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Y11 Homework Tasks for students currently under-performing

Eduqas – Language Exam only (2 exams)

Eduqas – Literature Exam only (2 exams) Language Exam 1A – Fiction Reading Questions A1 – A5 Language Exam 1B – Creative Writing – 1 task Language Exam 2A – Non-Fiction Reading Questions A1 – A6 Language Exam 2B – Non-Fiction Writing – 2 tasks Literature Exam 1A – Romeo and Juliet - 2 tasks Literature Exam 1B – Poetry Anthology – 2 tasks Literature Exam 2A – LOTF/BB/AIC – 1 task Literature Exam 2B – A Christmas Carol – 1 task Literature Exam 2C – Unseen Poetry – 2 tasks

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Paper Date Completed Paper Date CompletedLanguage Exam 1a Fiction ReadingTask 1

Literature Exam 1a – Shakespeare R&J Task 1

Language Exam 1a Fiction ReadingTask 2






Language Exam 1b Fiction Writing – Creative WritingTask 1





Literature Exam 1b – Anthology Task 1







Language Exam 2a – Non-Fiction ReadingTask 1



Literature 2B – A Christmas Carol Task 1


Literature 2B – A Christmas Carol Task 2


Literature 2B A Christmas Carol Task 3

Language Exam 2b – Non-Fiction WritingTask 1

Unseen Poetry 2C Task 1

Language Exam 2b – Non-Fiction Writing Unseen Poetry 2C Task 2

Task 2Language Exam 2b – Non-Fiction WritingTask 3

Unseen Poetry 2C Task 3


Insert Extra Literature 2A – LOF/BB/AIC Task 1





LANGUAGE 1A – Fiction Reading Questions A1 – A5

Task 1: Explain what the different questions ask you to focus on?

Fiction Paper 1 AnswerWhat is A1?

What is A2?

What is A3?

What is A4?

What is A5?

Task 2: Read the following passage and answer the questions

He passed out of the room, and began the ascent, Basil Hallward following close behind. They walked softly, as men do instinctively at night. The lamp cast fantastic shadows on the wall and staircase. A rising wind made some of the windows rattle.

When they reached the top landing, Dorian set the lamp down on the floor, and taking out the key turned it in the lock. “You insist on knowing, Basil?” he asked, in a low voice.

“Yes.”

“I am delighted,” he answered, smiling. Then he added, somewhat harshly, “You are the one man in the world who is entitled to know everything about me. You have had more to do with my life than you think:” and, taking up the lamp, he opened the door and went in. A cold current of air passed them, and the light shot up for a moment in a flame of murky orange. He shuddered. “Shut the door behind you,” he whispered, as he placed the lamp on the table.

A1 – List five things you know about the atmosphere?

A2 – How does the writer show the thoughts and feelings of the character? You must refer to the language used in the text to support your answer. (Remember – 5 quotes for A2)

Task 3 — Approaching the exam – Fiction reading – Read the following information and create a revision resource for the Fiction Reading Exam

A1 – comprehension questions – keep your answers brief, in your own words as much as possible and either do it in a bullet point style or a mini paragraph using short sentences to separate each piece of information in the . Remember, you are just re-telling a list of information in this one .

A2 – Language evidence analysis paragraphs – 4 – 5 EA paragraphs. Follow the four step process –

1. Give a short overview of meaning2. Say what the technique is linked to the question 3. Quote from the text (an example of the technique you have stated in step 1) 4. Explain the meaning5. Explain the effect, move onto the same again with a new quote…

A3 – Language evidence analysis paragraphs – 8 — 10 EA paragraphs. Follow the four step process –

6. Say what the technique is linked to the question 7. Quote from the text (an example of the technique you have stated in step 1) 8. Explain the meaning9. Explain the effect, move onto the same again with a new quote…

A4 – Tension and Drama evidence analysis paragraphs – 8 – 10 EA paragraphs. Follow this five step process

1. Say how high/low the tension/drama is 2. Explain what structural technique is being used 3. Quote to support how the tension/drama is shown4. Explain the meaning 5. Explain the effect, move onto the same again with a new quote

A5 – Critical evaluation or evidence and opinion

1. Give an overview of what you think linked to the question 2. Offer an opinion 3. Select a quote which supports the opinion 4. Develop your opinion and explain 5. You can predict what other people might suggest to agree or disagree

Task 4 – Completing the whole examples below.

