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This link takes you to a series of blogs and videos designed to improve your confidence and knowledge around how ambitious and accurately used punctuation and sentence variety will improve your writing.

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Creative Writing: Practice makes Perfect!

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Creative Writing: Practice makes Perfect!

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Watch this video, filled with lots of ideas about how to write creatively and also plenty of photo prompts. Use these to write regularly - you will notice improvements in your planning speed, your confidence in structuring engaging writing and the overall quality of your imagery.

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Descriptive Writing Practice - GCSE English Language

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Although aimed at younger students, this list of different sentence structures can be helpful when creative writing at a more advanced level. Play and experiment with them so that they become part of your writing toolkit.

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Grammar: if you want to brush up on your grammar (useful when analysing texts), you could sign up for this free Open University course. If you are thinking of studying English Language at A Level, this will be particularly useful.

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Grammar: if you want to brush up on your grammar (useful when analysing texts), you could sign up for this free Open University course. If you are thinking of studying English Language at A Level, this will be particularly useful.

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Grammar matters because, combined with vocabulary choice, it is our main way of making meaning. This free course introduces you to one approach used to understand how meanings relate systematically...

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BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth - Available now

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A creative response to The Charge of The Light Brigade

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A creative response to The Charge of The Light Brigade

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Hollie McNish is a poet and spoken word artist and was UK Slam poetry champion in 2009. She has released two spoken word albums and a poetry collection. Films of her poems have repeatedly gone viral, some receiving over one million YouTube views in just over a week.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' was written in 1854 whilst Tennyson was Poet Laureate. The poem is about an incident during the Crimean War where a miscommunication led to a large number of British casualties. Hollie wrote her own response poem, challenging some of Tennyson's militaristic attitudes.

Hollie McNish's poem 'British National Breakfast' deals with anti-immigration feeling within Britain, set against the dependence on other nations for maintaining a 'British' lifestyle.

Writing resources - Hollie McNish and Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Hollie McNish is a poet and spoken word artist and was UK Slam poetry champion in 2009. She has released two spoken word albums and a poetry collection. Films of her poems have repeatedly gone viral, some receiving over one million YouTube views in just over a week.

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Dizraeli is a hip-hop artist, singer and spoken word artist whose style encompasses many genres from rap to folk. He won the BBC Radio 4 Poetry Slam and the UK Slam Championships, and has released albums as a solo artist, with DJ DownLow, and with his band the Small Gods.

'Ozymandias' written by the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley explores themes of legacy and the ephemeral importance of humanity.

'Celebrate' by Dizraeli is written in response to Shelley's 'Ozymandias' dealing with themes of legacy and remembering, as well as the cult of celebrity and the dystopian possibilities of the future.

Writing resources - Dizraeli and Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Dizraeli is a hip-hop artist, singer and spoken word artist whose style encompasses many genres from rap to folk. He won the BBC Radio 4 Poetry Slam and the UK Slam Championships, and has released albums as a solo artist, with DJ DownLow, and with his band the Small Gods.

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The British Library have a range of fascinating articles about Shakespeare: particular plays, historical context and his use of language.

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John Donne is most famous now for his witty and complex love poems, but he also produced satires, occasional poems and verse letters. Love poems Donne's love poems are collected as the Songs and Sonnets, and the Elegies. Their bold, first-person speakers, mostly male but sometimes female, make the poems feel disconcertingly direct. The poems adopt different personae, and perspectives on love both sublime and disturbing. In the much-read 'The Flea', the speaker playfully chides his mistress-addressee for denying him her body, when their blood has already mingled in the flea that has bitten them both. These poems often combine elevated, hyperbolic reflections upon love, or the feeling of loving, with everyday, material things, such as a pair of compasses, intricately described. In 'The Flea', the speaker declares with typical extravagance that this creature is their 'marriage-bed and marriage-temple'. Other 'love' poems are darker, with misogynistic and cynical speakers. Both appealing and possessive is Donne's elegy 'To his Mistress Going to Bed'. Its speaker impatiently demands that his lover disrobe, come to bed and '[l]icense my roving hands', before praising her as his 'America', his 'new-found land', his 'kingdom'. With these metaphors his mistress becomes, like the 'New World' itself, a territory to be claimed and exploited. These sorts of poetic strategies and concerns led later poets, such as John Dryden and Alexander Pope, as well as literary critics, to describe Donne as a 'metaphysical' poet. The label 'metaphysical' reflects the poems' interest in complex and abstract ideas such as love, and their use of intricate syntax, inventive metaphors (or conceits) and detailed imagery. Religious poems Donne's sonnets are the most well known of his devotional poems. They comprise the sequence of seven linked sonnets called 'La Corona' [the crown] and the 19 Holy Sonnets. The sonnet form is traditionally associated with love poetry, and Donne's religious poems use some of the same techniques as his love poems. The speakers in the Holy Sonnets also make passionate demands of their addressees: 'Batter my heart, three-personed God', implores the speaker in Holy Sonnet 14, urging God to enter his heart, like a siege-engine entering a 'usurped town'; while Holy Sonnet 10, addressed to Death, demands 'Death! be not proud... | ... for thou art not so'. Paradoxes are arguably even more important than they are in the love poems. Holy Sonnet 14 closes with perhaps Donne's most infamous and bold paradox: I will never be 'chaste', the speaker claims, 'except you [God] ravish me'. The whole of Holy Sonnet 10 is dedicated to the Christian paradox that Death's victims will in the end 'die not'. How did Donne's contemporaries encounter his poems? Donne did not print his poetry, but chose to share it with a small circle of readers and patrons, who read and circulated it in manuscript. This makes it difficult to date many of his works. Donne's poems were very sought after, and his reputation was high: the first printed collection of Donne's Poems (1633) describes them as 'the best in this kinde, that ever this Kingdome hath yet seene'. This collection, however, omitted the well-known elegy, 'To his Mistress Going to Bed'.

