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Little Red Cap
'Little Red Cap' is the first poem in Duffy's 1999 collection, The World's Wife. The poem - and then collection as a whole - offers a good opportunity to introduce or revisit intertextuality as an area...
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Love and Venus: Looking at Form
The two poems used in this lesson, Love and Venus, both come from Duffy's 2005 collection, Rapture. The lesson is focused on form and in particular the choices poets make when it comes to lineation (for...
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Standing Female Nude
Standing female Nude is one of Duffy's earlier poems and comes from the collection of the same name, published in 1985. It is a good starting point for a study of Duffy's poetry as it introduces students...
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George Orwell's Essays: Such, Such Were the Joys
The following tasks and activities are intended for teaching and studying George Orwell’s essay ‘Such, Such Were the Joys’. It is not required that students use all of the activities. However, the materials...
Course Assessment
Marking criteria
Below you can find easily viewable assessment criteria for each examined component. These might be useful to project in class when you are engaged in marking an exemplar response, but also as a means...
Teaching and Learning resources
Writing good paragraphs Free
Writing good paragraphs is inevitably an essential element of all good essays, and one that you will spend a good deal of time developing throughout the course. But what does it take to write them consistently...
DP essentials
Extended Essay (2027)
The following section of the site includes guidance for the writing and assessment of the extended essay for the first submission in May 2027. For English A Literature students, the extended essay is...
Course Assessment
Paper 1: sample response (Chaudhuri)
This sample response comes from the May 2023 examination session (TZ2) and is a response to the prose fiction extract on that paper, a passage from the novel A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri. The...
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Paper 2: Comparative essay
Compare and contrast two works One of the exciting features of the Literature course relates to the way in which students are given free choices about the texts on which they want to write for some of...
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Characters
Charactersisation Characterisation The word 'Character' refers to a person, animal or thing in a story. Characterisation refers to the ways in which characters are presented. Think of the former term...