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
