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Tudor Grange Academy
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GCSE EnglishMaximising Achievement
INFORMATION FOR PARENTS
Miss Burgess
Lead Teacher for KS4 English
Tudor Grange Academy
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Class of 2017
AIMS
• To clarify the current situation in English for Year 11
• To explain the school approach to the next few weeks
• To receive information and resources about how best to
support your child
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ENGLISH GCSE: WHERE ARE WE NOW?
Paper One
•1 hour and 45 minutes
•Section A - 40 marks for reading
(25%), 4 Qs
•Section B - 40 marks for writing
(25%), 1 Q
Paper Two
•1 hour and 45 minutes
•Section A - 40 marks for reading
(25%), 4 Qs
•Section B - 40 marks for writing
(25%), 1 Q
Paper Two
•2 hours and 15 minutes
•60% of total marks
•3 sections
Paper One
•1 hour 45 minutes
•40% of total marks
•2 sections
•Same approach for both sections –
extract to analyse and reference to
whole text
LITERATURE GCSE
LANGUAGE GCSE
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Revision
Current Situation
Students sat their final trial examination on Tuesday 7th February and feedback
is being provided in this first week back after half-term.
Therefore, students have now covered all content for every section of all four
examinations across English Language and English Literature.
Our Approach to Revision
Phase One:
Interleaved approach with students covering a question from every paper
across the fortnightly block of lessons.
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Yellow refers to Language
content
Blue refers to Literature
content
Phase One
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Revision
Current Situation
Students sat their final trial examination on Tuesday 7th February and feedback
is being provided in this first week back after half-term.
Therefore, students have now covered all content for every section of all four
examinations across English Language and English Literature.
Our Approach to Revision
Phase One:
Interleaved approach with students covering a question from every paper
across the fortnightly block of lessons.
Phase Two:
Series of revision sessions run by department through after-school
programme
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Staff will be in
their usual
classrooms and
details of
roomings can be
found on the
display board in
the English
corridor.
A second cycle
has been added
as we foresee
some students
will have clashes
with other
subjects during
cycle one.
Phase Two
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Revision
Current Situation
Students sat their final trial examination on Tuesday 7th February and feedback
is being provided in this first week back after half-term.
Therefore, students have now covered all content for every section of all four
examinations across English Language and English Literature.
Our Approach to Revision
Phase One:
Interleaved approach with students covering a question from every paper
across the fortnightly block of lessons.
Phase Two:
Series of revision sessions run by department through after-school
programme
Phase Three:
Revision programme during study leave
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Revision Materials
Text- or Section-based booklets which will form revision guides.
Knowledge Organisers providing essential detail summaries:Timings and weightingsKey quotationsResponse structuresSpellings and vocabularyPlot overviewsCharacter summariesEtc.
Notes in exercise books constructed as revision guides.
Copies of the Literature texts with revision questions and activities printed.
Student-populated revision booklets with an active approach.
TGI-SPACE
BBCBitesize.com
Literacy Workbooks
Mini Mocks
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1: READ
Re-Read Literature Set Texts
To best prepare for any Literature question, students should have a solid
understanding of the set texts. The only way to achieve this is by re-reading the text
from cover to cover.
Students have already read the texts in full in lessons but they must revisit them in
depth.
Encouraging your children to read a Chapter or Act a night from the novel and plays
and a poetry pair a week would be a great starting point.
Only 72
pages long!
Only 10 chapters
long and Ch4 is
one page!
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2: ANNOTATIONS
Annotate key extracts for devices and effects:
For both Literature and Language Section
As, students will need to comment on the
effect of language and how the writer
shapes meaning through the words,
phrases and devices used.
They have been doing this consistently
throughout the course, as shown by these
slides.
Students should continue to
annotate extracts and
sources provided by their
teachers, focussing on the
author’s craft.
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3: TGi-SPACE
Choose a section from any examination – Literature or Language – and watch the accompanying videos or read the accompanying material on TGi-Space
Access via TGAS website
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4: EXAM-STYLE QUESTIONS
• Take home CPG exam papers tonight for £3
• Obtain ‘mini mocks’ from class teachers
• Re-attempt trial exam material, building on the targets previously set
• Try to re-create the conditions of the exam when working at home.
• They should work in silence to produce a handwritten response, without
assistance, in the time allowed in the exam.
• Maybe even temporarily confiscate that pesky smart phone!
• Self-assess work produced against the marking criteria
Attempt English Language and Literature Questions
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5: REVISION MATERIALS
• Reading tasks
• Writing tasks
• Analysis tasks
• Comparative responses
• Basic skills: spelling, punctuation, grammar
• Recapping plot
• Exploring character
• Exploding quotations
• Linked material via Show My Homework
Complete tasks from the revision materials independently
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English LanguageGeneral
Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zr9d7ty
Mr Bruff – YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch-
XgnluOf4&list=PLqGFsWf-P-cAlttmXkEvJXCxqT-ZzFqAN
Paper 1 – Section A: Literary Fiction
YouTube channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
Cx5xwWh5N4&list=PLQE65hp6MwUq6099hTU4sGSHLVVKAcPdX
Paper 2 – Section A: Non Fiction
YouTube channel – Stacey Reay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LABviX6HIPk&list=PLQE65hp6MwUp5mWyI94yUPkeIK
-x3eydM
Section B: Writing
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/05/travel/best-drone-photos-2016-dronestagram/ - select
an image and then plan and write a description inspired by it.
