The Color Purple: Activity Pack for AS and A Level
- AQA A AS & A Level
- Edexcel A Level
Covering hard-hitting themes including racism, sexism and oppression in an imaginatively written epistolary form, The Color Purple invites students to engage in meaningful discussions on a whole host of human experiences from childhood and maturity to love and separation.
This student-friendly activity pack provides a variety of ready-to-use handouts, covering the whole text, for you to mix and match to suit your class.
Activities include:
- engaging questions
- critical thinking tasks
- close reading tasks
- pair and group tasks
- research tasks
Accessible for every level and linked to the AOs throughout!
Plus!
- ‘Food for thought’ boxes
- Indicative content for all activities
Prepare
Pre-reading exercises provide a starting point for study
Explore
Appealing chapter-by-chapter tasks guide students through the
novel, allowing them to gain understanding and analytical skills while remaining engaged
Reflect
Whole-text activities show the bigger picture, exploring key
areas of: Characterisation • Relationships • Genre • Themes •
Attitudes and values • Writer's use of language • Form •
Structure • Context • Critical reception