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Slide 1 GCSE English Maximising Achievement INFORMATION FOR PARENTS Miss Burgess Lead Teacher for KS4 English Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 2 Class of 2017 AIMS • To clarify the current situation in English for Year 11 • To explain the school approach to the next few weeks • To receive information and resources about how best to support your child Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 3 ENGLISH GCSE: WHERE ARE WE NOW? Paper One LITERATURE GCSE • 1 hour 45 minutes Paper Two • 40% of total marks • 2 hours and 15 minutes • 2 sections • 60% of total marks • Same approach for both sections – • 3 sections extract to analyse and reference to whole text LANGUAGE GCSE Paper One Paper Two • 1 hour and 45 minutes • 1 hour and 45 minutes • Section A - 40 marks for reading • Section A - 40 marks for reading (25%), 4 Qs (25%), 4 Qs • Section B - 40 marks for writing • Section B - 40 marks for writing (25%), 1 Q (25%), 1 Q Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 4 Revision Current Situation Students sat their final trial examination on Tuesday 7 th February and feedback is being provided in this first week back after half-term. Therefore, students have now covered all content for every section of all four examinations across English Language and English Literature. Our Approach to Revision Phase One:  Interleaved approach with students covering a question from every paper across the fortnightly block of lessons. Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 5 Phase One Yellow refers to Language content Blue refers to Literature content Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 6 Revision Current Situation Students sat their final trial examination on Tuesday 7 th February and feedback is being provided in this first week back after half-term. Therefore, students have now covered all content for every section of all four examinations across English Language and English Literature. Our Approach to Revision Phase One:  Interleaved approach with students covering a question from every paper across the fortnightly block of lessons. Phase Two:  Series of revision sessions run by department through after-school programme Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 7 Staff will be in their usual classrooms and details of roomings can be found on the display board in the English corridor. Phase Two A second cycle has been added as we foresee some students will have clashes with other subjects during cycle one. Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 8 Revision Current Situation Students sat their final trial examination on Tuesday 7 th February and feedback is being provided in this first week back after half-term. Therefore, students have now covered all content for every section of all four examinations across English Language and English Literature. Our Approach to Revision Phase One:  Interleaved approach with students covering a question from every paper across the fortnightly block of lessons. Phase Two:  Series of revision sessions run by department through after-school programme Phase Three:  Revision programme during study leave Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 9 Revision Materials Knowledge Organisers providing essential detail Text- or Section-based BBCBitesize.com summaries: booklets which will form Timings and weightings revision guides. Key quotations Response structures Copies of the Spellings and vocabulary Literature Plot overviews texts with Character summaries Literacy TGI-SPACE revision Etc. Workbooks questions and activities Mini Mocks printed. Notes in exercise books Student-populated constructed as revision revision booklets with an guides. active approach. Tudor Grange Academy

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Slide 17 Student Voice Anna Clews and Simran Godhania Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 18 HOW CAN YOU HELP? A Weekly 5 Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 19 1: READ Re-Read Literature Set Texts To best prepare for any Literature question, students should have a solid understanding of the set texts. The only way to achieve this is by re-reading the text from cover to cover . Students have already read the texts in full in lessons but they must revisit them in depth. Encouraging your children to read a Chapter or Act a night from the novel and plays and a poetry pair a week would be a great starting point. Only 10 chapters Only 72 long and Ch4 is pages long! one page! Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 20 2: ANNOTATIONS Annotate key extracts for devices and effects: For both Literature and Language Section As, students will need to comment on the effect of language and how the writer shapes meaning through the words, phrases and devices used. They have been doing this consistently throughout the course, as shown by these slides. Students should continue to annotate extracts and sources provided by their teachers, focussing on the author’s craft. Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 21 3: TGi-SPACE Access via TGAS website Choose a section from any examination – Literature or Language – and watch the accompanying videos or read the accompanying material on TGi-Space Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 22 4: EXAM-STYLE QUESTIONS Attempt English Language and Literature Questions • Take home CPG exam papers tonight for £3 • Obtain ‘mini mocks’ from class teachers • Re-attempt trial exam material, building on the targets previously set • Try to re-create the conditions of the exam when working at home. • They should work in silence to produce a handwritten response, without assistance, in the time allowed in the exam. • Maybe even temporarily confiscate that pesky smart phone! • Self-assess work produced against the marking criteria Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 23 5: REVISION MATERIALS Complete tasks from the revision materials independently • Reading tasks • Writing tasks • Analysis tasks • Comparative responses • Basic skills: spelling, punctuation, grammar • Recapping plot • Exploring character • Exploding quotations • Linked material via Show My Homework Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 24 Englis lish Language General  Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zr9d7ty  Mr Bruff – YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch- XgnluOf4&list=PLqGFsWf-P-cAlttmXkEvJXCxqT-ZzFqAN Paper 1 – Section A: Literary Fiction  YouTube channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- Cx5xwWh5N4&list=PLQE65hp6MwUq6099hTU4sGSHLVVKAcPdX Paper 2 – Section A: Non Fiction  YouTube channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LABviX6HIPk&list=PLQE65hp6MwUp5mWyI94yUPkeIK -x3eydM Section B: Writing  http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/05/travel/best-drone-photos-2016-dronestagram/ - select an image and then plan and write a description inspired by it.  Teacher in my pocket YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBIFn8TcIuE&list=PLB56F3A80A3E34644 Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 25 Englis lish Lite iterature Paper 1 Macbeth:  YouTube channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnhH1xlDyB4&list=PLQE65hp6MwUow497ZCodoHZ-12m51jGLr  Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zwws39q  Animated Tales to revise plot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfnUq2_0FOY  Full film, starring Ian McKellen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKWWK0Pj34  Full film, starring Patrick Stewart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4fVMXOFPc Jekyll and Hyde:  YouTube Channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crmBIsz6-O4&list=PLQE65hp6MwUrGHYD4beVlRr-AqLouL0Qz  Revision Podcast – Mr Salles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJwe2viOphU&list=PLQovVw7yuGiK9zhWW8GH_d9gwKtehucfy  YouTube channel – Mr Bruff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ2icGAORKQ&list=PLtXi1Rm50tWXOTbwNDezpFG1nBTfE0Tg1  Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/z83qxsg  Sparknotes: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/jekyll/  Shmoop:http://www.shmoop.com/jekyll-and-hyde/ Tudor Grange Academy

Slide 26 Paper 2: An Inspector Calls:  YouTube Channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if0v8TJ3Fzg&list=PLQE65hp6MwUqRTTU7tGg1NgmChVf5wBrZ  Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zxmb4j6 Conflict Poetry:  YouTube Channel – Stacey Reay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0cSHySLZGk&list=PLQE65hp6MwUpYVZu7iIsOKjS-rjpNfKD9  YouTube Channel – Mr Bruff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9h_csKEwxg&list=PLqGFsWf-P- cAO64lBHZTFwTz2X0DD_Cxk Unseen Poetry:  YouTube channel – Mr Bruff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODEYFSx18dA  YouTube channel – GCSE Revision; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNMKyEKySNk  Wildern English: https://wildernenglish.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/five-steps-to-analysing-an-unseen-poem/  Miss Ryan: https://missryansgcseenglish.wordpress.com/category/english-literature/unseen-poetry/  Poems to practice with: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/poetrycompetition/article3229711.ece or http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/ Tudor Grange Academy