Teacher in my pocket YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBIFn8TcIuE&list=PLB56F3A80A3E34644
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English LiteraturePaper 1
Macbeth:
YouTube channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnhH1xlDyB4&list=PLQE65hp6MwUow497ZCodoHZ-12m51jGLr
Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zwws39q
Animated Tales to revise plot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfnUq2_0FOY
Full film, starring Ian McKellen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKWWK0Pj34
Full film, starring Patrick Stewart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4fVMXOFPc
Jekyll and Hyde:
YouTube Channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crmBIsz6-O4&list=PLQE65hp6MwUrGHYD4beVlRr-AqLouL0Qz
Revision Podcast – Mr Salles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJwe2viOphU&list=PLQovVw7yuGiK9zhWW8GH_d9gwKtehucfy
YouTube channel – Mr Bruff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ2icGAORKQ&list=PLtXi1Rm50tWXOTbwNDezpFG1nBTfE0Tg1
Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/z83qxsg
Sparknotes: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/jekyll/
Shmoop:http://www.shmoop.com/jekyll-and-hyde/
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Paper 2:
An Inspector Calls:
YouTube Channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if0v8TJ3Fzg&list=PLQE65hp6MwUqRTTU7tGg1NgmChVf5wBrZ
Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zxmb4j6
Conflict Poetry:
YouTube Channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0cSHySLZGk&list=PLQE65hp6MwUpYVZu7iIsOKjS-rjpNfKD9
YouTube Channel – Mr Bruff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9h_csKEwxg&list=PLqGFsWf-P-
cAO64lBHZTFwTz2X0DD_Cxk
Unseen Poetry:
YouTube channel – Mr Bruff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODEYFSx18dA
YouTube channel – GCSE Revision; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNMKyEKySNk
Wildern English: https://wildernenglish.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/five-steps-to-analysing-an-unseen-poem/
Miss Ryan: https://missryansgcseenglish.wordpress.com/category/english-literature/unseen-poetry/
Poems to practice with:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/poetrycompetition/article3229711.ece or
http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/
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LANGUAGE GCSE: PAPER ONE
Paper One
•1 hour and 45 minutes
•Section A - 40 marks for reading
(25%), 4 Qs
•Section B - 40 marks for writing
(25%), 1 Q
Section A Content and Skills:
Reading a single source from
literature prose fiction to explore how
writers use narrative and techniques
to capture the interest of readers.
EG openings, endings, points of view,
character development, atmosphere...
Section B Content and
Skills:
A written prompt and visual image
linked to the topic of Section A will be
provided as a stimulus for students’
own writing.
Marks will be awarded for:
•Content
•Organisation
•Technical accuracyEG say Section A features an extract from ‘The
Kite Runner’ depicting Amir and his father’s
journey from Afghanistan to Pakistan in a petrol
container. We might expect Section B to ask
students to describe a difficult journey.
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LANGUAGE GCSE: PAPER TWO
Paper Two
•1 hour and 45 minutes
•Section A - 40 marks for reading
(25%), 4 Qs
•Section B - 40 marks for writing
(25%), 1 Q
Section A Content and Skills:
To develop students’ insights into how
writers have particular viewpoints and
perspectives on issues/ themes that
are important to the way we live our
lives.
Two linked sources will be drawn from
different time periods and genres to
consider how readers are influenced.
Section B Content and
Skills:
Students will be asked to produce a
written text to a specified audience,
purpose and form, providing their
own opinion on the theme
introduced in Section A.
EG say Section A features an extract from a letter
home from a front line soldier in WWI and an
extract from The Diary of Anne Frank from WWII,
students may be asked to write an article to
explain their point of view in response to the
statement: “war is futile”
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LITERATURE GCSE: PAPER ONE
Paper One
•1 hour 45 minutes
•40 % of total marks
•2 sections
•Same approach for both sections – extract
to analyse and reference to whole text
Section A Content and Skills:
Shakespeare -
Extract focus and then whole text
exploration.
EG “Starting with this speech, explain how
far you think Shakespeare presents Lady
Macbeth as a powerful woman.”
Section B Content and Skills:
19th Century novel -
Extract focus and then whole text
exploration.
EG “Starting with this extract, how does
Stevenson present Dr Jekyll as a lonely
man.”
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LITERATURE GCSE: PAPER TWO
Section A Content and
Skills:
Modern Prose or Drama -
Students study a set text in class and
will be asked one essay-style
question in the examination.
EG “How does Priestley explore
responsibility in ‘An Inspector Calls’?
- Key theme focus
- Must analyse ‘how’ - techniques
Section B Content and
Skills:
Studied Poetry Cluster -
Students have analysed 15 poems in
class from the chosen cluster.
One poem is named in the exam and
students choose their comparison poem
EG “Compare the ways poets present
ideas about power in ‘Ozymandias’ and
one other poem from your cluster.”
Paper Two
•2 hours and 15 minutes
•60% of total marks
•3 sections
Section C Content and Skills:
Unseen Texts -
Two unseen poems are provided. Students look
at each poem individually before comparing the
similarities and differences of each.