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Top Girls and The Color Purple: Comparative Notes and Activities for A Level AQA A

This invaluable resource supports your teaching of paired texts for A Level AQA A Paper 2: Texts in Shared Contexts: Option 2B: Modern Times: literature from 1945 to the present day.

Once you’ve read the texts with your class, ensure exam success with probing notes and engaging activities focusing on comparison.

Themes include: Identity and Voice, Strong Female Characters, Motherhood and Childlessness, Structure and Form, Class, Race and Power, Male Absence and Patriarchy, Female Relationships and Sisterhood, Language, Dialect and Communication

The resource begins with starter and whole text tasks to aid revision. Following this, both texts are studied by means of key topics. Each topic contains:

  • Key notes and terminology to consolidate student knowledge
  • A variety of independent and collaborative activities – including close-reading tasks, discussion questions and reflective activities
  • Extension activities for A*/A students

Plus! Essential essay guidance and activities to develop planning and writing skills - perfect in the run up to the exam.

Set tasks in class to support your scheme of work, or hand out for homework. Teacher notes and indicative content make setting and marking simple!

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Keywords

  • Top Girls
  • The Color Purple
  • Caryl Churchill
  • A Level English Literature
  • A Level English Comparative Notes and Activities
  • Option B: Modern Times: literature from 1945 to the present day
  • A Level AQA A English Literature (7712)
  • 4.2 Texts in Shared Contexts
  • Alice Walker

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