Classic and contemporary character studies AQA AS Unit 1 The Beauty Queen of Leenane

The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Ortensio and Florindo for the male characters and Isabella

The activities in this article are structured in an accelerated learning format

There is a choice of two questions per topic

The idea is to use this scheme in Year 12 in order to develop students’ devising skills before they embark on the assessed work in Year 13

Classic and contemporary character studies AQA AS Unit 1 The Beauty Queen of LeenaneThe aim of this scheme of work is to focus closely on the creation of character and to encourage students to think carefully about how to create convincing characters. The work is mainly based on short extracts of text, used first of all for students to examine closely a character in order physically and mentally to recreate them. Secondly, students will work off text to devise their own pieces of work based around the characters to whom they have