AQA GCSE English Literature

KEY DATES • September – November: Paper 2 skills: An Inspector Calls and poetry

• Wednesday 8th November parent and child session: Help your child revise5.45-6.30pm

• Week commencing 27th November: Paper 2 mock exam

• December – March: Paper 1 skills: A Christmas Carol and Romeo and Juliet

• Wednesday 24th January: 5.45-7pm A Night at the Theatre

• Wednesday 21st February 5.45-7.15pm: Walk and Talk Mock

• Week commencing 12th March: Paper 1 mock exam

• Week commencing 30th April: Full mock – papers 1 and 2

• Wednesday 9th May: Year 10 Parents’ Evening and reports issued

• Week commencing 21st May: Provisional dates for GCSE Literature examinations

Overview

• The English Department follows the AQA specification for English Language and English Literature

• Aim: for each student to leave year 11 with 2 GCSEs in English

• English Language

• Paper 1 – 50%

• Paper 2 – 50%

• English Literature

• Paper 1 – 40%

• Paper 2 – 60%

Y11

Y10

In year 9 pupils read:

•Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

•A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

•An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley

•Poetry: Love and Relationships cluster from the AQA

anthology

• In year 10 pupils will study the Power and Conflict cluster

Paper 1: Shakespeare and the 19th

Century Novel (40%) 1hr 45mins Section A: ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet 1 essay question (45 minutes + 5 minutes

planning) Extract provided 30 marks content 4 marks for SPaGSection B: 19th Century NovelA Christmas Carol 1 essay question (45 minutes + 5 minutes

planning) Extract provided 30 marks content

5 minutes to check SPaG at the end

Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry (60%)2hrs 15mins

Section A: Modern Texts

An Inspector Calls

1 essay question from a choice of 2 (45 minutes)

30 marks for content

4 marks for SPaG

Section B: Poetry

Power and Conflict

1 comparative essay question (45 minutes)

30 marks

Section C: Unseen Poetry (40 minutes)

1 question on unseen poem (24 marks)

1 question comparing this poem to second unseen

poem (8 marks)

5 minutes to check SPaG at the end

Exams in English Literature Y10

Which texts do you need?

Paper 1 Paper 2

ISBN-10: 1107615402 ISBN-10: 0439101336 ISBN-10: 0435232827

ENGLISH LITERATURE

PAPER 1

Paper 1: Shakespeare and the 19th

Century Novel (40%) 1hr 45mins Section A: ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet 1 essay question Extract provided 30 marks content 4 marks for SPaG

Section B: 19th Century NovelA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

1 essay question Extract provided 30 marks content

Exams in English Literature

ISBN-10: 1107615402ISBN-10: 0439101336

An example of a question from paper 1 section A

ENGLISH LITERATURE

PAPER 2

Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry (60%)2hrs15mins

Section A: Modern Texts

An Inspector Calls

1 essay question from a choice of 2 (45 minutes)

30 marks for content

4 marks for SPaG

Section B: Poetry

Power and Conflict

1 comparative essay question (45 minutes)

30 marks

Section C: Unseen Poetry (40 minutes)

1 question on unseen poem (24 marks)

1 question comparing this poem to second unseen

poem (8 marks)

Exams in English Literature

ISBN-10: 0435232827

Adaptations of English Literature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vukp3EFVweQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukg1-xA2qXs

An example of a question from paper 2 section A

Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry (60%)2hrs 15mins

Section B: Poetry

Power and Conflict

1 comparative essay question

30 marks

Exams in English Literature

Conflict and Power

1. Shelley Ozymandias2. Blake London3. Wordsworth The Prelude: stealing the boat4. Robert Browning My Last Duchess5. Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade6. Wilfred Owen Exposure7. Seamus Heaney Storm on the Island8. Ted Hughes Bayonet Charge9. Simon Armitage Remains10. Jane Weir Poppies11. Carol Ann Duffy War Photographer12. Imtiaz Dharker Tissue13. Carol Rumens The Émigrée14. Beatrice Garland Kamikaze15. John Agard Checking Out Me History

An example of a poetry question from paper 2 section B

An example of an unseen poetry question –paper 2 section C part 1

An example of an unseen poetry question - paper 2 section c part 2

How can you support your child?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-41043320

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpC1Bkj86Ew

Revision Guides to order at £1.49 each: