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evision support for GCSE English Literature esources to help students: Understand and analyse words, phrases, sentences in context Explore the plot, characterisation, settings and events Talk about different themes Generate opinions on the text Support their point of view using quotes and knowledge about context Show how language, form and structure of the text shapes its meaning The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -1-7817-76-5 pages. 15.99 Every student needs one! Order 0 or more copies of ANY book in this catalogue and get 0% discount* * discount automatically applied at the checkout on our website Here is Mr Utterson, a respectable lawyer, and his friend, Mr En eld. Aaeagh! In En eld s story, a hideous man trampled over a girl. He went inside a nearby building That cheque was signed by a good, reputable man. I ve got a crazy story about that place. They are taking their Sunday walk around London, when En eld spots a building he recognises. An angry mob surrounded the man. and came back with a cheque for 100, bribing the mob not to say anything. Could this good man have been blackmailed? Hyde?! The hideous man told the mob he would make amends. The strange thing is The strange man s name was and Utterson has heard of him. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A Graphic evision Guide Elizabeth May and Brilliant Publications Limited 6 Why not TY before you BUY? Download SAMPLE PAGES from our website:
Graphic evision Guides The Graphic evision Guides are essential tools for anyone studying these books for GCSE English Literature. The sheets are especially designed to help students: Understand and sequence the plot emember key events Distinguish between characters Understand characters perspectives Jane Eyre -1-7817-0-5 pages. 15.99 The books include comicstyle chapter summaries, pages on context and theme pages, reference sheets and activity pages. Activity pages include: Vocabulary lists Matching quotes Filling in missing words Using pictures to show events, expressions and emotions Although we might think Jane seems like an ordinary female character, at the time the book was written, it was not common at all to read about strong, passionate women. Jane feels anger, frustration, love, depression and she shows these emotions too. Women did not feel free/able 1 to do this in the early 19th century, making Jane an unusual character. Jane shows her discomfort with gender roles by declaring, several times, that she does not want to get married. In 19th century England, this would be an uncommon thing for a woman to say openly: it was expected that all women should marry. Your words ought not to be used: violent, unfeminine and untrue. Gender roles are the ways society controls men and women s behaviour, ie, by saying men should act one way and women another way. Jane challenges A few days later 19th century gender roles throughout the story. play with this. Other characters in the book notice that Jane acts differently to Yay! how women should act. St John Present! Yes says she is unfeminine when she Hello Sir. talks passionately. Helen says she is too impulsive, too vehement as a child. Jane and ochester talk more and Then it s ochester;s turn they agree to treat each other like to talk about his past. equals, Brontë if they challenged can. gender roles by making sure it was clear that the main character, Jane, was not pretty, as women were valued for being at that time. What, so quick to say no! 15 I am an independent woman now. Here. Get out of the way and Miss Eyre. Come and talk. Brontë only allows Jane and ochester to marry when Jane has money and freedom: they marry as equals. One afternoon in the Years You have ago, power garden I was over in me, Paris and may injure me. Now I will tell you and fell how I ended up in love with an with Adèle. opera singer I don t care about Celine Varens. (marriage) it is nothing to me. Jane feels sorry for Adèle, as she knows what its Jane Eyre: A Graphic evision Guide for GCSE like to have no Elizabeth May and Brilliant Publications That night 8 parents. This She page likes may be photocopied for use by the purchasing institution only. Adèle even more now. Jane also likes ochester more. She likes talking to him and doesn t think he is ugly anymore. Jane and ochester have an awkward conversation, and ochester suddenly asks I am not a bad man but I have made a lot of bad decisions. But she cheated on me! When she had Adèle, she told me she was my daughter. I did not believe her. Do you think I m handsome? No Sir. Oops! I should not have said that. Then Adèle comes to dance for them, dressed like her late mother. What on earth is Grace Poole doing?! Later I will tell you how I ended up with Adèle. Adèle doesn t look or behave like me at all. She is the other man s daughter. But Celine abandoned Adèle, so I had to take her. Elizabeth May and Brilliant Publications Jane Eyre: A Graphic evision Guide for GCSE 15 To place an order TEL: 019 76669 or FAX: 019 7671 or use our secure website:
Bring Shakespeareʼs plays to life Silent in Glamis Castle Fill in the missing words. Each one contains a silent letter. The play opens on a heath with three mumbling strange words Who am I? Work out the answers going across and my identity will be revealed. 1 about bubble and trouble. At rst Macbeth is like the proverbial in shining armour when he and Banquo helped see off the enemy forces. Then he starts to to others too much. First he hears the old hags tell him he will be king one day. Then he hears his wife egging him on with a to kill King Duncan and seize the throne. It is a little like to the slaughter when Duncan is stabbed to death as he sleeps in Macbeth s. Any hopes that Scotland will be a peaceful place are soon. Macbeth proves to be a tyrant and an old pal returns in the shape of a to give him no of comfort. Soon Macbeth is under pressure and before the end of the play the forces of Macduff and make sure that he is defeated. His head is paraded around as a kind of symbol of the end of tyranny. 5 6 7 Macbeth -1-897675-9-9 1. Could it be that the trees in this wood really did move? (6). He was the son of a murdered king (7). This old king fell victim to evil treachery (6). His ghost certainly spoiled someone s meal (6) 5. A murder weapon (6) 6. A noble title in Scotland (5) 7. Did this threesome brew up some evil on the heath? (7) Add on The hidden person has several titles in the play. Can you list them? Who s in the play? Factfile all about Olivia ead the passage below and fill in the blanks using the words from the word bank. How to Dazzle at Macbeth 7 Hidden in the grid below are the names of the characters we come across in Twelfth Night. Can you find them? How to Dazzle at Macbeth 1 Olivia is a beautiful. She lives in the same town as. Her father and brother have died and she has herself away. But when she sees she falls in love with him. She doesn t know he is really. She is so madly in love that she can t keep control of her. The trick on works because she can t think straight. She gets engaged to thinking he is. F F G X N A I T S A B E S C A V K L A E J A O N C A S H O S D U O L I V I A I A T S A Q U A T I N J L U L A W T B I T A I Q U S I T O B Y B E L C H U T S G E V E A I C A N F K L P C E E G T H I D G O B M E T E J L O X T H A J M V P S H U S H I A N D E W A G U E S A N D C H E E K O I W H A B E H A S D E F E E Y I J H V A F N L S P I K U C A A N S H I N I C L L S H A N T O N I O D V N I O T H A S H U N O W C I A B U I O V S C O I L O H V L A M Q U A E X M A U M U C O A D P E B E T O P B E T I O F J O D H X A S T U L O I P E G U H S K A Q F Y I V D L K J E Olivia is and to begin with but she begins to look really when she falls in love. She makes a of herself in front of everyone. Word bank locked Duke Orsino silly Sebastian a girl sad lonely countess Cesario fool Cesario Malvolio household These are the names you have to find. Cesario Sir Andrew Aguecheek Orsino Maria Malvolio Curio I think Olivia is because Valentine Olivia Feste How to Dazzle at Twelfth Night 19 Antonio Fabian Sebastian Sir Toby Belch Viola Twelfth Night -1-9085-- How to Dazzle at Twelfth Night 1 Which two characters are really one? Why not TY before you BUY? Download SAMPLE PAGES from our website:
Help slower learners to make sense of Shakespeare Designed to give slower learners a deeper understanding of the play Simple summary of the plot aids recall of specific events Photocopiable practical activities and fun worksheets stimulate, amuse and challenge Activities include: Who s who? Crossword puzzles with clues from the play Mini-tests Missing word exercises Sequencing activities Writing modern newspaper accounts of the story Who said that? Learning Shakespeare s words omeo and Juliet -1-897675-9-. At the start of this scene, where do we nd omeo? 5. What does he mean when he says to Benvolio? Can I go forward when my heart is here? 6. Explain why you think Benvolio says these words. Blind is his love and best be ts the dark. 7. What do Benvolio and Mercutio do at the end of this scene? What words are spoken to tell the audience that omeo cannot be found? 