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Discovering Literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance writers | The British Library

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John Donne is most famous now for his witty and complex love poems, but he also produced satires, occasional poems and verse letters. Love poems Donne's love poems are collected as the Songs and Sonnets, and the Elegies. Their bold, first-person speakers, mostly male but sometimes female, make the poems feel disconcertingly direct.

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Become an expert in 50 frequently used cultural references.

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Become an expert in 50 frequently used cultural references.

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Choose your Shakespeare play and then select Level 1-3 to access information and video clips about character, theme, symbolism and context.

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Choose your Shakespeare play and then select Level 1-3 to access information and video clips about character, theme, symbolism and context.

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Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 and died in 1616. Although his plays were written 400 years ago they are full of characters, dilemmas and stories we all still recognise. The Shakespeare Learning Zone gives you loads of information about Shakespeare's plays.

You'll find key facts, key scenes, pictures from past productions, videos of actors and directors working on and performing the plays AND find out about all the main characters and how they relate to each other.

Whether you want to know a little or a lot, this site has the information you need.

Just choose a play and enjoy!

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Shakespeare Learning Zone | Royal Shakespeare Company | Royal Shakespeare Company

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The Shakespeare Learning Zone contains loads of information about the story, setting and characters of Shakespeare's plays, with useful revision help and notes for teachers.

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Read these articles to broaden your understanding of the Romantics (e.g. Blake) and Victorian Literature, including an article about 'Jekyll and Hyde'.

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Read these articles to broaden your understanding of the Romantics (e.g. Blake) and Victorian Literature, including an article about 'Jekyll and Hyde'.

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Discover 1,400 collection items, 171 articles, 25 films, 36 teachers' notes and more. Discovering Literature has been supported since its inception by Dr Naim Dangoor CBE, Dangoor Education.

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Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians

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Discover 1,200 Romantic and Victorian collection items, 167 articles, 25 films, 30 teachers' notes and more. Discovering Literature has been supported since its inception by Dr Naim Dangoor CBE, Dangoor Education.

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As well as some very interesting articles on modern texts generally, there are links to articles about Animal Farm and An Inspector Calls.

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As well as some very interesting articles on modern texts generally, there are links to articles about Animal Farm and An Inspector Calls.

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Discovering Literature: 20th century | The British Library

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Birthday Letters, a collection of 88 poems by the British poet Ted Hughes, was published to public and critical acclaim in 1998. Their subject is Hughes's relationship with the American poet Sylvia Plath, to whom he was married from 1956 until her death in 1963.

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An Inspector Calls: An essay that discusses the significant ideas in some of the scenes that might, at first, have seemed less important!

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An Inspector Calls: An essay that discusses the significant ideas in some of the scenes that might, at first, have seemed less important!

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The Significance of the Insignificant - AIC

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Romeo and Juliet: If you are interested in 'Romeo and Juliet', this essay explores the  important aspects of some of the scenes that might normally be dismissed as insignificant ...

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Romeo and Juliet: If you are interested in 'Romeo and Juliet', this essay explores the  important aspects of some of the scenes that might normally be dismissed as insignificant ...

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The Significance of the Insignificant - R&J

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Macbeth: If you want to explore the scenes in Macbeth that seem less famous - Seyton, Ross, the porter etc. this article is for you! 

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Macbeth: If you want to explore the scenes in Macbeth that seem less famous - Seyton, Ross, the porter etc. this article is for you! 

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The Significance of the Insignificant - Macbeth

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If you are interested in learning more about modern texts, including An Inspector Calls and Animal Farm, these British Library resources are worth exploring ...

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If you are interested in learning more about modern texts, including An Inspector Calls and Animal Farm, these British Library resources are worth exploring ...

