The Mr Salles Guide to GCSE English Literature

There's no better guide to boosting your GCSE by two or three grades. Find out how to write about Shakespeare, the 19th Century novel, your 20th Century play or novel and, of course, your poetry. I show you how to write about the author's purpose, the writer's ideas, the effect on the reader, the context of the time so that grade 6 seems very achievable. Then you'll learn how develop your ideas, how to embed quotations, write about more than one interpretation, use the right subject terminology, write a thesis, construct an argument and conceptualised response. You'll see these grade 7, 8 and 9 skills time and time again, in essay after essay, with examiner commentary to help you see how to do this for yourself.You'll learn a huge amount of context and see exactly how to use it to dramatically improve your grade. You'll see how to write using PEE paragraphs, and then how to move beyond that. You'll learn how to plan an essay, how to revise, how to remember quotations, how to pick the right quotations and how to embed them in your essays.You'll understand much more than you are taught in lessons because, as viewers of my channel will tell you, it really is possible for average students to gain top grades. Literature is mostly knowing stuff, and so I teach you the stuff worth knowing. You'll find essays on Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, An Inspector Calls, The Strange Case of the Dog in the Night Time, Lord of the Flies, poems from the Power and Conflict Cluster, Poems from Love and Relationships, the unseen poem and finally, the unseen comparison. Each one is explained, so you can see exactly how to get the grade you want.