English Literature

This blog is focused around A level English Literature at both AS and A2. Not all posts are my own opinion as perspective is important to consider. [sagittariusroyal is my personal blog&the one that follows you all back]

[sagittariusroyal]

Hey guys, I’ve finally made a proper blog. Please check it out and if you have any suggestions let me know.

[studyingliterature]

New blog

Currently starting a new blog. No, it's not yet another Tumblr. It's a lifestyle blog, something new to focus on. www.alltimejord.wordpress.com Unfortunately I am too poor for my own domain at the moment, but that could be in the future. Please follow and let me know if there's anything you guys would like to see on there.

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me when i gotta pretend im enjoying myself at family parties:

[archaeologicals-deactivated2016]

fun facts!

leonardo da vinci was a year younger than christopher columbus.

stalin, freud, Ttto, trotsky and hitler walk into a bar……no really, it’s possible since they all lived in vienna in 1913.

aristotle tutored alexander the great.

abraham lincoln was twelve when napoleon bonaparte died.

an unusually well-traveled person in 5th century BC could have conceivably met confucius, lao tze, the buddha and socrates over the course of a seventy year life.

pharaohs and mammoths existed at the same time.

pocahontas and william shakespeare died, in the same country, less than a year apart from each other. 

oxford university is older than the aztec empire.

[winchester-with-a-wormstache]

In love with this video

[katiecotugno]

I actually cried from happiness watching this. HUMANS! MOVIES! THE INTERNET! DANCING!

[fishyandclintbarton]

Bless you whoever made this, its wonderful!

[stephrc79]

It is physically impossible to have this on my dash and not watch and reblog. I defy you to try.

[agirlcalledsmish]

This is amazing!

[beautifulhigh]

I had this bookmarked then I lost it and I was sad.  Now it’s on my dash I have it back and I’m not sad anymore!

[my-little-studyblr]

19.02.16 1:50 pm // essay research is always the most exhausting part about essay writing.. 📓⭐️🌚

[studyingliterature]

An update

As many of you noticed and have asked me about, I have taken a sizeable break from this blog. I had started on a downward spiral with my work and was not passing English Lit with anything higher than a D grade. I didn't feel it would be fair to post work that wasn't up to scratch as the idea of this blog is to help people doing A Levels, not show my own capabilities. During the two year course, despite my coursework reaching As and Bs, my actual class work and practice exams were not producing good results. Due to this, I took a large break. During this break I made sure my sole focus was on my A Levels and sure enough, I passed with a B and was only a few marks off an A. I will be continuing to post my old A Level work in the hopes that it will provide the support I was lacking during my own exam period. I hope to help all of you through these difficult periods and wish you every success. Overall my A Levels were an A*, A, and B. I'm sure many of you will reach and exceed this and I have every faith that you can do this across all subjects. I do apologise for the lack of notice about the break and I understand that for many of you, the advice you wanted became unavailable very quickly. I assure you all that I am now permanently back and hope that you will still come to me seeking advice when you need it. If you study other subjects, please note I also studies Business Level 3 and received an A* alongside Financial Studies with an A grade and a C grade in AS art. I am always willing to help in these subjects as my knowledge is much greater in these, so despite being an English studyblr, I can provide information and help with other subjects and school life in general.

[studyign]

useful things for those going back 2 school:

how to be a morning person

group studying advice

maybe try summary foldables

how to start a planner

advice for freshmen

how to cram for a test

25 awesome study tips

time management advice

how to get organized

common study mistakes

how to get motivated

fastest way to take notes

how to start a bullet journal

stop procrastinating

planner inspo [september]

how to make mind maps

memorization advice

reorganize ur study space

act study advice + tips

hope this helps someone ! have a great school year ! xoxo sareena

[studylou]

hi everyone! since the holidays are over for most of us, i thought i’d make an inspirational and motivational masterpost all about notes! upgrading your notes by changing the layout, adding doodles, banners, using sticky notes, changing your handwriting etc. motivates me personally to study! 

out with the sloppy last minute notes and in with the new!

handwriting

how to write in cursive

some fonts to try out

how to improve your handwriting

note taking systems

study methods summed up

stationery to make it all happen

sticker printables to jazz it up

notes

how to take lecture notes

how to annotate books

taking notes from a textbook - studyign

note taking system - theorganisedstudent

note taking system - emmastudies

another note taking system - academicmind

another note taking system - wonderfullifee

the 2 notebook method

note taking with highlighters and post its

pretty timelines

note taking printables

plot summary with sticky notes

20 uses of sticky notes

colour code your notes

method with columns 

the cornell note taking system

the cornell note taking system using onenote

in class notes

another in class note taking format

what are sketchnotes?

online whiteboard

flashcards

how to make flashcards

another how to make flashcards

an example

another example (with sticky notes)

and another example (biology)

