• You must complete two tasks - each task must be taken from a different column.

• Two topic areas: “Moving Images” (writing about moving images); (2 hours)

• “Re-creations” (taking a text and turning it into another.) (2 hours)

Candidates complete TWO tasks from the topic areas in the Controlled Assessment Bank, totalling around 1600 words.

Task 1A newspaper invites young people to write articles about television programmes they either love or loathe. Write the piece you would send to the newspaper.

Task 2Read the poem Case History: Alison and use it as the basis for a piece of writing which explores similar ideas/situations to the original poem.

Case History: AlisonI would like to have knownMy husband's wife, my mother's only daughter.A bright girl she was.Enmeshed in comforting Fat, I wonder at her delicate angles. Her autocratic kneeLike a Degas dancer'sAdjusts to the observer with airy poise,That now lugs me upstairsHardly. Her face, brokenBy nothing sharper than smiles, holds in its smilesWhat I have forgotten.She knows my father's dead,And grieves for it, and smiles.She has digestedMourning. Her smile shows it.

Case History: AlisonI, who need remindingEvery morning, shall never get over what I do not remember.Consistency matters.I should like to keep faith with her lack of faith,But forget her reasons.Proud of this younger self, I assert her achievements, her A levels,Her job with a future.Poor clever girl! I know,For all my damaged brain, something she doesn’t:I am her future.A bright girl she was.

Case History: Alison

The poem is about Alison, a woman who has suffered brain damage after an accident. Her memory has been badly affected. Alison looks at a photograph of her younger self and talks about the person in it as if she were someone else. Although her memory has been affected, her vocabulary and understanding are still impressive. However, the narrator is far removed from the woman in the photograph taken before the accident. The Alison of today has one advantage over the Alison of the past: today's brain-damaged woman knows what lies ahead for the woman in the photograph.

What techniques are used?Technique Evidence Explain

Short and elliptical (incomplete) sentencesUses first (I) and third (she) to describe herself

Creates a sense of pathos and loss, by suggesting a separation, or the impression of two identities, one before and one after her accident.

Precise description

Repetition

Simile

Case History

• So we are going to use Alison’s account in the poem as the basis for our own story written in the first person.

• Just like Alison, you will be writing in first person, as if you too have suffered an accident that has damaged your memory.

• You’re going to be confused. Like Alison, you may pick up a photograph – or maybe a Facebook profile or something more modern? – and are going to ponder what it is you are looking at…

Mind mapping:

How can you show in your writing that you are confused or your memory is damaged?