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... to the LitWorks.com website, which provides literature and language resources to students worldwide working towards external examinations – and to their teachers.

 

Five of the study guides have been fully and independently reviewed by the US College Board (see the individual WordSmith Guides pages to read brief extracts from the reviews).

 

STOP PRESS: The four study commentaries on Shakespeare's major tragedies (both the Teaching Copy and the Student Edition) are now available, additionally, in paperback. They will meet the needs of the many students, teachers and libraries (including school libraries) who want to access the resources in print form rather than online.

 

You will be able to order the books through your usual school supplier or bookstore using the ISBNs supplied on each book's Details page. Alternatively, you can purchase them from Amazon, and receive them more swiftly (within a matter of days) and perhaps more cheaply.

 

Click on any of the book covers to the right to find out more about what the resources (in both pdf and print format) have to offer, and to see your purchasing options.

 

 

 

We have selected a variety of literature texts commonly studied in Grade 9 upwards, and produced for them a series of study tasks based on actual classroom work as well as on past IB, AP and A level assessments.

 

'These prompts are a terrific tool for generating class discussions, creating short answer exams, or longer essay assignments. I have purchased a number of them and am impressed with each one.'

                                            From our Commendations section

The Prompts are not book-length study commentaries like The WordSmith Guides. Rather, they are outline resources, consisting of a range of questions and assignments designed to take students into the heart of each chapter of a novel (or each scene of a play, or each poem in a collection) 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).

 

Prompts are available for works by the following authors (and we are steadily adding more authors and texts to the list): 

 

 

Chinua Achebe  Maya Angelou  Margaret Atwood  Jane Austen  Mariama Bâ   Samuel Beckett William Boyd John Boyne Ray Bradbury Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anthony Burgess Albert Camus Truman Capote Peter Carey Lewis Carroll Geoffrey Chaucer Kate Chopin Sandra Cisneros J. M. Coetzee Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph Conrad  Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens Umberto Eco George Eliot Ralph Ellison Buchi Emecheta Laura Esquivel J.G. Farrell William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald   Richard Flanagan Gustave Flaubert E. M. Forster  Jonathan Safran Froer Robert Frost

Athol Fugard Ernest J. Gaines William Golding Nadine Gordimer Graham Greene Sara Gruen David Guterson Mark Haddon Lorraine Hansberry Thomas Hardy Nathaniel Hawthorne Bessie Head Ernest Hemingway Khaled Hosseini Zora Neale Hurston Henrik Ibsen  Kazuo Ishiguro Henry James  Ruth Prawar Jhabvala James Joyce Franz Kafka Ken Kesey Barbara Kingsolver Rudyard Kipling John Knowles Harper Lee Dennis Lehane Doris Lessing Naguib Mahfouz David Malouf Christopher Marlowe Gabriel García Marquez  Yann Martel Dalene Matthee Cormac McCarthy Frank McCourt Ian McEwan

Arthur Miller Rohinton Mistry Toni Morrison V.S. Naipaul Tim O'Brien Michael Ondaatje George Orwell  John Osborne Sembene Ousmane Wilfred Owen The Pearl Poet Sylvia Plath Edgar Allan Poe Chaim Potok Annie Proulx Michael Punke Jean Rhys J.D. Salinger William Shakespeare Mary Shelley Richard Brinsley Sheridan Lionel Shriver Alexander Solzhenitsyn  Sophocles John Steinbeck Bram Stoker Jonathan Swift J.M. Synge Paul Theroux J.R.R. Tolkien Mark Twain Alice Walker Oscar Wilde Tennessee Williams Richard Wright Emile Zola Markus Zusak

  

 For more details, click on the WordSmith Prompts book cover to the right.

 
 

 

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Shakespeare

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