What+to+study

You have the opportunity to sit four external papers > ====**90377 ****Analyse extended written text(s) ‘Macbeth’ **==== > ====**90380 ****Read unfamiliar texts and analyse the ideas and language features-short answer questions on unfamiliar texts **====
 * Exam preparation **
 * ====**90378 ****Analyse short written texts-an essay on war poetry **====
 * ====**90379 ****Analyse a visual or oral text-essay on ‘Shawshank Redemption’ **====

If you intend to sit the external exams next term. Here is what you will need to do to prepare.

**90378 ** **Analyse short written texts **

 * Answer one essay question and discuss two poems. Write at least three hundred words. Aim for at least 150 words on each poem
 * Make sure you are familiar with at least 3 poems to allow for different types of questions.


 * For each poem you need to study the following things.

// Theme // What is the main theme of the text? Write a list of examples that illustrate this theme. Remember theme is sometimes known as ideas or issues. Why is the theme important? Is it relevant today? How? // Setting // What is the social setting of the text? Physical setting? Time setting? For each how is the setting important in the text?

You should also know the authors and titles of each text.

 * 90379 ** **Analyse a visual or oral text **

//Theme //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> What is the main theme of the story?

Write a list of examples that illustrate this theme.

(Remember theme is sometimes known as ideas or issues. )

Why is the theme important?

How does the director use film techniques to reveal the theme? Egs?

Is it relevant today? How?

//<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Setting //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> What is the time/physical/social setting?

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> How are the different settings important?

//<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Characterisation //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> Study the main character and two minor characters.

You should be able to describe the main character, give examples as evidence.

Aim for three points about their personality with examples to support.

Consider why the character is important

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> Remember to use quotes where possible.

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> Does the character change? If so how?

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> Are they in conflict with anyone? Why?

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> Techniques used to reveal character?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Visual techniques include **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">: lighting, sets, props, costume, makeup, colours, camera work-shot types, camera movement, camera angles.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Verbal techniques **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">: music, sound fx, dialogue..

//<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Plot //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">What are the important events in the text and why are they important?

Be able to identify and give examples of the at least the following techniques:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">90380 ** **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Read unfamiliar texts and analyse the ideas and language features **
 * Verbal Techniques **
 * metaphor || personification || simile ||
 * alliteration || allusion || imperative ||
 * listing || hyperbole || rhetorical question ||
 * colloquial language || personal pronouns ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">We will be doing practice questions in class. **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">90377 **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> **<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Analyse extended written text(s) **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Macbeth **

//<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Theme //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Study at least two themes. How are these themes developed? <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Consider; characterisation, conflict, setting, symbolism

//<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Setting //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Describe different settings <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">How are the different settings important? <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Physical, social, time

//<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Characterisation //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Study the main character and two minor characters. You should be able to describe the main character, give examples as evidence and explain how the character is revealed. Techniques of characterisation include; speech, relationships, actions, symbolism, setting, conflict and contrast. //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Language //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Characteristics of the author’s style. What kind of language or imagery is used?
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Conflict //****<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Who is in conflict with whom and why? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Inner conflict? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> What does the conflict reveal about a character in theme in the text? **