by melaniewp | Mar 14, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Of Mice and Men, OMAM Essays
ATeacherWrites.comThe extract question is either 20 minutes (WJEC), or 60 (AQA), depending on which exam board you’re taking. A lot of students opt for this, but what should you write?The answer below was written for the 20 minute extract question for WJEC. If I...
by melaniewp | Mar 14, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, Simon Armitage
SummaryIn this poem, Armitage explores an incident when he had his ear pierced as a teenager, and his father’s shocked reaction to it. This poem is about coming of age, asserting your own identity, and seems to show he has a bad relationship with his father....
by melaniewp | Mar 12, 2013 | Common Entrance, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Vocabulary
vivid = lifelike, very real, potent (strong)tension, suspense = building up a feeling that something is going to happenominous, foreboding = feeling, or mood, that something bad is going to happento portray = show, e.g. in what way does Steinbeck portray Curley’s...
by melaniewp | Mar 12, 2013 | A-Level English, Common Entrance, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Vocabulary
1 In Addition (1) besides this, (2) furthermore, (3) also, (4) as well as, (5) on top of this, (6) foremost (7) firstly, secondly, thirdly, (8) firstly, lastly, finally, (9) likewise2 To Give an Example (1) For example, (2) for instance, (3) in particular,...
by melaniewp | Mar 12, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Of Mice and Men, OMAM Essays
What is the importance of dreams in Of Mice and Men?Of Mice and Men is set in Salinas, California in the 1930s Great Depression. Life was hard and men could be cruel. Hope might be the only escape from hard reality. This links to the American Dream – represented in...
by melaniewp | Mar 8, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, To Kill a Mockingbird
How does Harper Lee presents Atticus as a role model to his children and also to the rest of Maycomb society?Atticus is a respectful member of Maycomb society. He is not racist or nasty towards anyone. He even treats people who dislike him and disagree with...
