1. Year 11 Parents’ Revision Evening: GCSE English Language and English Literature
Tuesday 7th March

2. English Language: Two exams:
Explorations in creative reading and writing: 5 questions - 80 marks – 1 hour 45 minutes.
Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives: 5 questions marks – 1 hour 45 minutes.
Questions are the same each year.

3. English Language questions:

4. English Language Paper 1: Explorations in creative reading and writing.
Students need to read and respond to an ‘unseen’ fictional text.
Section A: Consider how established writers use narrative and descriptive techniques to capture the interest of the reader. 4 questions - 40 marks.
Section B: Writing their own creative texts, students demonstrate their own ability to manipulate language to engage an audience. 1 question – 40 marks.

5. English Language Paper 2: Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives
Section A: Students need to respond to two ‘unseen’ linked texts from different genres and time periods, to consider how writers’ present a viewpoint or opinion to influence the reader. 4 questions – 40 marks.
Texts could be from 19th, 20th, 21st century.
Section B: Given a specific purpose, form and audience, students express their own viewpoints and opinions to influence the audience.

6. English Literature: Two exams:
Shakespeare and the 19th century novel: 64 marks – 1 hour 45 minutes.
Modern texts and poetry: 96 marks – 2 hours 15 minutes.

7. English Literature Paper 1: Shakespeare and the 19th Century novel.
Section A: Students will answer one question on ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The question will be extract based, but responses will need to refer to the play as a whole. This is a ‘closed book’ exam.
Section B: Students will answer one question on ‘The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ or ‘Frankenstein’ (depending on which text has been studied). The question will be extract based, but responses will need to refer to the novel as a whole.

8. English Literature Paper 2: Modern texts and poetry
Section A: Students will answer one question on ‘An Inspector Calls’ or ‘The Lord of the Flies’ (depending on which one they have studied). No extract will be given, closed book exam.
Section B: Students have to answer a comparative question on one poem printed on the page and another poem from the relevant cluster in their anthology.
Section C: Students will answer one question on one unseen poem and one question comparing this poem with a second unseen poem.

9. How to revise: English Language
Moodle – sample papers, power points, video guides.
YouTube – tutorial videos
CGP revision guides
BBC Bitesize
Key terminology flashcards
Timed practice questions (the questions are the same each year).
Exam Success Sessions

10. How to revise: English Literature
Reread the set texts (again, and again!)
Watch (faithful) film versions of the set texts
Mindmaps (Character/setting/theme/context etc.)
Key Quotation flashcards/post-it notes
Key terminology flashcards/post-it notes
CGP revision guides
BBC Bitesize
Timed practice questions
Exam Success Sessions

11. Meeting the English Literature AOs through PEARL Paragraphs
Thoughtful, developed response to task and whole text(POINT)
Apt references integrated into interpretation(s(EVIDENCE)
AO2
Examination of writer’s methods with subject terminology used effectively to support consideration of methods(ANALYSIS)
Examination of effects of writer’s methods on reader(READER RESPONSE)
AO3
Thoughtful consideration of ideas/perspectives/contextual factors shown by examination of detailed links between context/text/task (LINK TO WRITER’S IDEAS/CONTEXT)

12. PEARL Paragraph
Point (AO1)
Evidence (AO1)
Analysis (AO2)
Reader (AO2)
Link (AO3)

13. PEARL Paragraph
Shakespeare portrays Lord Capulet to be very aggressive towards Juliet in Act 3 Scene 3. He is furious that she will not marry Paris. For example he says “Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch! By describing Juliet as ‘baggage’ he is objectifying her as a weight or a burden to carry, and by describing her as a ‘wretch’ he is suggesting that she is a despicable person. Though this violent treatment might shock a modern audience, Shakespeare’s audience would have been outraged by Juliet’s disobedience. Shakespeare suggests that Lord Capulet would rather have Juliet die, than defy his wishes.