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A Christmas Carol Comprehension: Christmas Dinner with the Cratchit Family
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A Christmas Carol Comprehension: Christmas Dinner with the Cratchit Family

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A festive themed past-paper style passage followed by comprehension questions, and a choice of two creative writing prompts. Questions are a mixture of short-answer (testing understanding of the passage), vocabulary, Passage taken from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Would be suitable for 13+ entrance practice, or high-level 11+ entrance/scholarship practice.
Poems of the Decade
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Poems of the Decade

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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
A Valediction of Weeping (John Donne): Analysis
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A Valediction of Weeping (John Donne): Analysis

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2.5 pages of notes analysing ‘A Valediction of Weeping’ by John Donne (summary, technical terms, title, structure, five important quotes, context). Designed for A-Level English Edexcel Metaphysical Poetry.
Eat Me (Patience Agbabi): Analysis
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Eat Me (Patience Agbabi): Analysis

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Detailed analysis of the poem ‘Eat Me’ by Patience Agbabi (4 pages of notes). Designed for A Level Edexcel English ‘Poems of the Decade’.
Material (Ros Barber): Analysis
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Material (Ros Barber): Analysis

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5 pages of notes analysing the poem ‘Material’ by Ros Barber. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for A-Level Edexcel English Literature.
History (John Burnside): Analysis
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History (John Burnside): Analysis

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Just over 4 pages of notes analysing ‘History’ by John Burnside. From the ‘Poems of the Decade’ for Edexcel A-Level English Literature.
The Deliverer (Tishani Doshi): Analysis
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The Deliverer (Tishani Doshi): Analysis

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3 pages of analysis of the poem ‘The Deliverer’ by Tishani Doshi. From ‘Poems of the Decade’ for the Edexcel A-Level English Literature syllabus.