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George Orwell's Essays: A Hanging
The following tasks and activities are intended for teaching and studying George Orwell’s essay ‘A Hanging’. It is not required that students study all of the available materials, however the materials...
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Individual Oral Exemplar #1: The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Fun Home
This Individual Oral is on the whole quite strong, although not without areas for improvement. The student identifies a relevant Global Issue and attends more or less well to the demands of the assessment...
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Individual oral exemplar #6: Heart of Darkness and Season of Migration to the North
In this oral, the student demonstrates very good knowledge of both works, as well as impressive sensitivity to authorial choices. There is also a confident sense of development in thinking about the global...
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Writing introductions
It hardly needs pointing out how important the opening of any essay is. This is the first thing of course that your teacher or examiner will read, and it is where the first impression of your writing...
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Imagery
While all written texts use words and syntax, imagery and metaphor are particular to more literary texts. They require of their reader a more imaginative, creative leap; unlike purely transactional language...
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How to: structure the oral around key claims
Organising the oral is best thought about in terms of presenting a series of claims about the Global Issue. This means that you will move from paraphrase or description of places where the Issue is presented...
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Salome
The poem 'Salome' comes from Duffy's collection The World's Wife (1999). As with all of the poems in the collection, Duffy uses a dramatic monologue to give voice to a ‘silenced’ female character from...
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Havisham
The poem 'Havisham' comes from the collection Mean Time (1993) although it shares many similarities with the poems from Duffy's later collection, The World's Wife (1999): it is a dramatic monologue, giving...
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Sailing to Byzantium/Byzantium
The above phrase appears in the opening line of the first of Yeats' two poems that reflect his interest in the literal and symbolic significance of the holy city of Byzantium, now Istanbul. It is also...
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Essay pharmacy
Development in student writing of course comes as much through practice as anything. However, diagnosing characteristics of good-quality writing and seeking to emulate them can be an additional, powerful...