A Raisin in the Sun

Categories: IGCSE

Description

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a set drama text for the 0475 IGCSE English Literature exams in 2021.

The modern play is an agent for social change which captures the need for African expression and the inevitability and impossibility to do so due to the American societal prejudice. It questions the strain in society along with the injustices of disparity.

This course is being taught as a group workshop during specific times of the academic year, in correlation with exam dates.

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Make effective literature notes and mind maps
Understand genre specific literary devices
Explore effects created by the writer’s use of language devices and narrative style
Link ideas to essay questions in an insightful manner
Unique question-specific strategies
Exam techniques practiced through extensive question practice and personalised feedback
Time management strategies

Topics for this course

Extract-based Essay

Ability to reference and quote from the text
Characters, situations and themes
Authorial purpose and writer’s use of language
Personal Response