My ideas as a response to this passage in OCR A level unseen format. The Passage: John Dos Passos - The 42nd Parallel (1930) The young man walks fast by himself through the crowd that thins into the night streets; …
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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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Unseen Booster: My Parents. Stephen Spender
A 25 minute booster session as breakfast club on MS Teams for two of my Y11s. This considers an approach to Spender's poem for Edexcel IGCSE Elit - the unseen poem. I have left in the 10 minute silent prep …
Discussing an A level unseen with U6th
A discussion of the unseen on Diamond as Big as the Ritz. https://videopress.com/v/of8XscrB?preloadContent=metadata A level unseen from Diamond as big as the Ritz Read More "Discussing an A level unseen with U6th"
A level unseen from Diamond as big as the Ritz
This is a response to the passage below from Fitzgerald's short story 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.' JOHN T. UNGER came from a family that had been well known in Hades−−a small town on the Mississippi River−−for several …
A level Unseen give back
A short video lesson explaining how I might approach planning for an A level unseen. https://videopress.com/v/Mn1NRmhT?preloadContent=metadata Read More "A level Unseen give back"
Introducing and Explaining the SCASI method.
I am a believer in this method for approaching A level unseens. I am not a knee jerk mnemonic lover, but this one works. Here I use a very short passage from Kate Chopin, The Awakening to introduce the concept. …
Unseen for OCR Elit: Bricks without Straw, Tourgee
We have a 'voluntary'mock A level today. Students choose their poison and are given a suitable question with mark scheme to use around 2 hours. They should write and review and assess... My students received this unseen, from Albion Tourgee's …
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Tobacco Road: Unseen for US Lit (OCR)
This passage from Tobacco Road was given to my Upper 6th students today: Erskine Caldwell - Tobacco Road (1932) Lov Bensey trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on …
USA Lit Unseen: Winesburg, Ohio: Sherwood Anderson
Another unseen for critique and comment. This one was examined in 2017. More information on this collection of short stories can be found here. The passage in question: winesburg The passage is written in 1922 and set in the heart …
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