Extract taken from the third book of The Hunger Games Trilogy; Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins This is the opening chapter where Katniss Everdene is out hunting.

1) I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air. My muscles are clenched tight against the cold. If a pack of wild dogs were to appear at this moment, the odds of scaling a tree before they attacked are not in my favour. I should get up, move around, and work the stiffness from my limbs. But instead I sit, as motionless as the rock beneath me, while the dawn begins to lighten the woods. I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months.

2) By noon they will all be at my new house in the Victor’s Village. The reporters, the camera crews, even Effie Trinket, my old escort, will have made their way to District 12 from the Capitol. I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or if she’ll be sporting some other unnatural colour especially for the Victory Tour. There will be others waiting, too. A staff to cater to my every need on the long train trip. A prep team to beautify me for public appearances. My stylist and friend, Cinna, who designed the gorgeous outfits that first made the audience take notice of me in the Hunger Games.

3) If it were up to me, I would try to forget the Hunger Games entirely. Never speak of them. Pretend they were nothing but a bad dream. But the Victory Tour makes that impossible. Strategically placed almost midway between the annual Games, it is the Capitol’s way of keeping the horror fresh and immediate. Not only are we in the districts forced to remember the iron grip of the Capitol’s power each year, we are forced to celebrate it. And this year, I am one of the stars of the show. I will have to travel from district to district, to stand before the cheering crowds who secretly loathe me, to look down into the faces of the families whose children I have killed. . .

4) The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand. All my joints complain and my left leg has been asleep for so long that it takes several minutes of pacing to bring the feeling back into it. I’ve been in the woods three hours, but as I’ve made no real attempt at hunting, I have nothing to show for it. It doesn’t matter for my mother and little sister, Prim, any more. They can afford to buy butcher meat in town, although none of us likes it any better than fresh game. But my best friend, Gale Hawthorne, and his family will be depending on today’s haul and I can’t let them down. I start the hour-and-a-half trek it will take to cover our snare line. Back when we were in school, we had time in the afternoons to check the line and hunt and gather and still get back to trade in town. But now that Gale has gone to work in the coal mines – and I have nothing to do all day – I’ve taken over the job.

Read paragraph 1; A1 – List five things that suggest it is winter in paragraph 1.

Read paragraph 2; A2 – How does the writer show the characters unhappiness in paragraph 2? Refer closely to the language used in the extract Read paragraph 3; A3 – What impressions do you get of the Hunger Games in paragraph 3? Refer closely to the language used in the extract (Practicing A3 can help you focus on A2 as these are the same skills) Read Paragraph 4; A4 – How is tension and drama created in the final paragraph? Refer closely to the way this paragraph is structured. Read Paragraph 5; A5 – We are encouraged to see the protagonist Katniss Everdene as fiercely independent. How far would you agree with this statement in relation to the extract

LANGUAGE 1B: Fiction Writing Practice – Creative WritingTask 1 – Answer the questions on creative writing

Questions about the Fiction Writing Exam Answers

How many different prompts will you get to choose from?

What technical details do you need to consider in your writing?

You should write from your own experience – why will this make the story better?

How should you structure your story?

Why do we recommend a short 1 – 1.5 page story?

