About a Boy by Nick Hornby
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Piecing together Marcus | ||
Students piece together the jigsaw clues about Marcus and then create a character profile. The teacher will need to prepare the jigsaw pieces for this resource. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 06/07/2012 | |||
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Help Marcus make a time capsule | ||
An imaginative activity leading to a short piece of writing and two speaking and listening tasks. Page references apply to the Penguin paperback edition (2000). | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 13/05/2011 | |||
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Extract analysis | ||
Prepare your students for the WJEC English Literature exam with this sample question, suggested extract and peer marking activity. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 17/12/2010 | |||
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Exploring themes | ||
Comprehensive guidance notes on themes in the novel with grouping and assessment activities primarily aimed at WJEC. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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Sequence of events | ||
Put the events of the novel in the correct order. Answer: 6, 2, 9, 1, 12, 7, 14, 20, 17, 19, 8, 16, 18, 5, 11, 3, 13, 15, 10, 4. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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About the characters | ||
Activities to explore the characters of Marcus, Will and Fiona in the novel. Includes analytical and empathy style tasks. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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Analysing an extract | ||
Suggested extracts with relevant points to start students off on a close text analysis. Would work better enlarged to A3 or with the point boxes cut out and stuck in books. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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Quick quiz questions | ||
Twenty questions based on the novel. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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Heroes, idols and role models | ||
Research, discussion and writing tasks to explore this theme in the novel. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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Starting Reading | ||
A series of short research and preparatory activities for students beginning work on this novel. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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Use of language | ||
A research activity on symbols, plus worked examples and analysis practice of imagery and other language features in the novel, to encourage close reading and deeper understanding. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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Introducing characters | ||
A comprehensive set of research activities on characterisation plus assessment activities primarily aimed at the novel as a set text for WJEC. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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Structure, setting and time | ||
A range of student friendly activities to encourage engagement with the text. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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Top ten features | ||
Students rank key features of the text and prepare a presentation to explain and justify their top three choices to the class. | |||
| KS4 | Prose Published: 01/10/2010 | |||
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