Alison Powell

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Scholastic's completely annotated set texts are designed to help students prepare for their closed book AQA GCSE English Literature examinations This full-colour ready-annotated edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike. It includes The full play Detailed annotations on each page Definitions of tricky vocabulary Organised lists of key quotations The full text of the play is set on an easy-to-read cream background with wide margins on every page providing helpful annotations about the key information on that page. This takes the student step-by-step through the play highlighting useful insights about the characters and plot as well as addressing the main themes and context. At the bottom of each page definitions are supplied to aid the understanding of unusual or archaic language used within the text. At the back of the book students will find a helpful guide to key quotations from the play. Each quotation will reference where it appears in the play as a whole and identified with an at-a-glance 'key' symbol. Examination: English Literature Specification: GCSE 9-1 Set Text covered: Macbeth by William Shakespeare Type: Set Text - Complete Annotated About the play: When three sinister witches tell Macbeth that power and glory could be within his grasp, he murders the king in a bid to ensure his future. But he soon sees the error of his ways, for if you kill once, you will kill again - and the dead will return to haunt you for your sins. War, power, witchcraft, deadly deeds, relationships and risks are themes that run through this enduring play. Scholastic have everything you need to succeed with your AQA English Literature examination including study guides, annotation-friendly editions, revision cards and essay planners. Truly the most comprehensive support for GCSE English available!

This Scholastic Ultimate Revision Bundle contains everything you need to study A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens for your AQA English Language & Literature GCSE In this shrink-wrapped bundle you will find: Set Text Study Guide Set Text Essay Planner Set Text Revision Cards Scholastic's Study Guides use an active, stepped approach to revision to maximise learning and support revision for the closed book AQA GCSE English Literature examination. This study guide covers the chronology of the text and focuses on key events, characters, themes, context, language and structure to help you demonstrate your knowledge and understanding and achieve higher marks. With loads of exam-style practice questions (and answers) you can't go wrong! Active revision is easy with the following features included throughout the study guides: Snap it! Read it, snap it on your phone, revise it...helps you retain key facts Nail it! Authoritative essential tips and guidance to help you understand what's required in the AQA exam Do it! Short activities to consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the text Stretch it! Support for the really tough stuff that will get you higher grades Define it! Definitions of unfamiliar language in the text and important subject terminology Presented in a clear, attractive style, Scholastic's Great Answers series helps you to see how a great answer meets the required Assessment Objectives and to perfect your own technique with exemplar answers to AQA English exam-style questions Step-by-step essay plans. An essential pick-up-and-check reference resource. Hints and tips to plan and structure your 'great answers'. Practice questions to apply your learning. Easy-to-read. Matched to the study guide - they can be used together or separately. Scholastic's GCSE Grades 9-1 Revision Cards with free revision app, perfect to support your revision for the closed book AQA GCSE English Literature exam. Perfect for last-minute revision. Clear information with at-a-glance chronology of the text A tight focus on key events, characters, themes, context, language and structure. With lots of quiz cards to help you demonstrate your knowledge and understanding you can't go wrong. Matched to the study guide with colour coded sections - they can be used together or separately. The accompanying free GCSE 9-1 Scholastic Revision app uses cutting-edge technology to help you revise on-the-go with a personalised digital revision planner, quick tests to check your understanding and revision cards which you can save to your phone to help you revise on the go.

