1) Revise your close reading notes / ppts.
2) Revise the texts which you think you might write about in the exam. You have lots of notes on paper and further notes (including ppts) are available through Edmodo and WordPress. Remember, you don’t know what the questions will be, so you should revise more than the bare minimum of 2 texts in case the questions don’t fit the texts which you have revised. You should have at least three texts from different genres, preferably four. Your texts are:
PROSE (fiction) – A Picture of Zoe, Hieroglyphics
POETRY – Glasgow Sonnet (i), The Death of Marilyn Monroe, The Almond Tree (with Mrs G)
DRAMA – The Glass Menagerie (with Mrs G)
FILM AND TV DRAMA – Schindler’s List
3) I would like you to write TWO CRITICAL ESSAYS for me over the holidays, using questions from the 2012 or 2013 papers (below), on texts from two different genres. Please use the texts you’ve done with me as I’m not very familiar with the ones you have done with Mrs G so won’t be able to give you detailed feedback. Try to write them without using any notes and in no more than an hour so that it resembles exam conditions.
4) Also, please do the 2012 close reading paper in the time allocated – 1hr 45mins.
We will go over these when you get back, so make an effort to do them!
Ms Ruxton - English teacher 