English Revision Evening

8/2/2019 English Revision Evening

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Understanding and

producing non-fiction texts


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What does it mean? Its a 2 hour exam at the end of Yr

You will be given some texts to read and answer

questions on. There are 40 marks.

You will be asked to write 2 non-fiction pieces.

One will be to inform or advise

The other will be an experience you may have had(though you can make it up)

Another 40 marks


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GCSE English Literature


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Unit 1: Exploring modern texts

External examination 40% of the total GCSE marks

1 hour 30 mins

60 marks

Section A: Modern prose or drama

20% of the total GCSE marks

45 mins (30 marks)

Candidates answer one question from a choice of twoon each set text).


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Unit 1: Exploring modern texts

Section B: Exploring cultures 20% of the total GCSE marks

45 mins (30 marks)

Candidates answer one question on the set text theyhave studied. The question will be in two parts (30marks).

Part a will ask candidates to respond to a passagefrom the text. Part b will ask candidates to link this passage to thewhole text.


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Unit 2: Poetry across time

External examination

35% of the total GCSE marks 1 hour 15 mins

54 marks

Section A: Poetry cluster from the Anthology


45 mins (36 marks)

Candidates answer one question, from a choice of two, onthe poetry cluster they have studied. The question will askcandidates to compare a named poem with another poem,chosen by the candidate, from the cluster.


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Unit 2: Poetry across time

Section B: Responding to an unseen poem


30 mins (18 marks)

Candidates are given one compulsory unseen poem.


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Unit 3: The significance of Shakespeare and theEnglish Literary Heritage

Controlled Assessment


3 4 hours 40 marks


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Unit 3: The significance of Shakespeare and theEnglish Literary Heritage

Candidates complete one Controlled Assessment taskwhich asks them to make links between a play fromShakespeare and any other text, of any genre, from theEnglish (or Welsh or Irish) Literary Heritage (40

marks).


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To be able to respond to a poem using evidence tosupport your opinion


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In pairs, list what you believe examiners are looking forin an C+ answer to an unseen poem.


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What do you think the poet is saying about the ways thatsome students approach poetry, how it should beapproached? How does he present his ideas?

(18 marks)


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Introduction to Poetry

Billy CollinsI ask them to take a poem

and hold it up to the lightlike a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out,or walk inside the poem's room

and feel the walls for a light switch.I want them to waterski

across the surface of a poem

waving at the author's name on the shore.But all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.


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What message are the examiners trying to pass ontotheir students? What have you learned aboutachieving the higher marks?


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"Using technical detail as a framework and foundationfor writing, rather than an aid to understandingmeaning, limits candidate performance. Statements

pointing out the use of enjambment for example, orthe fact that a poem is written in free verse or with arhyme scheme, tended to lead to some rathergeneralised comments which offered very little interms of developing understanding of ideas andthemes. Language and technique is most successfullyanalysed when linked explicitly to themes and ideasrather than in isolation."

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