1. Year 10 English Information Evening 2018
English Department Info
2. Exam Overview
Highlights
4. Route for Year 10
5. How you can help
6. Revision

2. Department Information
Curriculum Lead – Ms H. Yarker
Assistant CL KS4 – Ms L. Jankowski
Assistant CL KS3 – Ms L. Day
Year 10 Teaching Staff:
Ms S. Bailey Ms C. Chisala
Ms K. Corrigall Mr K. Campbell (Media)
Ms L. Day Mr J. Golding
Mr G. Howard Ms L. Jankowski
Ms A. Morozgalska Mr N. Kenny
Ms J. Whiteside Ms H. Yarker

3. AQA GCSE English Language
Paper 1 50%
Paper 2 50%
Section A:
Reading
1 unseen literature fiction text
Section B:
Writing
Descriptive or narrative writing
Section A:
Reading
1 non-fiction and 1 literary non-fiction text
Section B:
Writing
Writing to present a viewpoint
Total exam time:
1 hour and 45 minutes
Total exam time:
1 hour and 45 minutes
All exams will be at the end of Year 11. You will also sit an English Literature GCSE.

4. AQA GCSE English Literature
Paper 1 40%
Paper 2 60%
Section A:
Shakespeare
‘Romeo and Juliet’ or ‘Macbeth’
Section B:
19th Cent Prose
‘A Christmas Carol’ or ‘Jekyll and Hyde’
Section A:
Modern Texts
‘An Inspector Calls’
Section B:
Anthology poetry.
Section C:
Unseen Poetry
Total exam time:
1 hour and 45 minutes
Total exam time:
2 hours and 15 minutes
All exams will be at the end of Year 11. You will also sit an English Language GCSE.

5. 2018 Examination Highlights
English Language
83% achieved grade 9-4
72% achieved grade 9-5
24% achieved 9-7
English Literature
78% achieved grades 9-4
61% achieved grades 9-5
21% achieved grades 9-7

6. Route for Year 10 Dates: What we study:
Weds 5th September – Fri 2nd November
Literature Paper 2 Section A
‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B. Priestley
Mon 5th November- Mon 21st January
Literature Paper 1 Section B
19th Century Literature
Mon 21st January- Fri 8th March
Literature Paper 1 Section A
Introduce Shakespeare
Mon 11th March- Fri 5th April
Language Paper 1
Tues 23rd April- Fri 14th June
Finish and revise Shakespeare
Mon 17th June- Fri 19th July
Literature Paper 2 Section B and C
Poetry Anthology
Unseen Poetry

7. Helping your child
Please make sure your child has a copy of each of the texts that they are studying in Year 10.
Ensure they have the correct equipment – copy of the text; pen; highlighters
Encourage them to complete revision notes (quotes and analysis for main characters and themes in each text – a folder of revision notes.
Revision guides are widely available for all GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature subjects.
Ensure your child is completing all homework set.

8. Revision Resources are available for all aspects of GCSE English
BBC GCSE Bitesize (online)
CGP Revision Guides
Doddle (paid for by school)
Collins Snap Revision Guides
York Notes Revision Guides

9. AQA Power and Conflict Poetry
•Percy Shelley - 'Ozymandias'
•William Wordsworth - Extract from 'The Prelude'
•William Blake - 'London'
•Wilfred Owen - 'Exposure'
•Seamus Heaney - 'Storm on the Island'
•Beatrice Garland - 'Kamikaze'
•Ted Hughes - 'Bayonet Charge'
•Alfred Tennyson - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade
Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
Seamus Heaney – Storm on the Island
Jane Weir- Poppies
Carol Ann Duffy – War Photographer
Imtiaz Dharker-Tissue
Carol Rumens – The Émigré
John Agard – Checking Out Me History