1 steps to disaster Answer the 1 questions about the play and put the answers in the spaces. Work from the bottom up and you will arrive at the top where lies disaster! (At least, it s Shakespeare s word for disaster.) 1. What piercing steel caused the death of Mercutio? (7, 5). Could this be a description of the story of omeo and Juliet? (1,,, ). Which lovely gentleman was supposed to get married to Juliet? (6, 5). Where did omeo get the poison from? (10) 5. What was the fate of omeo at the end of Act Scene 1? (10) 6. Who decreed this fate for omeo? (, 6) Act Scene 1 1. Why has Paris gone to Lawrence s cell?. Lawrence says to Paris: You say you do not know the lady s mind. Uneven is the course, I like it not. Why does he say this and what does he mean?. Paris makes a reference to the oman goddess of love. Why does he do this?. Paris tells Lawrence why he is to be married. What reason does he give? 5. Lawrence says to Juliet: That s a certain text. What does he mean by these words? 7. What Friar secretly married the pair of star-crossed lovers? (8) 8. What was the family name of omeo? (8) 9. What was the family name of Juliet? (7) 10. In Act Scene 1, what did Tybalt call omeo? (7) 11. Which young lady is the sun who will kill the envious moon? (6) 1. Who knew something terrible was coming when he said: This day s black fate on moe days 6. Just after Paris says goodbye to his bride to be, how does Juliet react with Lawrence? 7. She goes on to say that God joined her heart to omeo s. Who does she say joined their hands? 8. Juliet invokes some imagery to describe her position at the moment. What does she say she would rather do than marry Paris? 9. In your own words, describe the Lawrence plan of action. doth depend; This but begins the woe others must end? (5) 1. In Act 1 Scene, Mercutio says: Give me a case to put my visage in. What was he after? () 11 1. What is Shakespeare s word 10 for disaster? () 9 1 1 1 10. At the end of this scene, what does Lawrence say to Juliet about getting in touch with omeo? 8 7 6 5 How to Dazzle at omeo and Juliet 18 1 How to Dazzle at omeo and Juliet 7 How to Dazzle at omeo and Juliet To place an order TEL: 019 76669 or FAX: 019 7671 or use our secure website: 5
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Ideal for KS Special Needs students Interest in insects ead the piece carefully. Fill in the gaps. There between two million and four million different kinds of insect. There are far too for any scientist to be able to describe insect that exists today! It would be impossible to guess many insects are alive on the planet each single day. We could not even begin to imagine the vast. In a square metre of rich, most soil, you nd anything from 500 to four or ve thousand insects if could see them! Although we see butter ies, beetles, ies, etc. easily, most insects are so tiny that we do not notice. Many can be seen through a microscope. Most insects two things in common: their bodies are divided into three, and they have six. Begins with sc, scr, sk, sl, sm or sn Look at the words below. ead them carefully. Write them in the column where they belong. Time yourself. scribble sniff scale smart scrum scare sleet slink snooze screen smell skim snug scrimp smug sky smooth sleep snip sketch slip sc scr sk sl sm sn It took me minutes to work out these lists. Grammar -1-897675-6-5 How to Dazzle at eading Find out more about insects from the computer or your library. How to Dazzle at eading for Meaning 0 Most important The most important word (or words) in a sentence is the verb. You can make a sentence out of just two words, using a subject and a verb: 10 Find another three words for each list. Use a dictionary. Sound that vowel These short words all have short vowel sounds. Ben bin ban tin ten top run Give yourself ten minutes. Write down as many words as you can for each short vowel. Helpline Only write words with one syllable. Aimed at students working at primary levels. Minimal amount of writing per sheet encourages pupil participation. Diverse subject matter and uncomplicated layouts enhance appeal. Dogs dribble. Athletes run. Footballers train. Write four sentences of only two words. 1 Write four sentences of three words. 1 How to Dazzle at Grammar 10 Make sure there is a verb in each sentence. Use a highlighter pen to highlight the verbs. Aeroplanes y. How to Dazzle at Spelling 1 Score two points for each word. Choose six of your words. Write a sentence for each one. To place an order TEL: 019 76669 or FAX: 019 7671 or use our secure website: Throughout the catalogue this logo means the item is a reproducible resource 7
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