#GCSEEnglish

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-04-07

Key Quote 1: "Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them." The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-03-24

Key Quote 2: "Gerald: (distressed) sorry - I - well, I've suddenly realised - taken it in properly - that she's dead-- " Gerald Croft, An Inspector Calls, Act Two.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-03-24

Key Quote 1: "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the valley of Death. Rode the six hundred." The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-03-17

Key Quote 2: "But huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living among men, moved slowly through the mind by day, and were a TROUBLE TO MY DREAMS." The Prelude (Extract), William Wordsworth.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-03-17

Key Quote 1: "You know of course that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he's still a magistrate --" Sybil Birling, An Inspector Calls, Act Two.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-03-10

Key Quote 2: " 'Mrs Birling: That - I consider - is a trifle impertinent, Inspector. [Sheila gives a short hysterical laugh] Now, what is it, Sheila?' 'Sheila: I don't know. Perhaps it's because impertinent is such a silly word.'" Mrs Birling and Sheila Birling, An Inspector Calls.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-03-10

Key Quote 1: "No familiar shapes remained, no pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky, no colours of green fields;" The Prelude (Extract), William Wordsworth.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-02-24

Key Quote 1: "Small circles glittering idly in the moon, until they melted all into one track of sparkling light." The Prelude (Extract) William Wordsworth.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-02-24

Key Quote1: "Mrs Birling: 'Please don't contradict me like that. And in any case I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls or that class-" Sybil Birling, An Inspector Calls, Act Two.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-02-11

Key Quote 1: "And Blights with plagues the marriage hearse," London, William Blake.

Key Quote 2: "One summer evening (led by her) I found a little boat tied to a willow tree within a rock cove, its usual home," The Prelude (Extract), William Wordsworth.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-02-05

Key Quote 1: "And mark in every face I met marks of weakness, marks of woe." London, William Blake.

Key Quote 2: "In every cry of every man, in every infants cry of fear, in every voice: in every ban, the mind-forged manacles I hear." London, William Blake.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-02-04

Key Quote 1: "But these girls aren't cheap labour - They're people." Sheila Birling, An Inspector Calls, Act One.

Key Quote 2: "Birling: (cutting in) 'Just a minute, Sheila. Now, Inspector, perhaps you and I had better go and talk this over quietly in a corner--' Sheila: (cutting Why should you? He's finished with you. He says it's one of us now."

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-02-04

Key Quote 1: "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away." Ozymandis, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Key Quote 2: : "I wander thro'. Each charter'd street. Near where the charter'd Thames does flow." London, William Blake.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-01-29

"This grew: I gave commands: then all smiles stopped together," My Last Duchess, Robert Browning.

If you're choosing to write about My Last Duchess in your GCSE English mock exam, ensure to keep these points in mind when it comes to the poem's context: Historical, Social, Literary and Personal.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-01-28

"As if she ranked my nine hundred-years-old name with anybody's gift." My Last Duchess, Robert Browning.

What is the overall theme in this quote from 'My Last Duchess'? What is the context of 'My Last Duchess'? How is the poem 'My Last Duchess', structured?

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-01-27

"She had a heart -how shall I say- too soon made glad, too easily impressed," My Last Duchess, Robert Browning.

Compare how poets present the effects of power in, 'My Last Duchess' and in one other poem from 'Power and Conflict'. Some points to consider; The Duke's controlling nature, The Duchess as an object, Jealousy and Suspicion.

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-01-23

"Sir, 'twas not her husband's presence only, called that spot of joy into the duchess' cheek;"

Compare the way the poet presents memory in 'My Last Duchess' and in one other poem from Power and Conflict. What is the power in this poem? What is the conflict?

Oldbury AcademyOldburyAcademy
2025-01-22

An Inspector Calls!
Think about the themes, what are the language techniques used? who are the characters involved?

" You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted. Your father and I have been friendly rivals in business for some time now," Arthur Birling, Act One.

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