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Much Ado About Nothing Study Guide
Assessment
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Much Ado About Nothing Study Guide
Updated for the new 2013 GCSE specifications
With integrated Literary Heritage notes
Includes original character and scene illustrations
- Comprehensive notes and tasks throughout to support learning, test knowledge and help with revision
- Fully cross-referenced to the Assessment Objectives
- Specific sections to fulfil the requirements of each exam board: AQA and WJEC sample exam questions and AQA and Edexcel sample controlled assessment tasks
"Well structured, engaging, concise and
easy to read."
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- Plot overview
- Character summaries
- Analysis of major characters
Know more
- Themes
- Historical, social contexts
- Language, imagery, symbolism and structure
Know what to write
- Assessment Objectives in pupil-speak
- Foundation and Higher sample exam questions
- Sample controlled assessment tasks
- Sample answers and important planned-out answers
This guide adheres to the requirements of the new specifications for GCSE Literature. The summary grid below indicates which units allow for the study of this text and the methods of assessment.
English Literature | English Language | English | ||
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AQA | Unit 3: The Significance of Shakespeare and the English Literary Heritage | Unit 4: Section A — Shakespeare | Unit 3a: Understanding spoken & written texts and writing creatively — Part A (extended reading) | Unit 3a: Understanding creative texts (literary reading) |
Optional text for controlled assessment. | One of five Shakespeare texts prescribed for an exam. | Optional text for controlled assessment. | Optional text for controlled assessment. | |
Edexcel | Unit 3: Shakespeare and Contemporary Drama | |||
Optional text for controlled assessment. | ||||
OCR | Unit 1: Extended Literary Text and Imaginative Writing | Unit 1: Reading Literary Texts — Shakespeare | ||
Optional text for controlled assessment.* | Optional text for controlled assessment.* | |||
WJEC | Unit 2: Section A — Literary Heritage Drama and Contemporary Prose | Unit 3: Literary reading & creative writing: studying written language: extended literary text | Unit 3: English in the world of the imagination — reading (Literary Heritage poetry and Shakespeare) | |
One of five texts prescribed for an exam. | Optional text for controlled assessment. | Optional text for controlled assessment. |
*For OCR Language and English, centres can either choose from the prescribed texts (Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar) or they can choose their own text.