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							English




GCSE 2011-13
• GCSE English Language
40% Exam – January 2013
40% Coursework (4 pieces) – submitted May 2013
20% Speaking and Listening – submitted May 2013

• GCSE English Literature
35% Poetry Exam – 24th May 2012
40% Modern Texts Exam – May 2013
25% Coursework (1 piece) – submitted May 2013




Overview of the 2 years
• 35% of total GCSE English Literature
• Answer 2 questions, 1 from section A and 1 from section
  B
• In section A: answer 1 question from a choice of 2 in the
  Relationships part of the paper.
• In Section B: they will be given a previously unseen
  poem and then asked 2 questions about it.




Poetry exam - 24th May
People can sometimes be hurt or damaged in relationships. Compare how
the poets show a person being hurt or damaged in ‘The Farmer’s Bride’
(page 60) and one other poem from ‘Relationships’.
Remember to compare:
   the ways people have been hurt or damaged in the poems
   how the poets show this hurt or damage by the ways they write.

Or

Compare the ways the poets present relationships in ‘Brothers’ (page 55)
and one other
poem from ‘Relationships’.
Remember to compare:
  what the relationships in the poems are like
  the ways in which the poets write about these relationships.




Section A
Advice to a Teenage Daughter
You have found a new war-game
called Love.
Here on your dressing-table            Part (a)
stand arrayed
                                       What do you think the
brave ranks of lipsticks
brandishing                            speaker is advising the
swords of cherry pink and flame.       daughter about in this
Behold the miniature armies
of little jars,
                                       poem?
packed with the scented
dynamite of flowers.
See the dreaded tweezers;
                                       and then Part (b)
tiny pots                              How does the poet use
of manufactured moonlight,
                                       language to present the
stick-on-stars.
Beware my sweet;                       advice in the poem?
conquest may seem easy
but you can’t compete with football,
motor-cycles, cars,
cricket, computer games,
or a plate of chips.
                                                      Section B
ISOBEL THRILLING
Lessons:
• Analysing and comparing poems from Relationships anthology
• Themes, Structure, Language, Feelings and Attitudes, Personal Response
• Skills to analyse poetry

Home learning:
• Revision booklets going out this week
• Focus on links between poems, TSLFAP, practice responding using exam
  criteria

Revision sessions:
• Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-4.30pm
• Starts next week



How can students prepare for
the Poetry exam?
Language:
• Extended reading - ‘Of Mice and Men’ (15%)
• Spoken Language - Interview analysis (10%)
• Creative response - ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ (7.5%)

Literature:
• Shakespeare – ‘Romeo and Juliet’/poetry (25%)

Redo period 25th May – end of term.
• Students will individually be given feedback and a new task(s).
• Up to 4 weeks of re-teaching
• Writing period



Redo period
          Jan 2012: 61% A-C (up 2% on last year’s results)

Lessons:
• Analysing and comparing the language and structure of a range of texts
  – newspaper articles, autobiographies, travel journals, adverts etc
• Writing for a particular purpose – argue, persuade, inform, explain or
  describe.
• Big focus on key skills: spelling, punctuation, paragraphing, varied
  vocabulary, sentence structure

Home learning:
• Read a wide range of text types
• Practise analysing how language and structure are used
• Compare the ways language and structure are used in different texts
• Practise writing for a range of purposes: ‘Persuade your parents that you
  should be allowed to go out on Friday night.’ or ‘Inform your younger
  brother/sister what they can and can’t touch in your room and explain the
  reasons why.’


English Language exam – Jan 2013