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Good Afternoon – Please have Anthologies ready!
Andrew Tye
Dan Robertson
Danielle Turnbull
Hollie Statham
Tai Toffield Brown
Andrew Bassett
Alex Horner
Adam Wrigley
Ellen Curry
Liza Ryan
Rachael Thornton
Andy Tweedy
Jennifer Guillan
James Rowatt
Jake Cooper
Adam Shorthouse
Jess Johnson
James Taylor
Ross Moore
Matthew Robson
Jen RossAdam
Wrigley
Jamie Farnworth
Eve Beston
Ethan Murphy
Alex Gould
Philippa Bacon
Bradley Gray
Jake Cooper
Ethan Murphy
Jake Cooper
Ethan Murphy
Jake Cooper
Ethan Murphy
DOOR
If you were going to cook up a perfect literature assessment paragraph…
What would the key ingredients be?
Please use one sector of the consensus placemat each and then put your common ideas in the middle
What is needed in an outstanding literature paragraph?
?
How to be perfect…In preparation for a challenging exam, today we look at writing the perfect paragraph. Obviously, write several perfect paragraphs and you’re left with a perfect exam
response!
This assessment is worth 36 marks. The other question on the paper – the unseen – is worth 18 marks…
ON THE LINE! If you knew WHAT to write – how confident are you that you could write in a STYLE (HOW) that would get a
top Literature mark?
Couldn’t even start
A* is in the bag!
Couldn’t even start
A* is in the bag!
Couldn’t even start
A* is in the bag!
How to be perfect…
The markscheme assesses two skills…
1.Interpretation and 2.Analysis
Our objective today is to learn how to be more interpretive and more analytical
How to be perfect…
The markscheme assesses two skills…
1.Interpretation and 2.Analysis
1. InterpretationIf you interpret something, you say what it means.Can you interpret these symbols?
Correct
Recycle
No dogs
Is It That Easy?
No! Literature doesn’t have right and wrong answers. You won’t get marks for that kind of interpretation, which would look like this.
The poets brother has no bus fare.“suddenly you froze, said you Hadn’t any bus fare.”
Interpretation of text
Textual detail
Checkpoint One
The perfect paragraph begins with the perfect quotation. Which of these quotations from the anthology is best for interpretation?
“My son aged three fell in the nettle bed.”
“I ran on, unable to close the distance I’d set in motion.”Decide and then JUSTIFY your answer to your partner
in one sentence
Checkpoint One
The perfect paragraph begins with the perfect quotation. Which of these quotations from the anthology is best for interpretation?
“My son aged three fell in the nettle bed.”
“I ran on, unable to close the distance I’d set in motion.”Decide and then JUSTIFY your answer to your partner
in one sentence
“I ran on, unable to close the distance I’d set in motion.”
This is a better quotation. If we were making Signs like this then the first one would have been better because it’s more literal and obvious but the quotation above allows us to be more interpretative about the poet’s feelings and ideas about. In other words, it implies or suggests things but doesn’t directly say them.
“I ran on, unable to close the distance I’d set in motion.”
Why is he unable?What literally is the distance, and what metaphorically?
What emotion does the poet feel?
I’d set in motion… was it his fault?
This is something moving… what does this suggest about how the relationship developed later?
Perfect interpretation is detailed interpretation!
“I ran on, unable to close the distance I’d set in motion.”
Why is he unable?Emotionally and developmentally, rather than physically. It is unlikely that he was literally unable to stop running.
What literally is the distance, and what metaphorically?The distance from the bus to the house but really this is about their fading relationship
What emotion does the poet feel? Regret? Guilt?
I’d set in motion… was it his fault?Literally but he implies that he is at fault for the fact that he and his brother became distanced.
This is something moving… what does this suggest about how the relationship developed later?This seems to be the moment that the poet traces back to being the start of the breakdown of trust and friendship. It seems that the relationship continued to fade.
Perfect interpretation is detailed interpretation!
My Perfect Interpretation Paragraph
The last line is revealing about the poet’s relationship with his brother.
“I ran on, unable to close the distance I’d set in motion.”
The poet seems to be emotionally and developmentally, rather than physically unable to repair the relationship. It is unlikely that he was literally unable to stop running. He refers to distance, which is literally from the bus to the house but really this seems to be about their fading relationship. Although he was at fault in the incident for not going back, he also implies that he is at fault for the fact that he and his brother became distanced. The incident seems to be the moment that the poet traces back to being the start of the breakdown of trust and friendship. It seems that the relationship continued to fade.
Here are four more quotationsQ1: And this is love, high noon, calamity, hard liquor in the old last chance saloon.
Q2 Time’s love’s beggar, but even a single hour bright as a dropped coin makes love rich.
Q3 I’m one of your talking wounded. I’m a hostage. I’m maroonded.
Q4 Let not the marriage of true minds admit impediment
Rank order them in order of how good you think they are in helping you interpret (say) some things about relationships in the poems.
For your top choice write three things that you can interpret.
ON THE LINE! If you knew WHAT to write – how confident are you that you could write in a STYLE (HOW) that would get a
top Literature mark?
Couldn’t even start
A* is in the bag!
Couldn’t even start
A* is in the bag!
Couldn’t even start
A* is in the bag!
How to be perfect…
The markscheme assesses two skills…
1.Interpretation and 2.Analysis
AnalysisIs simply breaking something down into bits to understand how it works as a whole.
This handle is indented so your thumb can rest there for better grip
This middle is flexible to get different angles
The brushes are shaped to help get between teeth
In an analysis you choose the important parts and you examine their features and the reason or effect
Analysis Example – Love?
“Then I widened the search, traced the scarring back to its source to a sweating, unexploded mine”
When analysing, in deciding on the important parts and their features, consider:• Sentence type eg declarative• Word Type eg adjective• Techniques eg metaphor• Structural things eg repetition• Associations or effects
In an analysis you choose the important parts and you examine their features and the reason or effect
Analysis Example - Love.
In an analysis you choose the important parts and you examine their features and the reason or effect
In this quotation:• Declarative (statement)• Metaphor• Adjectives• Alliteration• Connotations of potential
danger• Pun
“Then I widened the search, traced the scarring back to its source to a sweating, unexploded mine”
Go back to your quotation
• Now annotate it with all the features you can think of– Sentence type eg declarative– Word Type eg adjective– Techniques eg metaphor– Structural things eg repetition– Associations or effects
My Perfect Interpretation Paragraph
The last line is revealing about the poet’s relationship with his brother.
“I ran on, unable to close the distance I’d set in motion.”
The poet seems to be emotionally and developmentally, rather than physically unable to repair the relationship. It is unlikely that he was literally unable to stop running. He refers to distance, which is literally from the bus to the house but metaphorically really this seems to be about their fading relationship. Although he was at fault in the incident for not going back, he also implies, using a definite statement that he is at fault for the fact that he and his brother became distanced, suggested by the repetition of the pronoun “I”. The incident seems to be the moment that the poet traces back to being the start of the breakdown of trust and friendship. It seems that the relationship continued to fade.
ON THE LINE! If you knew WHAT to write – how confident are you that you could write in a STYLE (HOW) that would get a
top Literature mark?
Couldn’t even start
A* is in the bag!
Couldn’t even start
A* is in the bag!
Couldn’t even start
A* is in the bag!
Now…
Construct a perfect paragraph based on your learning today..!
