I recently set this essay for my Upper 6th. The results were variable. For many the essay swiftly became an exercise in listing isolated characters or situations and the Assessment Objectives became lost. The driving AO is AO3 in …
Category: OCR English Literature
Unseen give back
The unseen from Wright's 'Man who was almost a man' with discussion of unseen technique and direct reference to a student unseen, attached below. https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/190212_001.mp3 Doc3 Read More "Unseen give back"
USA Lit unseen: Richard Wright
This week the unseen is from Richard Wright's The Man Who Was Almost A Man. Whilst the book was published in the 1960s, the content and style make it eminently suitable for unseen practice. Richard Wright's short story entitled The …
Gatsby essay planning idea
Today my Upper 6th class were recovering from a late night: a trip to an Immersive Gatsby performance. We were looking at planning essays - specifically finding good links between the ideas which make up an essay. Rather than a …
USA Lit contexts booklet (OCR)
My Upper 6th are preparing contexts booklets to help them prepare for the OCR A level AO3 strand. I am placing them here to help them to find them swiftly when not in school. Please feel free to browse and …
USA Literature unseen: Theodore Dreiser OCR
An unseen model response for OCR: This passage from Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy seems to establish a possible link to the title of the novel in the juxtaposition of a 'small band' of religious itinerants who are seeking …
OCR A level English Literature essay seminar: American Literature
A second sound file on the Jefferson quotation. Boys were missing from the lesson, this helps them to catch up.... https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/190125_001.mp3 Read More "OCR A level English Literature essay seminar: American Literature"
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