The A View from the Bridge Philip Allan Literature Guide Teacher Resource Pack provides teachers with all the support they need to teach A View from the Bridge in the context of the new GCSE English Literature specifications. This classroom-based resource is for use throughout the GCSE course to help consolidate students' knowledge, learning and appreciation of the text and will leave students better prepared for their exams.
Covering all aspects of the novel, a whole range of higher- and lower-tier interactive activities, plus extension tasks for homework, can be used before, during and after students have read the text. Once students are familiar with the text, further exam revision activities, tailored to each exam specification, will ensure your students can reach the highest grades. A separate section of activities and advice for students who are studying the novel for the controlled assessment is also included.
This fully photocopiable pack will:

- save hours of preparation time - provide an invaluable source of thoroughly researched material - create opportunities for a more student-centred learning approach - provide a solution to specialist staff absenceThe pack comes with free access to a website where teachers can share teaching ideas and download extra materials, plus a free CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains Word documents
of the whole pack that allow teachers to adapt the content to their
students' needs, as well as PDFs to enable printing out as an
alternative to photocopying.
Other pack titles available in the series are:
- Lord of the Flies - To Kill a Mockingbird - Of Mice and Men - An Inspector Calls - Pride and Prejudice - Romeo and Juliet - Anita and Me - The Woman in Black - AQA Anthology: Moon on the Tides (Conflict and Relationships)Each of the packs in the series has been produced in conjunction with a Philip Allan Literature Guide (for GCSE), written for students as a course companion and revision tool. The ISBN for the Philip Allan Literature Guide (for GCSE): A View from the Bridge is 978-1-4441-1024-1.

This book is part of a book series called Philip Allan Literature Guide .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 200 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Hodder Education .

Shaun McCarthy is a professional playwright for stage and radio. His recent plays have been produced by Bristol Old Vic, Ustinov Studio Bath Theatre Royal and the Katie Read Company, and by BBC Radio 4. He teaches writing for performance at Oxford and Bristol universities. He has written many education titles, including study guides to Shakespeare and modern dramatists, creative writing programmes and literary biographies.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction Teacher feedback form Background 1 The Italian immigrant experience in New York 2 Imagining A View from the Bridge performed 3 Further background research tasks Scene-by-scene activities Whole-play activities 1 Character: Eddie 2 Character: Beatrice 3 Character: Catherine 4 Character: Rodolpho 5 Character: Alfieri 6 Character: key relationships 7 Theme: justice and the law 8 Theme: honour 9 Theme: love 10 Style: New York voices 11 Style: Eddie's voice 12 Style: Alfieri 13 Style: Eddie and Rodolpho 14 Structure Exam practice 1 Assessment objective 1 2 Assessment objective 2 3 Assessment objective 4 4 Breaking down and interpreting the question 5 Planning 6 Structuring your essay 7 Using quotations and referring to the text 8 Writing in an appropriate style 9 What you will not get marks for 10 Assessing a sample essay Homework Teacher notes and answers Mapping grid