⏰ GCSE Countdown: 41 Days Left! ⏰
Hi there,
I hope you had a great weekend! The clocks went forward yesterday and it’s getting warmer and lighter. What that means is.. GCSE season is in full swing! We’re now just 6 Weeks away from GCSE Literature Paper 1 & 2 exams.
As we are 6 Weeks away, I teame...
Happy Friday!
Can you believe Easter is almost here? If you are in Year 10 or 11 (or you’re the parent of a Year 10 and 11 student!) you will know that this marks 6 Weeks to the GCSE English Literature exams.
Now to help my students make the most of their Easter break (so this final holiday before...
Hi,
If you are aiming for a Grade 9 in GCSE English Literature, there’s one thing you absolutely need to get right:
Essay structure
That’s exactly why I wanted to send this today.
Most students don’t lose marks because they don’t understand the text…
They lose marks because their essays are unc...
Hi everyone,
GCSEs are literally around the corner now (which is slightly terrifying, I know), and while I was preparing for Lit Week, I found myself going back to Macbeth, specifically, Lady Macbeth.
Now, full disclosure, I was reading it because I genuinely love the play. At this stage, you shou...
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I hope you are having a great week and if you’re on Easter break, I hope your revision is going well! I wanted to talk about Power & Conflict poetry and more specifically – what examiners WANT to see in your GCSE Essays.. especially if you’re having assessments or your final GCSE Exams on...
⏰ GCSE Countdown: 34 Days Left ⏰
34 days. That’s all that stands between you and your GCSE English Literature exam.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, a bit behind, or like you should have started earlier, I promise you, most students feel exactly the same at this point. The difference now isn’t when ...
Literature Paper 1 is on 11 May. That is in less than three weeks. And before you spiral, I want to say something that I genuinely mean: three weeks is actually enough time to move up a whole grade boundary, if you use it properly. I’ve seen it happen, more times than I can count.
But the word “pro...
There’s a fair chance of MR BIRLING coming up as the character question in this year’s Inspector Calls exams.
Now, GCSE students often use weak or overly simplistic words to describe Mr. Birling in An Inspector Calls. Here are some of the worst choices and better alternatives to use instead - IF he...
Dear gentle reader,
I know. You’ve been staring at the same Macbeth quotes since October. You’ve read “I have done the deed” so many times it has stopped meaning anything. And yet every time someone says “write about how Shakespeare presents ambition,” your mind goes completely blank.
Here’s what ...
Hi there,
Happy Friday and I hope you had an awesome week! If you’re in Year 11 (or you’re the parent of a Year 11 student!) you will know you’ve now got exactly 16 Days until the Literature Paper 1 exams.
That’s not very long and the last thing you want to do is waste your time on pointless tasks...
Of all the texts on the GCSE English Literature syllabus, A Christmas Carol is the one students tend to move through too quickly. It is usually because the plot feels familiar, almost predictable, which makes it easy to settle into retelling what happens rather than examining how Dickens is construc...
There is a temptation, when revising An Inspector Calls, to treat the play as a collection of character studies, Sheila’s redemption arc, Eric’s alcoholism, Birling’s pomposity, the Inspector’s theatrical exits. And those things matter. But they are, in the deepest sense, vehicles for something larg...