Task 2 —Create a mini mind map plan in five minutes each for the following 4 story prompts:

Write a story about an inspirational figure in your lifeWrite a story with the title: Lies Write a story a family holiday Write a story which begins: This was the best day of my life Task 3 – Choose one of the above story titles to create a story

Task 4 – Self assess your story using these guidelines

Success Criteria Imaginative and interesting Follow the narrative structure of: opening, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution Use varied sentence structures Use TIPTOP paragraphing Use punctuation for effect PANIC to open sentences Interesting vocabulary

Good spelling Make sure it is clear and you have checked it makes sense

Task 5 – Choose another of the story titles and create a short story

Task 6 – Self assess your story using the guidelines from Task 4

LANGUAGE 2A: Non-Fiction Reading Practice

Task 1: Complete the answer to these questionsQuestions on the Non-Fiction paper AnswersWhat do you have to do for A1?

What do you have to do for A2?





What is the cross-over with the Fiction Paper?

Task 2: Read both articles Silver Sprinters and Revenge of the Couch Potato then answer the questions

The Revenge of the Couch Potato

I have hated exercise all my life, but recently I have felt the need to reconsider my entrenched views against physical activity. This would almost certainly never have been the case had obesity not been in the news daily of late and, more crucially, had I not given birth to three boys who have no truck whatever with keeping still. It occurred to me that if I wanted to keep up with them, even if only to chase and wallop (well, chase) them, then I was going to have to become a degree fitter than the useless couch potato I had always been.

So it was that I took myself off to a specialist running shop. I felt a complete fraud as I paid £80 for a pair of shoes that made me look like a proper runner even though I had not run more than a couple of yards for more than a decade. But, with the cost in mind, the following morning I put them on and closed the front door behind me. I took a deep breath and ran the five minutes to the park, the mile or so round its outer ring, and then the five minutes home. It took 20 minutes and it was a form of torture beyond my worst imaginings. I gasped for air as if I were trapped in a large plastic box. Dog walkers took fright, some of them giving

me a look as if to say should they call an ambulance, and I nearly let them. When I got home I had to lie down for an hour.

The next day matters were just as bad, and the next and the next, but I couldn’t give up because I’d shelled out 80 quid. I was too mean to stop and so, despite the torture, I carried on and, somehow, a year passed by. It was still torture and the fitness everyone promised never seemed to come. I just became more accustomed to it.

Then, a few weeks ago, in a moment of total lunacy, I entered myself in the London Marathon. I think I had a vague notion that I needed a goal, something to knock me off the hamster wheel that is the outer ring of the local park. Whatever possessed me, it remains, with just a few months to go, a crazy venture. I have dodgy knees, an aching back, a dependency on precisely the wrong kinds of foods, and a lifelong love affair with sofas. And the stuff my new ‘marathon friends’ tell me about blisters, Vaseline in very odd places, and the endurance gels you have to swallow to avoid collapsing, are enough to make me want to take to my bed for the next three months with a serious supply of chocolate. They also tell me, “You’ll enjoy it. It’s fun.” No, it is not fun. Not sweaty tennis, not swimming virtuous lengths, not treading mills, not forcing dull slabs of metal hither and thither, not trudging up hills, not cycling distances that require plastic water bottles and shorts with padded bums. They are all disagreeable. My idea of fun is conversation with friends and family, sitting about, reading, eating and going to the odd party or movie, none of which can be properly done while leaping about red-faced and sweating. The sheer discomfort and utter tedium of physical exertion is not fun. If it were, the Western world would not be full of fat people who are daily becoming fatter.

Show me a woman sweating around the parks or pavements who says she’s in it purely for the fitness and fun of it, and you are showing me a liar. All the women I’ve met who exercise are doing it because they want to contain their bodies against the relentless onslaught of rogue pounds. Any benefits to the heart and bones are just a bonus. Losing weight is the thing.

