English Literature Paper 2 Section A

An Inspector Calls

Closed book (no text in the exam)

Complete 1 of 2 questions.

30 marks 4 SPaG

Section BPower and Conflict Poetry

Closed book (no anthology)Compare 1 poem (named and supplied) with another poem from the cluster. 30 marks

Section CUnseen Poetry

Question 1 – Students are given a poem they’ve not studied and one question to answer (long answer)Question 2 – students are given a second poem they’ve not studied and compare it to the first. 24 marks and 8 marks

A knowledge based exam.

For Section A: An Inspector Calls,

students should learn/memorise:

- The plot (order of events)

- The characters, their motives, what they say and how they say it

- Priestley’s ideas (Socialism, Capitalism, gender, class in post war Britain)

- Priestley’s methods (stage directions, dialogue)

- Key quotations for each character

A knowledge based exam

For Section B: Power and Conflict,

students should learn/memorise

- The titles and the ‘key ideas’ / ‘what happens’ in each poem.

- 2 key quotations for each poem (total 28 quotations)

- how to interpret the language in the quotations in relation to the poet’s ideas and themes

- How the poems link to each other (content, ideas, theme, poetic techniques, effects)

Have a go!

‘stormed at with shot and shell’ from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’.

The word ‘stormed’ might make us think of how relentless the bullets are. They are pouring down on the troops, like heavy rain in a storm.

Can you learn the following in 30 seconds?

What strategies will you use to learn?

Have a go!

‘stormed at with shot and shell’ from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’.

The word ‘stormed’ might make us think of

a) The anger of the soldiers ‘storming’ the enemy.

b) The rain that was making the battle even more difficult to fight

c) The relentless artillery pouring down like rain upon the men

Have a go!

‘stormed at with ___________and ___________’ from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’.

The word ‘stormed’ might make us think of

a) The anger of the soldiers ‘storming’ the enemy.

b) The rain that was making the battle even more difficult to fight

c) The relentless artillery pouring down like rain upon the men

English Literature Paper 1

Section A: Essay response on Macbeth OR The Tempest 30 marksSection B: Essay response on Frankenstein OR Great 30 marks Expectations OR A Christmas Carol 4 SPaG1 ½ hours

Section A: Shakespeare (Macbeth OR The Tempest) Section B: 19th Century novel (Frankenstein OR Great Expectations OR A Christmas Carol)

Same type of question every exam. Start with the extract, then move to rest of the play. Understand the story, characters, themes and writer’s ideas. Identify or remember key quotations and ‘dig into’ the language.

Have a go!

Key quotation from Macbeth – you have 5 seconds

to memorise it.

‘act the flower but be the serpent under it’Lady Macbeth is advising Macbeth – she isthe more cunning, more manipulativeof the two.

Have a go!

Key quotation from Macbeth- can you say it back?

Lady Macbeth is advising Macbeth – she isthe more cunning, more manipulativeof the two.

Have a go!

Key quotation from Macbeth.

Lady Macbeth is advising Macbeth – she is

the more cunning, more manipulative

of the two. We know this when she says ‘act ___

_________but be ___ ______ ______________ ____’

Make flashcardsat home…

All Year 11 students have been issued with set lists of Key Quotations by their English teacher.

Examples hereThe Emigree there once was a country…I left it as a child The bright, filled paperweight…I am branded by an impression of sunlight London by William Blake blights with plague the marriage hearse mind - forg’d manacles Poppies by Jane Weir leaned against it like a wishbone all my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt / slowly melting Kamikaze turbulent inrush of breakers he must have wondered which had been the better way to die Exposure by Wilfred Owen Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces but nothing happens merciless iced east winds that knive us War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy He remembers…how he sought approval without words to do what someone must Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows My Last Duchess by Robert Browning I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse

An Inspector Calls "a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech." "a man has to make his own way.""about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior." “Girls of that class.."a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited." "he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves"“I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.”“You’re beginning to pretend as if nothing’s really happened at all. And I can’t see it like that. The girl’s still dead, isn’t she?”“And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish”“they’re not cheap labour, they’re people”“it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”

Who can remember this one?

‘stormed at with ___________and ___________’ from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’.

Knowledge organisers – available outside the English Office

Things to try• Watch the film/s together. Ask your student questions:

‘who’s that?’ might be just as useful as ‘how might someone argue that Prospero is not benevolent but is, in fact, very selfish?’

• Flash cards – regular, short burst ‘quizzing’

Say the first word/say the character/say the poem – student gives you the quotation

• Re-read the novel/play/poems

Make a balanced decision – is re-reading Frankenstein going to be as valuable as learning the storyline? A Christmas Carol is shorter – Great Expectations is not!

• Online revision

Shmoop, Sparknotes Apps – examtime, RevisionAid, Evernote Peek

Youtube – Mr Bruff

Things to try

Follow @CNCS_English on twitter for revision exercises, tips and strategies.

Revision Wall: outside the English Office – take what you need.

Give your wall/ room / entire home over to English Literature!!!