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OCR AS Eng Lit: Unseen model for Dystopia
The June 2016 paper included a passage from Ayn Rand's Anthem as a source for the question: Discuss ways in which Orwell explores the threat to individuality in 1984. I have encouraged students to focus on contexts -AO3 is the …
AS English Literature Unseen Prose (OCR)
My notes for approaching the Unseen question in AS examinations. This based on the Dystopia cluster: 1984 and was a revision exercise. Approaching the AS unseen question H072_02_exemplars 2016 summer H072-02_MS_June16 Read More "AS English Literature Unseen Prose (OCR)"
Oral commentary: Merchant’s Tale lines 945-999
In my endeavour to focus Y12 on AO2, I recorded this today in a lesson. Please take a lesson - it was not pre-prepped and I make no apologies for the rough edges... https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/170420_001.mp3 Read More "Oral commentary: Merchant’s Tale …
Chaucer: discussion sound file. Lines 943-999. Merchant’s Tale.
A discussion of an essay submitted to consider the presentation of Januarie and May at a turning point in the poem. The discussion is 35 minutes long and there is a slight corruption of the file at the end of …
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Merchant’s Tale draft essays for comment
The task: Explore the presentation of the character of May in lines 734-774. Be sure to comment on the typicality of Chaucer's writing in the extract. This is an extract from a student essay: I'd love some feedback and suggested …
Jerusalem (Butterworth) feeling the ‘beat’ extracts
6 extracts pdf'd for students to work on to disucss the significance of the Beats as outlined in this post. new doc 2017-04-03 18.57.33 Read More "Jerusalem (Butterworth) feeling the ‘beat’ extracts"
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Jerusalem (Butterworth): feel the ‘beat’
Following a comment by Martin Robinson in his excellent presentation at Research Ed: Language, I am going to engage students with some specific focus on the 'Beat' stage direction which appears throughout the text. Students can be confused by a …
Jerusalem for AS English Lit: potential essay titles.
A list of essay titles for revision purposes. Whilst these are not really intended to follow the OCR outlines, I think that the ground covered in a sensible planning of each will leave little to chance... ‘What the fuck do …
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Chaucer essay presentations: Damyan in 663ff
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