Download Year 10 English Literature End of Year Revision

English Literature End of Year Assessments – Year 10
What to expect
You will answer a full Paper 1 – Shakespeare and the 19th century novel
You will have 1 hour 45 minutes to plan, write and proof-read your response to two questions:
Section A – Macbeth (30 marks plus 4 marks for AO4)
Section B – Jekyll and Hyde (30 marks)
For both sections, you will be provided with a short extract from the text, followed by a question such as:
How does Shakespeare present Macbeth in this extract and in the play as a whole?
How does Shakespeare explore the theme of ambition in this extract and in the play as a whole?
How does Stevenson create tension in this extract and the text as a whole?
How does Stevenson explore duality in this extract and the text as a whole?
This is a closed book exam which means you will not have a copy of the text with you. You should ensure
that you refer closely to the extract printed in the exam paper but you should also make textual references
to other parts of the text. Whilst you are not expected to quote the text exactly from memory, you must
revise key quotations from across the text and ensure that you have a good understanding of the text as a
whole.
Your response will be marked based on the following assessment objectives:
Top Tips
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Read the extract carefully.
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Take your time to read the question carefully and make sure you plan your response with a clear
focus on the question.
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If bullet points are given – use them to structure your answer.
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If it helps, highlight the text as you read it.
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Remember to use small quotations – write a little about a lot.
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Make sure that you explain your point using quotations or structural features. An explanation
may include why the writer chose it, how it makes us think or feel, what ideas or themes it relates to.
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Focus on the writer throughout – how the writer presents an idea/character/theme and what their
intention/message is.
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Remember to use SPEED paragraphs where applicable. Here are some useful sentence starters to
remind you how to use it:
Signpost: Firstly, secondly, later on, we also discover…
Point: The character feels/thinks… The writer reveals… The atmosphere is
Evidence: Use a short relevant quotation from the text
Explanation: This implies/suggests/reveals/highlights/emphasises…
Development: This could also infer/suggest…. This links to the idea later in the text…….
Connective
Firstly
Secondly
Thirdly
As well as this
Furthermore
Moreover
Finally
Lastly
Likewise
Similarly
The author / language in the text…
Builds
Connotes
Contrasts
Conveys
Creates
Demonstrates
Describes
Depicts
Emphasises
Evokes
Exaggerates
Expresses
Gives the impression
Gives a sense
Highlights
Informs
Implies
Indicates
Narrates
Realises
Recognises
Refers to
Reflects
Reveals
Signifies
Suggests
Shows
Tells
The reader…
(or ‘we’…)
Is made aware
Is informed
Is told
Learns
Discovers
Realises
Macbeth Revision activity (Find your own quotations to do the same for ‘Jekyll and Hyde’)
Some key quotations are listed below.
1. Find out which character says these words.
2. Identify which theme they relate to e.g. ambition, murder, kingship, appearances, witchcraft
3. Analyse the language and structure – for example, has Shakespeare used imagery, repetition,
rhyme, pathetic fallacy, contrast, foreshadowing, dramatic irony?
4. What is the effect of the language/structure?
5. How can the quotation be linked to the writer’s message? What is Shakespeare suggesting
about ambition, for example?
6. How might a Shakespearean audience react to this and how do you, as a modern reader, react?
What does it reveal about life in Jacobean England?
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." (Act I, Scene I)
"When the battle's lost and won." (Act I, Scene I)
"When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the
hurlyburly 's done, When the battle's lost and won." (Act I, Scene I)
"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me." (Act I, Scene III)
"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it; he died as one that had been
studied in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as 't were a
careless trifle." (Act I, Scene IV)
"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness." (Act I,
Scene V)
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." (Act I, Scene V)
"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none." (Act I,
Scene VII)
"Screw your courage to the sticking-place." (Act I, Scene VII)
"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which
o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other." (Act I, Scene VII)
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?" (Act II,
Scene I)
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this
my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one
red" (Act II, Scene II)
"There's daggers in men's smiles." (Act II, Scene III)
"What's done is done." (Act III, Scene II)
"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." (Act IV,
Scene I)
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." (Act IV,
Scene I)
"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" (Act V, Scene I).
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." (Act V, Scene I)
"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts
and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by
an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." (Act V, Scene V)
"I bear a charmed life." (Act V, Scene VIII)
Useful revision websites:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/standard/english/macbeth/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/prosejekyllhyde/
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/jekyll/