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The Extract. Remember the question will ask you to ‘ Look at how the characters speak and behave here. How do you think an audience might respond to this part… Read More »GCSE Macbeth Examination Tips: Eduqas Extract and Essay. ( Bolton Private Tuition English Manchester)
Quotations provide the evidence to support your critical interpretation of any text. When you are revising a text it is always useful to ensure that you maximise the usefulness of each individual… Read More »GCSE Macbeth English Literature: Analyses of ‘Is this a dagger?’ ( English Tuition Bolton, Manchester)
Act Five Scene Five.What is that noise?SEYTONIt is the cry of women, my good lord.ExitMACBETHI have almost forgot the taste of fears;The time has been, my senses would have cool’dTo… Read More »Macbeth Act Five Scene Five: Analysis and Notes ( GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton Manchester)
Macbeth Act Five Scene Three Continued. MACBETH I’ll put it on. Send out more horses; skirr the country round; Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour. How… Read More »Macbeth Act Five Scene Three: Analysis Continued. (GCSE English Tuition Bolton)
Macbeth Act Five, Scene Three. Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants MACBETH Bring me no more reports; let them fly all: Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with… Read More »Macbeth Act Five Scene Three: Analysis and discussion GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton Manchester.
Act Five Scene Two MENTEITH What does the tyrant? CAITHNESS Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies: Some say he’s mad; others that lesser hate him do call it valiant fury: but,… Read More »Macbeth Act Five Scene Two: Analysis and discussion (GCSE English Literature Bolton Tuition)
The diminished, nearly pitiful Queen begins her final few minutes on stage carrying ‘a taper’ which brings forth a curious, even recriminatory question from the doctor.’ How came she by… Read More »Lady Macbeth washing her hands in Macbeth Act Five Scene One: Short Analysis and Comments. GCSE Literature Tuition Bolton
Act Five Scene One. Consider the diminished society of Lady Macbeth in this scene. The Queen is now alone aside from her gentlewoman and doctor, who as powerless ‘servants’ can… Read More »GCSE Macbeth Act Five Scene One: Analysis and Commentary ( Bolton English Literature Tuition)
Macbeth Act Three Scene One (Early Stages): Triangulation and Knowing in conversation. Look how the dynamics of this opening scene change increasing dramatic tension as the audience wonder about the… Read More »GCSE Macbeth Act Three Scene One ( Early Stages): Triangulation and Knowledge in Conversation Analysis.
Workshop. Look at the similarities between Macbeth’s speech about blood and guilt in Act Two and his wife’s in Act Five. Why is there a clear mirroring imaginatively? What does… Read More »Macbeth GCSE English Literature Act Two and Five MIRRORING ( English Tuition Bolton)
Lord of the Flies. In chapter four Jack is feeling thwarted in his ability to hunt down the pigs (and prove his violent masculinity) because the pigs can discern him… Read More »GCSE Lord Of the Flies Chapter Four: Analysis of Face painting ( Bolton English Tuition)
Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War. Here’s a wonderful use of simile. Look at the way the context makes the figurative language feel inevitable. In Chapter 48 of the novel, one of… Read More »Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War. ( Read like a Writer! GCSE English Tuition Bolton, Manchester)
In Act Three Scene Two, Macbeth is becoming increasingly unsettled by his own inauthenticity and hypocrisy before his friends at court, suggesting that he realises that he has destroyed their… Read More »Macbeth Act Three Scene Two: Scorpions analysis. GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton Manchester.
Macbeth Act One Scene Seven. I would highly recommend the BBC series Shakespeare Unlocked on YouTube as the workshop on this scene was a revelation. Really insightful and inspiring. This… Read More »GCSE Macbeth Act One Scene Seven: Analysis and Notes. (Bolton, Manchester English Tuition)
Macbeth Act Three Scene Four. The coronation feast and celebration occurs after the secret murder of Banquo. This is heavily ironic and the act of a consummate charlatan, yet it… Read More »GCSE Macbeth Act three Scene four: Analysis, questions and Notes.
