Year 10 Revision Event

‘I don’t know how to revise English’

‘You can’t really revise English like you can with Science’

‘I will just turn up and see what happens as there is no point until I see the extracts on the day’

‘you don’t really need to revise it as we do the essay questions in lesson’

‘If I fail – I will just retake it next year, and then I will try harder then’

‘I will just do it on the day – I can’t work until I am under pressure’

“If a person asks you to name a round fruit and you name an apple you are correct. However, if that person only had an orange in mind and you did not give them orange as the answer, then they will consider your answer as incorrect as it does not match theirs”

THIS IS LIKE WITH A MARK SCHEME!

Message: the test does not test your ability. It tests your ability to pass their very specific test.

You need to know the requirements of each questions and the exact skills that they are looking for.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS GRAPH?

Resources:

We have purchased you all:

1 highlighter – remember to bring this on the exam days!

A pack of 20 flashcards – we will show you what to do with these in a minute

Some A3 paper – we will show you what to do with these in a minute

A black pen – for the exam – remember to bring this on the exam days!

We have also put in an advice guide for each paper and a language and structure terminology toolkit

First of all, here are some ideas of places you could look to revise:

1. Go on Youtube and look for ‘Mr Bruff’ – watch his videos and take notes

2. Use the books you purchased:

3. Go on the English area of the school website: password: English and download some resources

4. Go on the ‘memorize’ website that you use for MFL and create revision flash cards online

5. Go back through your English book and look at past work and assessments

6. Go on www.thesaurus.com and look up some ambitious words to learn

7. Read a story or description online to gain inspiration for your own

Now we are going to look at some more specific revision tasks using the resources you have just been given…

You have 20 revision cards

Write 10 language devices that you are struggling to remember on the front of them and write a definition and example on the back and then repeat this with 10 structural devices

You could also do this for AFOREST or FURRYFEETAS

There are 10 questions on these papers – 5 on paper 1 and 5 on paper 2For each question write down the paper and question number on the front and advice and top tips on the back

Write boring words on the front of the flashcards and then used a thesaurus to write much better words on the back

Write tricky pieces of punctuation on the front and then a definition and an example of them in use on the back

You have 2 pieces of different coloured A3 paperYou could:

Do a revision mind-map for paper 1 on one piece and paper 2 on the other piece. Go back through your book, look at the language and structure toolkit and the sheets giving advice on the papers

and use all of these resources to create a large mind-map.

USE THESE SHEETS AND YOUR BOOK:

You have a highlighter you could:

Go online and find a chapter from a fiction book

Print it and try to annotate it for language or structural devices using your new flashcards

Use your highlighter to highlight the most important devices in the passage, then next to them, write why the author has used them and the specific effect

Once you have your flashcards and mind-maps you could:

Meet up with a friend and question each other on the devices

Create acronyms or rhymes to learn devices

Find an interesting image and use your flashcards to write some language devices to describe it or use it as a trigger to write a narrative

Use your AFOREST or FURRYFEETAS flashcards to label a persuasive speech or letter that you have found online

Try to write at speed – time yourself. Maybe write your flash cards out on lined paper under timed conditions

Don’t forget your home-learning booklet

It also has past papers in the back!

Some final reminders:

There will be a revision session during the holidays on April 9th at 9.15am until 11.30am.

On paper 1 question 3, structure does NOT mean sentence lengths. See the right hand side of the table in your revision pack, instead it is: order of events, focus shifts, zoom in/out, perspective/person, tension/suspense, foreboding, time shifts, flashbacks/forwards, climax etc……Think of it like a film! The key device is ‘FOCUS SHIFT’

On paper 2 question 2 you do not need to analyse devices

On paper 2 question 4 methods means devices and perspectives means their opinions/feelings.

House competition: Prizes and HAPs for the winner/entries. GET CAUGHT REVISING. Take a photo of you or your friends revising-the more interesting the better…

You now have the remainder of this lesson to go back to your classes to start using your new resources to revise

Pick one of the suggested tasks and begin!