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Cambridge Wizard English Student Guides

63 total works

Cover of Wizard Study Guide The Blooding

Cover of Wizard Study Guide Shakespeare in Love

Cover of Wizard Study Guide Blade Runner

Cover of Wizard Study Guide The Player

Cover of Cambridge Wizard Student Guide Macbeth
The Quiet American is a key work by famous British author Graham Greene. The title character, Alden Pyle, is an idealistic young man working undercover for American intelligence agencies in Vietnam during the last days of the French colonial administration. However, his interference in local affairs, and agent provocateur role, lead almost inevitably to tragic consequences - including his own death. The narrator, world weary British journalist Thomas Fowler, is simultaneously repelled and attracted to the dangerously 'innocent' Pyle - and in a dramatic twist, shares Pyle's obsession with a beautiful Vietnamese girl. The novel is a clever composite - part thriller, part murder mystery, part love story. This study guide provides background on the author, and the complex history of Vietnam, before offering a summary and detailed explication of the novel. It includes thorough notes on characters and themes, as well as critical references and model answers.

Cover of Wizard Study Guide The Great Gatsby

Cover of Wizard Study Guide The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender

Cover of Wizard Study Guide Witness

Cover of Cambridge Wizard Student Guide Rabbit-Proof Fence and the Journey
Rabbit-Proof Fence is an award-winning Australian film by celebrated director Philip Noyce. It brings to life the true story of three Aboriginal girls who escaped from a mission where they had been taken and held against their will. Despite a massive searh and near-intolerable conditions the three girls survive and two of them complete the epic trek across 1500 miles of harsh Australian desert to reach their journey's end. This film dramatises the issue that has become known as the 'Stolen Generations'. Study of the film is set, in this study guide, within the larger context of the NSW English Area of Study curriculum – 'The Journey'. The guide provides background material on the journey theme, examines the prescribed Stimulus Booklet ('Journeys') in detail, and offers students ways of reading the text in relation to the Area of Study theme.

Cover of Cambridge Wizard Student Guide Cosi and the Journey
Cosi is a modern theatre classic by celebrated Australian playwright Louis Nowra. With the help of an amateur theatre director, a group of patients in a mental hospital decide to stage a production of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte as a form of therapy. Through a series of hilarious ups and downs, the ill-prepared and emotionally challenged players grapple with their seemingly impossible task. Despite major cast changes and a couple of near disasters, they finally present the opera in a live performance. The experience has been transformative. Study of the play is set, in this study guide, within the larger context of the NSW English Area of Study curriculum – 'The Journey'. The guide provides background material on the journey theme, examines the prescribed Stimulus Booklet ('Journeys') in detail, and offers students ways of reading the text in relation to the Area of Study theme.

Cover of Wizard Study Guide Cabaret

Cover of Wizard Study Guide The Divine Wind

Cover of Wizard Study Guide Fly Away Peter

Cover of Wizard Study Guide The Collector

Cover of Wizard Study Guide What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Cover of Cambridge Wizard Student Guide A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest Gaines is considered one of America's foremost contemporary 'black' writers. A Lesson before Dying is his award-winning drama about a man sentenced to die for a crime he didn't commit. The narrator, a school teacher given the impossible task of rehabilitating the condemned man, of giving him a chance at dignity before he dies. At first the task seems impossible, but compassion, understanding and the political necessity of making a statement against the 'white man's myth' (of racial superiority) actually manages to help the man rise from being a wretched victim to a 'hero' for his people. The novel ends explosively, with the execution, but also with a sense of the courage it took to face death. The text is very much a polemic for 'black pride'.

Cover of Cambridge Wizard Student Guide Lantana
Lantana is a critically acclaimed contemporary Australian film directed by Ray Lawrence, from a script by Andrew Bovell. It is a mystery thriller, a love story and a study of sometimes tormented relationships. Behind the engrossing story of a missing woman, the filmmakers open up themes of betrayal, alienation and the search for love. Written by two experienced teachers (one a film lecturer), this guide offers you background notes on the film, explaining how to read it in cinematic terms. You are then taken through the film scene by scene, with key quotes highlighted and teacher explanations to draw out the subtext. To extend your understanding and interpretation of the text, this guide also includes comprehensive notes on characters and themes, critical reviews, and a full length A+ exam essay on the text.

Cover of Wizard Study Guide Schindler's List

Cover of Wizard Study Guide Women of the Sun

Cover of Wizard Study Guide Cosi - Changing Perspective