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Miss Witney

Head of English

An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls

• Literature course
  
• 25% of the final Mark
  
• Choice of this, Journey's End, The History Boys, Hobson's Choice, A view from the Bridge and Educating Rita
  
• We have lots of these texts therefore most students will study this text
  
• Exam taken at end of Y11
  
• Sample scheme of work suggests 3 weeks of teaching
  
• There is a sample lesson plan that also looks good
  
• In the exam there will be two types of questions – passage-based (therefore this should form the basis of much of the revision) and questions requiring comment, criticism and analysis (essay-style question as we are used to)
  
• Assessed for AO1 and AO2
  

AO1 Respond to texts critically and imaginatively; select and evaluate relevant textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations.

AO2 Explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers' presentation of ideas, themes and settings.

 

            A*    A    B    C    D    E    F    G    U    

A662F 25%     41     –     –     –     36     30     24     18     12     0

A662H 25%     60     54     48     42     36     30     27     –     –     0

 

In the blue book there is quite a chunk on the different texts.

Much should probably be used for revision

Pages 54 – 55 quite useful as general

The notes 'around' pages 56 – 59 are useful

Pages 60-61 – really creative ideas – project-based

Pages 62 – 65 – general stuff around is useful

Pages 66 – 69 are useful

Pages 74 – 75 are useful

Advice for posting word documents

At the moment, the only way I have worked out to add a word document is to highlight or 'select all' in the word document and then drag and drop into the postings space.

Shakespeare and Film Unit A661

Controlled Assessment: UNIT A661 LITERARY HERITAGE LINKED TEXT in English Literature Shakespeare and Film/Audio/Live performance This task is linked with Poetry under UNIT A661 Candidates choose one of four Shakespeare plays: Julius Caesar or Macbeth or The Merchant of Venice or Romeo and Juliet and a film, audio version or live performance of their chosen play.

One task is set on the Shakespeare text studied linked to a film, audio version or live performance.

For example,

Shakespeare: Macbeth

Text

Any version of the play, film versions, audio versions, live theatre productions

Task

Remind yourself of Act 2 Scene 2 and Act 3 Scene 4 in the text and in one or two performed versions of the play.

Using this scene as a starting point, and referring to Shakespeare’s text as a whole, explore how the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are portrayed in the performed version(s) you have studied.

Outcome:

Task should be completed as a controlled assessment of up to three hours and a word limit of 1000 words.

AO’s covered: AO1 (10% of marks) and AO3 (15% of marks)

Total unit weighting: 25% (Shakespeare and Poetry task)

On the OCR website, there are two sample lessons for Romeo and Juliet and two for Macbeth. See below link:

http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/type/gcse_2010/english/english_lit/documents/

Test

GCSE revision

lit revision