Candida Crewe(Reproduced by permission of The Times, March 2008)

Silver Sprinters

The footballer aged 72, the marathon runner in his 70s – what’s their secret?Rebecca Armstrong finds out how these senior sportsmen keep running.Anyone who finds doing regular exercise something of a chore could do worse than following Dickie Borthwick’s example. Known as Dixie to his friends, Borthwick plays football once a week, eats porridge for energy,

takes vitamins every day, and gave up smoking to improve his health. Couch potatoes should also take note that Borthwick is 72 years old and played his first match aged 12. ‘I don’t feel like I’m in my 60 th season,’ he says. ‘I still feel young at heart and feel like I can go on for a few years yet.’

Borthwick isn’t the only older athlete putting people half his age to shame. John Starbrook, 76, competed in his first triathlon earlier this year ‘for a bit of a challenge’. This gruelling event would be enough of a challenge to most people, but Starbrook also runs two marathons a year. ‘I’ve done about 40 marathons in total. As I do two marathons every year, I basically train all year round – it’s New York in November and London in April,’ he says. ‘In between I’ve started doing triathlons for a bit of fun.’

According to NHS guidelines, everyone, regardless of age, should aim to do at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity five times a week to improve mobility and reduce the risk of heart disease. But while it can be all too easy to find excuses to avoid starting an exercise routine, Borthwick and Starbrook prove that age shouldn’t stand in the way of fitness.

So what are their secrets? Borthwick is a fan of supplements and takes vitamins, but Starbrook eats a normal diet and doesn’t believe in pills of any kind. He says, ‘I don’t eat much rubbish food – no burgers or any of that. Just good stuff. I don’t take any vitamins. I don’t even like taking an aspirin.’

As we age, our bodies start to change. ‘The first thing is that you get a reduction in muscle strength and an increase in body fat,’ says Lorenzo Masci, a sports physician. ‘The second thing is that you get a reduction in heart rate and in your body’s ability to take in oxygen.’ Masci also warns that older people have a reduced capacity to recover from injuries. But it is not all bad news. ‘A lot of these changes can be helped by exercise,’ he says. According to Help the Aged, we can’t store the benefits of exercise. If you were sporty until your thirties, it won’t help in your seventies. But if you had an active lifestyle like Borthwick and Starbrook, you are more likely to continue exercise as you get older.So what tips can they offer? Starbrook says, ‘Running is a natural thing to do and it’s free. You’ve just got to put your mind to it. Don’t over-train, just do enough.’But if you’re out of condition – whatever your age – it’s important to start slowly. The NHS recommends that anyone who has been inactive for a long period of time should try to build up to 30 minutes a day – which can include activities like walking or gardening – and avoid high impact exercises that involve hard jolts to the body. ‘It’s never too late to start exercising,’ says Masci.

However, it’s important to speak to your doctor before embarking on a fitness kick. ‘The important thing is to do things you enjoy. People who do activities they enjoy are more likely to stick with them,’ says Masci.

And just remember – it’s never too late to try something new. Just ask Starbrook. ‘At the moment I’m hoping to try skydiving. I’ve never done anything like that but I’m just going to go up, shut my eyes, and shout “Geronimo” as I jump out of the plane.’(Reproduced by permission of The Independent)

Read the first two paragraphs of Revenge of the Couch Potato A1: What inspired Candida to begin running? (3 marks)

A2: Candida Crewe is trying to persuade us that exercise is not enjoyable. How does she try to do this? You should comment on: (10 marks)

what she says to influence readers; his use of language and tone; the way she presents his argument.

A3: What do you think the writer means when she says “The sheer discomfort and utter tedium of physical exertion is not fun.” And why does she continue to exercise? (3 marks)

A4: What do you think and feel about Candida Crew’s views about exercise? (10 marks) You should comment on:

what is said; how it is said

A5: According to these two writers, why should people exercise? (4 marks)

A6: Both of these texts are about exercise. Compare the following: the writers’ attitudes to exercise; how they get across their arguments.

