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Understanding and
producing non-fiction texts
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What does it mean? Its a 2 hour exam at the end of Yr
You will be given some texts to read and answer
questions on. There are 40 marks.
You will be asked to write 2 non-fiction pieces.
One will be to inform or advise
The other will be an experience you may have had(though you can make it up)
Another 40 marks
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GCSE English Literature
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Unit 1: Exploring modern texts
External examination 40% of the total GCSE marks
1 hour 30 mins
60 marks
Section A: Modern prose or drama
20% of the total GCSE marks
45 mins (30 marks)
Candidates answer one question from a choice of twoon each set text).
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Unit 1: Exploring modern texts
Section B: Exploring cultures 20% of the total GCSE marks
45 mins (30 marks)
Candidates answer one question on the set text theyhave studied. The question will be in two parts (30marks).
Part a will ask candidates to respond to a passagefrom the text. Part b will ask candidates to link this passage to thewhole text.
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Unit 2: Poetry across time
External examination
35% of the total GCSE marks 1 hour 15 mins
54 marks
Section A: Poetry cluster from the Anthology
23% of the total GCSE marks
45 mins (36 marks)
Candidates answer one question, from a choice of two, onthe poetry cluster they have studied. The question will askcandidates to compare a named poem with another poem,chosen by the candidate, from the cluster.
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Unit 2: Poetry across time
Section B: Responding to an unseen poem
12% of the total GCSE marks
30 mins (18 marks)
Candidates are given one compulsory unseen poem.
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Unit 3: The significance of Shakespeare and theEnglish Literary Heritage
Controlled Assessment
25% of the total GCSE marks
3 4 hours 40 marks
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Unit 3: The significance of Shakespeare and theEnglish Literary Heritage
Candidates complete one Controlled Assessment taskwhich asks them to make links between a play fromShakespeare and any other text, of any genre, from theEnglish (or Welsh or Irish) Literary Heritage (40
marks).
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To be able to respond to a poem using evidence tosupport your opinion
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In pairs, list what you believe examiners are looking forin an C+ answer to an unseen poem.
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What do you think the poet is saying about the ways thatsome students approach poetry, how it should beapproached? How does he present his ideas?
(18 marks)
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Introduction to Poetry
Billy CollinsI ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the lightlike a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out,or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.But all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.
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What message are the examiners trying to pass ontotheir students? What have you learned aboutachieving the higher marks?
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"Using technical detail as a framework and foundationfor writing, rather than an aid to understandingmeaning, limits candidate performance. Statements
pointing out the use of enjambment for example, orthe fact that a poem is written in free verse or with arhyme scheme, tended to lead to some rathergeneralised comments which offered very little interms of developing understanding of ideas andthemes. Language and technique is most successfullyanalysed when linked explicitly to themes and ideasrather than in isolation."
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