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Discovering Literature: 20th century | The British Library

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Birthday Letters, a collection of 88 poems by the British poet Ted Hughes, was published to public and critical acclaim in 1998. Their subject is Hughes's relationship with the American poet Sylvia Plath, to whom he was married from 1956 until her death in 1963.

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A Christmas Carol: This essay explores some of the apparently minor moments in the novel, explaining why they are actually more important and interesting than  you might at first think! 

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A Christmas Carol: This essay explores some of the apparently minor moments in the novel, explaining why they are actually more important and interesting than  you might at first think! 

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The Significance of the Insignificant - Christmas Carol

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Jekyll and Hyde: A fresh look at duality, reflections and the incident at the window ...

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Jekyll and Hyde: A fresh look at duality, reflections and the incident at the window ...

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The Significance of the Insignificant - Jekyll & Hyde

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Romeo and Juliet: listen to these videos if you want to hear examples of detailed quotation analysis.

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Romeo and Juliet: listen to these videos if you want to hear examples of detailed quotation analysis.

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Macbeth: here you will find 8 videos demonstrating how to analyse, in detail, Shakespeare’s use of language and its impact on meaning

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Macbeth: here you will find 8 videos demonstrating how to analyse, in detail, Shakespeare’s use of language and its impact on meaning

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The Quotation Bank Revision and Study Guides for English Literature 9-1 GCSE - videos for Macbeth MACBETH REVISION - Quotes, analysis, themes, character and ...

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Jekyll and Hyde: a series of videos modelling how to analyse quotation in detail.

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Jekyll and Hyde: a series of videos modelling how to analyse quotation in detail.

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A Christmas Carol: If you enjoy learning through listening and watching modelled analytical writing, these videos might help you develop your own ability to write in specific detail about Dickens’ novel.

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A Christmas Carol: If you enjoy learning through listening and watching modelled analytical writing, these videos might help you develop your own ability to write in specific detail about Dickens’ novel.

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The Quotation Bank Revision and Study Guides for English Literature 9-1 GCSE - videos for A Christmas Carol CHRISTMAS CAROL REVISION - Quotes, analysis, them...

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Jekyll and Hyde: this link takes you to videos in which close analysis of quotation is modelled and explained.

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Jekyll and Hyde: this link takes you to videos in which close analysis of quotation is modelled and explained.

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An Inspector Calls: watch these videos to extend your understanding of how to craft analytical writing about the play ...

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An Inspector Calls: watch these videos to extend your understanding of how to craft analytical writing about the play ...

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The Quotation Bank Revision and Study Guides for English Literature 9-1 GCSE - videos for An Inspector Calls An Inspector Calls REVISION - Quotes, analysis, ...

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Romeo and Juliet: A worksheet you can use to practise your close analysis skills of an extract from the play.

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Romeo and Juliet: A worksheet you can use to practise your close analysis skills of an extract from the play.

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Extract Analysis Resource - Romeo and Juliet

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Macbeth: Challenge yourself to some quotation analysis with this revision activity.

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Macbeth: Challenge yourself to some quotation analysis with this revision activity.

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Blood Brothers: If you've been studying this text, challenge yourself to this quotation analysis revision activity ...

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Blood Brothers: If you've been studying this text, challenge yourself to this quotation analysis revision activity ...

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Lord of the Flies: A revision activity which will challenge you to closely analyse quotations and their impact.

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Lord of the Flies: A revision activity which will challenge you to closely analyse quotations and their impact.

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A Christmas Carol: Brush up on your close language analysis with this revision activity.

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A Christmas Carol: Brush up on your close language analysis with this revision activity.

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A chance to challenge yourself to some close analysis of quotation.

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A chance to challenge yourself to some close analysis of quotation.

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Flash Card Resource - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde EVIL

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An Inspector Calls: A great use of independent study time is to revisit quotations and practise analysing them in detail.  

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An Inspector Calls: A great use of independent study time is to revisit quotations and practise analysing them in detail.  

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Essay Plan Resource - An Inspector Calls

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Jekyll and Hyde: A useful revision guide that covers a range of key themes, ideas and comments on Stevenson's writing style and structure.

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Jekyll and Hyde: A useful revision guide that covers a range of key themes, ideas and comments on Stevenson's writing style and structure.

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Macbeth: A detailed revision guide that will help you explore the themes, ideas, structure and language of the play. 

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Macbeth: A detailed revision guide that will help you explore the themes, ideas, structure and language of the play. 

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Animal Farm: A revision guide that explores the novel and its themes / context / style in detail. 

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Animal Farm: A revision guide that explores the novel and its themes / context / style in detail. 

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A useful revision guide that takes you through the story, highlighting key themes, events and quotations. Contextual information is also included.

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Use this grid to help you expand your vocabulary and be more specific when adding colour to your writing!