The WordSmith Prompts

ISBN 978-0-9756709-4-1

We have selected a variety of literature texts commonly studied in Grades 10 upwards, and produced for them a series of Prompts based on actual classroom work.

The Prompts are not book-length study commentaries like The WordSmith Guides. Rather, they are outline resources, consisting of a range of study tasks (predominantly short pieces of writing) designed to take students into the heart of each chapter of a novel (or each scene of a play, or each poem in an anthology) as they have finished reading it. Together they help build up an overview of each of the five SCASI aspects of the whole piece of writing (Setting, Character, Action, Style and Ideas - the fundamental structure of The WordSmith Guides themselves).

They also include a range of more formal essay questions, varying in style and difficulty and easily adaptable to meet the demands of all major literature examinations (in particular International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement, GCE Advanced Level) for the 15-18 age range.

Taken together, the two sets of guiding questions encourage AP students to think about texts in ways that will help them prepare for the Free-Response section of the final examination. Many of the full essay questions, in fact, are derived from past Advanced Placement Free-Response exam prompts, carefully selected (and modified as necessary) to match particular texts.

IB students and teachers will find that the Prompts offer an insightful approach to the texts, helping students to respond thoughtfully within all components of the Language A1 Assessment process - the Part 1 (World Literature) Assignment, the Part 2 (Detailed Study) Oral Commentary, the Part 3 (Groups of Works) final examination essay, and the Part 4 (School's Free Choices) Oral Presentation. The Prompts make use of past IB examination questions, re-focused as appropriate, to ensure the usefulness of the resource for IB purposes.

The Prompts also provide a framework within which GCE A Level students can develop a detailed knowledge of texts set by their Examining Board.

Throughout, there is a focus not only on what has been written (the finished text) but also on why it has been written in that way, and how it functions as a piece of working literature.

If you would like to examine a typical set of study tasks, click on the link below:

Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

The price for a selection of any five Prompts is US$19.95. They can not be purchased individually.

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	Title
	1984
	A Farewell to Arms
	A Passage to India
	A Separate Peace
	Across the River and Into the Trees
	Angela's Ashes
	Death of a Salesman
	Fiela's Child
	Frankenstein
	Hard Times
	Heart of Darkness
	Heat and Dust
	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
	Jane Eyre
	Lord of the Flies
	Master Harold and the Boys
	Native Son
	Northanger Abbey
	Pride and Prejudice
	Robert Frost Selected Poems
	Robinson Crusoe
	Silas Marner
	So Long a Letter
	Some Monday for Sure
	The Bell Jar
	The Book Thief
	The Grass is Singing
	The Great Gatsby
	The Handmaid's Tale
	The Kite Runner
	The Mosquito Coast
	The Quiet American
	The Remains of the Day
	The Return of the Native
	The Sun Also Rises
	The Turn of the Screw
	The Wide Sargasso Sea
	Things Fall Apart
	To Have and Have Not
	To Kill a Mockingbird
	Waiting for Godot
	Wuthering Heights

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We’d be pleased to have your comments on any of the material: wordsmith@clix.pt. If you yourself have developed resources in a similar style for other texts, and would like to have them considered for inclusion under the WordSmith Prompts banner (with an authorship acknowledgment), please do get in touch. Contributors will be given free access to the whole range of Prompts.

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