Wide Sargasso Sea
Focused Activity Pack
Stimulating & engaging activities encourage high-level textual analysis.
Activities focus on: each part of the novel, language, form, structure, the Byronic Hero, and more!
Thank you for tackling a slippery text!
- Extra activities making vital connections with Jane Eyre great for Edexcel Literature Unit 2 & AQA ELLB2
- Wider reading section expands upon the themes of the novel with well-chosen excerpts and thoughtful questions encouraging comparison
Bonus materials for AQA A Literature Units 3 & 4:
- Examination answer plan
- Exam style questions
- A guided response
- Examination checklist
- A sample answer, annotated with the AOs
- Inspirational coursework titles
It carefully balances the need for students to develop independent wider reading with a level of support which will engage them at the appropriate level
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What do teachers say about this resource? (3815)
Thorough and well focused. There is a useful range of activities and helpful commentaries/notes for both students and staff. This is an excellent resource for anyone teaching the text. The close analysis and attention to detail makes it very educationally sound.
I am very impressed with the clarity of explanation given for a demanding text which is dense in allusions. I particularly liked how succintly the writer had conveyed the key ideas to the reader, while still maintaining analytical rigour in the reader response questions. The range of tasks available to guide the student through independent reading of the texts should help them come to a clearer understanding of the novel. It carefully balances the need for students to develop independent wider reading with a level of support which will engage them at the appropriate level. Thank you for tackling a slippery text!
A really useful resource which would both enable students to approach the text with a degree of independence and will also inform classroom discussion. Thoughtful and well directed questions will ensure that all important elements of the text are considered, and helpful links to Jane Eyre and wider reading texts will ensure that students consider it as part of the canon of literature rather than in isolation.
A comprehensive resource that not only addresses Wide Sargasso Sea & its obvious partner text Jane Eyre but also offered preparation for the exam and links to other texts. I liked the fact it demonstrated the application of literary theory as well as narrative devices, clearly marked out language, form & structure in the novel & offered preparation for exams. This resource is really good.
[The author] has been very thorough in her reading of Wide Sargasso Sea and posed a range of questions which will help the hard-pressed teacher to think in more detail about how to examine this novel. The range of questions will stretch thinking and should encourage research. The answers would provide a handy prompt to my own thinking.
This is a good resource... very useful for teaching the text and particularly good at providing links with other texts. The detailed questions are thought-provoking and enhance in-depth understanding of plot, characterisation and narrative & stylistic techniques. Very effective teaching ideas stimulating challenging coursework ideas.