A new beginning or the day that changed everything. The new lodger materialized in our kitchen as our mother was leaving for an appointment. Neither my sister nor I heard the… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing English Example of An Opening. THREE( Bolton Tuition)
In October there were yellow trees. Then the clocks went back the hour and the long November winds came in and blew, and stripped the trees bare. In the town… Read More »Creative Writing with Claire Keegan’s Small Things like These- GCSE English Tuition
Think about the position of your narrative ‘camera’ and go inside your character in order to give the reader access to the protagonist’s ruminations and reflections. Magdalena pretended to be… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing: Example of An Opening. TWO ( Bolton Tuition Private)
It was the hottest May in a century. Everything wilted – especially the human beings. Our town smelt of melted tarmac and uncollected bins as the council lorries kept overheating.… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing: An Example of an Opening. ONE ( Bolton English Tuition)
Chapter Four: The Carew Murder Case. This chapter is pivotal to the whole narrative as the act of murder brings Jekyll’s private life as Hyde into the public sphere for… Read More »GCSE Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : The Carew Murder Case -Notes and Analysis( Bolton English Tuition)
Dr Jekyll was quite at Ease. The title of this chapter is ironic as the invitation to dine seems deliberately contrived with the intention to deceive as Jekyll… Read More »DR Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Chapter Three- Dr Jekyll Was Quite At Ease. (Analysis and Notes)
Search for Mr Hyde. This chapter follows on from the revelations surrounding Mr Hyde’s unsavoury and callous behaviour as witnessed by Enfield on his night walk. The… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Search For Mr Hyde- Analysis and Notes( GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton)
Story of the Door. The title of the opening chapter signposts the significance of a specific secret entrance. This door belongs to Jekyll and facilitates his double, Hyde’s freedom to wander… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Story of the Door Analysis and Notes GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester
* Don’t answer the phone. Back by lunch. Sort receipts. The Christmas card pinned to the office door wasn’t even signed. The fat reindeer looked resigned to their cheap surroundings… Read More »Creative Writing GCSE English Tuition Examples: The Caged Lift ( Bolton English Tuition)
Allingham. Here’s a neat opening you might alter to suit your story: ‘It was an angry-coloured house, puce rather than red, and it skulked at the end of a narrow… Read More »Creative Writing tips -Openings! English Tuition GCSE English Bolton : Master Class Openings with Allingham.
Introduction. Hughes’ poem The Thought Fox explores the mystery and power of poetic creation. This act of creation results in the triumphant resolution of the poem where the last line… Read More »GCSE English Literature: Hughes’ The Thought Fox- a few thoughts and notes. Bolton Tuition
Education in Orwell. Orwell presents education as a morally ambivalent yet essential conduit to power in Animal Farm. This ambivalence is primarily represented through the contrasting levels of education within… Read More »GCSE Animal Farm: Introductions on Education, Power and Control and Propaganda.
There were two of them and they were twins. Not identical mind you because one was a girl and one was a boy, but they shared the same dirty… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Bolton- English Tuition: The Time Travelling Pickpockets.
Appearance and Reality. The conflict between appearance and reality is given uneasy representation through the witches’ subversive mantra ‘ fair is foul’ in the opening scene. This disturbing undermining of… Read More »Macbeth GCSE English Literature: Appearance and Reality: How the Witches’ ‘Fair is foul’ contaminates everything.
Jacobean anxieties about the supernatural are embodied in the unholy trinity of the three ‘weird sisters’ whose arrival on stage at the beginning of the play, during a literal and… Read More »GCSE Macbeth : An Introduction about the Supernatural. ( English Tuition Bolton)
Macbeth’s predilection for decisive physical action as evidenced by the admiring reports of the returning Captain in Act One Scene Three is systematically undermined by the contaminating effects of the… Read More »GCSE Macbeth English Literature Notes: ‘Fog and Filthy Air.’ Macbeth’s lack of moral clarity.
I wonder if the betrayal of Banquo by Macbeth is foreshadowed by their exceptional bravery on the battlefield. For if we consider their capacity for bloody valour as remarked… Read More »GCSE Macbeth: The Problem of Banquo. A few thoughts about the connivance of the witches.
Deception. This boy swaps his grey two-piece for a boiler suit and his finger messages ‘arrived! ‘ Back in Manchester, his parents imagine him as another boy, smashing an interview about… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing and Phoenix Writers Horwich Bolton: A Story in 100 words!
Think about the purpose of this theatrical ‘stagey’ document. The note left for Utterson is signed by the ‘unhappy’ and ‘unworthy’ companion and ‘friend’ Henry Jekyll, so we are positioned… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case( Notes) GCSE English literature Bolton
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood. The judge was an old man; so old, he seemed to have outlived time and change… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing Task(Strong Poison by Sayers) : Generate Tension through a Dramatic Opening.
GCSE English Creative Writing Task: Using Literature Texts for Inspiration. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson. Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures; and that when… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing Task: Using Literature Texts to Boost your Ideas! .
The girl in question was wrapped up in a long coat that she wore whenever she wanted to feel European and banished. She had taken to smoking secretly whilst her… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing Paper One Question Five : English Tuition Bolton Manchester
1) ‘What are these, so withered ..live you?’ Banquo’s direct questions to the witches, first as objects and then as supernatural creatures, contrasts his character with Macbeth’s furtive behaviour and also… Read More »Banquo’s Character in Macbeth: Short Notes with Quotations Bolton English Tuition
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The writer Georgina Parfitt, delivered another super session today involving a fascinating poem by Nobel Prize Winner, Louise Gluck. The poem is available to read here: https://poets.org/poem/red-poppy-0 As a prompt… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton: Louise Gluck’s The Red Poppy as a Prompt for Phoenix Writers in Horwich
The structure question often worries English Tution students when practising their GCSE English Paper One. They often ask me ‘What is it? And why is the structure of a text… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing: How to create a perfectly structured opening ( Chris Hammer Scrublands) Bolton English tuition
Remember Memoir writing involves exploring the spirit of remembrance rather than the literal, moment-by-moment event. Truth is relative. Alter names and you free yourself of the shackles of the grindingly… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing: Memoir Writing. Write about A CHANGE or LESSON. ( Bolton English Tuition)
Relentless rain, a head dulled by repeated politeness and a cancelled bus forced Cora to seek shelter in the town’s huge stone library recklessly displaying a billowing yellow banner for… Read More »GCSE English Language Paper One: Creative Writing- A New Beginning. (Bolton Tuition)
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