Wide Sargasso Sea: Activity Pack AS Level Eduqas
- Eduqas AS Level
Wide Sargasso Sea provides a compelling platform for exploring themes of identity, colonialism, gender, and madness, while also engaging in intertextual dialogue with Jane Eyre. Jean Rhys’s narrative style challenges traditional storytelling and provides a postcolonial perspective that encourages students to interrogate dominant literary and cultural narratives.
This student-friendly activity pack provides a variety of ready-to-use activities, 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!
- 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