Congratulations

Despite the ridiculous Lamia question, it was a very accessible paper. We had written essays in response to both questions in Section B and those who chose Coleridge in Section A will have been pleased to have prepared a response in the revision session to exactly the same questions. I thought that Keats A (b) was very accessible too.

Those who chose Keats in Section A should not worry unduly: as long as you applied the skills that have been drummed into you when approaching A (a) you should be fine.

I think that you will agree that there is nothing else that we could have done to prepare. It is a huge, sprawling course and we each did everything possible to cover as much ground as possible in preparation.

I was also thrilled to see so many of you making such an effort in the final stages. It seemed that everyone had revised hard. I would like to thank you all for your hard work on the course; let's hope that it has produced some good results!

Enjoy activities week and I'll see you for some literary theory when you return.

Mr. Denchfield

Great Expectations revision

This looks like a very helpful revision guide: http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/prose/greatexpectations.htm#40

Possible Section B questions

You should write a plan for each of these possible questions. You should also have a bank of passages selected from each text that can be used to cover each of the aspects of narrative.


1.Write about some of the ways that writers present their texts’ destinations.
2.How do writers use point of view to create meanings in their texts?
3.Write about the ways that writers use narrators in the telling of their stories.
4.Write about the different voices that writers use in the telling of their stories.
5.How do writers use places to tell their stories?
6.Write about the ways that character relationships are presented in three of the texts you have studied.
7.How do writers present their protagonists thoughts?
8.How do writers use time to tell their stories?
9.Write about the ways that characters are presented in three texts you have studied.
10.Write about the ways that writers end their texts.
11.Write about the ways that writers sequence events in their texts.

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner has one clear moral message.' How far do you agree?

Intranet Revision

I have uploaded nearly all of the documents that I have created for our unit to the intranet. These documents can be found in the ENGLISH LITERATURE folder in a subfolder called AS UNIT 1 ASPECTS OF NARRATIVE. Please make use of it for your revision.

http://intranet.queensgate.org.uk

Keats said that he believed in ‘a life of sensations over thought’.

How far do you agree with the claim that The Eve of St Agnes is a celebration of sensual pleasure?

Post your comments for and against this claim.

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