Monthly Archives: October 2013

Death of a Salesman – Author’s Craft

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Mr Heald

Here is an extract from the Chief Examiner’s report on this coursework unit: Moderators appreciated the sustained and detailed exploration of themes and ideas but judged that some students would have been more successful in addressing AO2 if they had … Continue reading →

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Death of a Salesman – Author’s Craft

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Mr Heald

Here is an extract from the Chief Examiner’s report on this coursework unit: Moderators appreciated the sustained and detailed exploration of themes and ideas but judged that some students would have been more successful in addressing AO2 if they had … Continue reading →

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Journey’s End

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Mr Heald

Year 12 English Lit students, this is the place for your analysis and discussion of the relationship between the sequence from the BBC production of Journey’s End that we watched yesterday and Sheriff’s script. I’d recommend composing your ideas in … Continue reading →

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Death of a Salesman – More analysis

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Mr Heald

Now you have seen a few examples of the kind of close analysis of the text that marks out a skilled reader, and had a go yourselves in the comments section of the last blog post, as well as in … Continue reading →

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Analysing Death of a Salesman

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Mr Heald

We’re still at a relatively early stage of our study of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in Year 10, and I recently asked my class to use the first few questions from the ‘Keeping Track’ section at the back of … Continue reading →

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