Click on the links below to access various revision materials on Duffy:
Monthly Archives: January 2018
National 5 English RUAE Steps and Strategies
National 5 – MacCaig resources
Click on the links below to access resources on the poetry of Norman MacCaig:
Sounds of the Day Kelso finalised
Creative Ideas…
For those of you are still pondering creative ideas, click on the links below to access some useful resources. Hopefully you will find some inspiration:
National 5 English – Friday 19th January 2018
Remember that you will sitting a practice Textual Analysis on Friday morning.
Click on the links below to access resources either on ‘Aunt Julia” or “Mrs Midas”:
National 5 Prelim – with the prelim fast approaching…
Are you clear on exactly what is in the written exam? Do you know how much time you have for each element? Have you studied and prepared for these elements before the prelim?
Paper 1: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation
National 5 60 mins / 30 marks
One passage
Paper 2: Critical Reading – two sections 1hour and 30 minutes
either…
Section 1: Set Text on the poetry of Norman MacCaig
or for those of you who are studying Duffy
Section 1: Set Text on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy
45 mins / 20 marks
3 or 4 questions on the given extract and an 8 mark final question – revise your formula for answering this final question.
Section 2: Critical Essay – on ‘To Kill a Mockingbird”
or for those of you who studied “Lord of the Flies”
Section 2: Critical Essay – on ‘Lord of the Flies”
45 mins / 20 marks
Remember to build both planning and proofreading/editing time into your time management.
Advanced Higher English
Use today and tomorrow as the perfect opportunity to revise for your Prelim on Monday:
- Plath:
June 2017 Notes Arrival of the Bee Box
Sleep-in-the-Mojave-desert-notes
2. Notes on the drama texts you have been studying with Mrs Latta
3. Textual Analysis practice – genre markers / prose example from last Friday:
Adv Higher Drama Textual Analysis
Remember – any questions, just email – gw08changlenglorna@glow.sch.uk
Remember too that your Textual Analysis response on “The Hard Problem” is due in on Friday.
Higher RUAE Formulas / Steps and Strategies
Click on the link below to access a very useful Steps and Strategies sheet to assist you with answering RUAE questions.
Remember you already have all this information…
Higher English Prelim Duffy Revision
Get revising those Duffy notes…
Click on the links below to access analysis notes and powerpoints for each of the Duffy texts we have studied so far:
July 2017 anne-hathaway-annotated
2017 Higher Duffy ‘Hathaway’ notes
2017 Higher Duffy ‘Havisham notes
Higher Duffy ‘Mrs Midas’ notes
July 2017 originally-annotated
“An Inspector Calls” – analysis notes
Click on the link below to access the analysis notes for Act One.