8 ways to improve your flashcards

make  and test flashcards online

alternative to flashcards - studyign

print onto flashcards

mindmaps

how to mindmap (1)

how to mindmap (2)

some examples

apps

notability

banners

simple banner

more banners

it’s a banner party over here

banners (shown how to draw in gifs)

illustrate your notes

how to illustrate your notes - reviseordie

sketchnote tips (banners, lettering, doodles)

more sketchnote tips

even more sketchnote tips

how to make your notes pretty - theorganisedstudent

how to make your notes pretty - studyspoinspo

how to make your notes pretty - booksflowersandtea

what is visual note taking?

a visual alphabet

note taking printables

dot grid 

note outline printables

lined cornell method printable

grid cornell method printable

hope you all had a good rest and are ready for a new year of studying!

xoxo lou

[rosemaryremembrance]

Favourite literature | Romantic poets

English Romantic poets and their Wikipedia entries

[studyquill]

Word Counter - Not only does it count the number of words you’ve written, it tells you which words are used most often and how many times they appear.

Tip Of My Tongue - Have you ever had a word on the tip of your tongue, but you just can’t figure out what it is? This site searches words by letters, length, definition, and more to alleviate that.

Readability Score - This calculates a multitude of text statistics, including character, syllable, word, and sentence count, characters and syllables per word, words per sentence, and average grade level.

Writer’s Block (Desktop Application) - This free application for your computer will block out everything on your computer until you meet a certain word count or spend a certain amount of time writing.

Cliche Finder - It does what the name says.

Write Rhymes - It’ll find rhymes for words as you write.

Verbix - This site conjugates verbs, because English is a weird language.

Graviax - This grammar checker is much more comprehensive than Microsoft Word, again, because English is a weird language.

Sorry for how short this is! I wanted to only include things I genuinely find useful. p>

[positivedoodles]

[drawing of a brown and orange cat wearing a green scarf saying “You’re awesome no matter what your grades are.” in a green speech bubble.]

[studyingliterature]

Hi there!! How do u study for eng lit when you were in gcse level?? I really need some advice seeing my exams are less than 2 weeks away

What exam board are you studying and what texts? I didn't do literature/language as separate. My gcses were one english exam :)

[tai-korczak]

23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain

Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.

Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening

Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.

Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.

Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.

Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.

Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.

Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.

Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

[positivedoodles]

[drawing of a blue elephant saying “It’s okay to change your goals and dreams. You don’t have to want the same things forever.” in a blue speech bubble.]

[studysthetical]

Here are some general tips I’ve summarized from my experience this year in dealing with a bunch of demanding classes!

Plan. Everything. 

This tip is especially for my fellow procrastinators as I’ve never been able to focus completely on a huge task. Do yourself a favor and divide a daunting project into smaller portions and predict how long it will take you to complete the task (it doesn’t matter if its inaccurate). Now since you know how long each sub-task will take, you can use With this method, you’ll find yourself utilizing time much more efficiently as you’ll finish a huge task bit by bit each day. 

(Personal Favorites Marked with 🌟 )

Time Management Methods, Websites, and Apps:

🌟 Schooltraq (future post coming up about this website/app!)

Bullet Journaling (masterpost by @studyign​)

🌟 Momentum (a chrome extension)

Habitica (Previously HabitRPG)

MyStudyLife (there’s an app for both android and ios!!!)

myHomework  (there’s an app for both android and ios!!!)

Notetaking and Studying

To be rather blunt, the majority of studyblr is focused around pretty notes that have been revised many times and most pictures of notes with a lot of notes on here have a lot of notes primarily because they are aesthetically pleasing. I’m all for pretty notes but remember that the universal goal of studyblrs is to succeed and if you have a lot of work to do, you don’t have time to color-code and rewrite everything to look neat. Even if you don’t take too long to make your notes look nice remember that every second counts!

Methods:

Taking Notes in Class/Lecture Notes by @studyquirk​

Efficient Notes in Class by @hexaneandheels​

Making Revision Notes by @raistudy​

How to Make Study Guides by @studybudyblr​

How to Revise by @youaretheairinmyalveoli​

Stress Relief

Remember it isn’t always about studying! Taking a break will help you do better as well so don’t be afraid to do something fun in fear of not getting your work done! 

Calming Music and Websites:

Rain Sounds

Nature Sounds Mixer 

🌟 Coffee Shop Sounds (Coffitivity)

🌟 The Quiet Place

I hope this was helpful!!! also pls ignore my overuse of exclamation marks 

[studyingliterature]

16.03.16 | 21:29pm I went to visit Brighton University today. It was an interesting experience and the course seems really good. I also looked around the area and explored the main town. I went through the lanes and ventured into small cute shops. I met some awesome people in stores as well as at the university itself. I just think it's such an amazing area and even though it's only an insurance choice, I do think its great and wouldn't mind going there. I only took these two photos today which is disappointing but I thought I'd just record todays events.