Yr 11 Easter Revision Lang and Lit (A minimum!)

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5x AIC: Responsibility

Compare how Poppies and one other poem present experiences of war

Compare how MLD and one other poem present powerful people

P1 Q2 8mins

Basic punctuation

5 J&H Duality

How does JBP present the theme of social responsibility in the play?

P1 Q3 8mins

5x Macbeth Guilt

Unseen poetry practice 1

J&H extract: How does Stevenson present Hyde as a threat?

5 x Kamikaze and migre: outcasts/powerless people

P1 Q4 20 mins

Complex punctuation

Macbeth extract: How does Shakespeare show Lady Ms power?

P1 Q5 35 mins

PLAN IT 1st!

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How does JBP present the character of Eric in the play?

P2Q2 8mins

Sentences

5 x Remains and WP powerful memories

Compare how the Prelude and one other poem present the power of nature

P2 Q3 12 mins

How does JBP present the character of Birling in the play?

J&H How does Stevenson present Hyde as a threat?

5 x AIC Birling and Sheila

How far do you agree that Macbeth is motivated by ambition?

P2 Q4 20 mins

5 x Macbeth: Mac and Lady Mac key moments in the play

J&H extract: How does Stevenson present an intimidating atmosphere?

Vocabulary

Macbeth extract: To what extent does Shakespeare present Macbeth as a tragic hero?

Unseen poetry practice 2

P1Q5 40 mins PLAN IT 1st!

Memorise quotations LOOK, COVER, WRITE/SAY, CHECK

Identify 3 points you would make in an answer to the question. Give yourself no more than 10 mins to do this. Go back, check the text and add more points

Write a paragraph in response to the question. The first sentence should address the question (SIGNPOST it), include mini embedded quotations, techniques, explore connotations, link to effect and context. Spend no more than 15 mins on it time yourself, them check it has all the above in it!

Timed practice of language papers. Allow yourself 5 mins to read the text, then time yourself to write an answer.

Do a SPAG activity - see booklet for ideas

Extra Revision activities LIT

1) Look through all the previous questions you have done in class- make a list and stick on your wall.

2) Use your exercise books go back through your notes and extract key ideas put them on cue cards and get someone to test how much you remember

3) Write down the targets from previous exams/ pieces in class and rewrite a paragraph from an previous assessment.

4) Learn quotations (with techniques) by writing them down on cue cards. Get your friend or family member to test you.

5) Highlight and write out ideas from revision guides as mindmaps.

6) Make notes on the texts from YouTube, Bitesize, Sparknotes and Shmoop. Look out for Mr Bruff videos on YouTube

7) Practise writing the answers in the time you are given for the exam.

8) Write key context on post its and place around your room.

9) Create quotation bunting to help you remember quotations from all the texts.

10) Make a list of techniques on a poster and add quotes which match the techniques.

11) Write key quotes and analyse with connotations and alternative interpretations.

12) Look us up on Twitter: @EnglishKingdown for tips, hints and links over Easter holidays

Useful websites:

http://www.learnlibrary.com/jekyll-hyde/index.htm Online text of J&H

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/ online text of Macbeth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zckw2hv BBC education Literature site

Extra Revision activities LANG

1) Sort out your folder find ALL mock papers and practice papers

2) Look through all the previous questions you have done - have a go at them again

3) Use your exercise books go back through your notes and extract key ideas put them on cue cards and get someone to test how much you remember about what to include on each question for each paper

4) Look out for Mr Bruff videos on YouTube on new AQA Language paper

5) Practise writing the answers in the time you are given for the exam.

6) Make a list of language and structure techniques on a poster and add notes about possible effects

7) P2Q5 Practice sentence types see upgrade your sentence

8) Vocabulary lists make sure you have 10 amazing adjectives up your sleeve w=know how to use them and how to spell them

9) Revise punctuation do you know when to use : ; - - () ?! for effect?

10) Look us up on Twitter: @EnglishKingdown for tips, hints and links over Easter holidays

AIC Quotations: Social Responsibility

1. Aman has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own(Birling)

2. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody wed had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldnt it?(Birling)

3. Girls of that class. (Mrs Birling)

4. You mustnt try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.(Sheila)

5. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. (InspectorGoole)

Which other quotations do you know that you could use?

For each quotation, try and pick out a technique or word you could explore in more detail.

CHALLENGE: gather 5 quotations to do with POWER

J&H: Duality

1. the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest. Story of the Door, Chapter 1.

2. I saw Mr Hyde go in by the old dissecting room, Poole Search for Mr Hyde, Chapter 2.

3. The two hands are in many points identical: only differently sloped. Incident of the Letter, Chapter 5.

4. I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of me.

5. I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame.

6. those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature.

7. that man is not truly one, but truly two.

8. I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man.

9. 5 quotes above from Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case, Chapter 10.

Which other quotations do you know that you could use?

For each quotation, try and pick out a technique or word you could explore in more detail.

CHALLENGE: Gather 5 quotations to do with ANIMALISM or VIOLENCE

Macbeth: Guilt

1. Methought, I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep'. (M A2S2)

2. Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? (MA2S2)

3. terrible dreams that shake us nightly (MA3S2)

4. Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me! (M A3S4)

5. Out, damned spot! out, I say (LM A5S1)

6. My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already (M to Macduff A5 S8)

Which other quotations do you know that you could use?

For each quotation, try and pick out a technique or word you could explore in more detail.

CHALLENGE: gather 5 quotations to do with EVIL

Kamikaze/migre outcasts/powerless people

Kamikaze:

1. a shaven head/ full of powerful incantations

2. my mother never spoke again/in his presence

3. he must have wondered/ which had been the better way to die.

migre

1. I am branded by an impression of sunlight.

2. time rolls its tanks/ and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves.

3. They accuse me of being dark in their free city.

For each quotation, try and pick out a technique or word you could explore in more detail.

Which other poems portray people as powerless? Why are they powerless and how is it shown?

Remains and War Photographer: Powerful memories

Remains:

1. I see every round as it rips through his life

2. His blood-shadow stays on the street,

3. Hes here in my head when I close my eyes/ dug in behind enemy lines,

War Photographer

1. spools of suffering

2. of running children in a nightmare heat.

3. He remembers the cries of this mans wife

4. A hundred agonies in black and white

For each quotation, try and pick out a technique or word you could explore in more detail.

Which other poems portray powerful memories? What are they of, and how are they presented?

Mr Birling and Sheila

1. it (the strike) obviously had nothing to do with the wretch girls suicide (B)

2. Yes, yes, horrid business. But I dont understand why you should come here, Inspector (B)

3. If you dont come down sharply on these people, theyd soon be asking for the earth (B)

4. I cant accept any responsibility (B)

5. I cant help thinking about this girl destroying herself so horribly (S)

6. These girls arent cheap labour theyre people (S)

7. oh how horrible! Was it an accident? (S)

8. Its a rotten shame (S)

9. So Im really responsible? (S)

For each quotation, try and pick out a technique or word you could explore in more detail.

What does each quotation reveal about the characters?

CHALLENGE gather quotations for Eric and Mrs B

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth key moments

1. brave Macbeth

2. unseamed from nave to chaps

3. stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires

4. I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting amb