This is mainly (for the moment at least!) for my lovely Year 10 and 11 students to aid their journey to being proactive, independent learners who get revising NOW!
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2. Get blank copies of the Conflict poems from me, so you can annotate them at home. In fact, you can print your own PDF versions from here.
3. Use the rest of the anthology to practice annotating and tackling unseen poetry for section B. 4. Read the examiners' reports here. They give an overview of what students are doing well/not so well each year.
5. This is a useful revision guide that you could print and work through.
6. Seriously, there are some HERO teachers out there who have gone to a lot of time and effort to make great revision websites. Like this guy Mr W , this school, and this blog (which looks just like mine!) - thank you!
Ensuring that your navigation of the text is secure - use key quotes document and the Sheila/Eric/Gerald powerpoint below. FOR MAY 2016 - SET 4 &5 SHOULD USE THEIR CUE CARDS!
Practice finding 6 quotes in 15 minutes for various past paper questions:
1.How does Priestley present his views through his
presentation of Mr Birling?
2.How does Priestley present the struggles of the working class in
the play?
3.The play is full of suspense. How does Priestley
create this suspense?
4.Priestley presents British society as immoral. What
methods does he use to present
this immorality?
Feb 2015 UPDATE: Here are the key quotes for the Younger Generation that we worked on. KNOW your way around the text and your pages!
UPDATE: Knowing your text and quotes is the most important revision you can do at this stage. Use this key-quotes document to practice navigating around your text.
Act 1: Dinner party/I.G arrives/Interrogation of Mr B/Interrogation of S Act 2: Pause/Interrogation of Gerald/Interrogation of Mrs B Act 3: Interrogation of Eric/I.G leaves/Gerald returns - "it was a hoax"/Phone call. UPDATE: Here are the character mindmaps that you worked on 11m1. See them for key quotes/pages/characteristics for the AIC characters: Don't forget that you need to keepAn Inspector Calls fresh in your memory also until the Literature exam on Tuesday 20th of May. 1. Rusty on the plot? Watch this handy video: An Inspector Calls Summary - Bitesize or this BBC film version:
2. And whilst your on Bitesize, use the rest of their AIC resources: BBC Bitesize AIC Menu. Other good sites are:
7. We know that revising English can be a bit tough, you can't just flick to the markscheme and check it yourself. However, I WOULD BE DELIGHTEDTO LOOK AT EVERYTHING/ANYTHING (plans, PEA paragraphs, whole practice essays) FOR YOU!
8. Here are some of your plans (from 11m1) on various essay questions on Mr Birling and Eva Smith/Daisy Renton. Particular well done/thanks to Amber, Amy, Andrei and Bella who contributed detailed full plans. How can you revise? Take one of these plans, set a clock for 30 minutes, write it up!
Here are the quotations you found for a variety of AIC past paper questions:
9. Click here for links to youtube for an audiobook copy of An Inspector Calls - listening to it would be a great idea!
10. As mentioned on poetry pages, I really rate these two teachers' vidoes: J Brierley and Mr Bruff
See below for the KEY 6 EPISODES (1 from each section) that could be used for lots of PART B questions on Friendship/Status/Dreams/Discrimination/Lives of ranch workers.
May 2015:
11m3 - this is the copy of the KEY EPISODES (1 from each section) that we think could be used for a variety of section (b) themes. Here are the quotes we found, but remember you could use others.
April 2015:
Thanks to Andy Tharby
Y10 UPDATE: Click here if you don't have a copy of your OMAM revision homework. It is also in your emails. There is NEVER an excuse for not handing in homework on Mondays.
UPDATE: Know your pages and quotes is THE most important piece of revision you can do between now and 20th of May. Therefore use this key quote resource (you've got a copy!) to orientate yourself around your text!
A collection of useful revision resources for Of Mice and Men:
1. Rusty on the story line? Check out this 10 minute summary from sparknotes.com:
2. Other great overview websites with a lot information (summary, context, themes etc) are the trusty bitesize and light-hearted shmoop. If you go to Miss Leslie's blog you'll also find mindmaps and revision quizzes. Don't have much time? Well check out 60 second re-caps - which are great short videos - if a little bit cheesy and overly cheerful! These tutor2u quizzes are a fairly superficial but easy way to get refamiliar with characters and themes.
3. There are a wealth of brilliant videos on youtube - although be critical about which ones you trust, some are student projects which may vary in quality/validity.
Ones that I really like include, so search for them and have an explore:
English/GCSE/English Literature (exams in 2014) (9710)
Alternatively, you can access all the past papers we've looked at in class if you click here.
5. See my next post on An Inspector Calls for a whole list of ways to revise which will take anywhere from 3minutes --> 45 minutes.
6. Recently (April 2014), we did a lesson on what is the difference between Band 5 and Band 6 work. We used the Bunkhouse past paer (see folder above). After, I found a great video from Mr Bruff also talking through this same exemplar. Check it out:
7. Here is a great brainstorm if you get a part (b) question on HOPES/DREAMS/AMBITIONS etc - thanks Cole!:
8. Here are some useful character mind-maps courtesy of a student on www.getrevising.co.uk. Look at them for some interesting (new) ideas for each character, although they need quotes.
8. How about using a youtube video downloader to get a copy of the audiobook so you can listen to Of Mice and Men? It will certainly help consolidate the plot and help you remember some key quotes!
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