INSTRUCTIONS TO TEACHERS

• Please refer to Section 4 of the English Language Specification and Guide to Controlled Assessment for instructions on completing the Controlled Assessment Tasks.

• Candidates must complete one task from Section A and one task from Section B.• Section A is worth 30 marks.• Section B is worth 30 marks.• The total number of marks for this paper is 60.• For Section A, candidates are allowed up to 4 hours.• For Section B, candidates are allowed up to 4 hours.• Candidates may make use of copies of the texts, which must be unannotated, and their

own notes as described in the Specification and Guide to Controlled Assessment.• This document consists of 8 pages. Any blank pages are indicated.

Released June 2012For Assessment Submission2014GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

A651 Extended Literary Text and Imaginative Writing

CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT

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SECTION A – Extended Literary Text

THEMED TASKS

1 How does the writer present one or two female characters who challenge conventions in a text you have studied?

2 Explore how the writer presents deceit or hypocrisy in a text you have studied.

PROSE OR LITERARY NON-FICTION

3 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

How does Steinbeck show the power of dreams and dreaming in the novel?

4 Tsotsi by Athol Fugard

Explore the ways in which Fugard shows the importance of the physical environment of Sophiatown in the story.

5 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Explore how Jane Austen encourages you to feel ridicule or contempt towards the way in which two or three of the characters behave in the novel.

6 The Withered Arm and other stories by Thomas Hardy

How does Hardy present men behaving badly in one or two stories from the collection you have studied?

7 Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

‘You will laugh to hear me say it but they (the British people) are the happiest people on Earth’. Explore some of the ways in which Bryson shows this in his book.

8 The Kindness of Strangers by Kate Adie

How does Adie make her descriptions of one or two of the battle zones in her autobiography so disturbing?

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DRAMA: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

9 Romeo and Juliet

How does Shakespeare show the impact of the violent atmosphere in Verona on the love story?

10 Julius Caesar

How does Shakespeare present the importance of the plebeians and the ways other characters treat them?

POETRY: SELECTED POEMS

11 Wilfred Owen

Explore the ways in which Owen presents differing responses to the experience of war in two or three of his poems.

12 Benjamin Zephaniah

Explore the ways in which Zephaniah presents the identities and fates of innocent victims in two or three of his poems.

13 Carol Ann Duffy

How does Duffy present the world of dreams and the imagination in two or three of her poems?

14 Simon Armitage

How does Armitage present different kinds of poverty in two or three of his poems?

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SECTION B – Imaginative Writing

TASK A: Personal and Imaginative Writing

1 What hopes and ambitions do you have for your future?

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Either

2 (a) Write the words of an interview with an older person about the ambitions they had when young and how far they have achieved them.

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(b) Write the words of a speech to your class describing your hopes for the world in ten years’ time.

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(c) Write an extract from an autobiography in which the writer explores how a particular experience influenced their ambitions.

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TASK B: Prose Fiction

1 Write a story with the title ‘The Victims’.

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Either

2 (a) Write a newspaper obituary for one of the characters in your story.

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(b) Write a Wikipedia-style article about the incidents described in your story and their aftermath.

Or

(c) Write the words of an interview in which you answer questions on the composition and creative process of your story.

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