AQA GCSE English Literature - Home - Mortimer...
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KEY DATES • September – November: Paper 2 skills: An Inspector Calls and poetry
• Wednesday 8th November parent and child session: Help your child revise5.45-6.30pm
• Week commencing 27th November: Paper 2 mock exam
• December – March: Paper 1 skills: A Christmas Carol and Romeo and Juliet
• Wednesday 24th January: 5.45-7pm A Night at the Theatre
• Wednesday 21st February 5.45-7.15pm: Walk and Talk Mock
• Week commencing 12th March: Paper 1 mock exam
• Week commencing 30th April: Full mock – papers 1 and 2
• Wednesday 9th May: Year 10 Parents’ Evening and reports issued
• Week commencing 21st May: Provisional dates for GCSE Literature examinations
Overview
• The English Department follows the AQA specification for English Language and English Literature
• Aim: for each student to leave year 11 with 2 GCSEs in English
• English Language
• Paper 1 – 50%
• Paper 2 – 50%
• English Literature
• Paper 1 – 40%
• Paper 2 – 60%
Y11
Y10
In year 9 pupils read:
•Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
•A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
•An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley
•Poetry: Love and Relationships cluster from the AQA
anthology
• In year 10 pupils will study the Power and Conflict cluster
Paper 1: Shakespeare and the 19th
Century Novel (40%) 1hr 45mins Section A: ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet 1 essay question (45 minutes + 5 minutes
planning) Extract provided 30 marks content 4 marks for SPaGSection B: 19th Century NovelA Christmas Carol 1 essay question (45 minutes + 5 minutes
planning) Extract provided 30 marks content
5 minutes to check SPaG at the end
Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry (60%)2hrs 15mins
Section A: Modern Texts
An Inspector Calls
1 essay question from a choice of 2 (45 minutes)
30 marks for content
4 marks for SPaG
Section B: Poetry
Power and Conflict
1 comparative essay question (45 minutes)
30 marks
Section C: Unseen Poetry (40 minutes)
1 question on unseen poem (24 marks)
1 question comparing this poem to second unseen
poem (8 marks)
5 minutes to check SPaG at the end
Exams in English Literature Y10
Which texts do you need?
Paper 1 Paper 2
ISBN-10: 1107615402 ISBN-10: 0439101336 ISBN-10: 0435232827
Paper 1: Shakespeare and the 19th
Century Novel (40%) 1hr 45mins Section A: ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet 1 essay question Extract provided 30 marks content 4 marks for SPaG
Section B: 19th Century NovelA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
1 essay question Extract provided 30 marks content
Exams in English Literature
ISBN-10: 1107615402ISBN-10: 0439101336
Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry (60%)2hrs15mins
Section A: Modern Texts
An Inspector Calls
1 essay question from a choice of 2 (45 minutes)
30 marks for content
4 marks for SPaG
Section B: Poetry
Power and Conflict
1 comparative essay question (45 minutes)
30 marks
Section C: Unseen Poetry (40 minutes)
1 question on unseen poem (24 marks)
1 question comparing this poem to second unseen
poem (8 marks)
Exams in English Literature
ISBN-10: 0435232827
Adaptations of English Literature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vukp3EFVweQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukg1-xA2qXs
Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry (60%)2hrs 15mins
Section B: Poetry
Power and Conflict
1 comparative essay question
30 marks
Exams in English Literature
Conflict and Power
1. Shelley Ozymandias2. Blake London3. Wordsworth The Prelude: stealing the boat4. Robert Browning My Last Duchess5. Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade6. Wilfred Owen Exposure7. Seamus Heaney Storm on the Island8. Ted Hughes Bayonet Charge9. Simon Armitage Remains10. Jane Weir Poppies11. Carol Ann Duffy War Photographer12. Imtiaz Dharker Tissue13. Carol Rumens The Émigrée14. Beatrice Garland Kamikaze15. John Agard Checking Out Me History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-41043320
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpC1Bkj86Ew