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Tudor Grange Academy

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GCSE EnglishMaximising Achievement

INFORMATION FOR PARENTS

Miss Burgess

Lead Teacher for KS4 English

Tudor Grange Academy

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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 weightingsKey quotationsResponse structuresSpellings and vocabularyPlot overviewsCharacter summariesEtc.

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

one 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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English LanguageGeneral

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

-x3eydM

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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English LiteraturePaper 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-

cAO64lBHZTFwTz2X0DD_Cxk

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’

own writing.

Marks will be awarded for:

•Content

•Organisation

•Technical accuracyEG 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

own 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

one 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.