf03aa686fc7a Read More …
Remains: Simon Armitage
Remains by Simon Armitage On another occasion, we got sent out to tackle looters raiding a bank. And one of them legs it up the road, probably armed, possibly not. Well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of …
Arthur Birling: Fit for purpose?
https://anchor.fm/jonathan-peel/episodes/Teaching-AIC-Arthur-Birling---fit-for-purpose-es99ig A link to a podcast:https://anchor.fm/jonathan-peel/episodes/Teaching-AIC-Arthur-Birling---fit-for-purpose-es99ig Read More "Arthur Birling: Fit for purpose?"
Racism and Gatsby: context
This is a shocking picture of the reality of the racism treated as normal in large metropolitan centres of East Coast USA at the time of writing of Great Gatsby. The novel is set in part in 1922 and we …
An article on Gatsby…
This appeared on the BBC website today: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210209-the-worlds-most-misunderstood-novel . Plenty of food for thought for A Level students. Read More "An article on Gatsby…"
JB Priestley in his own words…
During 1940-41 Priestley was a leading figure on the BBC propaganda services. In this talk, he describes the events of Dunkirk and helps to create the glorious defeat and iconic status of the 'little ships'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/postscripts--jb-priestley/zn9xkmn Another talk, given in …
