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Slide 1 GCSE English Maximising Achievement INFORMATION FOR PARENTS Miss Burgess Lead Teacher for KS4 English Tudor Grange Academy Slide 2 Class of 2017 AIMS To clarify the current situation in English for Year 11 To explain the

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GCSE English Maximising Achievement

INFORMATION FOR PARENTS Miss Burgess Lead Teacher for KS4 English

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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 weightings Key quotations Response structures Spellings and vocabulary Plot overviews Character summaries Etc. 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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Student Voice Anna Clews and Simran Godhania

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HOW CAN YOU HELP?

A Weekly 5

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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

  • ne 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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Englis lish Language

General  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

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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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Englis lish Lite iterature

Paper 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-

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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’

  • wn writing.

Marks will be awarded for:

  • Content
  • Organisation
  • Technical accuracy

EG 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

  • wn 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

  • ne 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.