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Induction Work September 2022
English Department Assessment Policy
English Literature Support Sheet
Required reading: David Lodge: The Art of Fiction
Announcements
English Literature A Level Course Handbook 2022-24
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Turnitin Coursework Checker
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Turnitin Coursework Check
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Forward Poetry Anthology
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List of The Prescribed Poems from 'Poems of the Decade'
Preparation Pack for September 2021 Practice Assessment
In-House Unseen Poetry Preparation Pack
Unseen Poetry Preparation Anthology from Exam Board
Anurag Jain's YouTube Channel - covers all 20 poems that we study
Guide to Anthology from Exam Board
Comprehensive Guide to Poems of the Decade - use password zz2ghc4
Unseen Comparison - Larkin's 'Mower' and 'Pampas Grass'
Audiovisual tutorial - approaching exam.
Video Lesson on 'An Easy Passage'
Tishani Doshi's Own Notes on 'The Deliverer'
M2 Revision Notes 2019 (SHP class)
Daljit Nagra discusses 'Look We Have Coming to Dover' with Julia Copus
My Father's Language
My Father's Language
Links to In-House Video Tutorials on Taught Poems ...
Journal of a Disappointed Man
The Lammas Hireling
Genetics
Audio Visual Tutorial on 'History' by John Burnside
The Duration
Chainsaw Vs the Pampas Grass
Look We Have Coming To Dover
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
Durer's Hare
Out of the Bag
On Her Blindness
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Never Let Me Go
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Narrative voices in Frankenstein and NLMG
Video tutorial comparing an extract of Frankenstein and one from NLMG
Study Questions and Activities on Never Let Me Go
Making links between texts
David K's online lessons on Never Let Me Go 2016-17
Comparative Benchmark Assessment (DDD's class)
Link qoutations to AOs
'In Other Worlds' essay on NLMG by Margaret Attwood
Worksheet on 'misuse of science ' question
Quotations from Ishiguro about 'NLMG'
Comparative extracts from both novels
Never Let Me Go Quiz
Handout booklet
Week 1 Never Let Me Go Names and Opening the Novel
Week 2 Narrative Voice and detailed analysis of pp 3-5
Week 3 Assessment Objectives and Function of Setting
Week 4 Genre, Symbol and Motif
Week 5 Symbol, Motif and Introduction to Character - reading onto Part 2
Week 6 Reading Chapters 11 12 13 Applying Science
Student presentations on Motifs
Week 7 Passivity. Reading onto Chapter 18
Week 8 Reading onto Chapter 21
Week 9 Finishing the Novel and Model Essay
Week 10 - finishing the novel and starting Frankenstein
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Questions to guide reading
Paragraph responses to debating statements (ENA;B2 and ENA;D1)
Quotation Analysis ENA;D1
Book on Streetcar from the English and Media Centre
Stagecraft Chapter from Hodder Study and Revise Book on Streetcar
Contexts Chapter of 'Study and Revise Streetcar' book
Violence essay audio tutorial
'Streetcar' mock questions
Contexts list and activity
Exam-style questions
Video tutorial - how to improve an essay.
A critics discussion of Streetcar Named Desire (Bak)
Streetcar workshop
JA AS lit Streetcar essay feedback 18.3.20
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Frankenstein
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Ancient Mariner Video Guides
Audio Visual Lesson on Ruth's possible
comparison of observing the cottage in Frankenstein and observing the office in NLMG
pool reflection in Frankenstein compared to mirror scene in NLMG
Comparative Writing Practice 'Mirrors and Reflections'
comparison of creature raging in Frankenstein and Tommy raging in NLMG
Frankenstein context
Beginning Frankenstein work booklet for completion
Key quotes chapter by chapter
TES powerpoint on whole novel: useful for revision/consolidation
Anatomical Research - Powerpoint
Powerpoint - Galvanism
Evolution - Powerpoint
The Frank quote quest...
Powerpoint - Age of Enlightenment
Frankenstein Context - Powerpoint
Frankenstein chapter summaries
Frankenstein Audio Book
In Our Time BBC Radio 4 'Frankenstein' Critical Discussion
Frankenstein 'Walk-Through' &nbs...
