Year 11 English Language and English Literature

 

Term

 

 

Task set

 

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Unit 1, Reading

 Read the extract & answer the questions (1, 2 and 3)

Complete a piece of writing in the same style. (4)

 

Homework 1: Make Poverty History

 

Higher:

 

  1. Identify the purpose(s) of the website. Support your response with relevant evidence from the text.

2.    Identify 5 techniques used by the writer to achieve his or her  purpose.

3.    Identify the writerŐs purpose in using facts and opinions in each of paragraphs 2, 3 & 7. (Separate PQC paragraphs required)

4.    Using the techniques you have identified, write a short article to promote a meeting in St PeterŐs to discuss a campaign to make school uniform history.

 

Foundation:

 

1.    Identify the purpose(s) of the website and find a quotation to support this.

2.    Identify 3 techniques used by the writers to achieve their purpose.

3.    Select 3 facts and opinions from the text. Present these in a table. (Choose one fact and one opinion and explain how it helps the writers achieve their purpose?)

4.    Using the techniques you have identified, write your own short article persuading people to attend a meeting in St PeterŐs to discuss a campaign to make school uniform history.

 

[Last year the questions were as follows. However, the syllabus has now changed!!

 

Read the article and complete the following tasks:
1. Identify the purpose of the website
2. Select 3 facts and opinions from the text (table available)
3. Identify the writer’s purpose in using facts/opinions in each of paragraphs 2, 3 & 7. (Separate answers required)
4. Using the same techniques, write a short article to promote a meeting in St Peter’s to discuss a campaign to make school uniform history.
]

 

 

 

 

 

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Unit 1, Reading

Read both items.  Answer the questions, comparing both items.

(Link to H/W Texts – Higher and Foundation)

 

Foundation Questions:

 

Read Item 1:

 

1.    Name 5 things teenagers have done?

2.    What are the teenagersŐ two main purposes in setting up SAAB?

 

Read Item 2:

 

3.    How does the writer of the article use language to try and interest the reader? Write about four different examples of language use.

 

Now look at Item 1 and 2 together:

 

4.    Compare the ways in which the two articles use pictures and other presentational devices for effect?

Consider:

á      the pictures and their effects

á      other presentational devices

 

Higher Questions:

 

Read Item 1:

 

1.    Explain why the three Australians set up ÔSkateistanŐ.

 

Read Item 2:

 

2.    How does the writer of the article use language to suit his purposes?

 

Now look at Item 1 and 2 together:

 

3.    Compare the ways in which images are used for effect in each article.

 

 

 

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Unit 1, Reading

Practice paper: write about the three items. (Higher paper or Foundation paper.) [Higher text one; text two; text three.] [Foundation text one; text two; text three.]

 

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Unit 1, Writing

Complete a longer writing task and shorter writing task

 

Shorter writing task:

Imagine that you are going to do work experience in a Wildlife Park or another visitor attraction.

Write a letter to the Personnel Manager introducing yourself and informing him or her about what job you would like to do and why.

 

Longer writing task: Teenagers are often criticised in the media. Write an article for your local newspaper newspaper arguing why this is often unfair.

 

 

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Unit 1, Writing

Complete a longer writing task and shorter writing task

 

Shorter writing task: Write a letter persuading your Headteacher to find more ways to make your school or college environmentally friendly. 

 

Longer writing task: Childhood memories can be very important. Choose one childhood memory. Describe the memory and explain its importance to you.

 

 

 

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Unit 1, Literature: The novel

Analyse an extract from the novel and complete a question on the novel as a whole.  Your teacher will give you further details.

 

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Unit 1, Literature: The novel

Analyse an extract from the novel and complete a question on the novel as a whole.  Your teacher will give you further details.

 

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Unit 1, Literature: The novel

Discuss the importance of one or two characters in the novel you are studying.  Your teacher will give you further details.

 

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Unit 1, Literature: Short stories

Write an essay analysing two short stories

 

Higher:

Answer both parts (a) and (b).

Part (a)

Write about the ways Baines uses the symbols of the compass and the torch to convey important ideas in Compass and Torch.

Part (b)

Go on to write about the ways in which symbolism is used in one other story from the Anthology. (30 marks)

 

Foundation:

Answer both parts (a) and (b).

Part (a)

Baines chooses to call her story Compass and Torch.

Write about:

  • why the compass and the torch are important in this story
  • the ways Baines uses these objects to represent important ideas in the story.

Part (b)

Choose one other story where you think the title is effective.

Write about:

  • what the title could mean
  • how you think the title relates to the story. (30 marks)

 

 

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Unit 1, Literature: Short stories

Write an essay analysing two short stories

 

Higher:

Answer both parts (a) and (b).

 Part (a)

ÔChildren are never completely innocentÉŐ

How do you respond to this view of the ways in which children are presented in When the Wasps Drowned?

Part (b)

Go on to write about the ways in which children are presented in one other story in the Anthology. (30 marks)

 

Foundation:

 

0 2 Answer both parts (a) and (b).

 Part (a)

How are the children presented in When the Wasps Drowned?

Write about:

  • what happens to the children in the story
  • how they respond to the things that happen
  • the methods Wigfall uses to show what the children are like.

 Part (b)

Choose one other story where children are important.

Write about:

á     what the children are like and why they are important in the story

á     the methods Wigfall uses to show what the children are like.

(30 marks)

 

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Create a series of detailed plans about key features/themes in the short stories

 

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Mock exam for Unit 1, Literature, Section A and Section

(Link to January 2011 Exam, Higher or Foundation)