Section A – Shakespeare List the main events from GCSE Literature Paper 1 Section A – Shakespeare Assessment 1 List the main events from Act 1 AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) AO2 – Analyse language, structure and form (12 marks) AO3 – Relationship between text and context (6 marks) AO4 – Vocabulary and sentence structure, spelling and punctuation (4 marks)

Section A – Shakespeare GCSE Literature Paper 1 Section A – Shakespeare AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) AO2 – Analyse language, structure and form (12 marks) AO3 – Relationship between text and context (6 marks) AO4 – Vocabulary and sentence structure, spelling and punctuation (4 marks) AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) AO2 – Analyse language, structure and form (12 marks) AO3 – Relationship between text and context (6 marks) AO4 – Vocabulary and sentence structure, spelling and punctuation (4 marks)

Introduction to Shakespeare The exam will require you to answer a question based on an extract – however you will need to remember key quotes too. You are welcome to keep your copies of Macbeth here or at home (or a mixture of the two!) I will have some copies of the text in class – although obviously you won’t be able to make notes in them. AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) AO2 – Analyse language, structure and form (12 marks) AO3 – Relationship between text and context (6 marks) AO4 – Vocabulary and sentence structure, spelling and punctuation (4 marks)

Mark scheme AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) AO2 – Analyse language, structure and form (12 marks) AO3 – Relationship between text and context (6 marks) AO4 – Vocabulary and sentence structure, spelling and punctuation (4 marks)

Assessment 1 Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 3 of Macbeth and then answer the question that follows. At this point in the play Macbeth is speaking. He has just heard the witches’ prophecies and is contemplating what they have said. AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) AO2 – Analyse language, structure and form (12 marks) AO3 – Relationship between text and context (6 marks) AO4 – Vocabulary and sentence structure, spelling and punctuation (4 marks)

Assessment 1 AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) (aside) Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme. (to ROSS and ANGUS) I thank you, gentlemen. (aside) This supernatural soliciting 5 Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair 10 And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man 15 That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not. AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) AO2 – Analyse language, structure and form (12 marks) AO3 – Relationship between text and context (6 marks) AO4 – Vocabulary and sentence structure, spelling and punctuation (4 marks)

Assessment 1 Starting with this speech, explain how you think Shakespeare presents the theme of fate. Write about: • how Shakespeare presents fate in this speech • how Shakespeare presents fate in the play as a whole. [30 marks] AO4 [4 marks] As we have only read Act 1, you will only be responding to the first bullet point. AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) AO2 – Analyse language, structure and form (12 marks) AO3 – Relationship between text and context (6 marks) AO4 – Vocabulary and sentence structure, spelling and punctuation (4 marks)

How did that first assessment feel? Reflection How did that first assessment feel? What do you think will happen next? Can you link your answer to fate and your historical research? AO1 – Read, understand and respond to texts (12 marks) AO2 – Analyse language, structure and form (12 marks) AO3 – Relationship between text and context (6 marks) AO4 – Vocabulary and sentence structure, spelling and punctuation (4 marks)