Topic outline
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Year 11 Revision
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Practise answering the questions on this paper in timed conditions or use it as a template to create your own exam style questions.
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This is a comparison of 'Exposure' and 'Charge of the Light Brigade', a question that many of you will have answered in Year 10. Compare the essay you wrote to the one here written by an English teacher.
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Use this website (also available as an app) to help you learn key quotations. Remember, using your own analysis and thinking how you want to use quotations is always most useful, but this site will help you get started.
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Use this website (also available as an app) to help you learn key quotations. Remember, using your own analysis and thinking how you want to use quotations is always most useful, but this site will help you get started.
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This powerpoint gives useful guidance on how to structure your essay and there is a slide of revision prompts for each of the key poems.
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Use this to find extra question sheets, extracts, analysed extracts and contextual information on Dickens.
Search for Great Expectations specifically, or look at themes within the novel and Dickens' works as a whole.
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Here you will find a revision guide including useful quotations and some practice extract questions.
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These include model paragraphs and a range of activities designed to help you meet the assessment objectives and develop a more sophisticated vocabulary for writing about the play. There is a revision mat for each key character.
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Spend 10 minutes planning an answer then write an essay. You can decide whether to do this with the play open or closed.
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Listen to a drama production by the BBC.
A useful way to spot key quotations.
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BBC documentary on the social and historical context of the play.
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Watch another production from 1982 - YouTube link is below.
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Listen to a drama production by the BBC.
A useful way to spot key quotations.
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Use these as flash cards to help you revise for the play.
Print off an extra copy so that you can cut the quotations out and begin organising them by theme, as well as where they appear within the play.
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This is a paraphrase of the entire play which will clarify any difficult passages.
It is NOT a replacement for studying the text.
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5 questions with extracts, then a series of questions for which you can supply your own extract in the style of a real exam question.
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Use this to help you develop 'conceptual arguments' for your essays.
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