Frankenstein 'Walk-Through' Letter 1
Frankenstein 'Walk-Through' - Letters 2-4 and Volume 1 Chapters 1-5
Frankenstein volume one chapter 6 part one
Frankenstein volume one chapter 6 part two
Frankenstein volume one chapter 7
Frankenstein Volume 2, Chapter 3 (part 1)
Frankenstein Volume 2, Chapter 3 (part 2)
.QUIZZES
Frankenstein Chapter Quizzes
Quiz on the four letters at the start
Volume 1 Chapter 2
Volume 2 Chapter 1
VOl 2: chapter 2
Volume 2 Chapter 3
Questions on Volume II, Chapter IV
Volume 2, Chapter 5
Frankenstein Volume 2 Chapter 6
Volume 2 Chapter 7
Volume 2 chapter 8
Volume Three, Chapter 1
Prose Comparison Revision Booklet
Week 2 Frankenstein Letters and Themes
Week 1 Ending Never Let Me Go and Starting Frankenstein Prometheus
Week 3 Narrative terms, Women and Chapter 1
Week 4 Writing Style Reading On To Chapter 5
Week 5 Frankenstein and Context Chapter 4
Week 6 The Sublime, Structuring an Essay, Chapters 6 to 9
A Guide to The Texts Mary Shelley References in Frankenstein
Week 8 Genre and Reading onto Volume 3
Week 7 Power and Education
Frankenstein Walk-Through, Chapter 5 OnwardsBelow ...
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English Romantic Verse
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A List of the Prescribed Poems
Our One-Page Guides to Prescribed Poems
David K's online Holy Thursday lesson
Critical Guides to Romantic Poets
Ode on Melancholy - Audio Visual Tutorial One
Ode on Melancholy - Audio Visual Tutorial Two
Sonnet on the Sea - Audio Visual Tutorial
Ode on Melancholy Annotated Copy
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Napes Video Tutorial
The Cold Earth Slept Below - Video Tutorial
The Question - Video Tutorial
Useful interpretation of Intimations of Immortality
Intimations of Immortality Video Casts
Ode on A Grecian Urn Presentation
Shelley and West Wind Powerpoint
Ode to the West Wind Summaries and Readings
West Wind and To Autumn Scanned Essay Plans
Support with Byron's Poetry
Feedback from 2018 Mock Exam
Feedback from 2018 Mock Exam
TES English Romantic Poets Resources
Notes to Keats' Odes from 'Complete Poems'
Intimations of Immortality Movement 2
Intimations of Immortality Walk-through Movement 3
EMC Book 'Studying Blake's Songs'
'Ode to a Nightingale' Walk-Through VideosHere are...
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John Donne
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John Donne
The Relic
Twicknam Garden
To his mistress going to bed
Love's Growth and Love's Alchemy
A couple of key terms
Cesuras
A Valediction forbidding mourning
Ecstasy Storyboard
Donne jigsaw
Angels
Angels
Donne essay
Cosmography
Go and Catch a Falling Star
Sin
Questions on the Simon Schama documentary on John Donne
Questions on Twicknam Garden
John Donne The Sun Rising
Textual hybrids
Donne's poetic techniques
Donne's religious conversion
Biographical information about John Donne
Death be not proud
Batter my heart
Thou hast made me
The Apparition
Background research on Donne
Background research on Donne
no man is an island
Anurag Jain's commentaries on Donne's poems
Good Friday 1613 Riding Westward
Donne workbook 1
Donne workbook 2
Donne workbook 3
Donne workbook 4
Donne exemplar essay
Donne style
Quick fire Donne
Donne at Pyrford
Donne questions
John Donne technique gathering exercise
Video tutorial Donne exemplar essay
The Ecstasy Donne 2
Exam revision
Nocturnal on St Lucy's Day Donne 3
Woman's Constancy Donne 4
Air and Angels Donne video 5
John Donne Creative
A* essay - Esme
A grade essay - Mikey
A* essay - Evie
A* essay - Meriel
A grade essay - Hugo
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Othello
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Critical Essays Pack for Othello
Critical approaches to Othello British Library
Critical approaches to Othello British Library
Notes on Othello from Tragedy a Student Handbook
Honesty to speak: Speech and Silence in Othello
It is not words that shake me thus
The Fun of the Hunt in Othello
Language and Othello's Decline
Power struggles
Venice in Shakespeare's time
Exam essays
Unpicking Honigman's arguments
Using FR Leavis' arguments from Critical Anthology
Othello 'Walk-Through'
Act 1 of New Cambridge Shakespeare Scanned
Audiovisual - analysing different essays
Guided Question Worksheet on Desdemona
The Women in Othello Critical Approaches - Extract from EMC Book
Othello Acts 1-3 Presentations (M1)
Othello Presentations Acts 1-3 (C1)
Introduction to Newest New Cambridge Shakespeare Edition
JA cover 18.3.20 AS lit
First Othello Essay
Questions on Act two scene one
Part two of questions on Act two scene one
Close analysis of speeches Act2sc1
Othello Act 2 Scene 3 Ordering Activity
Act 1 Scene 3
Structure of 'Othello'
Scene lengths in 'Othello'
The Structure of Othello
AO2 powerpoint
Consolidating Acts one and Two
Psychiatrist's report on Iago. Act two scene three
Scene of crime question sheets based on Act two sc 3
Examining Iago's Persuasive Techniques in Act 3 scene 3
Gill's B block first years. Creative work on Othello Acts one and two.
