The following resources are available to you, for free online.
On Sparknotes, you will be able to access plot summaries and study notes on themes/characterisation/key quotations on both the Austen and Shakespeare texts. Click on the "No Fear Shakespeare" section in order to access the original text as well as a modernised version, which you can read simultaneously, in order to clarify your understanding of the difficult language. www.sparknotes.com
Shmoop is an online site where university graduates and Phd students post information and opinions about literature - it is a really accessible site which can, amazingly, be fun to read. I know I sound like a broken record; however, here is my caveat: Be extremely careful - don't pinch the ideas/work of others. Form your own views!
Remember to make good use of the additional resources that Ms Sutherland provided you with - particularly the essays and background reading related to the Shakespeare texts.
To reiterate what Ms Kirk has already warned: do not plagiarise any of the work you see online for any of the texts. You learn nothing from copying someone else's thinking - you only learn when you are doing your own thinking - and the SQA takes a very hard line on plagiarism, ie failing you on the entire course. So, while all of these sites and the books I have lent you for the year do help you to get to grips with the important aspects of the texts, you must rehearse your own ability to analyse and comment upon the texts by planning and writing your own essays.
The attached are Higher Textual Analysis revision notes - but you may find them useful in terms of reminding yourselves of literary techniques, etc - we are analysing texts all the time!
On Sparknotes, you will be able to access plot summaries and study notes on themes/characterisation/key quotations on both the Austen and Shakespeare texts. Click on the "No Fear Shakespeare" section in order to access the original text as well as a modernised version, which you can read simultaneously, in order to clarify your understanding of the difficult language. www.sparknotes.com
Shmoop is an online site where university graduates and Phd students post information and opinions about literature - it is a really accessible site which can, amazingly, be fun to read. I know I sound like a broken record; however, here is my caveat: Be extremely careful - don't pinch the ideas/work of others. Form your own views!
http://www.shmoop.com/shakespeare/
http://www.shmoop.com/jane-austen/
Remember to make good use of the additional resources that Ms Sutherland provided you with - particularly the essays and background reading related to the Shakespeare texts.
Ms K Kirk
Email: kalexander-kirk1m@gnes.net
Here is another useful Shakespeare site - it is an American site and contains lots of really helpful information:
http://www.folger.edu/Content/Discover-Shakespeare/Shakespeares-Works/The-Plays/
And this is the BBC Bitesize weblink for The Tempest (aimed, I think, at Standard Grade level students, but there is still some useful stuff there to revise):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/shakespeare_summaries/the_tempest/revise1.shtml
And another online study guide for The Winter's Tale:
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xWinterTale.html
Here is a site with quite detailed information on Pride and Prejudice:
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/pap/
And the same site's link for Persuasion:
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-persuasion/
To reiterate what Ms Kirk has already warned: do not plagiarise any of the work you see online for any of the texts. You learn nothing from copying someone else's thinking - you only learn when you are doing your own thinking - and the SQA takes a very hard line on plagiarism, ie failing you on the entire course. So, while all of these sites and the books I have lent you for the year do help you to get to grips with the important aspects of the texts, you must rehearse your own ability to analyse and comment upon the texts by planning and writing your own essays.
The attached are Higher Textual Analysis revision notes - but you may find them useful in terms of reminding yourselves of literary techniques, etc - we are analysing texts all the time!
And here is a weblink for a site that allows you to practise and revise your Language Skills:
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/knowledgeoflanguage/index.asp
Ms L Sutherland
Email: lsutherland1a@gnes.net