eBook
The Great Gatsby Chapter 4
After reading Chapter 4, use some or all the questions and activities below to explore how the novel develops in this chapter. Gatsby's guests Read the opening section of this chapter, up until “All...
eBook
Fun Home Chapter 5
Use the questions and activities below to help you explore Chapter 5. Colour Colour is a prominent aspect of this chapter, from the title through to the sunset colours described at its beginning and...
eBook
A-Z of literary terms
The number of words that can be used to identify examples of 'literary' language is almost inexhaustible and it is important to remember that the course is not an assessment of how sophisticated your...
Assessment
IA Oral sentence stems
An important feature of the assessment task is the adoption of an appropriate register. You can of course practise beforehand, and it is important to do so - not least to eradicate any tendency to use...
eBook
Fun Home Chapter 4
Use the questions and activities below to help you explore Chapter 4. The Core of the Story In her 2003 book proposal, Bechdel compared the book to a “labyrinth” and wrote that Chapter 4 is “the core...
eBook
Fun Home Chapter 3
Use the questions and activities below to help you explore Chapter 3. Intertextuality As you will have gathered by now, Fun Home is rich with intertextual references, with over sixty allusions to literary...
Blog
Fun Home Study Guide Free
This week we have added further to our Study Guide for Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, with pages now on chapters 1 to 5. These pages can be used by teachers to support teaching of the text and/or by students...
eBook
Fun Home Chapter 2
Quiz Test your knowledge of the first two chapters with this quick quiz: Intertextuality The chapter is named after Camus' novel of the same name, written in the late 1930s but not published until 1971...
Assessment
Paper 2: final tips and reminders
This page is designed to give you some important reminders and tips as you prepare for the final paper 2 examination. In the weeks and days leading up to the examination, revising your chosen texts is...
eBook
The Great Gatsby Chapter 1
After reading the first chapter, use the questions and activities below to explore your first impressions of the world of the novel, its characters and some key aspects of Fitzgerald's style. Quiz Use...