The Clown in Othello
Sequencing activity for Act three
Questions on Act four scene one of 'Othello'
Answers to Act three sequencing activity
A model A Level Paragraph on Othello
Answers to A level paragraph exercise
Questions on Act four scene two of 'Othello.'
Women in Venetian Society
Act five questions
Othello Act five scene one questions
Critical Essays on Tragedy Pearson Edexcel Anthology
Critical Overview from York Notes 2010
Zig Zag Publication Guide to Critical Anthology code zz2ghc4
Othello Contexts and Discussion of Desdemona
A C Bradley Writing about Cassio and Emilia
Past Questions and Exemplar Responses
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English at University
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Mark Sheet for Oxbridge Interviewees
.How the interviews went - feedback from students:
My Oxford Interview
Oxford Interview - Lucia Powell
My Cambridge Interview for English and Education
Summary of one student's 2018 Oxford Interview experience for English Lit
.Reading Lists:
Higher English Reading List
Higher English Reading List and Timeline
.Other useful resources:
Notes for students
Higher English Presentations and Resources
Advice from an academic at Durham University about study of English at HE level
ELAT Past Paper with Mark Scheme and Model Answers
Writing a Personal Statement for English Courses
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Coursework
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Coursework General Introduction and Reading List 2022-23
Coursework Reading Log
Coursework Booklet
Handmaid Gatsby Questions
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Coursework: Modernism Gatsby Wasteland and Other Texts
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'A Handful of Dust' and other texts proposed coursework titles
The Waste Land Afternoon Drama
Audio Visual Guides to The Waste Land
Wider reading - essays on The Waste Land and other texts
The Grail Myth in Wasteland and Gatsby
Excerpt from Martin Stannard biography
Critical Quotations - Modernism
'English Review' essay on Waugh as satirist
Model Coursework Essays from Edexcel
The Greatness of Gatsby - article by Jay McInnery
A range of articles on Great Gatsby from Emagazine
Special Emagazine Supplement on The Great Gatsby
David K's Audio Feedback on Coursework Drafts 2017
Some Good General Literary Criticism for Coursework Feminism Marxism etc
Things Fall Apart and Post Colonialism
Comedy Resources
Coursework Guidance Booklet 2018-19
In Our Time Radio Four Discussion of 'Mrs Dalloway'
In Our Time Radio 4 Discussion of 'The Waste Land'
'The Great Gatsby' In Our Time Podcast Radio 4
'Being Clarissa' - article on identiy in the English Review
'The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock' Walk-Through
'The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock'
'The Waste Land' - Full Text
English and Media Centre Book on Gatsby
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Required Reading
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Art of Fiction Beginning
How Novels Work Beginning
'Art of Fiction' (David Lodge) Articles
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
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Exam Revision and Practice
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Revision Booklets for Set Texts
Past Papers and Model Answers
Exam Board Past Questions for All the Texts
Practice question on both novels
Video tutorial comparing an extract of Frankenstein and one from NLMG
comparison of observing the cottage in Frankenstein and observing the office in NLMG
pool reflection in Frankenstein and mirror reflection in NLMG comparison
Rossetti Revision Tutorial
Audio visual Donne exemplar essay tutorial
Twelfth Night - Audiovisual
Chaucer - audiovisual tutorial on marriage
Video Walk-through of Sample Question on English Romantic Verse
King Lear audio-visual revision tutorial
Practice Unseen with 'Please Hold' from Poems of the Decade
Discussing the Structure of 'Frankenstein' and 'Never Let Me Go'
Donne Exam Revision Videocast
Rossetti Revision Tutorial
The Ecstasy: Donne 2
Nocturnal on St Lucy's day
Two videos taking you through a question on 'trans...
