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Here and There: A Memoir. Imagine two small children clambering behind their mother up a steep staircase carpeted with ragged red and gold dragons. They’ve come by train from… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing Tuition : Memoir Writing ( Bolton Manchester)
Christmas Carol: Ten Quotations for Evaluation. Do remember the value of ‘hearty ‘ laughter in the novella : interestingly linked to both Scrooge in his redemption in Stave Five… Read More »A Christmas Carol: Ten Quotations Analysed (GCSE English Literature tuition Bolton)
Malign Masculinity. Shakespeare explores the complex issues around what constitutes a ‘man’ in Macbeth. The eponymous protagonist appears heroic in the opening scenes as he returns from saving the Kingship… Read More »GCSE Macbeth: Malign Masculinity Analysis( Brief Notes English Literature Tuition Bolton)
Dickens was haunted by his time spent in Warren’s Blacking Factory when he was 12, after his father’s debt consigned his family to the debtors’ prison. The abject misery of… Read More »GCSE English literature: A Christmas Carol and Scrooge’s Father Analysis. ( Bolton English tuition)
English language Comprehension: Revision Ideas. Eveline by James Joyce. ‘ in my beginning is my end.’ (T.S.Eliot) Remember that any exploration of the structure of a… Read More »GCSE English Language Paper One Revision : Eveline by James Joyce Analysis Structure Bolton Tuition
Stave Two. “A small matter,” said the Ghost, “to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.” “Small!” echoed Scrooge. The Spirit signed to him to listen to the… Read More »GCSE English Literature: Christmas Carol Stave Two -Fezziwig and Scrooge ( Bolton English Tuition/Tutor)
Notes on Stave One with Analysis. Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known… Read More »GCSE English Literature: A Christmas Carol Stave One Quotes and Extracts with And Analysis (Bolton English Tutor/Tuition)
The River’s Story I remember when life was good. I tumbled down mountains, Shilly-shallied across meadows, I laughed and gurgled through woods, Stretched and yawned in a myriad of floods.… Read More »GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry Example: The River’s Story by Patten ( English tuition Bolton)
GCSE English Literature Characters Ambitious Vocabulary. An Inspector Calls. Eric: dissolute, addictive, misogynistic, remorseful, agitated, degenerate, erratic, antagonistic Gerald: composed, hypocritical, sexually predatory/opportunistic, dissatisfied, complacent, irredeemable, contradictory Sheila:… Read More »GCSE English Literature Characters Ambitious Vocabulary: Bolton Tuition
Who can resist embarking upon a story as soon as we begin, ‘I remember when..?’ A story demands to be heard as soon as we open up the past and… Read More »GCSE English Language Creative Writing : Memory Writing ( Bolton English Tuition/Tutor)
Analysis. When you are attempting to create a perfect PEE paragraph always ensure you weave all three components tightly together so that the analysis is powerful and as convincing… Read More »GCSE PEE Analyses Examples: Macbeth and The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen
Memory Writing. Most memoirs involve the use of the first-person narrator. If the narrator is reviewing an event from their past then there are two versions of the ‘I’ narrator:… Read More »GCSE Memory Writing English Language Paper One: Revision Tips and Advice (Bolton Tuition English)
Act Four Scene One Macbeth. This scene escalates the grotesque and nightmarish powers of the supernatural beings in the play through the very visual representation of their transcendent evil on stage.… Read More »Macbeth Act Four Scene One: Analysis and Discussion of an Extract. Bolton English LiteratureTuition
A Married Man’s Story( Mansfield) IT is evening. Supper is over. We have left the small, cold dining-room, we have come back to the sitting-room where there is a fire. All… Read More »GCSE English Language Practice: Who is speaking and where are they speaking from? ( English Tuition Bolton)
Here’s my attempt at a story linked to the ‘Abandoned’ title. I enjoyed playing with the idea of who or what was abandoned. Remember the word has several meanings as… Read More »GCSE English Language – Creative Writing Task: Abandoned! ( English Tuition Bolton Manchester)
Fifty-word Stories: Phoenix Writers and GCSE English Revision. Here’s a very easy and most portable way of creating rapid ‘sketches’ or plans for your short stories. It’s English Tuition on… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing English Tuition Bolton ( Phoenix Writers Horwich Bolton)
Beneath the Moon Arch Way stand two wrought iron gates, slightly ajar, as if beckoning to the night’s stealthy, spectral visitors. The dark granite stones of the arch cling impossibly… Read More »GCSE English Descriptive Writing Paper One Question Five: The AQA Arch Way ( Bolton English Tuition).
