Recap on modern texts from year 9:

Paper 2 – Modern texts and poetry – 2 hour 15 minutes – 96 marks – 60% of GCSE

Section A – Choose 1 out of a choice of 2 on An Inspector Calls/Lord of the Flies/Animal Farm

Paper 1 – Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing – 1 hour 45 minutes – 80 marks – 50% of GCSE

Section A – UNSEEN literature fiction text (from the 20^th century) and answer questions

Section B – Descriptive or narrative writing (E.g. description of a picture or opening of a story)

Paper 2 – Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives – 1 hour 45 minutes – 80 marks  - 50% of GCSE

Section A – read a non-fiction text (E.g. A 2013 Observer article on ‘Could you do your child’s homework?’) and one literary non-fiction text (E.g. two letters from 19^th Century). Linked in theme – analysis of both sources and comparison question.

Section B – Writing to present a viewpoint (E.g. Write an article for a broadsheet newspaper, stating your views on homework)

Paper 1 – Shakespeare and the 19^th-century novel – 1 hour 45 minutes – 64 marks – 40% of GCSE

A Christmas Carol

Paper 2 – Modern texts and poetry – 2 hour 15 minutes – 96 marks – 60% of GCSE

POETRY - Section B – Anthology poems – Power and conflict/love and relationships cluster – comparison – one named poem and one other poem of your choice

Section C – Unseen poems:

1. Analyse poem 1
2. Analyse poem 2
3. Compare the 2 poems

Speaking and Listening task

Catch up on certain tasks/texts where appropriate

Paper 1 – Shakespeare and the 19^th-century novel – 1 hour 45 minutes – 64 marks – 40% of GCSE

Section A – Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth (answer on the extract given, then look at other parts of the text – closed book).

REVISION

REVISION

POETRY - Section B – Anthology poems – Power and conflict/love and relationships cluster – comparison – one named poem and one other poem of your choice

Section C – Unseen poems:

1.       Analyse poem 1

2. Analyse poem 2

3.       Compare the 2 poems

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REVISION