OVERVIEW OF THE COURSE Paper One Requirements Brief summary Notes Shakespeare Macbeth -Maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response -Use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations -Respond to the question. -Refer to the extract AND the rest of the play using quotations or paraphrases. -Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate -Explain and analyse the language techniques and the structure of the play. -Consider the EFFECT on the audience. -Explain Shakespeare’s use of stage directions. -Think about key themes (ambition, supernatural, fate/free will, loyalty/ betrayal etc) -Language techniques (foreshadowing, rhyming couplets, questions, similes, metaphors, symbolism of animals, connotations of darkness and light etc) -Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written. -Consider the contextual factors and link them to the events. -King James I -Supernatural -Fate and free will -Role of women in society -Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. -Remember to write in full sentences; use capital letter appropriately; quotation marks around your evidence. 19th Century Novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -Maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response -Use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations -Respond to the question. -Refer to the extract AND the rest of the novel using quotations or paraphrases. -Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject -Explain and analyse the language techniques and the structure of the novel.
with accurate spelling and punctuation. appropriately; quotation marks around your evidence. AQA Poetry Anthology Power and Conflict -Maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response -Use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations -Choose the question from the Power and Conflict section. -Respond to the question. -Refer to the whole poem using quotations. -Compare to one other poem of your choice. -Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate -Explain and analyse the language techniques and the structure of the poem. -Consider the EFFECT on the reader. -Explain the structure on the poems. -Think about key themes (power of humans and nature; effects and reality of conflict; loss and absence; memory; anger; guilt; fear; pride; identity; individual experiences) -Language techniques (rhyme, rhyming couplets, volta, repetition, similes, metaphors, symbolism, personification etc). -Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written. -Consider the effect of the events at the time the poems were written upon them (French Revolution, religion, wars etc). Unseen Poetry -Maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response -Use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations -Read through and annotate the poem in the Unseen Poetry section. -Respond to the question. -Refer to the whole poem using quotations. -Compare both poem together. -Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate -Explain and analyse the language techniques and the structure of the poem. -Consider the EFFECT on the reader. -Explain the structure on the poem. -Think about key themes. -Language techniques (rhyme, rhyming couplets, volta,