AIC Revision - Exam delayed a week - MARCH 7th 3.15pm

Hi 11m1,

Your AIC practice exam has been delayed by 1 week to next Friday 7th March.  

Use this time to ensure you have REVISED.

The past paper questions (4 based on Priestley's techniques) are on the powerpoint below on slide 6.  

Make sure for EACH question you have:

(a) thought about it
(b) picked your 6 quotes (folded over pages is fine) 

EXT:  Write up some practice PEAs and bring them in for me to mark!

This is a great video which helps you revise for the first past paper question on slide 6 (About the Stage Directions at the start of Act 1): 

This is a good video to help with the 4th past paper question (on slide 6) about the key theme of RESPONSIBILITY.

Revising The Yellow Palm (Consequences/Experience of Conflict)

UPDATE:  Here is the lovely colour-coded copy of The Yellow Palm that Ms Kinnard annotated and a comparative plan of The Yellow Palm and At the Border.  

1. If you click here, you'll go to an annotated version of The Yellow Palm.  Sorry it's rotated the wrong way, I'll try to fix in next few days.    


2. Here is the powerpoint we used in class today for The Yellow Palm, use it if you did not get all the annotation tasks complete.




3.  Go here to read Robert Minhinnick talking about his poem and some useful points about its structure (the fact it is a ballad).  

4.  Useful revision questions: 

Revising Come On Come Back (Consequences/Memory)

JAN 2015 UPDATE. This is your copy 11m3 of all your analysis. 



1.  This is the powerpoint we used in class, including slides 15 and 16 which have the ideas from my class from last year on those 8 key quotes we did paper plate analysis with. 




2. This is Whitworth school's brilliant revision guide.  

3. Useful revision questions. Click on the image to go to a bigger version that you can zoom in on.  

Revising Poppies (Consequences/Feelings/Female Perspective)

1. Jane Weir reading her poem:

2.  You guys often ask, "Did the poet actually mean this stuff?"  "What did they actually intend?" Here is a quick interview with Jane Weir about the experience of writing Poppies. 

3. Another dedicated teacher's blog that I've just discovered.  

4. The powerpoint we used in class:

5.  Useful revision questions.  Click on the image to go to a bigger version that you can zoom in on.  

Unseen Poetry Practice

With unseen poetry, the most important thing is to practice, practice, practice! 

You need to practice:

(a) finding techniques 
(b) working around/avoiding words/lines you're not sure of
(c) working out the poet's ideas (remember: NOTHING IS RANDOM!) and messages.

Unseen Poetry Revision Opportunities. 

1. Remember, you have 45 unseen poems in your anthology that you can use. The poems from Character and Voice, Place and Relationships. 
2. I will also post the poems I pick for us here.  Any that you particularly like, write up your mini-essay and I'll mark them.  

• Hour - Carol Ann Duffy
• Alone - Maya Angelou
• In Flanders Fields - John McCrae
• Love after Love - Derek Walcott
• Visiting Hour - Norman MacCaig
• Great examples of unseen plans and essays (based on Visiting Hour)

Independent Study Task: At the Border, 1979 - FOR USE IN CLASS ON TUES 03.02

11Mercury1,  

These are instructions for class on Friday 14.02.14.

Use these resources to independently achieve these learning objectives:

• To understand the feelings in the poem (in particular the difference between the children and adults). 
• To identify and analyse the language and structural features of At the Border, 1979.

CRITICALLY ENGAGE with these resources, don't add notes to your anthology that you (a) don't understand or (b) don't agree with.  

1.  Start by reading the poem for yourself and then watching the bitesize video:

BBC Bitesize Video of the Poem 

2. Use some READING resources to add notes as they are easier to first add to your anthology: 

BBC Bitesize

Whitworth School Revision Booklet

Cherwell English blog

Mr W's Help Me With English website

3. Now watch some videos to add additional notes.  If the videos don't load up, then they are in the Shared area.  Year 10 English\MissRalston:  

At the Border, 1979 - Structural Comments

At the Border, 1979 - Language Comments

Analysis of At the Border, 1979 - Using SMILE

Analysis of At the Border, 1979 - J Brierley

Three Teachers Talking About At the Border, 1979

4.  Demonstrate you have achieved your learning objectives by: 

(a) being ready for a quiz on the ideas, feelings and techniques present in the poem.  

(b) writing a PEA-conn-PEA to any of these essays question:

• Compare how poets portray the consequences of conflict in 'At the Border, 1979' and one other poem from Conflict. 
• Compare how poets present feelings in 'At the Border, 1979" and one other poem from Conflict. 
• Compare the methods poets use to present memory in 'At the Border, 1979" and one other poem from Conflict.  

Key Mock/Practice Paper Dates

These dates should already be in your planner! 

Remember, mock papers are like TRAINING.  They will get make you stronger each time, so you're 100% ready to get a PERSONAL BEST on the real exam day. 

11 Saturn 1 

February

13/02/14 - P1/P2- IGCSE Language Paper (Extended - Q1/2/3) 

March

Week beginning 17.03.14  Speaking and Listening Week. 

21.03.14  3.15pm - IGCSE Language Paper (Extended - Q1/2/3) 

28/03/14 3.15pm  - IGCSE Language Paper (Extended - Q1/2/3)

11 Mercury 1

February

12/02/14  P1/P2 - Poetry Across Time (Section A - Conflict, Section B - Unseen Poetry) 

28/02/14  3.15pm - Exploring Modern Texts (Section A - An Inspector Calls) 

March 

07/03/14   3.15pm - IGCSE Language Paper (Extended - Q1/2/3) 

21/03/14   3.15pm - Literature (paper to be decided based on diagnosis from Feb papers) 

28/03/14   3.15pm - IGCSE Language Paper (Extended - Q1/2/3)