AQA English GCSE Exams:
Language Paper 1 (1 hour and 45 minutes) - Reading unseen text and narrative writing
Language Paper 2 (1 hour and 45 minute) - Reading two unseen texts and writing for genre, audience and purpose
Literature Paper 1 (1 hour and 45 minutes) - Macbeth and Jane Eyre
Literature Paper 2 (2 hours and 15 minutes) - Inspector Calls (or) Blood Brothers, Conflict anthology and an unseen poem
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Core text to be studied:
AQA Power and Conflict anthology
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Macbeth by Shakespeare
An Inspector Calls by J.B Priestly (or) Blood Brothers by Will Russel
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Suggested Revision Texts:
Get them from Waterstones or WHSmith!
Language Paper revision AQA Workbook
York Notes Jane Eyre Revision Guide
York Notes Jane Eyre Workbook
York Notes Macbeth Revision Guide
York Note Macbeth Workbook
Collins Power and Conflict Anthology (revision and practice)
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Suggested Revision Websites:
GCSE Literature: Remember you need to know - plot themes, characters and key quotes for each text.
- Spark Notes:
http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/
- BBC Bitesize:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zckw2hv
- LitCharts (for free users):
http://www.litcharts.com/
Search key themes and character analysis for individual texts on YouTube. Mr Bruff has good videos and explain how to answer some exam questions.
GCSE Language: Remember you need to be able to read unseen 19th century texts, compare two unseen texts, write creative description/short story and also write die different genres, audiences and purposes
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Revision Activities to help you revise:
GCSE Literature:
- Create flash cards for themes, character and quotes within each core text
On one side can be themes, name or quote and on the other side how this theme is shown, what the character does and what the quotes mean. If you want to be fancy you could even have different colours representing different themes and put those colours on on each character/quote.
- Randomly turn to a page in your core texts to analyse
Try to identify themes shown on this page and explain how they are shown. Your answer could be written up in full paragraphs. remember you must include terminology (devices), the effect on the reader and text, as well as context and cross-references to other parts of the novel.
- Create posters on themes, character and quotes within each core text
Create posters with lost of detail on how themes are shown in the text, each character's role/personality and key quotes for these. Put these on you bedroom wall and you will be surprised how much information you will remember each time you see it.
- Work your way through Conflict anthology and analyse each poem
For each poem in the conflict anthology analyse it as if it was an unseen (without help from websites or book notes). Remember when analysing a poem a good place to start is SALSA: Subject of the poem (how shown), Attitude (how shown), Language devices (why used/effect), Structural devices (why used/effect) and any Alternate interpretations you can give. giving more than one interpretation of line will get you high marks!
GCSE Language:
- Analyse unseen texts - both modern and 19th century
Try to find two texts that have the same idea or theme (with similar or different views). For example a Dominoes brochure selling pizza could be compared to a leaflet on healthy eating.
Think: how are they the same, how they are different. you may want to draw up a table of similarities/differences or write up full analysis paragons on the devices they have used for effect to get across different/similar ideas.
- Analyse GAP and create your own!
Pick up leaflets, newspapers and brochures that are posted through your door and think about their GAP and how it's shown. Analyse the language devices used, why they have been chosen and their effect on the audience/text. then try create your own unique version using the same GAP as the one you have just studied.
- Story time
Ask a friend, parent or cater to find you a random picture. You must then create a page of detail description based on this picture.
You could also write random words, phrases and character in pieces of paper. muddle them up and then randomly choose two. These two then have to be included in a description or short story.
Remember for both of these above tasks you need to proof read your own work and check:
✔️Spellings, punctuation and grammar.
✔️Paragraphs are used with connectives.
✔️A range of interesting vocabulary used, with range of sentence starters.
✔️A range of different sentence types are used for effect, with range of punctuation. ,!:;()-
✔️Language devices are used effectively (CAMPERS and AFOREST)
✔️DETAIL, DETAIL, DETAIL! Use senses to go into detail and expand on your ideas fully.
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GCSE English Revision GUIDE 2017 (1/2)
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