Provides English Literature Study Guides To High School Students And Teachers.

• Are you studying or teaching Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet or King Lear?
  Is Jane Austen's Persuasion or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales on your exam texts list?
• Is Poetry and Prose Commentary an important part of your literature studies course?

These downloadable books are designed to help you...

Five of the study guides have been fully and independently reviewed by the US College Board. If you would like to read the reviews, click here to reach the AP Central website. Go to the green button AP COURSES AND EXAMS, then to Teachers' Resources, and put Wordsmith in the Search box.

The Wordsmith Prompts

We have selected a variety of literature texts commonly studied in Grades 10 upwards, and produced for them a series of study tasks based in the main on actual classroom work as well as on past IB and AP assessments.


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
    Charlotte Brontë
    Emily Brontë
    Truman Capote
    Peter Carey
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Kate Chopin
    J. M. Coetzee
    Joseph Conrad
    Daniel Defoe
    Charles Dickens
    George Eliot
    Laura Esquivel
    William Faulkner
    F. Scott Fitzgerald 
    E. M. Forster
    Robert Frost
    Athol Fugard
    William Golding
    Nadine Gordimer
    Graham Greene
    Sara Gruen
    David Guterson
    Lorraine Hansberry
    Thomas Hardy
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Ernest Hemingway

   
    Khaled Hosseini
    Henrik Ibsen
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    Henry James
    Ruth Prawar Jhabvala
    James Joyce
    Franz Kafka
    John Knowles
    Harper Lee
    Doris Lessing
    David Malouf
    Dalene Matthee
    Cormac McCarthy
    Frank McCourt
    Arthur Miller
    Toni Morrison
    Naguib Mahfouz
    Tim O'Brien
    Michael Ondaatje
    George Orwell
    Wilfred Owen
    Sylvia Plath
    Jean Rhys
    William Shakespeare
    Mary Shelley
    John Steinbeck
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    Paul Theroux
    Mark Twain
    Richard Wright
    Markus Zusak


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