Analysis Detailed examination of the elements or structure of something: study, investigation, scrutiny. The Fall of Icarus is a painting I love and first came across during my PGCE. A seemingly innocent […]
Approaching Analysis
Developing Detailed Explanations
Today, my colleague read the following in an essay response: “The phrase ‘he is dead’ from the poem confirms that the person is dead”. As much as this caused a giggle, this […]
Treasure Island! Teaching Language Paper 2 with interesting extracts…(!)
english-language-paper-1-question-2 treasure-island-extract The example extracts that AQA have released are not the most exciting and I was getting fed up with the wave of disappointed expressions at being faced with another text […]
English Literature Paper 2, Section B: An Inspector Calls Revision – Quizzing!
Quizzing has become a huge part of my life (rather reluctantly) in the last year or so. In support of interleaving that I have explored in an earlier post, quizzing has become […]
An Inspector Calls: Setting/Context
AO3: Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written Paper 1: 7.5% Paper 2: 7.5% This aspect of English teaching has always been an issue […]
