Excellence for all

in an ever changing world

Bedale High School English Department

GCSE English Language & GCSE English

Literature Course Guides- all information from this PowerPoint is in these guides

Excellence for all

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• An accessible and enabling qualification for all abilities of learner.

• An assessment journey that supports students through each paper to make it

a positive and engaging experience for all.

• Two clear and distinct identities: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing,

and Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives.

• NFER: “The AQA specification for English Language is innovative, combining

reading and writing in each of the two papers. This is effective as the reading

texts serve a double purpose: as the basis for comprehension questions and

as supporting text for the writing tasks”.

AQA GCSE English Language (8700)First assessment in 2017

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Excellence for all

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Paper 1

Q1

Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5: Writing

Paper

2

AO1

List 4 things…

Identify explicit information Identify explicit ideas

4 marks

AO1 AO1

True/false statements… Write a summary… Explicit and implicit ideas synthesis of explicit and information and implicit ideas

and information

4 marks 8 marks

AO2 AO2

How does the writer’s How does the use of language… structure… Comment, explain, Comment, explain, analyse analyse

8 marks 8 marks

AO2 How does the writer’s use of language…

Comment, explain, analyse

12 marks

AO4

To what extent do you agree?

Evaluate texts critically

20 marks

AO3

How the writers present… Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, and how they are conveyed

16 marks

AO5/AO6

Descriptive or

narrative writing

Communicate clearly Organise information Use a range of vocab and sentence structure Accurate spelling and punctuation

AO5/AO6

Students write

about their own

views

Communicate clearly Organise information Use a range of vocab and sentence structure Accurate spelling and punctuation

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English Language Revision Guide

Excellence for all

in an ever changing world

• Literature enriches lives and develops key aspects of literacy as well as

providing insights into the self and the human condition.

• We feel that the study and assessment of Literature is of value for all

abilities of students.

• Making use of a range of assessment strategies so that ‘closed book’ and

un-tiered aspects of the new regulations are not barriers to learning. AQA

use extracts within the exam papers to support close analysis.

• Two part questions are holistically marked to reward students for the

quality of their response.

AQA GCSE English Literature (8702)First assessment in 2017

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English Literature Specification

Excellence for all

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English Literature Specification

Shakespeare

GCSE English Literature set text from 2015

19th century novel

GCSE English Literature set text from 2015

Modern drama

GCSE English Literature set text from 2015

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Conflict and power

Shelley Ozymandias

Blake London

Wordsworth The Prelude: stealing the boat

Robert Browning My Last Duchess

Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade

Wilfred Owen Exposure

Seamus Heaney Storm on the Island

Ted Hughes Bayonet Charge

Simon Armitage Remains

Jane Weir Poppies

Carol Ann Duffy War Photographer

Imtiaz Dharker Tissue

Carol Rumens The Émigrée

Beatrice Garland Kamikaze

John Agard Checking Out Me History

Excellence for all

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English Literature Revision Guides£3 from school

Excellence for all

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Bedale High School English Department

Contact details:

Head of Department: Mr Patrick Barber barberp@bedalehighschool.org.uk01677 422419 (ext. 224)

Assistant Head of Department: Mr David Wilsonwilsond@bedalehighschool.org.uk01677 422419