17/02/15 Revision Day Programme
Group Name:
Names in group:
10-10.30
(30 min)
Finish Character mindmaps
10.30-10.45
(15 min)
10.45-11.00
(15 min)
“Marketplace” character mindmaps
11.20-11.45
(25 min)
Discuss and plan Sec A uneven essay
Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in Chapter 7 (June 2012)
11.45-11.55
(10 min)
11.55-12.10
(15 min)
12.10- 12.30
(20 min)
Short break
12.30-1
(30 min)
Read exemplar essay Sec A uneven and discuss in group
Write about some of the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in Chapter 2 (Jan 2012)
“Marketplace” plans
Read exemplar essay Sec A even and discuss in group
How do you respond to the view that it is very difficult for readers to feel anything
other than contempt for Tom Buchanan? (Jan 2012)
Discuss and plan Sec A even essay
How appropriate do you think it is to describe The Great Gatsby as a tragedy?
(June 2012)
1-1.50
(40 min)
1.50-2.05
(15 min)
Lunch
Marks for Section B Questions
Market place plans for Sec A even
essays
Name and name
of text:
Mark:
2.05-2.35
(30 min)
2.35-2.45
(10 min)
Just a minute exercise
Name and name
of text:
Mark:
Name and name
of text:
Mark:
Name and name
of text:
Mark:
Name and name
of text:
Mark:
Name and name
of text:
Mark:
Read exemplar (speech) Sec B essay
and annotate
2.45-3.05
(20 min)
Plan Sec B essay 1 together and write
intro
3.05-3.20
(15 min)
3.20-3.35
(15 min)
3.35-4.30
(50 min)
4.30-5.00
Write one section each of Sec B essay 1
Mark other group’s essays. Hand essays
to teacher.
Same again with new question
Select winning essays
Resources: Exam paper. Mark Scheme. Marking grids. Post-it notes
Section B questions
1. Writers draw upon the conventions of different genres when constructing their narratives: for example, ballads, monologues, elegies, fictive
biographies, thrillers, romances. Write about the significance of generic conventions in the narratives of the three writers you have studied.
2. Many narratives have one or more significant moments of crisis. Write about the significance of crises in the work of the three writers you have
studied.