Parental aid revision meeting

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Parental aid revision meeting

• How to help your little darling!

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When are the exams?

• If your child has not bought a revision book from
  CGP please get them too as in my opinion they are
  fabulous for preparing them for the exam!
• Of Mice and Men ISBN 1841461148
• Other Cultures Poetry ISBN 1841466964
• Literature Poetry ISBN 184146354X

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How to help!

• Some things parents have noted have helped in the
  past!
• Start revision timetable now of half an hour to
  an hour a night.
• Get your child to work downstairs where you can
  see them.
• Reward them when they have completed a week of
  revision.
• Encourage active note-making as revision is not
  simply re-reading a book!
• Buy them an alarm clock for all those timed
  essays!

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Twilight sessions

• Please turn to page 3
• These have been specifically designed to meet the
  needs of the pupils
• They must attend every Tuesday or their place
  will go to another student! It is very, very
  popular especially after last years results!
• The dates of these sessions are at the back of
  your pack so please can you also relay details of
  this to your child.

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The Literature exam

• (Page 4 of your pack)
• Literature Poetry is worth 70 in the exam!
• 2 questions
• 1 on Of Mice and Men 30
• 1 on Literature Poetry 40

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How to help them revise for the Literature exam!

• Please turn to page 5 of your pack
• Thematic grids (see page 6 of your pack)
• JLO Burgers! (What are those I hear you
  ask!)Please turn to page 7

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What is a JLO BURGER?

• This is where your child will use the PEE to
  fully explain the meaning behind the language in
  the quote they have selected
• It is important every child knows how to do the
  JLO Burger as all essays are made up of an
  introduction, a series of these burgers and then
  a conclusion
• (Please now turn to page 8 of your pack)

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An example of a bad J Lo burger(Page 8) How does
the poet show her feelings for her new love?
The sun in this poem is used as a metaphor here
to represent how the woman is feeling about her
new love
It shines on me lighting my whole face with its
magnificent beauty.

• The metaphor about it shows how she feels about
  her love.
• Why is this such a bad explanation?
• Doesnt explain what poet feels.
• Doesnt answer question.
• Doesnt explain effect of language
• Uses word it instead of explaining what

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What to look out for

• Never use it.
• Never say this shows what ..feels.
• Always relate it back to the question
• Always explain effect of language

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Now its your turn!!

• Time to be a pupil!
• Have a go at writing a good response using the
  CELL technique to the same quote!
• You have 6 minutes! There are prizes for the
  best 2! Please work in pairs!

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Improving it using the CELL technique! Please
turn to page 9
The sun in this poem is used to represent how the
woman is feeling about her new love
It shines on me lighting my whole face with its
magnificent beauty.
Lang
The metaphor about sun shows how the woman feels
so happy about her new love. The fact that she
can feel the sun on her face and describes it as
lighting it up reflects how this new love has
lit up her whole life. Also, in describing it as
magnificent beauty this metaphor highlights how
she feels that his love is truly amazing and
beautiful. It sums up how she feels touched and
excited by this new love which has awoken
feelings of beauty and splendour within
her. AVOID USE OF WORD IT AVOID SHOWS POETS
FEELINGS
effect
lang
effect
effect
Link to question
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Revising' Of Mice and Men

• (Please turn to page 10 of your pack)
• Thematic/character grids
• Practise essays/burgers
• Practise plans

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Revising media

• This is worth 15 of their final grade
• General kinds of questions that pop up here!
• (Page 11-13 of you pack)
• Easier question
• Question that examines writers attitudes etc and
  how they have been portrayed.
• Question that focuses them on language and its
  effect. This is again where they would use
  burgers!
• If a question says HOW? that means exploring
  language/layout and its effect

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Key to revising Media

• (Page 13 of your pack)
• They should use magazines and newspapers from
  home to prepare this section.
• They must recognise bias.
• Use MR PABLLE to plan their understanding of text
  types.
• Practise questions in timed conditions.

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Writing triplets in Paper 1

• Please turn to page 14
• This is worth 15 of their final grade
• Writing to argue/persuade/advise
• It is so important for them to be very precise
  both with their use of words here and their use
  of grammar and punctuation as they are being
  marked against this as well as their content.
• TIPTOP paragraphing
• Punctuation

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Paper 2 Poetry From Other Cultures

• Worth 15 of their final grade
• Exactly the same criteria as the Literature
  Poetry but they only compare 2 poems.
• (Page 17 of pack)

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Writing triplets in paper 2

• Worth 15 of their final grade
• Inform/explain/describe
• (Pages 18-20 of your pack)
• Describe Use of interesting language/senses
• Inform
• Explain
• The Examiner!!!!!!!!

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The rest of your pack

• For your benefit I have included
• Websites full of past paper questions
• The Twilight Revision Sessions timetable
• Poetry terminology list for you and your child.
• A character/theme example for Of Mice and Men
  to aid revision.