Resit Success! Paper 1 Hints and Tips.

The Reading Paper

Here are some phrases from the mark scheme for Section 1 - Reading

References are integrated into argument

Shows an understanding of how facts and opinions present an arument

Detailed responses

Explains in detail how images and language get points accross

Use of Media Terminology

Pronouns

After surveying available sites on pronouns, it turns out that mum knows best!

Go here to teach yourself pronouns.

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-pronouns.html

Modal Verbs

The modal verbs are as follows.

• shall and should
• will and would
• may and might
• can and could
•  also...must

Resit Success!

The past, present and future walk into a bar...it was a tense moment.

You will need to fully prepare your Cluster 1 poetry.

The best sites to do this from are listed below.

Nothing you need to know is not contained within.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/poemscult/

http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/anthology/differentcultures.htm

Exploring Educating Rita

All,

http://www.litnotes.co.uk/educatin.htm

Go here.  It is an excellent page.  It has been created for AS level English students and so it is probably good enough for us!

Read through the content.  Pick one of the 'starting points' and write a response to it.  Post it.  Simples!

Educating Rita - Understanding the Details

Willy Russell could have chosen any books and authors to reference in the play.  Why did he choose the ones that he did?  In order to figure out the answer to this question we need to know a little more about some of the authors and their works that are referenced by Frank and Rita.

Between you find out a little about...

T. S. Eliot and his poem 'J. Arthur Profrock'
E. M. Forster and the novel 'Howard's End'
The life and work of Roger McGough
W. B. Yeats and the poem 'The Wild Swans at Coole'
Rita Mae Brown and her novel 'Rubyfruit Jungle'
Henrik Ibsen and his play 'Peer Gynt'
Anton Checkhov and his play 'The Seagull'
Oscar Wilde and his play 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
Bram Stoker and his novel 'Dracula'
D. H. Lawrence and his novels 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' and 'Sons and Lovers'
William Blake and his collection of poems 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'
Mary Shelley and her novel 'Frankenstein'

Get on it...

Willy Russell

http://www.willyrussell.com/

You are going to create a resource about the author Willy Russell.

Collect biographical details about the author's life and works.

The above link is a good starting point but you can and should go beyond it.

Everyone posts two details about the author.  One about his life and one about his work.

There is not to be any repetition.
There is not to be any repetition.

This means you have to check all previous posts to make sure your information is 'new'.

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