https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l93jrxoGsI

LITERATURE

Assessment Objective What this means

AO1: Maintain a critical style, develop a personal response; use textual references and quotations to support interpretations.

• Show knowledge of your texts.• Quotes and really close references.• Ability to stay focused on the question.

AO2: Analyse the language, form and structure used by the writer to create meanings and effects; use relevant subject terminology.

• Understanding and analysis of the writer’s methods.

• Understanding of the effects he/she achieves.

• Correct terms.

AO3: Show understanding of relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.

• Ability to make links across atext/between texts.

• Understanding of context.

AO4: Quality of your written communication.

• Spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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What do you need to re-read for English Literature?

Macbeth

A Christmas Carol

Animal Farm

All 15 poems from the Power and Conflict Anthology

What can you do to help you understand as you read?

Have your revision guide open at the same time…read a section of

the revision guide before you read each part of the text.

Watch short animated versions of the text to give you an overview

before you start.

Have a dictionary nearby to check words.

Read in short bursts – 20 minutes for example. Write bullet point

notes in the margin at the end of the reading time. These should

check you have taken in what you have read. Also, you can re-read

the bullet notes to remind you where you got to before you start

reading again next time.

What can you do to help you build ideas as you read?

Create ‘role on the wall’ posters for key characters. Add

notes after each time you read.

Add thoughts, feelings and

motives inside

On the outside of the figure, add

information about their appearance,

behaviour, events that happen to them and

so on…

What can you do to help you build ideas as you read? Create a chart to keep notes of how characters or events

link to themes or context

Other methods… Read as much about the historical/social context of the books

as possible.

Create a book mark that you keep in the text. As you read, write

down specific examples of how social context can be linked in.

Make cue cards clusters – put 5-7 cue cards on a treasury tag.

This will be a set of quotations for ONE character. On each

card, you should have a key quotation, plus bullet points on how

it:

Shows the writer’s message

Reveals ideas using a literary technique

Links to historical context

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetrycharactervoice/ozymandiasrev1.shtml

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/shelley/section2.rhtml

Annotate your poem with details on:• The meaning of the poem• The message and themes• The poet• The tone of the poem• The historical context it was written in• The language and poetic devices used – and their effects• The form and structural features – and their effects• How this poem can be compared and contrasted to other poems in Cluster 2 Power and

Conflict

London by William Blake

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetryblake_lon/

http://www.shmoop.com/london-blake/

Annotate your poem with details on:• The meaning of the poem• The message and themes• The poet• The tone of the poem• The historical context it was written in• The language and poetic devices used – and their effects• The form and structural features – and their effects• How this poem can be compared and contrasted to other poems in Cluster 2 Power and

Conflict

Compare how ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ explore the dangers of excessive pride.

Compare how ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘The Prelude’ illustrate the pride of man.

Compare how ‘War Photographer’ and ‘Checking Out Me History’ present the anger of individuals.

Compare how ‘Exposure’ and ‘Bayonet Charge’ present the front line experience of conflict.

Compare how ‘Poppies’ and ‘War Photographer’ present non-combatants’ experiences of conflict.

Compare how ‘The Emigree’ and ‘Poppies’ present the theme of loss.

Compare how ‘Storm on the Island’ and ‘The Prelude’ present fear.

Compare how ‘Tissue’ and ‘Poppies’ explore family identity.

Compare the power of memories in ‘The Prelude’ and ‘Kamikaze.’

Compare how abuse of power is presented in ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Checking Out Me History.’

Plan these essays.In the exam you will have to choose your

own poem!!!

Theme – equality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R103Ly6fiow

Theme – use of the enemy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAs2a6eY5o8

Theme – power and corruption

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmeCRDWiPtQ

Context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R103Ly6fiow

Animal Farm Revision -videos

Animals and Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBqHuWhPhsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HBYBzDRn1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXOFwQlkAUk

Key quotations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf99C-NSsSE

Characters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBUycePPPtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C8zsg2dTMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tve0bv34Vc

Symbolism in the text

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbE2wugE1GM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knh47mdPhew

Motifshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqw7jM2fkro

Writer’s methods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lYdWGJBsO0

Make notes and LEARN them!

Animal Farm Revision-devices

1. Significant NamesWrite a list of the characters. What do their names reveal about their role in the allegory?

2. Character CardsFor each character, create revision cards that cover:- Events they are involved in- Key quotations- Methods Orwell uses to

present them- Themes they help to develop- Ways they link to Russia and

the allegoryRead them daily, and ask others to test you.

