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GCSE Breakdown
English Language / English GCSE
• 40% Controlled Assessment - completed
• 60% Exam - Unit 1 (2 hrs 15 mins) 2nd June am
English Literature
• 25% Controlled Assessment - completed
• 75% Exam
• Paper 1: Exploring Modern Texts (Of Mice and Men and An Inspector Calls) (1hr 30mins) 18th May
• Paper 2: Poetry Across Time (1 hr 15mins) 22nd May
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Preparation
• We are ensuring high quality teaching and learning in and beyond the classroom with intensive focus on exam skills.
• We are using diagnostic assessment tools, specific individual feedback to students, intervention strategies and sustained focus on progression and improvement.
• We are creating opportunities for students’ to develop their exam technique (timing, writing stamina, knowledge of assessment criteria, familiarity with questions and exam structure) and improve confidence such as December mock exams, ‘Walking – talking Mocks’, March Mock exams.
• Revision booklet, strategies and resources are provided to support students with independent revision.
Q1 What do you learn about...?
Comprehension & Summary 8 marks 12 minutes
A range of points Supported by quotes as evidence Makes links between connected ideas No analysis
Q2 Explain how the headline and picture are effective and how they link to the text
Presentational devices & evaluation 8 marks 12 minutes
Points about how image & headline reflect content of text Understanding of how headline and image work Makes connections between different aspects of text Analysis & evaluation using evidence
Q3 Explain the writer’s thoughts and feelings
Inference 8 marks 12 minutes
Selection of points from across extract Reading between the lines Understanding of subtext Evidence and explanation
Unit 1 Paper Foundation Tier
Q1a & b Q2 Q3 Q4
Q5 Q6
Compares presentational devices and layout
Tests reading between the lines
Language analysis
Q4 Compare the ways in which language is used for effect in the two texts
Analysis of language for GAP 16 marks 24minutes
Choices for comparison Focus on language techniques used by writers to have effect on the reader Understanding of different types of language in different types of text
How to revise
Read journalism and literary non-fiction
Understand effect of language on readers
Practise annotation
Practise timed answers
Practise making links
Practise planning answers
Learn language features
Q5 Inform Explain Describe
Usually a type of writing you might find in real life
Concise & stylish
Structured, with sentences used for effect.
Spelling, punctuation
Word choices & devices
16 marks 24 minutes
Q6 Argue or Persuade
• More developed writing
• Uses conventions of argument or persuasion
• Clearly organised writing
• Range of sentence structures
• Clear sense of audience & purpose
• Formal style
• Spelling & punctuation
24 marks 35 minutes
Unit 1: Prose and Drama Exam
Section A Choice of 2 essay questions based on ‘An Inspector Calls’ E.g. Question 18 How important do you think social class is in An Inspector Calls and how does Priestley present ideas about social class? (30 marks) SPaG: (4 marks)
45 mins
Section B - 2 part question on the novel
Read the following passage and then answer Part (a) and Part (b)
Part (a) In this passage, how does Steinbeck
present Crooks? Refer closely to the passage in your answer.
and then Part (b) In the rest of the novel how does
Steinbeck use Crooks to present attitudes to black people at the time the novel is set? (30 marks)
SPaG: (4 marks)
45 mins
CONTEXT
Unit 2
Unseen poem
Relationships Cluster • 15 poems • Choice of 2 questions • Named poem compared to another from the
same cluster