Gcse English Online Presentation

GCSE English/English Literature

Be informed: What your son/daughter should be doing to
revise for their exams & what you can do to help.

  What is in each exam and when are they?

  English Literature – Tuesday 25th May (1 ¾ hours)
  Section A – Short Stories
  Section B – Armitage, Duffy, Pre-1914 Poetry

  English Paper 1 – Tuesday 8th June (1 ¾ hours)
  Section A – Non-Fiction & Media Texts
  Section B – Writing to Argue, Persuade, Advise

  English Paper 2 – Thursday 10th June (1 ½ hours)
  Section A – Poetry From Different Cultures
  Section B – Writing to Inform, Explain, Describe

  If you want to know more about anything mentioned this
evening, please ask! Use the chat box in the bottom left of
your screen…

  There are some other teachers online right now who will
answer as many questions as they can.

  If your question is not answered please don’t worry. Just send
your child’s English teacher an e-mail and they will answer any
queries that you may have.
  I will put all of the departments e-mail addresses up at the end of the
presentation.

  What should your son/daughter be doing at the moment
to get ready for their exams?

  They should be revising already…this will need to be planned –
they are taking multiple subjects many of which have more than
one exam.
  You can help them by discussing their revision plan – help them set
one up on a calendar – on paper, online or on their mobile phone.

  For English/English Literature there is a lot of content – at this
stage they should be revising the materials in the AQA
Anthology as much as possible.
  Reading will not suffice though – encourage them to make posters,
mind-maps, charts, flash cards etc – revision needs to be active!

  What are we doing to in school to help get your son/
daughter ready for their exams?

  At the moment all Year 11 classes are finishing off learning any
poems that they have not covered.

  Every Friday they are having a Paper 1 Skills Lesson to revise
for and prepare for this exam.
  Each week they receive a homework from this lesson in the form of a
past exam question.
  You can help by asking about this and making sure that they are doing it.

  What will we be offering in the near future?

  On Wednesday 7th April there will be an all day revision session for
students who are on the C/D borderline.
  There will be 4 follow up sessions after the Easter Break
  Letters will be sent out at the end of this week.

  There will also be sessions after the Easter break for those students
who could achieve a B grade.
  Again letters will go out to parents of these students.

  Similarly, we have identified the students we believe are capable of
achieving an A* - there is to be a double session on Wednesday 31st
March for these students and one follow-up session on .
  Again, a letter will be sent out.

  3 ways to revise short stories:

  Write a 200 word summary of each of the short stories that
you have studied. Then reduce the summary to 100 words.
Then reduce it to key words.

  Make a chart with the key themes along the top / stories down
the side – fill in the chart with notes about how each story fits
in with each theme.

  Each story uses “Extended Metaphors” – create a poster or
mind-map that shows what each metaphor is and how they
develop within each story. Include quotes to add detail.

  3 ways to revise poetry:

  Using the following themes: Death, Loss, Love, Relationships,
Growing Up, Isolation – list all the poems that can fit under
each one.

  Create comparison grids for sets of 4 poems – in each box
write down how the poem compares with one of the others
and write down 2 key quotes you could use to support your
points.

  For each poem write down a key quote and then explain what
we learn from the quote. (This is a good “flash-card” exercise)

  3 ways to revise non-fiction & media texts:

  Read as many media texts as possible including the backs of
Cereal Boxes, biographies, news articles, magazines, posters,
web pages.

  Read over your completed skills homework – where you didn’t
get full marks – do the task again and re-submit it.

  Create a list of persuasive devices – write down what they do
and find examples of them. (another good flash-card exercise)

  3 ways to revise poetry from different cultures:

  For each poem you have studied write down what you learn
about the specific culture the poet is writing about.

  This is “language” so you must have an understanding of the
techniques used – explore these by creating mind-maps or
posters.

  Layout and structure are also important.
  For layout draw the shape of each poem – annotate this explaining
what it represents'
  For structure – write down what the purpose of each stanza is?
What unusual patterns can you see?

  3 ways to revise writing:

  Practice using devices and the senses in your descriptive
writing by describing your own house at breakfast or dinner
time.

  Use Sam Learning to practice your spelling, punctuation and
grammar.

  Write a leaflet to your fellow students advising them about the
benefits of revising – offer them practical ideas about how to
do it.

  If you send us an e-mail we send you a copy of this
booklet:

  Revising offline:

  Revising offline:   Revising online:
  AQA Anthology   The VLE
  Posters   GCSE Bitesize English
  Mind-mapping   GCSE Bitesize English Lit
  Charts   Sam Learning
  Flash cards   Buzan Mind-maps
  Practice essays   universalteacher.org.uk
  Past papers   englishbiz.co.uk
  Practice writing tasks   s-cool.co.uk
  CGP Revision Guides   revisioncentre.co.uk
  York Notes (for Poetry)

  Revising online:

www.chalfonts.org - click on the link for the VLE
http://learning.chalfonts.bucks.sch.uk/ - or go straight to this address

Or Google “Chalfonts Community College!

  Revising online:

  Revising using your iPod touch / iPhone or other
Smartphone:

Department E-mail:
G1 – simonford@chalfonts.org K1 – jamesmichie@chalfonts.org
G2 – premva9patel@chalfonts.org (Leader for KS4 English)
G3 – sineadoreilly@chalfonts.org K2 – nicolagoodman@chalfonts.org
(Head of English) K3 – sineadoreilly@chalfonts.org
G4 – laylaprice@chalfonts.org K4 – laylaprice@chalfonts.org
G5 – kellyneale@chalfonts.org K5 – joannaweir@chalfonts.org
G6 – mariedonegan@chalfonts.org K6 – elainebrooks@chalfonts.org

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