LANGUAGE 2B: Non-Fiction Writing Practice – Transactional Writing Task 1 – Answer the questions below. If you don’t know use the resources on the Weebly to help you.Questions on Non-Fiction AnswersHow do you layout a letter?

How do you layout a report?

How do you layout a speech?

How do you layout an article?

What is similar about the layout of the above?

What is different about the layout of the above?

What does PAFT stand for and why should you know this?

What is the first thing you should try to work out when you read the question?

When writing to inform what are the key features?

When writing to persuade what are the key features?When writing to advise what are the key features?

When writing to review what are the key features?

Task 3: Write a report explaining how to approach the non-fiction reading paper 2A questions

Task 4: Write a letter to your friend who has decided to become vegetarian giving your opinions.

Task 5: Write a speech which persuades people to help a charity of your choice.

Task 6: Write a newsletter article informing parents about the school facilities.

Literature 1A: Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

Question Summarise the answer to this question – use quotes if you canHow is Romeo presented?How is Juliet presented

How are Lord & Lady Capulet presented?How is the Prince presented?How is Paris presented?

How are Lord and Lady Montague presented?How is The Nurse presented?How is Mercutio presented?How is Benvolio presented?How is Tybalt

presented?How is Friar Laurence presented?What light imagery is used in the play?What is symbolic in the play?What are the main themes – explain themWhy is the play a tragedy?

Task 2: Mind Map/List as many quotations as you can remember – can be one word or more

Task 3: Romeo is expressing his doubts to Mercutio and Benvolio about going to the masked ball in this scene from Ac1 Scene 4 (A street in Verona)

ROMEO I dream’d a dream to-night.MERCUTIO And so did I.ROMEO Well, what was yours?MERCUTIO That dreamers often lie.ROMEO In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.MERCUTIO O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate-stoneOn the fore-finger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiesAthwart men’s noses as they lie asleep;Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders’ legs,The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,The traces of the smallest spider’s web,The collars of the moonshine’s watery beams,

Her whip of cricket’s bone, the lash of film,Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,Not so big as a round little wormPrick’d from the lazy finger of a maid;Her chariot is an empty hazel-nutMade by the joiner squirrel or old grub,Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.And in this state she gallops night by nightThrough lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love;O’er courtiers’ knees, that dream on court’sies straight,O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees,O’er ladies ‘ lips, who straight on kisses dream,Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:Sometime she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose,And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig’s tailTickling a parson’s nose as a’ lies asleep,Then dreams, he of another benefice:

Quotes

Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck,And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anonDrums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,And being thus frighted swears a prayer or twoAnd sleeps again. This is that very MabThat plats the manes of horses in the night,And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,That presses them and learns them first to bear,Making them women of good carriage:This is she—ROMEO Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!Thou talk’st of nothing.MERCUTIO True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,Which is as thin of substance as the airAnd more inconstant than the wind, who wooesEven now the frozen bosom of the north,And, being anger’d, puffs away from thence,Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.

THE QUESTION

b) Read the extract with Mercutio and Romeo.

Look at how the Mercutio and Romeo behave here. What does it reveal to an audience about their relationship and the differences between the two characters?

Refer closely to details from the extract to support your answer.

Task 4: Romeo and Friar Laurence discuss in his cell Romeo’s abrupt change of heart from Rosaline to Juliet but agrees to help them marry.

FRIAR LAURENCE Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then liesNot truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.Jesu Maria, what a deal of brineHath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!How much salt water thrown away in waste,To season love, that of it doth not taste!The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears;Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sitOf an old tear that is not wash’d off yet:If e’er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:And art thou changed? Pronounce this sentence then,Women may fall, when there’s no strength in men.ROMEO Thou chid’st me oft for loving Rosaline.FRIAR LAURENCE For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.ROMEO And bad’st me bury love.FRIAR LAURENCE Not in a grave,To lay one in, another out to have.ROMEO I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love nowDoth grace for grace and love for love allow;The other did not so.FRIAR LAURENCE O, she knew wellThy love did read by rote and could not spell.But come, young waverer, come, go with me,In one respect I’ll thy assistant be;For this alliance may so happy prove,To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.ROMEO O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste.FRIAR LAURENCE Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

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THE EXTRACT QUESTION

b) Read the extract with Romeo and Friar Laurence.

