Blood BrothersBegin by reading the question and identifying the key focus for the response. This could either be plot related to about a setting, a character or a theme.Consider firstly, why this plot detail, setting, character or theme is so important within the play?

Characters in Blood BrothersMickey Edward Mrs

JohnstoneMrs Lyons Linda Sammy Narrator

Settings in Blood BrothersLiverpool The Johnstone’s

houseThe Lyon’s house Skelmersdale

Themes in Blood BrothersClass Fate and superstition

Nature vs nurture Parents and children

Growing up Friendship and brotherhood

Identify a minimum of three examples from across the whole play (ideally one from the beginning, one from the middle and one from the end) where this plot detail, setting, character or theme plays a significant part.Can you remember a quote to support each example? (Even if it is just a word!)How does your contextual understanding support the examples you have identified?

ContextWilly Russell and his background growing up

Liverpool and the docks

Recession and effect on employment

Family life: nuclear family the norm, divorce less common

Class system: working class and middle class

Margaret Thatcher: shutting down of the docks, stopping of the milk

New TownSkelmersdale – new start?

Youth culture: Z Cars, Western,

Marilyn Monroe

Remember the structure of your response – using the mentor level 4 response to the rightIntroduction What is significant about the plot detail, the setting, character or

theme?Example 1 Point, evidence/example, explanation, link to context and importance

of example to the rest of the play.Example 2 Point, evidence/example, explanation, link to context and importance

of example to the rest of the play.Example 3 Point, evidence/example, explanation, link to context and importance

of example to the rest of the play.Continue to use the structure above until you run out of examples!

Conclusion Reinforce the importance of theme across the play with examples used in response.