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GCSE History: Answering Source Questions
3 page resource explaining how to answer GCSE history questions on sources.
GCSE History: The Cold War
28 slide powerpoint on the Cold War unit (1943-1990). Content structured in terms of why, what and effects questions.
GCSE History: Stalin 1924-39
Brief powerpoint on Stalin’s rise to power, purges and show trials, propaganda, cultural censorship and 1936 constitution.
Latin Confusable Vocab
I compiled a list of vocab which pupils I was tutoring for Latin 13+ regularly found confusing or mixed up in translations - this proved extremely helpful.
Attached a copy with English meanings and a Latin-only copy that can be used as a vocab test.
Approaching a Latin Translation: Step-by-step guide
Step-by-step, easy to follow guide on how to approach a Latin translation. Helpful tool for pupils who get in a muddle with the word order. I tend to use this with 13+ or Y8-9 pupils.
GCSE Food Technology: Functions, Methods, Structures
Powerpoint (37 slides) containing in-depth notes on: functions and properties of ingredients; methods of making; structures.
Complete GCSE Food Technology Exam Revision
Powerpoint (59 slides) covering all exam topics for ‘DT: Food Technology’ AQA GCSE.
Includes product design questions, functions of ingredients, nutrition, methods of making, product development and prototype stages, packaging, new technologies, ethical/environmental considerations, manufacturing processes.
Trimalchio's Dinner (from Petronius' Satyricon) - plot summary
Plot summary of the Cena Trimalchionis in Petronius’ Satyricon (6 pages).
The Aeneid: Detailed summary Books I-V
Detailed summary of Books 1 to 5 of Virgil’s Aeneid. 9 pages total. Focus on plot, imagery and important Homeric or Augustan parallels. Useful for revision.
Volver: collection of free resources
A collation of various free resources for Spanish A Level on the film Volver found online - not my own but sharing what’s out there in one place in case this is useful for others!
Approaching a Comprehension (KS3/11+)
Guidance on how to approach comprehension questions on an unseen passage. Useful for KS3 English and for 11+ entrance examinations.
GCSE English Language: Tips
3 page document outlining tips for GCSE English Language exams.
Covers: answering longer questions about an unseen passage, suggestions of language and structure techniques to look out for, how to approach creative writing exam questions (writing to persuade, explain or describe).
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Detailed notes on context (historical background, biographical details of Tennessee Williams, setting and music, gender attitudes, literary allusions, key film and stage performances, and useful secondary source quotes).
Detailed notes on analysis and symbolism (includes the play’s structure, genre/style, characterisation, diction, significance of characters’ names, key symbols and motifs (including further detail about light, the streetcars, colours, animal symbols), setting of the apartment, music and sound, interactions in the street.
A more in-depth biography of Tennessee Williams
Designed for the Edexcel English A-Level.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Detailed context notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes: Courtly Love, gender, Queen Elizabeth I, the supernatural, Shakespeare’s other plays, Classical/mythological references, literary influences and conventions, historical context of the contemporary theatre, modern productions.
Critical quotes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both from the prescribed anthology and from elsewhere.
Designed for the Edexcel A-Level English specification.
Spanish Useful Phrases
5-page powerpoint containing useful phrases for giving arguments and opinions, expressing time, linking sentences, or introducing impressive structures.
Level: advanced GCSE/more basic AS and A-Level.
Spanish Grammar (powerpoint)
Grammar powerpoint covering tenses (present, preterite, imperfect, compound tenses, near-future, future, conditional, gerund, present subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive), si clauses, the direct object, por and para.
Level: advanced GCSE or basic AS/A-Level.
GCSE Holidays topic: useful vocab and phrases
Powerpoint with four slides of vocabulary and useful phrases for talking about holidays (types of destination advantages, booking and staying in accomodation)
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Poems of the Decade
Detailed analysis of all poems on the Poems of the Decade Edexcel A-Level English Literature specification (as of 2018), with the exception of ‘Out of the Bag’ (omitted for exam strategy).
Eat Me Patience Agbabi 3
Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass Simon Armitage 6
Material Ros Barber 10
History John Burnside 25
An Easy Passage Julia Copus 37
The Deliverer Tishani Doshi 43
The Lammas Hireling Ian Duhig 51
To My Nine-Year-Old Self Helen Dunmore 52
A Minor Role U A Fanthorpe 57
The Gun Vicki Feaver 62
The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled Leontia Flynn 64
Giuseppe Roderick Ford 66
Effects Alan Jenkins 92
Genetics Sinéad Morrissey 125
From the Journal of a Disappointed Man Andrew Motion 127
Look We Have Coming to Dover! Daljit Nagra 129
Please Hold Ciaran O’Driscoll 132
On Her Blindness Adam Thorpe 170
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn Tim Turnbull 172
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn (Tim Turnbull): Poem Analysis
4 pages analysing the poem ‘Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn’ by Tim Turnbull. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
On Her Blindness (Adam Thorpe): Poem Analysis
4 pages analysing ‘On Her Blindness’ by Adam Thorpe. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.