Half-term Exam Preparation

As you all know, the English exam is coming up VERY soon, and we all have a lot of work to do.

Over the half-term you should be doing several hours of good quality studying every day. It's not a holiday!

Try drawing up a revision timetable (don't take too long over this) detailing how long you will spend on each subject and each topic. Focus on the topics you find difficult. This should help ensure that you waste as little time as possible.

For English, you are also being given several tasks to complete over the next week.

These are the required tasks:

• In your poetry notebook, complete the questions on 'Havisham', 'Mother Any Distance' and 'On My First Sonne'. Include extension activities.


• In your purple booklet, complete the third Language Analysis and Presentation & Layout questions.


• Complete the literature past paper question provided below.


• Reread 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. Get your diary signed to show that you have done this, or at least that you've attempted to do so to the best of your ability.

These tasks are also suggested, but not compulsory.

• Create your own revision pack for literature and/or cluster 2 poetry. The act of making the pack itself will require you to learn about the poems in lots of depth.


• Make notes in your poetry notebook using the links on the right. BBC Bitesize is an excellent resource.


• Visit Fronter and make use of the revision materials available there.


• Highlight and make notes in your copy of TKAM. Again, use the links on the right to help you do this.

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Literature Questions


Higher

Answer both parts (a) and (b)
(a) Compare how female speakers are presented in ‘Havisham’ by Carol Ann Duffy and one poem from the Pre-1914 Poetry Bank.

and then

(b) Compare how male speakers are presented in ‘Sonnet 130’ by William Shakespeare and one poem by Simon Armitage.


Foundation

Compare how the poets present attitudes to people in ‘'Hitcher’' by Simon Armitage with one poem by Carol Ann Duffy and two poems from the Pre-1914 Poetry Bank.

Compare:

• what the attitudes to people are


• how the poets present these attitudes by the ways they write.