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GCSE English Literature
Year 10 Entry
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Key Information
• English Language and English Literature are two separate, equally important GCSE qualifications
• English Literature assesses reading skills through pre-read texts and some unseen material
• English Literature exams are ‘closed text’. i.e. Students will not take copies of the text into the exam
• It is a qualification that is 100% exam
• There will be 2 exams this year
• There are no tiers of entry: all students sit the same exam
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Split Entry
English Literature (2 exams)English Language (2 exams)
100% ExamsClosed book
Year 10: English Literature GCSE
Year 11: English Language GCSE
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What will it look like?
Autumn Term: ‘Macbeth’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
Spring Term: Poetry anthology and unseen poetry‘An Inspector Calls’
Summer Term: RevisionExams Speaking and Listening
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GCSE English Literature: Paper 1
Shakespeare and 19th Century novel (1 hour and 45 minutes) 22 MAY 2018
• Section A will be on Shakespeare: ‘Macbeth’• An extract based question linked to the wider text on
theme or character
• Section B will be on 19th Century Literature: ‘A Christmas Carol’
• An extract based question linked to the wider text on theme or character
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GCSE English Literature: Paper 2Modern Texts and Poetry (2 hours and 15 minutes)25 MAY 2018
• Section A will be on ‘An Inspector Calls’ • An essay question
• Section B will be a comparative essay with ONE named poem• This will be based on the anthology ‘Power and Conflict’
• Section C will be one question on an unseen poem, followed by a comparison with another unseen poem
• There will be two questions in Section C
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What happened last year?
• Year 11 (did this last year)
• 3 Grade 9s (that’s an A**)
• Better than the Year 11 before!
• So we expect GREAT things!
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What are we doing?
• Form time programme
• Revision Clubs run by class teachers
• An App to help you… coming soon!
• Revision sessions in class
• Assessments and mock exams
• Seeing productions
• Homework…
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How can you help?
• Encourage re-reading of the 4 studied texts for English Literature
• Encourage wider reading of 20th and 21st Century novels• Support your son/daughter to revise English Literature
from now!• Get your son/daughter to practise writing in timed
conditions (or extra essays!)• Provide opportunities for the use of study guides, either in
print, online or via mobile/tablet apps (PiXL, GCSE pod, Revision guides available from school)
• Practise reading texts from the past together e.g. Letters or diaries by famous writers such as Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale, Charles Darwin
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Thank you for listening!
Please feel free to contact me or your son/daughter’s English teacher for any more advice.