Planning a question on 'transience'
Writing an answer on 'transience'
Model answer on transience
Woman's Constancy Donne 4
Air and Angels video Donne 5
Extracts comparing prose texts
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Chaucer
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Portrait of the Wife from the 'General Prologue'
Web links for Chaucer context
Questions on the portrait of the Wife
Powerpoints on Chaucer Context (4;ENB;M1)
Prologue lines 235 - 378 (Drama of domesticity)
Benchmark Assessment Oct 2016 - 4:EEB;M1 (DDD)
Quotation analysis on husbands 4 and 5
Quotations on the marriage to Jankin
The Tale - Opening lines worksheet
Close reading grid - quotations from the Tale
Techniques grid worksheet
Audio-Visual Tutorial on 'attitudes to marriage' question
Question and extracts for 'marriage' tutorial.
Contextual websites
B1 Research
Book of Wicked Wives Worksheet
Close reading grid for Prologue
Summarised sections sheet
Quotations to link to summary exercise
Prologue Revision Guide
Tale Revision Guide
Audiovisual guide - Prologue 1-61
Audiovisual guide - Prologue 62-162
Audiovisual guide Prologue 163-193
Audiovisual guide Prologue 194-235
Audio visual guide Prologue 236-378
Audiovisual guide - Prologue 453-502
Audiovisual guide - Prologue 503 - 626
Audiovisual guide - Prologue 627-787
Audiovisual guide - Prologue 788 -856
Audiovisual Guide - Tale 857-881
Audiovisual guide - Tale 882-898
Audiovisual guide Tale - 899-951
Audiovisual guide Tale - 952-1045
Audiovisual guide Tale - 1046-1108
Audiovisual guide - Tale 1108-1212
Audiovisual guide Tale -1212 to end
Questions 337-378
Practice exam Questions
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Twelfth Night
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Questions on Act 1, end Sc 2 and Sc 3
Act 1 Scene 5 - Questions to guide reading
Key quotations from the start of 2,5
Act 3, Scene 1 - Olivia and Viola
Twelfth Night Benchmark
Act 3, Scene 4 - Questions to guide reading
Key quotations from 'The festive tradition' critical essay (4;ENB;C1)
Key quotations from 'The festive tradition' critical essay (4;ENB;D1)
Questions relating 'TN' and 'The festive tradition'
Questions relating 'TN' to 'Marriage in Shakespeare'
Christmas homework on 'conservatism'
Comedy Anthology
Audio-visual tutorial - comedic and darker elements
Worksheet for comedic and darker features
Olivia and Viola's first meeting - Worksheet
Exam-style questions
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King Lear
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Audio Guide to Lear
Rewriting a sample paragraph of Power Essay
Rewriting a sample paragraph of Madness or Justice Essay
King Lear Sample Answer - Power
Critical Material on King Lear
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A Handful of Dust
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Pair work on short sections - pages 32-70 (DDD's class)
Coursework Questions plus brief notes on modernism
Pair work on short sections (73-110) DDD's class
Critical Quotations - Modernism
'English Review' essay on Waugh as satirist
Excerpt from Martin Stannard biography
Questions on Waugh critics
First Handful of Dust essay
4:ENB;M1 - Aspects HD and Gatsby
'The Writings of Evelyn Waugh' (extract)
'The Satiric Art of Waugh' (extract)
'Introduction' from Penguin Modern Classics
Coursework Questions Waugh and Fitzgerald
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Jerusalem
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Why I love Jez Butterworth's 'Jerusalem'
Patrick Marmion article
The Lord of Misrule
Study Guide
Short extracts of literary criticism
Coursework feedback
Dori feedback
Rose H feedback
Zoe feedback
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Rossetti
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Rossetti: Painting in words
Christina Rossetti: context and discussion (The Poetry Foundation)
Poem proforma
Rossetti revision
Rossetti context (student notes)
Rossetti Revision Video
U6 Revision Notes 2019
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English EPQs
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Sample investigation for David Kinder's Group
Critical bibliography
Gone With The Wind Model Powerpoint Slides
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The Handmaid's Tale
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English and Media Centre Publication
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1984
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1984 Introduction to Penguin Classics Edition
Presentations on the context of 1984
Politics and the English Language
