Approaches to Literature

Subject: English Literature
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11 - 14
Order Number: 5002

This excellent pack aims to help students build up confidence in independent study.

Written by practicing teachers, it is made up of advice units, which may be used separately and with any appropriate text. Units invite students to ask themselves a series of questions as a way of discovering and developing their ideas.

Topics include:

• Discussing poetry - content; style; form
• Discussing prose - content; style; form
• Aspects of storytelling - plot; narrative viewpoint; use of language
• Discussing non-fiction - theme and intent; techniques, attitudes
• Discussing drama - context; shaping; sense of the dramatic; language
• Discussing a production - direction; performance; effect
• Using a videotape - study method; direction; performance; filming
• Discussing characterisation - presentation; development; consistency; function
• Using a reading list - background; comparative and critical; note-making
• Making notes on a set text - independent following up of work in class
• Discussing satire - definition; satiric moods andtechniques
• Understanding irony - irony as image; methods and view