by melaniewp | Jul 30, 2013 | AIC Key Quotes, An Inspector Calls, GCSE, IGCSE
Act Two follows on cleanly from the cliffhanger at the end of Act One with the Inspector looking ‘steadily and searchingly’ at Sheila and Gerald (Act One). This produces a ‘hysterical laugh’ (Act Two) from Sheila, who repeats the word...
by melaniewp | Jul 29, 2013 | GCSE, Jekyll and Hyde, Something Interesting
In The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson brings to life one of the most compelling and original monsters ever written.The obvious monster is Mr Hyde: the snarling, feral mass of murderous impulses. First, Hyde beats up a little girl....
by melaniewp | Jul 22, 2013 | Animal Farm, GCSE, Social and Historical Context, Something Interesting
Animal Farm deals with early Twentieth Century Russia, its leaders and a brilliant but dangerous political idea that altered the course of the late twentieth century, an idea that threatened to start world war three. Want to know more? Of course you do!It all...
by melaniewp | Jul 19, 2013 | Grammar, Something Interesting, Verbs
A verb is a doing word, right? Kids are taught this from around age eight, forget it, learn it again. Aged nine, they forget it again. Eventually the information lodges in the brain as fact, where it solidifies like a nut.’A verb is a doing word’, like a...
by melaniewp | Jul 17, 2013 | Connotations, How Do Writers Use Language?, Semantic Fields
Every word has a literal meaning – the dictionary definition. This is called the denotation. So far so simple.Connotations means – what a word suggests to us, what it makes us think of and what we associate with it. For example, red connotes blood, danger,...