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  • Of Mice and Men Controlled Assessment

    Have a go at assessing your last Controlled Assessment against the AQA criteria

  • Theme Study Recommendations

    Hi Jordan, Ms Seaman in the library has a book she thinks will be perfect for your project. It’s the autobiography of a WWII pilot. She’s keeping it back so you can collect it. Ms Lindsay said the following: There is a very good fiction book about WW2 aimed at teenagers called Tamar by Mal…

  • Beyond the gloomy bridge a solider stood still with a gun perched in his hands. Behind this mysterious man were two huge doors ready to be opened.

  • Proportions Outside the gloomy gates a solider stood still Beyond the car a man with a gun opens the gate Between the car and the building men stood without move meant

  • Paragraph Practice

  • People with Disabilities in 1930s USA

    Of mice of men In the 1930’s, the mentally disabled were seen as inferior to regular people by society. Most were put in asylums, institutions that supposedly helped cure mental illness, however these asylums seemed to do the complete opposite. In these asylums, the staff was short-handed and often very cruel to the patients. The…

  • Controlled Assessment – Spoken Language Study

    In this essay you have demonstrated a confident knowledge of a range of language devices that are typical of both spoken language and text communication. You have succeeded in showing how these forms are fluid and that they influence each other. The essay also explores, and in many cases celebrates, the creativity of spoken and…

  •   FUTILITY (POEM) Futility is a poem by Wilfred Owen, possibly the most renowned poet of the First World War, written in May 1918 and published as no.  The poem is well known for its departure from Owen’s famous style of including disturbing and graphic images in his work; the poem instead having a more…

  •   CONTROLLLED ASSESMENT   EXPLORE THE VIEW THAT SPEAKING, TEXTING AND/OR WEB BACED INTERATIONS CAN BE VERYCREATIVE FORMS OF LANGAGE USE. TRANSCRIPT JORDAN: KL JACK: SWEET ALFIE: YOO JACK: YOU LOT ALRIGHT JORDAN: YHH WBU ALFIE: YEAH WBU JACK: YEHH IM GD ALFIE: PROPA TIERD THO JACK: YEHH SAME ERE (=|(YAWN FACE) JORDAN: I GOT…

  •   CONTROLLLED ASSESMENT   EXPLORE THE VIEW THAT SPEAKING, TEXTING AND/OR WEB BACED INTERATIONS CAN BE VERYCREATIVE FORMS OF LANGAGE USE. TRANSCRIPT JORDAN: KL JACK: SWEET ALFIE: YOO JACK: YOU LOT ALRIGHT JORDAN: YHH WBU ALFIE: YEAH WBU JACK: YEHH IM GD ALFIE: PROPA TIERD THO JACK: YEHH SAME ERE (=|(YAWN FACE) JORDAN: I GOT…

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