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 …
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Unseen for Edexcel IGCSE practice: Long Distance II. Tony Harrison.
As usual, an unseen response written in 30-35 minutes to the Edexcel format with focus on the 3 bullets for that exam - descriptive devices, language choice and structure. Long Distance IITony Harrison - 1937- Though my mother was already …
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Preparing for an OCR A level unseen: SCASI method
I have written this to outline the SCASI thought process when approaching an unseen. I will write my model response in another post shortly. planning unseen bradbury Read More "Preparing for an OCR A level unseen: SCASI method"
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American Literature Unseen for OCR A level.
This is a passage from Upton Sinclair: The Jungle which was used as a handout in a training session at the English and Media Centre today. I thought I would write an unseen response -45 minutes - in the same …
American Literature 1880-1940: unseen extracts
A booklet of extracts to help teaching unseens for OCR A level jwp unseen extracts Read More "American Literature 1880-1940: unseen extracts"
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)"
Unseen: Station Eleven for OCR A level
This passage is taken from the 2014 novel Station Eleven by Emily Mandel. station 11 extract. From the outset of the passage the reader is given information about the setting which establishes mood and location. The passage is set 'twenty …
OCR A Level Unseen: Wyndham -The Chrysalids
Once again, an essay for discussion. There is no such thing as a perfect unseen, especially in 45 minutes! A sound file and discussion is below. https://jwpblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/chrysalids-unseen.m4a The Chrysalids (1955) The passage, written by a first person narrator, and therefore …
Unseen prep: OCR A level
This is my response to a passage from Lauren Oliver's 2011 novel Delirium. The passage is found below the unseen. The sound file of the lesson today in which we discussed the passage is included due top absences from the …
Year 13 Dystopia Unseen
This is another attempt at an unseen to provide discussion and critique for Y13 students studying the OCR A level (Dystopia). The passage is from Brave New World and is found beneath my attempt at writing a commentary. Again I …
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