Dystopia: Student Guide for A Level OCR: Endorsed

Dystopia Student Guide is endorsed for the 2015 A Level OCR English Literature specification.

Arguably, what makes dystopian literature so popular today is that it often reflects the world around us. Dystopias offer us a terrifying view of what might happen if we don’t change our ways. This resource looks at a range of texts from a range of historical periods to develop students’ understanding of the recurring features of the genre.

Component 02: Comparative and Contextual Study

It uses a wide range of texts and has extension tasks that are clearly related to the exam......

...It provides an excellent base for the study of dystopia in context

N Bonner, Teacher & Customer

Arm your students with an arsenal of ideas!

Give students a firm grounding in your chosen topic with student-friendly notes, essential context, and activities on carefully-chosen key aspects. A broad selection of extracts from set texts and unseen prose are analysed against topical features to prepare for the exam.

Key areas include…
  • Authorial Techniques
  • Characterisation
  • Themes and Motifs
  • Context
  • Setting
  • Literary Criticism
...and many more topic-specific areas

Target exam skills

  • Extract analyses model critical appreciations for unseen extracts
  • Reflective activities – matched to the AOs – encourage engagement and consolidate learning
  • Exam preparation questions build confidence and develop essay-writing skills
  • Practice essay questions and peer/self-assessment mark schemes track student progress

Answers included for easy delivery and marking

What do teachers say about this resource? (8237)

A useful way to think about the conventions of a dystopia... It offers lots of opportunity for the unseen element of the exam. Context is worth 50% and there is plenty of contextual information in this guide... Contains a useful glossary of terms they can refer to for essay practice or reading tasks... It uses a wide range of texts and has extension tasks that are clearly related to the exam... It provides an excellent base for the study of dystopia in context. The students enjoy the extracts and some are keen to read on as a result... Perfect match OCR.

N Bonner, Teacher & Customer