Year 10 English Literature - Sprowston Community High School
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Year 10 English Literature
Revision for your first GCSE Exam
Exam details
What?
When?
GCSE English Literature exam
Friday 10th June (first Friday after half-term)
1:30 – 3:30 pm
Where?
Hall
Exam content (what do I study?)
Of Mice and Men
2 questions
1 hour
30 marks
Poetry
Compare two unseen poems
1 hour
20 marks
Exam content: Of Mice and Men
1 x extract question for Of Mice and Men
Key words in question
Key words (evidence) in extract
P-E-E – more marks for explaining and exploring
Exam content: Of Mice and Men
1 x open question on Of Mice and Men
Choice of 2 (character + other)
Must know quotes from across the play
Connect to themes
Consider Steinbeck’s intentions
Exam Content: Unseen Poetry
Compare 2 poems
Unseen (practise on other poems)
Choose approach (1, 2, both / 1, 2 + both / both)
Same question every time for both tiers
Remember poet’s intentions and effect on reader
Mention the specific effect of poetic devices
Consider ideas or themes that emerge
Revision Overview
School website:
Of Mice and Men Revision guide + chapters
Year 10 Poetry hints
WJEC Poetry Collection – practise comparing two
poems on the same theme
BBC Bitesize (Literature > Of Mice and Men)
Reading sessions for ‘Of Mice and Men’ :
Tuesday 17th – Friday 20th May, after school
3:30 – 4:45pm in WS37
School Website
http://www.sprowstonhigh.org/cms/year-1011revision-zone/english.html
> Year 10/11 Revision Zone
> English
> ‘Of Mice and Men Revision Guide’
and ‘Year 10 Poetry hints’
And ‘Of Mice and Men’ chapters (broken into sections)
Ignore all other files: they don’t apply to you.
BBC Bitesize
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/en
glish_literature/prosemicemen/
> Google ‘BBC Bitesize’
> English Literature
> ‘Of Mice and Men’
Including a sample exam question and response
Reading sessions
Join a small group of Year 10s and 11s
reading through ‘Of Mice and Men’ in the
lead-up to the exam:
3:30 – 4:45pm
Tue 17th, Wed 18th,
Thu 19th, Fri 20th May
in WS37