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EMC Study Guides

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Cover of Studying "Great Expectations"
* Imaginative and active approaches to reading the text including role-play, improvisation and creative writing, to appeal to a range of learning styles and to motivate your students. * Flexible with a wide variety of assignments covering: Pre-1914 prose study; Speaking and listening; Media and Original writing. * A strong focus on Dickens as a writer, with acccessible ways into language study, including modelled analyses of short passages. * Activities on film and theatre adaptations. * Contextual material on the concept of the gentleman, women, and crime in the Victorian period selected to illuminate key aspects of the text.

Cover of Studying AQA A Level Poetry
* Comparative approaches to both the 'Poems from Different Cultures' and the 'Literature Poetry' clusters. * Strategies for several key poems. * Shows how poems can be taught in pairs or groups. * Approaches that can be adapted for use with other poems. * A teachers' guide to planning poetry into the course. * A wide range of approaches: an I.T. activity, a game, creative writing strategies, visual representations, tableaux, poetry fragments, sorting exercises and more. * A strong emphasis on close reading and developing pupils' understanding of the poets' uses of form, structure and language. * Charts, spidergrams and other formats for pupils to use for comparative work and revision. * Support for planning and writing in exams, including modelled writing, and planning grids.

Cover of Studying "Sherlock Holmes"
* The Speckled Band', 'Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Red-Headed League' and 'Silver Blaze'. * Manageable routes through with suggested assignments. * Approaches to individual stories; comparing stories; the context of the stories. * Focused activities on characterisation, writer's use of language, structure, setting and atmosphere, point of view and context. * Advice on planning, structuring and writing a comparative assignment with modelled paragraphs for a critical essay. * Ideas for an oral assessment of EN2/Literature; original writing coursework; activities that can be assessed for speaking and listening.