1. Penrice Academy │ English Faculty – Year 11 2017/18
The Qualifications:
Getting started:
Revision guides
Get yourself equipped…
Language
Be prepared, every English exam and lesson you need a:
Black pens
Highlighter
Set texts
Revision guides
Make sure you have a good quality set of pens.
Make sure you know what the plan is.
Make sure you know how to access the right resources for our exam boards
Literature
- Paper 1: Shakespeare and 19th Century Novel (1hr 45)
- Paper 2: Modern Drama and Poetry (2hrs 15)
Paper 1: Creative Reading and Writing
(1hr 45)
- Paper 2: Viewpoints and Perspectives (1hr 45)
A really useful revision tool for English Language and English Literature.
Available from the Penrice Shop on the School Website
Other online revision materials:
Read for 10 minutes a day:
Revision ideas:
(Check out the Penrice Revision and Reading Page)
Sparknotes
ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
Exercise books
PPEs, Over to You and teacher feedback
Annotated questions
Past exam papers/CPG Exam Papers
Knowledge Organisers
Flash cards of subject terminology
Exemplar responses
Examiner Feedback
ENGLISH LITERTURE:
Quotation Calendar
Activity Sheets
Past Exam Papers
Mind maps of key themes, characters, context, comparisons
British Library
Reread Literature texts
Short stories (AQA Anthologies from your teacher)
Critical essays on set texts
Broadsheet newspaper articles
Letters
Speeches
Novels
Openings of famous
texts
BBC Bitesize
Revision videos such as Mr Bruff
Improvement Target worksheets on Penrice website