Look at how the Romeo and Friar Laurence behave here. What does it reveal to an audience about the Friar and Romeo’s close relationship?

Refer closely to details from the extract to support your answer.

Task 5 & 6: Essay Practices

Task 5 : Romeo and Juliet are rash and impulsive in their hurry to get married.

Show how both characters could be considered rash and impulsive and refer to the whole play in your answer.

Task 6: Romeo is a hero who worships Juliet.

Show how Romeo could be considered a hero and how he worships Juliet refer to the whole play in your answer.

Literature 1B: The Anthology Practice

Task 1: Complete the chart about all the Anthology poems

Re-read the following poem

Summarise what happens in the poem? Quotes you remember:

The Manhunt

Sonnet 43

London

The Soldier

She Walks in Beauty

Living Space

As Imperceptibly as griefCozy Apologia

Valentine

A Wife In London

Death of a Naturalist

Hawk Roosting

To Autumn

Afternoons

Dulce et Decorum Est

Ozymandias

Mametz Wood

Excerpt from the Prelude

Task 2: Complete the poem question

Ozymandias

b) Read the poem below, Ozymandias by Percey Bysse Shelley.In this poem Shelley writes about a place. Write about the ways in which he presents place in this poem.

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique landStand in the desert … Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:And on the pedestal these words appear:‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

b) Choose one other poem from the anthology in which the poet also writes about a place.Compare the presentation of place in your chosen poem to the presentation of place in Ozymandias [25]In your answer to part (b) you should compare:the content and structure of the poems – what they are about and how they areorganised;how the writers create effects, using appropriate terminology where relevant;the contexts of the poems, and how these may have influenced the ideas in them.

Task 4: Choose any poem from the anthology and compete a single poem essay

Task 5: Choose any two poems from the Anthology and complete a comparison essay

Literature2B: A Christmas Carol

TaskExplain events in Stave 1

Explain events in Stave 2




How is Scrooge presented?

How is Bob presented?

How is Fred presented?

How is Belle presented?

How is Marley’s Ghost presented?

How is the Ghost of the Christmas Past presented?

How is the Ghost of the present presented?

How is the Ghost of the future presented?

How is Tiny Tim presented?

How are minor characters presented?

What is the significance of religion?

What is the significance of poverty?

What is the significance of wealth?

What do you know about the context of the book?

Summarise the allegorical meaning of the book

Task 2: Answer the essay question on the following extract remember to bring in the whole text knowledge and context as well

At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up. The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of chesnuts on the fire. Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; and at Bob Cratchit’s elbow stood the family display of glass; two tumblers, and a custard-cup without a handle.

These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chesnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily. Then Bob proposed:

`À Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!’’

Which all the family re-echoed.

``God bless us every one!’’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

He sat very close to his father’s side upon his little stool. Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him.

``Spirit,’’ said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, ``tell me if Tiny Tim will live.’’

`Ì see a vacant seat,’’ replied the Ghost, `ìn the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.’’

``No, no,’’ said Scrooge. `Òh, no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared.’’

`Ìf these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,’’ returned the Ghost, ``will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.’’

Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.

You should use the extract above and your knowledge of the whole novel to answer this question.

Write about the Cratchit Family and the way they are presented throughout the novel.In your response you should:

refer to the extract and the novel as a whole; show your understanding of characters and events in the novel; refer to the contexts of the novel.

Task 3: Answer the following extract question remembering to bring in the whole text and write about context

The Ghost was greatly pleased to find him in this mood, and looked upon him with such favour, that he begged like a boy to be allowed to stay until the guests departed. But this the Spirit said could not be done.