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Measure for Measure
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Jenny Alexander's Lessons 2020
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Streetcar First Paragraph Practice
25.3.20 AS lit Othello lessons x3 plus h/w
Shakespearian Theatre
Role of Women in 16th century
Role of Venice in 16th century
Religious upheaval in 16th century
Attitude to Moors in 16th century
Work for 6th and 13th May
H/W for 20.5.20
work for 3.6.20
Iago essay
Third Othello essay
Lorna's excellent essay on Iago
Chloe's excellent essay on Iago
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Jennie Baldwin's Lessons 2020
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Streetcar Named Desire mark scheme
Othello tasks Act 1 Scene 3, and Act 2
Othello Act 2 Scene 3 Lines 1-302
Iago Psychiatrist Report
Cassio Crime Scene Sheet
The Art of Persuasion Act 3 Scene 3
Act 3 The Clown in Othello
Othello essay
Othello mark scheme
Othello Act 4 Scene 1
Othello Act 4 Scene 3 Range of tasks
Modern poetry mark scheme
Othello Act 5 questions
Othello Betrayal Essay
Othello questions Act 4 Scene 2
How to read a poem
To My Nine Year Old Self Dunmore
Furthest Distances Travelled Flynn
Homework on Blake's The Sick Rose or London
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David Deeming's Lessons 2020
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Work on 'Journal of a Disappointed Man' and 'Frankenstein'
'Thinspiration Shots'
Poem for session 2 April - 4;ENB;C1
3;ENB;M2 Work for w/c 30 March
3;ENB;M2 Easter Holiday essay
'Thinspiration Shots' comparative task
Compare the presentation of power in the two novels
Optional Extra Exam-focussed task comparing novels
Links to Online Lessons
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Juliet Harrison's Lessons 2020
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A Minor Role Powerpoints
Unseen Handbag and Effects Lesson 23 March 2020
Marked Work from 3ENB-M1
Marked Work for 3 ENB A1
Week 1 Higher English Introduction
Week 2 Higher English The Author
Week 3 Higher English The Reader
Week 4 Higher English The Text
Week 5 Higher English Marxism
Week 7 Higher English Genette only
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David K's Lessons 2020
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B Block Working Glossary of Literary Terminology 2020
Frankenstein and Never Let Me Go - Tasks
Work on final lines from Frankenstein
Class Theme and Motif Quote Gathering Table
Class Theme and Motif Quote Gathering Table (copy)
Genre Lesson
Working Glossary Practice
On Her Blindness Video
Narrative Time Intro
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Gill Thompson's Lessons 2020
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Iago's soliloquies
Costume design 'Othello'
Characters in Othello
Imagery in Acts one and two
First Othello Essay due in 1st June
Questions on Act four scene two of the play
Writing an A level Paragraph
Answers to A level paragraph exercise
Slides to accompany poetry unseen feedback ppt on estream
Task sheet for Othello essay on Loyalty.
Answers to Questions on Othello Act five scene two
Questions on Simon Schama documentary
Introductory video for 3: ENB: A1
4:ENB;B1
Introductory powerpoint for D Block First years
Powerpoint based on The Three Little Pigs
3;ENB; A1 Gill Thompson's first year English Literature class shared with Tricia Wallis
4: EPQ: C3 Gill's EPQ Group
3;ENB;D1 Gill Thompson's First Year English Lit group shared with Adam Duce
4; ENB; B1 Gill Thompson's Second Year English Lit group shared with Jennie Baldwin
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Tricia Wallis's Lessons 2020
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Tricia's 3 ENB A1 English Literature 1st Year Clas...
First Written Assignment
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Sarah Phillips' Lessons 2020
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Iago task briefing
Iago task using NYT/Frantic Assembly ideas
Othello lesson 2 April 2020
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Benchmark 4
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Benchmark 4 Questions
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Rossetti context (student notes)
Rossetti context (student notes)
Open course index
Download folder
Context England in 1848.docx
Context Feminism.docx
Context Political and Social Climate of England 1860s.docx
Context Pre Raphaelite brotherhood.docx
Context The life of Christina Rossetti.docx
Notes for more detailed context.docx
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