Revision 11m3 - Thurs 23.10

1.  Use this model and scaffold to complete a PEA-conn-PEA for the following past paper.

Explore the methods used to present love for your country in Flag and one other poem from the Conflict cluster. 

Model: 

Both Agard and Cummings use alliteration to present the idea of love for your country.  In Flag it says "outlive the blood you bleed." This suggests that a Flag's power is permanent and will survive any sacrifice that you make.  The word "blood" implies that it is worth getting injured or even killed for the honour of country.  Also, alliteration is used in next to course god america i: "heroic happy dead."  This emphasises that men were willing to sacrifice themselves in order to become war heroes.  The word "dead" is very blunt and highlights that Cummings is being sarcastic and he thinks it is ridiculous that love for your country can lead you to an early, and perhaps pointless death.  


Your turn. 

Use these quotes and the sentence starter below to write up a PEA-conn-PEA.  It is exactly the same as all the other PEAs you've done (OMAM, Aunt Pegg, Shakespeare) it's just two smushed together!

Quotes: 
"Then blind your conscience to the end." 
"They did not stop to think, they died instead."

Both Agard and Cummings show a similar message that a love for your country can lead you to being influenced.    At the end of Flag Agard writes: "..............


2.  Turn to your Aunt Pegg and OMAM exam practices.  Look at your EBIs.  They are either numbers (eg 2.1, 2.6 etc) or letters ( [a], [e] etc).  Click here to see what your EBIs stand for and write them out on your exam practices in green pen.  

3. Use the remaining time to actively revise (that means you have to be DOING something, not just reading/watching) any of the work we've done this half term:

• OMAM
• Flag 
• next to course god america i
• IGCSE

Revising Hawk Roosting

1. Here is the powerpoint we used in class:


2.  Here are some great annotations from a discussion that Lauren, Bella



 3. A great and really detailed revision guide from Whitworth school on this poem. 


4. Great revision questions. Click to go to a version you can zoom in on:

Revising The Right Word

1.  This is the powerpoint we used in class. 

To get this poem, it's important to understand Dharker's intention/message/lesson about:

• prejudices we have
• how words can have the power to manipulate how we think/feel/react - words can make our prejudices worse!

Remember, the first 6 stanzas describe exactly the same image (someone outside a door) but how differently you react to that person when they're called a TERRORIST (stanza 1)  to when they're called a CHILD (stanza 6).





2. You can also see some annotations from a discussion that Lauren, Bella and I had below:



3.  A great revision resource, lots of questions to get you thinking about The Right Word, click on it to go to a version you can really zoom-in on:

Blog Updates

REVISE REVISE REVISE!  It'll make you feel good, I promise!  Don't put it off, JUST DO IT.  

Here is a quick overview of some things I've added to our various posts and links to quickly find your way to main posts. 

1.  Another great blog found with notes on Of Mice and Men and An Inspector calls. 

2. Go to the Of Mice and Men post to see:

• some useful character mind-maps found 
• a link to a folder with all our past papers in it it
• a great video from Mr Bruff which goes over a 30/30 response to support the work we did about that in class.  

3. Go to the IGCSE Q1,2,3 postto access a folder with loads of past papers in it.  You MUST be practicing, the exam is in 4 days time! Anything you do, I'll mark! 

4. Coming soon, your AIC revision posters (although you all have your own copy as well).  In the mean time, use the AIC post to keep revising!  

5.  Don't forget to visit the poetry posts too:  

• General advice and past papers. 
• Comparative plans + advice 
• Revising Unseen Poetry
• Plus all the individual posts on separate poems if you've got any glaring gaps. 

New Revision Guide - for Literature

Thanks to Miss George (for finding) and Kings Down School (for creating) this revision guide.

It has:

1. SUPER USEFUL key quotes to know for each character and overall for Of Mice and Men.

2. The same for An Inspector Calls.  Plus an interesting way to think about AIC as demonstrating the 7 Deadly Sins. 

3. A page of notes on each conflict poem - great for if you've missed any. 

4. Tips on how to revise generally!

You can find it here.  

Comparing Poems

Each time that we do a comparative plan, I'll try to add it to here so that we're gathering a collection of plans for a variety of combos.  

Scroll down for some general advice about comparing poems.  See this post here also plus all the individual posts for the various poems.  

Practice Question:  Compare how poets explore the importance of memory in Come on Come Back and one other poem from Conflict. 



Practice Question: Compare how poets present people in danger in Out of the Blue and one other poem from Conflict. 



Compare how poets discuss the idea of being manipulated in next to of course god America i and one other poem from Conflict. 


TOP TIPS for comparing poems:

• Think which poems did we do at the same sort of time?  They were taught in a deliberate order!
•  Flag 
•  next to of course god America i
•  Charge of the Light Brigade
•  Bayonet Charge 
•  Out of the Blue 
•  Belfast Confetti 
•  Futility
•  Falling Leaves
•  Mametz Wood
•  Poppies 
•  Come on Come Back
•  The Yellow Palm 
•  The Right Word
•  Hawk Roosting 

KEY 

Blue = patriotism 

Orange = Experience of battle/conflict 

Purple =  Death/Nature 

Green = Consequences of conflict 

Pink = power

• Remember you can compare based on similarities/differences in:
• Technique used
• Topic (what is being described - a child, a solider fighting etc) 
• Impact on the reader 
• Author's message

• Use comparing/contrasting connectives to show whether you're discussing a similarity or a difference: 

Comparing Connectives	Contrasting Connectives
And Also Furthermore In the same way Similarly Additionally In addition	But However On the other hand In a different way Contrastingly Alternatively In contrast

IGCSE Q1,2,3

UPDATE:  Click here to go to a folder with 22 past papers in it! I've also included the text-type required by Q1 as part of each files name.  This means you can target the past papers you most need to practice.  



This exam is on the 8th of May! 

1. Use this revision placemat to give you all the basic information on each question and exemplars:





2. Use this link to visit a folder with all the powerpoints we've used in class to go over Q1, 2, 3 to jog your memory or revisit various activities. 

3. Use this table to search for past papers.   

Simply, go to google and type:

"Vesuvius CIE English language"  and you'll get routed to copies of past papers.  Often it's the second link down (the first is the mark scheme). 

Still can't find them directly?  Then find them through a website called extremepapers.com