My class wrote a timed response to this title today for IGCSE Eng Lit (Edexcel) practice. I attach mine below and also a sound file of the essay which could be used for discussion. I am not claiming it as …
Tag: English Literature
Follower, Heaney: thoughts on metre and language
Follower -note the lack of an article suggesting the whole range of potential meanings and sub-meanings to the word. Heaney is writing literally of a boy who followed his father around the fields and farm in his youth and who …
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On the ELAT
This page is a one stop shop for the materials on the Cambridge and Oxford websites, relating to the ELAT: the aptitude test which all Oxbridge Literature applicants take prior to the announcement of the interview cohort. The exam has …
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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The Trick: Imtiaz Dharker for IGCSE unseen poetry.
I have just been hosting a support class for some of my students - not natural English students, for whom an unseen is a bit of a nightmare -a blank page, a barrage of words and no teacher to lead …
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Writing an OMAM essay for Edexcel IGCSE – explore the character of…
In this ppt I am hoping to help my Y11 students approach the Prose section of the Edexcel IGCSE Literature paper - this one focuses on OMAM and the character of George. I try to make clear links between a …
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On race and the critical arguments about the ending of Huck….
This is a 45 minute class discussion of race and critics - based on the resource attached. It does start slowly -we are beset by illness at school... but warms up into an interesting discussion which could be used for …
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