3. Subject terminologySkim your English notes for terminology on Animal Farm, or look at the list at the back of a revision guide. Create flash cards and get yourself tested.

4. Pick a PageEach day, pick a page at random and read it. Then decide how it contributes to:

- The development of a character

- The development of a theme

5. TimelineCreate a plot timeline/diagram to show the structure of the novella

6. Quotation cardsWith a friend, make sets of key quotation cards (each of you should make a different set). You should then mix them up and test each other on how many layers of meaning and analysis you can pick out of them.

Animal Farm –essays to plan

1. “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Explore this idea in relation to Animal Farm.

2. How does ignorance add or lead to the social and political oppression in George Orwell's Animal Farm?

3. What is the significance of __________ (insert name of character here) in Animal Farm?

4. Who is the hero of Animal Farm?

5. How is the theme of hope explored in Animal Farm?

6. How is the theme of trust explored in Animal Farm?

7. What is the significance of The Battle of the Cowshed in Animal Farm?

8. How does Orwell explore hypocrisy in Animal Farm?

Where can I go for more help?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zr9d7ty

http://www.shmoop.com/literature/

https://getrevising.co.uk/

Pixl Lit App

Revision Guides

Lunchtime sessions in English

PETAL

IQTA

Evidence/quote (to support your P/I)

Point/inference (what have you figured out that could answer the question?)

Technique/terminology (what has the writer done deliberately?)

Analysis (connotations, effect on the reader; writer’s message; link to P/I)

Link (to context, to other parts of the text, or to other texts).

Assessment Objective What this means

AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and

implicit information and ideas.

• Understand ideas in a text.

• Ability to read between the lines to

figure out less obvious meanings.

• Inference.

AO2: Explain, comment on and analyse

how writers use language and structure to

achieve effects and influence readers,

using relevant subject terminology to

support their views

• Understanding and analysis of the

writer’s methods.

• Understanding of the effects he/she

achieves.

• Correct terms.

AO3: Compare writers’ ideas and

perspectives, as well as how these are

conveyed, across two or more texts

• Ability to make links across texts

(ideas and writers’ methods).

AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support

this with appropriate textual references

• Give your opinion.

• Use quotes to support ideas.

• Understand that writers’ methods can

be compared too.

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Section A –Reading Q1

Section A –Reading Q2

Section A –Reading Q3

Section A –Reading Q4

Section B -Writing

List 4 things… How does the writer use language to…?

How has the writer structured the text to…?

“Quote giving an opinion about the text”. To what extent do you agree…?

Write a piece of description or a story.

5 minutes4 marksAO1

15 minutes8 marksAO2

15 minutes8 marksAO2

25 minutes20 marksAO4

45 minutes24 + 16 = 40AO5 and AO6

Paraphrase or directly quote.

Put them in a list.

Only include 4.

Annotate left

Words, phrases, sentences and language features.

IQTA (x 3/4)

Annotate centre

Paragraphs and whole texts (cyclical or chronological; repetition; patterns or contrasts; focus at beginning, middle and end)

IQTA (x 3/4)

Annotate right

Inference with language and structure.

Every point needs to start with agree/disagree.

IQTA (x 4/5)

• FWAP• Detailed ideas• Paragraph

lengths and links

• Vocabulary• Accurate and

varied punctuation and sentences.

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Section A –Reading Q1

Section A –Reading Q2

Section A –Reading Q3

Section A –Reading Q4

Section B -Writing

Choose four statements below that are true.

Write a summary of the differences (both texts).

How does the writer use language to…?

Compare how the two writers convey their attitudes, views or perspectives?

Write a text expressing a viewpoint.

5 minutes4 marksAO1

15 minutes8 marksAO1

15 minutes12 marksAO2

25 minutes16 marksAO3

45 minutes24 + 16 = 40AO5 and AO6

Shade only 4 boxes.

Annotate left

Match up contrasting quotes and inferences from the two texts –use numbers.

IQ + connective + IQ (x 3/4)

Annotate centre

Words, phrases, sentences and language features.

IQTA (x 3/4)

Annotate right

Inference with language and structure.

IQTA +connective + IQTA (x 3/4)

• FWAP• Detailed ideas• Paragraph

lengths and links

• Vocabulary• Accurate and

varied punctuation and sentences.

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Easter Revision Session:

Tuesday 11th April: 10am – 2pm

Letters to be sent out this week – reply slips needed asap