by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | Animal Farm, Common Entrance, Corruption of Ideals, GCSE, KS3, Model Essays
How does Orwell use the different characters and structure of the book to portray the corruption of ideals in Animal Farm?Orwell originally titled the novel ‘Animal Farm: A Fairy Story’. It can also be described as a fable as it is a morality tale where...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | Animal Farm, Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Napoleon, OCR, Snowball
Compare the ways Orwell portrays Snowball and Napoleon: A – A* grade Model EssaySnowball and Napoleon are the two leaders who compete for power in the early to mid-section of Animal Farm. The two pigs emerge as the leaders of this apparently egalitarian society...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | A Mother in a Refugee Camp, Carol Ann Duffy, Chinua Achebe, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, War Photogapher
Comparison of ‘Mother in a Refugee Camp’ by Chinua Achebe and ‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy.It’s interesting how closely Duffy’s poem echoes the themes of the non-fiction text A Passage to Africa.Words like ‘tenderness’ juxtaposed with ‘soon’...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, liquid, Nasal, plosive, Poetry, sibilant, Technical Terms
How are sounds used to create mood?The main sounds that I teach to students are1. sibilant /s/ /sh/ /ch/ /x/2. plosive /b/ /p/ /t/ /d/3. liquid /l/4. (sometimes) fricative, voiced /th/ ‘the’ /v/ and unvoiced /th/ ‘theatre’ /f/5. (rarely) nasal...
by melaniewp | Apr 29, 2013 | Common Entrance, Complex Sentences, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3, Writing
This is a lesson I did specifically for a student aged 13-14, who wanted to know how he could improve his writing level. We took a story that he had written for homework using pathetic fallacy. Most of his sentences started with a noun or pronoun. This is the...