Here’s my attempt at a ‘compelling’ GCSE Creative Writing Task. It can be manipulated to suit all manner of different titles and exam boards and has been engineered to reflect… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Practice: Write about an event that can’t be explained. ( GCSE English Tuition Bolton)
Goodnight Mister Tom: Michelle Magorian. Overview. One of the joys of tutoring English is that I read lots of texts that I might have missed. Reading is a great privilege;… Read More »Goodnight Mister Tom: Notes and Ideas. ( English Tuition Bolton, Manchester)
GCSE English Language Revision: Useful Vocabulary. Critical verbs. Explores, Alerts us to, Vividly communicates, Gives Expression to, Gives Representation to, Undermines, reinforces, Subverts, Intensifies, Communicates, Reminds us, Fascinates, Repulses, Consolidates,… Read More »GCSE English Language Revision: Paper One and Two; Useful Vocabulary. ( Bolton English Tutor/Tuition)
I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde. Look how well-chosen… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Creative Writing Short MasterClass: Analysis GCSE English Literature Bolton English Tutor/Tuition.’I stole.’
Notes. In Dickens’ semi-autobiographical, David Copperfield( May 1849) the narrator recalls his younger, child self ‘reading as if for life’ as a means of surviving the monstrous treatment of his… Read More »Dickens’s A Christmas Carol -Stave Two: Scrooge, Ali Baba, Crusoe and Friends. Analysis of the Importance of the Reader. ( GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton Manchester)
I have recently finished the eerily, wonderful thriller, Hide my Eyes by Margery Allingham, which reads as a compelling combination of Roald Dahl and Dickens. There is never any doubt… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing Task Advice and Tips ( How to Create a Compelling Antagonist/Villain using Dialogue) Bolton English Tuition.
Trapped! If you take a simple idea like your character being trapped somewhere, by something and with someone/thing it’s easy to generate a range of possible stories. Writing about this… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing Ideas : TRAPPED ( Bolton English Tuition)
‘You must suffer me to go my own dark way.’ Confidence in analysis comes from a willingness to focus keenly on the ‘ingredients’ of the text in front of you;… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Analysis: ‘You must suffer me to go my own dark way.’ GCSE English Analysis Bolton Tuition.
How can you ensure that your Creative Writing gains the highest marks possible? Here are five important components of a successful answer to Question Five on Language Paper One. Make… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing English TIPS: How to Obtain a HIGH GRADE. ( Bolton English Tuition)
Elton John: ‘Curtains.’ There’s treasure children always seek to findAnd just like usYou must have hadA once upon a time Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered… Read More »Dickens A Christmas Carol and Creative Writing: Once Upon A Time. ( Bolton English Tuition)
The End of It YES! AND THE BEDPOST was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was… Read More »A Christmas Carol Dickens Stave Five: Analysis and Discussion( GCSE English Literature Bolton Private Tuition/Tutor)
REVISION NOTES. Creative Writing Tip ONE The Door by Helen Simpson. Look at the way in which an apparently simple household repair becomes a way of exploring grief and loss,… Read More »GCSE English Revision: Bolton English Private Tuition English( Creative Writing, Dickens and Stevenson)
Georgina Parfitt an Exercise. (Georgina Parfit is a wonderful writer and Creative Writing tutor who works independently and for Unthank writers too.) Rewrite the following description of movement showing who… Read More »Creative Writing GCSE Tuition Phoenix Writers with Georgina Parfitt ( English Tuition Bolton Manchester)