Two Letters: A simple way to deepen your characters. I am reading Hilary McKay’s wonderful children’s novel, The Skylarks’ War. It is set at the time of the First World… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Letter prompt: English Tuition Bolton Manchester.
GCSE Eduqas Poetry Comparisons. Tip. Make sure you include the central idea of the question in your opening statement. Try to problematise the relationship between the two poems. So, you… Read More »GCSE Poetry Comparisons English Anthology ( Eduqas)
Lady Macbeth reading a letter. Act One, Scene Five. The audience first encounters Lady Macbeth one on stage, reading a letter from her husband informing her of the witches’ prophecies.… Read More »Macbeth Act One Scene Five: GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton, Manchester.
GCSE English language/literature: writing about effects. (One) Top Tip! Be specific! Avoid generalisations and vagueness. Never just say, ‘this makes us want to read on.’ Read like a WRITER! Let’s… Read More »GCSE English language/literature: writing about effects. (One)
Macbeth and Ambiguity. (ONE) When critically reading any text it is always illuminating to explore the moments when something strikes you as strange or ambiguous. These moments are worthy of reconsideration because… Read More »Macbeth: Ambiguity in Act One, Scene Two- ‘What bloody man is that?’ ( GCSE English Literature Bolton)
Inspired by a free writing exercise undertaken on Unthank’s Writing Fiction Course with the excellent and inspiring, Georgina Parfitt. All you need is a timer and give yourself permission to… Read More »Parrots. ( GCSE Creative Writing Bolton )
GCSE Creative Writing: First-Person Narrators. How to create a compelling opening. Read these two openings and see how the writers create their characters and entice their readers. Part IChapter II… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing (Bolton English Tuition) First Person Narrators and Compelling Openings.
GCSE Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Chapter 4 Analysis Questions and Prompts. (The Murder of Danvers Carew). Nearly a year later, in the month of October, 18—, London was startled… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Analysis and Questions-The Murder of Danvers Carew
Dickens’ Great Expectations ( Chapter 8 Analysis and Questions for GCSE ) To this, she returned: “Don’t be ridiculous, boy; I am not going in.” And scornfully walked away, and—what… Read More »GCSE Great Expectations: Chapter 8 Analysis and Questions( English tuition Bolton)
Macbeth: ACT One Scene Three-Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches: GCSE English Literature Analysis and Questions The witches’ natural habitat seems a place of isolation and ‘thunder.’ Does this combination… Read More »GCSE Macbeth: Act One Scene Three Analysis of Macbeth’s First Encounter with the witches. (Bolton English Tuition)
GCSE Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Chapter 4 Analysis Questions and Prompts. (The Murder of Danvers Carew). Nearly a year later, in the month of October, 18—, London was startled… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Murder of Danvers Carew GCSE Questions and Analysis( Bolton English Tuition).
GCSE English Creative Writing- ‘Hot Seating’: Tips for the Development of your Characters. This technique is touted widely as a powerful yet simple way of deepening your characterisation. It is… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Tips (Bolton English tuition) Hot-Seating your characters.
GCSE English Creative Writing Task: Exercise One – Setting and dialogue with your protagonist. A BELL clanged. Brazen, insistent, maddening. Through the quiet corridors came the din of it, making… Read More »GCSE English Language Analysis: Josephine Tey’s Miss Pym Disposes. ( Bolton English Tuition)
Here is a short story with a word count of just under 300 words. When you limit your word count it can help intensify your ideas and give your creative… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing English Tuition Bolton: 300 Word Stories. Why can a word limit can boost your writing?
Dracula’s Castle: Jonathan Harker’s First Impressions. ( English Year 7/8) I stood in silence where I was, for I did not know what to do. Of bell or knocker there… Read More »English Tuition Bolton: Dracula’s Castle First Impressions. ( Year 7)