``Here is a new game,’’ said Scrooge. `Òne half hour, Spirit, only one!’’

It was a Game called Yes and No, where Scrooge’s nephew had to think of something, and the rest must find out what; he only answering to their questions yes or no, as the case was. The brisk fire of questioning to which he was exposed, elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn’t made a show of, and wasn’t led by anybody, and didn’t live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear. At every fresh question that was put to him, this nephew burst into a fresh roar of laughter; and was so inexpressibly tickled, that he was obliged to get up off the sofa and stamp. At last the plump sister, falling into a similar state, cried out:

`Ì have found it out! I know what it is, Fred! I know what it is!’’

``What is it?’’ cried Fred.

`Ìt’s your Uncle Scro-o-o-o-oge!’’

Which it certainly was. Admiration was the universal sentiment, though some objected that the reply to `Ìs it a bear?’’ ought to have been ``Yes;’’ inasmuch as an answer in the negative was sufficient to have diverted their thoughts from Mr Scrooge, supposing they had ever had any tendency that way.

``He has given us plenty of merriment, I am sure,’’ said Fred, `ànd it would be ungrateful not to drink his health. Here is a glass of mulled wine ready to our hand at the moment; and I say, `Ùncle Scrooge!’’’’

``Well! Uncle Scrooge.’’ They cried.

`À Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the old man, whatever he is!’’ said Scrooge’s nephew. ``He wouldn’t take it from me, but may he have it, nevertheless. Uncle Scrooge!’’

Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly become so gay and light of heart, that he would have pledged the unconscious company in return, and thanked them in an inaudible speech, if the Ghost had given him time. But the whole scene passed off in the breath of the last word spoken by his nephew; and he and the Spirit were again upon their travels.

Write about the presentation of Scrooge and how he is presented throughout the novel.In your response you should:

refer to the extract and the novel as a whole; show your understanding of characters and events in the novel; refer to the contexts of the novel.

Literature 2C: Unseen Poetry Practice

Task 1: Answer these questions below

Question Your answerHow should you approach the Unseen Poetry?

How do you answer a single poem essay?

How do you answer a comparison essay?

What does analyse mean?

Why do you have to provide an overview of meaning?

Why is it important to use connectives of comparison in part b?

Task 2: Complete the question answers on the poems

Read the two poems, A Child’s Sleep by Carol Ann Duffy and Night Feed by Eavan Folan both of these poems the poets write about a mother describing her feelings about her daughter.(a) Write about the poem A Child’s Sleep, and its effect on you. [15]

You may wish to consider:

what the poem is about and how it is organised; the ideas the poet may have wanted us to think about; the poet’s choice of words, phrases and images and the effects they create; how you respond to the poem

(b) Now compare A Child’s Sleep by Carol Ann Duffy and Night Feed by Eavan Folan

You should compare:what the poems are about and how they are organised;the ideas the poets may have wanted us to think about;the poets’ choice of words, phrases and images and the effects they create; how you respond to the poems.

A Child’s SleepI stood at the edge of my child’s sleephearing her breathe;although I could not enter there,I could not leave.

Her sleep was a small wood,perfumed with flowers;dark, peaceful, sacred,acred in hours.

And she was the spirit that livesin the heart of such woods;without time, without history,wordlessly good.

I spoke her name,pebble dropped in the still nightand saw her stir, open both palmscupping their soft light.

Then went to the window.The greater darkoutside the roomgazed back, maternal, wise,with its face of moon.

Carol Ann Duffy

Night feed

This is dawnBelieve meThis is your season, little daughter.The moment daisies open,The hour mercurial* rainwaterMakes a mirror for sparrows.It’s time we drowned our sorrows.

I tiptoe in.I lift you upWrigglingIn your rosy, zipped sleeper.Yes, this is the hourFor the early bird and meWhen finder is keeper.

