Countdown - 2 days to go!

Revision Advice for Last 2 days:

• KNOW YOUR PAGE NUMBERS!
• Practice doing plans for AIC and OMAM by seeing if you can cope with random essay questions (see Countdown...20 days for links to past papers) and make a plan in 15 minutes.   Especially for part (b) of OMAM. 

The powerpoint from Saturday's Revision class.  






The majority of the resources used in class, are in the links below.



Of Mice and Men:

Here is the 30/30 A* example for OMAM that we read today in class.  

A revision 20 minute documentary about the context of OMAM.

Click here to go to a folder with 17 OMAM past papers in it, including the one we looked at today (Past Paper 17) which is about the ending of OMAM.  

An Inspector Calls:

A revision video on the first 2 pages of AIC.

A revision video on POWER in AIC. 

A revision video on Mr Birling's speech in AIC. 

A 20 minute documentary about context of AIC. 


Poetry: 

Click here for 5 unseen poems that we've studied recently. 

Countdown - 1 week to go!

Dear all,

A few updates with 1 week to go!!


Page Numbers to MEMORISE: 



AIC:

Example essay on Gerald*

Example essay on Selfishness*

*Neither of the example essays above follow our exact PEA process but they're useful for analytical ideas!

OMAM

Past paper practice on (a) Curley and (b) Power/hierarchy  and an exemplar answer.  

Poetry

Click here to go to SEVEN examples of unseen poems that we've done in intervention in the last few weeks. 

Click here to go to the last mock paper (Conflict Poetry + Unseen Poetry) we did - if you didn't do it in class, set a timer for 75 minutes and do it! Bring it in for me to mark.

I'LL BE HAPPY TO LOOK AT ANYTHING YOU DO AT HOME!! 

Go to the blog post below - Countdown... 20 days!  for links to more past papers, blog posts.  

COUNTDOWN...20 DAYS!

Hi all,

Remember that you can find lots of posts & resources by using the SEARCH bar above.

However, this is a useful index post: key facts, past papers, useful blog posts. 

KEY FACTS
23rd May - AIC - 2 essay Qs, pick 1.  45 minutes. 6 PEA 

23rd May - OMAM - 1 essay Q with 2 parts, do it.  45 minutes.  6 PEA (3/3 2/4 4/2) 

27th May - Conflict Poetry - 2 essay Qs, pick 1.  45 minutes.  3 PEA-conn-PEA. 

27th May - Unseen Poetry - 1 essay Q, do it.  30 minutes.  3/4 PEA.  

PAST PAPERS

1. An Inspector Calls Click here for ALL AIC past paper questions,

I recommend picking exam questions in this order: CHARACTER --> THEME --> AUTHOR'S TECHNIQUES.

Pick a question, set a timer for 15 minutes and do a plan by picking out 6 quotes you'd use to answer it.

Use your big character sheets to help:


 


2. Of Mice and Men
Click here for a folder with LOTS of OMAM past papers.  

Remember for Part (b) you need to find 3 quotes from the WHOLE NOVEL.  

Possible themes that come up in Part (b):

Friendships/Relationships/Companionship/Loneliness
Power/Status/Hierarchy/Importance
Dreams/Goals/Ambitions/Hopes
Discrimination/Prejudice/Inequality/Unfairness
Life on the ranch/Lives of migrant workers

Use your 6 Key Episodes sheet that you can see here, to help you find 3 quotes for these themes.

3. Conflict Poetry

Click here for all the Conflict Poetry Past questions. 

Remember that we learnt them in a specific order which will help you decide which poems go well together:

USEFUL BLOG POSTS

Click here for AIC.

Click here for OMAM. 

Click here, here, here or here for poetry posts (or type the poem's name into search bar).