This Scholastic Ultimate Revision Bundle contains everything you need to study Macbeth by William Shakespeare for your AQA English Language & Literature GCSE In this shrink-wrapped bundle you will find: Set Text Study Guide Set Text Essay Planner Set Text Revision Cards Scholastic's Study Guides use an active, stepped approach to revision to maximise learning and support revision for the closed book AQA GCSE English Literature examination. This study guide covers the chronology of the text and focuses on key events, characters, themes, context, language and structure to help you demonstrate your knowledge and understanding and achieve higher marks. With loads of exam-style practice questions (and answers) you can't go wrong! Active revision is easy with the following features included throughout the study guides: Snap it! Read it, snap it on your phone, revise it...helps you retain key facts Nail it! Authoritative essential tips and guidance to help you understand what's required in the AQA exam Do it! Short activities to consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the text Stretch it! Support for the really tough stuff that will get you higher grades Define it! Definitions of unfamiliar language in the text and important subject terminology Presented in a clear, attractive style, Scholastic's Great Answers series helps you to see how a great answer meets the required Assessment Objectives and to perfect your own technique with exemplar answers to AQA English exam-style questions Step-by-step essay plans. An essential pick-up-and-check reference resource. Hints and tips to plan and structure your 'great answers'. Practice questions to apply your learning. Easy-to-read. Matched to the study guide - they can be used together or separately. Scholastic's GCSE Grades 9-1 Revision Cards with free revision app, perfect to support your revision for the closed book AQA GCSE English Literature exam. Perfect for last-minute revision. Clear information with at-a-glance chronology of the text A tight focus on key events, characters, themes, context, language and structure. With lots of quiz cards to help you demonstrate your knowledge and understanding you can't go wrong. Matched to the study guide with colour coded sections - they can be used together or separately. The accompanying free GCSE 9-1 Scholastic Revision app uses cutting-edge technology to help you revise on-the-go with a personalised digital revision planner, quick tests to check your understanding and revision cards which you can save to your phone to help you revise on the go.

Boats in the Attic is a sweeping, poignant exploration of what it means to be an individual and, in particular, what it means to be a parent of young children, in our current time of crisis. Errands must be run, the radio plays, and the child wants the birthday girl's balloon—all while sea levels are rising and wild wolves roam the acres of Chernobyl, "developing a cryptography to a century / to which we are not invited." In this dynamic collection, Powell intersperses lyric flight and prose fragments with metacommentary, nuance, and a beguiling sense of humor. At the same time, these pieces are securely tethered to the material difficulties of being a human in today's world, where a child must participate in a lockdown drill at his preschool and a dying woman turns to Reddit to fund her efforts to be cryogenetically preserved. Conversations between the speaker and her children trace the beauty and terror of existential indeterminacy: "We begin to consider other planets — / Will they have us?" In a long piece titled "Book of Revelation," the speaker dreams that "below the bed / is an encyclopedia of lost things," a phrase that captures the collection's wide range and its categorizing eye. Powell turns to astronomy, Alice in Wonderland, Millerism, and culinary cruelty, with a uniquely celebratory and elegiac voice, all in an effort to understand the depths, and effects, of the human appetite for pleasure, power, and escape.

Perfect for last-minute revision. Clear information with at-a-glancechronology of the text. A tight focus on key events, characters,themes, context, language and structure. Lots of quiz cards to help demonstrate knowledge and understanding. Can be used alongside our Study Guides with matching colour codedsections or used independently.

Perfect for last-minute revision. Clear information with at-a-glancechronology of the text. A tight focus on key events, characters,themes, context, language and structure. Lots of quiz cards to help demonstrate knowledge and understanding. Can be used alongside our Study Guides with matching colour codedsections or used independently.

Whether you want a super-speedy refresher, a quick and easy way to get into the text for the first time, or an exciting new way to revise, the 55 cards in this pocket-sized pack are brimming with everything you need to plan, practise and perfect your study of Shakespeare's classic tragedy. In no time at all, you can whizz through all the essential info you need to quickly and efficiently refresh your knowledge and catch up. Characters and quotations, plots and contexts, themes and language – it’s all here. Think more deeply sections invite you to answer questions such as: How does Shakespeare present the relationship between Capulet and his daughter? We’ve even included powerful quick-fire tips and practice cards to engage your brain and get your skills back up to scratch as quickly as possible. York Notes are the experts in English Literature, so if you’re looking for THE ultimate smart, fast and highly effective way to get ahead with William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, then these clever cards are all you need.

The only way to feel fully prepared for your English Literature exam is to practise, practise, practise. This York Notes Practice Tests with Answers book makes it easy and will give you the vital experience you need to properly test your skills, build your confidence and feel exam-ready.

On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegant lines that alternate between homage and elegy, these poems explore known subjects with a rebellious eye: a defeated Hercules and a bitter Eurydice, a sympathetic Lucifer, and generations of adolescent girls as mythical adventurers moving within a beloved but confining Midwest. Yet in Powell's skillful hands, hardship never overtakes: as judge Charles Hood writes, "There's often a delicious humor in this work, and always a deep and lasting integrity."