by melaniewp | Jun 12, 2013 | AQA, English Language, English Literature, GCSE
Raise your grade in the English Language Exam ENG1HAll resources to help you ace the Higher Tier paper including model answers and examiners’ comments for both the reading and the writing sectionControlled AssessmentsLearn about how controlled...
by melaniewp | Jun 9, 2013 | Analysis, GCSE, Poetry, Sensory Langauge, Ted Hughes, Wind
This is a lesson I did for a student on how to find examples of sensory language. I’ve already posted on how writers use this here and also how you can use it in your own writing, here. But we needed more detail using a specific example. The poem...
by melaniewp | Jun 8, 2013 | AQA, Flag John Agard, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Moon on the Tides, Poetry
Flag is tightly regular in its line length, rhyme scheme and in the refrain ‘it’s just a piece of cloth’, which repeats in all but the final stanza. It feels very controlled. This control allows the poet to explore the meaning of the same ‘piece of cloth’, or flag,...
by melaniewp | Jun 7, 2013 | AQA, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Moon on the Tides, Out of the Blue, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Basic SummaryThis poem is spoken by a trader inside the World Trade Centre (twin towers) on 9/11 moments before the buildings collapse. He seems to be asking us for help, asking whether we can see him. The poem is written as if it’s happening now. The man...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | An Inspector Calls, Birling, GCSE, IGCSE
Character SummaryArthur Birling is the first character who speaks in An Inspector Calls. He is he first to be investigated or accused by the Inspector and is the first to be mentioned in the stage directions [a prosperous manufacturer].In Birling, Priestly has...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | GCSE, GCSE English Literature, How to Compare, How to Write an Essay, Poetry
Help! Your teacher’s just told you to write a comparison between two or three poems, but you don’t know how…Don’t panic! Just follow these simple steps: first, figure out what’s the same and what’s different. This is where a...
