I am currently studying on the Curtis Brown Boot Camp ( Two) which is terrific good value – as always! The idea of a Prologue is useful for GCSE Creative… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing: How to create a compelling story. ( Bolton Tuition)
‘Marley was dead, to begin with. ‘ The novella opens with a succinct focus on the death of Scrooge’s business partner, Marley, who is miraculously presumed resurrected in the first… Read More »GCSE Dickens A Christmas Carol: Stave One Notes and Brief Analysis. ( Bolton English Tuition)
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)
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
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
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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
In my beginning is my end.‘ ( T. S. Eliot, East Coker, The Four Quartets) ‘In my end, is my beginning.’ Mary, Queen of Scots. This is a powerful, yet simple… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing Tips( English Tuition Bolton) Phoenix Writers.
I’ve been overshadowed by life,’ said Felicity Walsingham to her new Uncle Blackstone. She took solace in her Guinness and attempted to reshape her fringe. There was little natural light in… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Tips 300 Word tales( English Tuition Bolton Manchester)
Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself Task. Here is the opening line of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Mrs Dalloway. Consider what you might understand about the protagonist and… Read More »Creative Writing GCSE English MasterClass and Analysis with Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (English Tuition Bolton).
Lord of the Flies: Chapter Twelve -Cry of the Hunters. Consider your responses to the following: ‘Ralph lay in a covert, wondering about his wounds….How could you listen for naked… Read More »Lord of the Flies: Chapter 12 Analysis Cry of the Hunters (GCSE Analysis of Golding’s novel).
I wrote this story in just over an hour. See my previous blog about Repetition for the advice on the use of repetition in writing creatively. The rapidity of the… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Bolton ( #Lockdown Writing Tips with Phoenix Writers) Repetition Continued!
There was a servant in that house, a man who, I understood, was usually with Steerforth, and had come into his service at the University, who was in appearance a… Read More »Creative Writing during #Lockdown #Phoenix Writers Horwich: Repetition in Writing. (David Copperfield Chapter 21) ‘Respectable’.
I have suspended all face to face tuition for the time being. Social distancing is essential in these troubled times. This helps to protect my family and yours. If any… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Coronavirus Pandemic (14 March 2020)
Ticket To Ride: Creative Writing Inspiration from Trains and Railway Stations. The train plunged into a tunnel. The calm, monotonous voice was drowned. At the next table, a small one,… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing: Using Trains and Railway Station( Bolton English Tuition)
Ray Bradbury ‘Sound of Thunder’ Comprehension. 2) The dinosaur is described/evoked/presented in/through a language that communicates its physical immensity and athleticism as well as its predatory savagery and murderous cruelty.… Read More »GCSE English Language: AQA Sound of Thunder Possible Answers/Responses.
I enjoyed writing this in response to a title and a student’s outline. I’m also taking the FutureLearn class on screenplay which is excellent and free. I would thoroughly recommend… Read More »Creative Writing Year 6/7/8: ‘Stories happen because someone wants something and has trouble getting it.’ ( David Mamet)
GCSE English Literature and Language: Conflict words! When you write about Conflict in your essays on poetry or when studying texts or even producing your own stories, it is useful… Read More »GCSE English Literature and Language: Conflict Words!
How do you start your story in an immediately effective way? Ask a question. Remember questions demand answers and that is what a story must provide for the reader-answers! 1)… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing: How to begin a story-ask a question!( English Tuition Bolton, Manchester) .
Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book: How Questions and boost our understanding and help produce a meaningful analysis! How Nobody Came to the Graveyard There was a hand in the darkness,… Read More »Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book: Questions to Boost PEEL Paragraphs and Analysis!
Very many congratulations to all my students this year! Last Thursday proved an exceptionally happy day and I was even in tears ( with joy) twice! The new specifications are… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton: Why the English Language Examination should not be Underestimated! (TIP ONE)
Summer is fading:The leaves fall in ones and twosFrom trees borderingThe new recreation ground.In the hollows of afternoonsYoung mothers assembleAt swing and sandpitSetting free their children. In my previous blog… Read More »Afternoons by Larkin(GCSE Eduqas Anthology)Analysis Two(Stanza One).
Summer is fading:The leaves fall in ones and twosFrom trees borderingThe new recreation ground.In the hollows of afternoonsYoung mothers assembleAt swing and sandpitSetting free their children. Behind them, at intervals,Stand… Read More »Afternoons by Larkin: Analysis for GCSE English Literature Examination-Part One ( Bolton Tuition).
As we draw near to the English Language examinations here’s a wonderful insight into pace in storytelling. According to D B Pierre, writing is like running. It’s all about breathing.… Read More »GCSE English Writing Tips by D B Pierre Release the Bats!
Why is the protagonist and ‘detective’ called Mr Utterson? Is his legal profession important? Does it suggest rationality and fairness as well as discretion? Does Jekyll’s strange behaviour compromise Utterson’s… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Mr Utterson- Analysis of his character Part One ( GCSE English Literature- Bolton English Tuition)
Creative writing tips GCSE. What does your character want? And what do they need? Consider these questions in the light(and often darkness) of your title. All titles will give you… Read More »Creative Writing TIPS GCSE English Language Tuition Bolton Manchester
