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AS/A-Level Student Text Guide: The Whitsun Weddings
Andrew Green

Paperback
£8.99

ISBN: 9781844894055
Published: 17/11/2005
Extent: 97 pages
Illustrations: Black and white illustrations


 
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Summary:
AS/A-Level English Literature Student Text Guides comprise three sections:
an Introduction, which outlines the aims of the guide, the relevant exam board specification and Assessment Objectives
Text Guidance, which gives coverage of key aspects of the text
Questions and Answers, which focuses on the various types of essay questions and offers specifmen plans and sample answers, together with mark schemes


  • Succint and accessible coverage of all the key aspects of the set text, including contexts, interpretations and controversies

  • Clear outline of the exam board specifications and their Assessment Objectives

  • Invaluable Question and Answer section with various types of questions, plans, mark schemes and answers


Table of Contents:
Introduction
Aims of the guide
Assessment Objectives
Revision advice
Writing examination essays
Text Guidance
Contexts
Biography
Women and marriage
Jazz
The Movement
The 1960s
Language
Themes
Imagery
Opposites
Humour
The key poems
‘Here’
‘Mr Bleaney’
‘The Whitsun Weddings’
‘Dockery and Son’
‘An Arundel Tomb’
Notes on the other poems
Extracts from Jill and A Girl in Winter
Quotations
Literary terms and concepts
Questions and Answers
Essay questions, specimen plans and notes
Sample essays
Using the critics
References and further study


About the Author(s):
Andrew Green an experienced teacher of English at A-level. He has contributed a number of articles to The English Review and is author of various Teacher Resource Packs and Student Text Guides, also published by Philip Allan Updates.


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