While I consider what aspect of educational reform I should submit for my application to do a doctorate in education, my year 12 student tells me that her school does not require the reading of a set text for the advanced English syllabus. The text in question is a beautifully crafted play by Edson known as “WIT”. This poignant play …
Module B: Close Study of Literature – Othello
YEAR 11 – Module B 2018 How meaning is shaped and conveyed through characterisation and the nature of language. Characterisation How do we work out who characters really are? The first thing Shakespeare does with his characters is that he places them in a world and gives us insight into their values, attitudes and their …
Discovery: The Tempest
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Metropolis and 1984
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Sample Essay – Preliminary – Othello
Othello claims he loved “not wisely, but too well.” Do you find yourself having sympathy for Othello at the end of the play? Explain why/why not. Whilst the audience empathises with Othello’s plight throughout the play, their stronger sympathy for the character Othello is derived from his final moments in the play. Othello’s speech allows the audience to better understand …
Module B. Hamlet- Complete Bundle
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The Crucible – video complete bundle
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Module B – Yeats Complete Bundle
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Sample Essay Area of Study Discovery: The Awakening
A study of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper highlight the power of context and the influence it has over individual discovery. Expressed through the use of contrast, tone and symbolism, the interactions between discovery and context allow the protagonists of both texts to transcend the confinement and repression of a physical and spiritually suffocating …
Teaching and The Advanced English syllabus.
The performance of my year twelve students was exceptionally rewarding. Not just because they engaged in the joy of learning and discovered the power of communication but because they owned all of their achievements. I did not write their essays nor did I dictate notes that could be effortlessly slotted into an essay. I rather encouraged them, and provided them …