I crook the bottle.How you suckle!This is the best I can be,HousewifeTo this nurseryWhere you hold on,Dear life.

A silt* of milk.The last suckAnd now your eyes are open,Birth-coloured and offended.Earth wakes.You go back to sleep.The feed is ended.

Worms turn.Stars go in.Even the moon is losing face.Poplars* stilt for dawn.And we beginThe long fall from grace.I tuck you in.

Eavan Boland

With permission from Carcanet Press

* mercurial – shining* silt – the last bit at the bottom of the bottle* poplars – tall, straight trees

Task 3: Find two poems on the internet with a similar theme and do the single poem essay on the first poem and then the comparison poem essay as well. Compare by theme

Literature 2A: An Inspector Calls Practice

Task 1: Complete the chart about An Inspector Calls

Prompt Your AnswerHow is Mr Birling Presented?

How is Mrs Birling presented?

How is Gerald presented?

How is Sheila presented?

How is the Inspector presented?

How is Eric presented?

How is Eva/Daisy presented?

How is love shown in the play?

How are different classes shown in the play?

What is important about the fact the Inspector turns out not to be a real one?

Who do you think is most to blame for the death of Eva and why?

Task 2: Complete the essay using the extract to prompt you and ensuring you bring in your knowledge of the full text as well.

An Inspector Calls

You are advised to spend 45 minutes on this question.

In this extract we see Birling discussing the manner of Eva Smith being sacked from the Factory.

Write about the character of Mr Birling and the way he is presented in An Inspector Calls.

In your response you should:

Refer to the extract and the play as a whole; Show your understanding of characters and events in the play.

(40 marks)

5 of this question’s marks are allocated for accuracy in spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structures.

Extract from Act One:

Eric – It isn’t if you can’t go and work somewhere else.

Inspector – Quite so.

Birling - (To Eric) Look – just you keep out of this. You hadn’t even started in the works when this happened. So they went on strike. That didn’t last long, of course.

Gerald – Not if it was just after the holidays. They’d be all broke – if I know them.

Birling – Right, Gerald. They mostly were. And so was the strike, after a week or two. Pitiful affair. Well, we let them all come back, at the old rates – except the four or five ring-leaders who’d started the trouble. I went dow myself and told them to clear out. And this girl, Eva Smith, was one of them. She’d had a lot to say – far too much – so she had to go.

Gerald – You couldn’t have done anything else.

Eric – He could. He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough luck.

Birling – Rubbish! If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.

Gerald – I should say so!

Inspector – They might. But after all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it.

Birling – (staring at the Inspector) What did you say your name was, Inspector?

Inspector – Goole. G. double O-L-E.

Birling – How do you get on with out Chielf Constable, Colonel Roberts?

Inspector – I don’t see much of him.

Birling – Perhaps I ought to warn you that he’s an old friend of mine, and that I see him fairly frequently. We play golf together sometimes up at the West Brumley.

Inspector – (dryly) I don’t play golf.

Birling – I didn’t suppose you did.

Eric – (bursting out) Well, I think it’s a dam’ shame.

Inspector – No, I’ve never wanted to play.

Eric – No, I mean about this girl – Eva Smith. Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices. And I don’t see why she should have been sacked just because she’d a bit more spirit than the others. You said yourself she was a good worker. I’d have let her stay.

Birling – (rather angrily) Unless you brighten your ideas, you’ll never be in a position to let anybody stay of tell anybody to go. It’s about time you learnt to face a few responsibilities. That’s something this public-school-and-Varsity life you’ve had doesn’t seem to teach you.

Task 3: Answer these questions as fully as you can

a) Explain how the theme of Social Justice is presented in the play.

Social Justice Definition: An ethical framework that suggests, an organisation or individual has an obligation to act for the benefit of society as a whole.

b) Explain how the young characters present a refreshing perspective to the older generation in the play.

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