A slide deck to explore Robert Frost's Woods on a snowy evening for AQA GCSE ELit students and teachers. As ever, this is a work in progress, but please feel free to use it .... jwp-unseen-poetry1-frostDownload Read More "Approaching the …
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Kamikaze: Beatrice Garland. An unseen response.
Recently we set this poem as an unseen for Year 10, studying IGCSE Literature (Edexcel). It is also a set text at GCSE in some boards. It is long for an unseen and I want to capture the highlights as …
American Lit unseen practice: Babbitt (1922)
My Upper VIth boys wrote an unseen on this passage earlier in the week as part of their A Level Mini Assessments. I wrote this after the event to aid my marking of their papers. The passage is found after …
Thomas Wolfe: Unseen response
A model response to the Thomas Wolfe unseen 'The Far and Near' found here : 2 Passages for A level unseen practice. The passage opens with a description of the kind of Mid-Western setting which embodies the American Dream and the …
2 Passages for A level unseen practice
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 …
A level Unseen: Dos Passos – The 42nd Parallel.
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; …
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 …
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