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ENGLISH
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LITERATURE
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Launch event Autumn 2014
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Agenda
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• Update
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• GCSE English
Language
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• GCSE English Literature
• Support
• Key contact information
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Changes to all GCSEs
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updated subject criteria
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content level
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Thirdgrading
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• New •9-1
scale with 9 being the top level.
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• Tiering only
in certain subjects such as Maths and
Science.
• Policy of external assessment only unless nonexamined assessment (coursework) is the only
valid option
What does this mean for GCSE
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• From 2015, only GCSE English Language and GCSE English
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• The last assessment for the current GCSEs will be June 2016
– Second level
with a resit available for English and English Language in
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November
2016
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• The reformed GCSEs
will be reported in the 2017 performance
tables
Specification
2014
2015
2016
Current
Summer series
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Summer
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normal
Final GCSE
examinations
New
Specifications
in centres
First teaching
2017
First GCSE
examinations
Changes to English reporting
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2016 Progress 8 headline measures
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• Double weighting for English as an enabling subject. This
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be either level
GCSE English Language or Literature. The
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double
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level only applies if the subjects are taken
together.– Fourth level
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• There is no requirement that English Literature is taken as
well as English Language, but the new Progress 8 measures
do encourage centres to take both GCSEs.
• If the student does not take English Literature alongside
English Language, then there is no double weighting of
points for English achievement.
Changes to English reporting
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2017 Performance tables
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• In July 2014, the DfE announced that the only English and
maths
qualifications
– Second
level that will count in the 2017 secondary
school• performance
tables will be reformed GCSEs in those
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subjects.– Fourth level
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• This means that the Level 1/level 2 certificates in English
and maths will not be included in the 2017 performance
tables (due to be published in January 2018).
• Alongside these changes, the Department for Education
confirmed that entries to the current GCSEs in English and
maths from 2016 or earlier will not count in performance
tables in 2017.
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GCSE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
Changes to subject criteria
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GCSE English Language
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• Reading - 50% of the GCSE
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required to answer questions on unseen 19th, 20th
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• Writing - 50% of the GCSE
– SPaG has an increased weighting of 20%
• Minimum examination time of 3.5 hours
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• Speaking and Listening is renamed as Spoken Language and
assessed as a separate endorsement
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The SL consultation,
which closed at the end of September,
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proposed the
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• Students will be required to present to an audience on a topic of
their choice and listen to, and answer, questions
• Students’ presentations would be recorded and sent to the
Awarding Body for moderation
• Students will be awarded a pass, merit or distinction and this will
be printed on the GCSE certificate in a separate line
The outcome of the consultation will be published shortly
GCSE English Language
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Paper 1 – 1 hr 45 mins (40%)
Section A:
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fiction
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on close analysis
the text; longer
• Extracts will be approximately 1000
• Third of
level
response questions will ask students
words in total
– Fourth level
to show their understanding
of the
• Shorter response questions will focus
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whole text
on close reading of the texts; longer
response questions will ask students
to compare the texts
Section B:
Creative Writing
Section B:
• Choice of 2 tasks linked to the theme Transactional writing
of the 19th century fiction
• Choice of 2 tasks linked to the theme
• One task will include images to help
of the texts
students address the task
• Newspaper articles, letters etc
• Audience and purpose along with
• Audience and purpose along with
SPaG will be assessed
SPaG will be assessed
GCSE English Language
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% in
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Identify and interpret explicit and implicit
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information and ideas
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Select and synthesise evidence from different texts
7.5
AO2
Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use
language and structure to achieve effects and
influence readers, using relevant subject
terminology to support their views
15
AO3
Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well
as how these are conveyed, across two or more
texts
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Evaluate texts critically and support this with
appropriate textual references
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18.75
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Assessment objectives for Writing
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AO5
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Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively,
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selecting
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forms, purposes and audiences
% in
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Organise information and ideas, using structural and
grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion
of texts
AO6
Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence
structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate
spelling and punctuation
20
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LITERATURE
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GCSE English Literature
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• 4 set texts covering
th Century
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novel
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– Post-1914
British prose or drama
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– Poetry from
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– Shakespeare
• Students are also required to compare two unseen texts
• Closed book examination
• 5% SPaG
• Minimum examination time of 4 hours
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Paper 1 – 1 hr 45 mins (50%)
Paper 2 – 2 hrs 15 mins (50%)
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• Two questions
• Two questions
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• One based on a 400-word extract
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one on the whole
play level
and one on the whole novel
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Section B:
Post-1914 British Drama or Prose
• Students study EITHER drama or
prose
• Choice of essay questions
• SPaG is assessed
Section B:
Poetry
• One question comparing one named
poem from the chosen anthology
collection with another of the
student’s choice from the collection
• One question comparing two unseen
contemporary poems
GCSE English Literature
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Paper 1 – Set Texts
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• Macbeth
• The Tempest
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• Much Ado• about
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• The Merchant–ofFourth
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• Twelfth Night
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Jane Eyre
• Great Expectations
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• A Christmas Carol
• Pride and Prejudice
• Silas Marner
• Frankenstein
Section B: Post-1914 British Drama
Section B: Anthology poems – 15
or Prose
poems in each collection
• Animal Farm
• Lord of the Flies
• Relationships
• Anita and Me
• Conflict
• The Woman in Black
• Time and Place
• An Inspector Calls
• Hobson’s Choice
• Blood Brothers
• Journey’s End
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AO
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AO1
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Read, understand and respond to texts
Students should
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• maintain a critical style and develop an informed
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personal response
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• use textual references, including quotations, to
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support and illustrate interpretations
37
AO2
Analyse the language, form and structure used by a
writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant
subject terminology where appropriate
42
AO3
Show understanding of the relationships between texts
and the contexts in which they were written
16
AO4
Use of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity,
purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and
punctuation
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Anthology poetry (Component 2, section B, part 1)
9.5
AO3
Anthology poetry (Component 2, section B, part 1)
3
AO1
Unseen Poetry (Component 2, section B, part 2)
5
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Unseen Poetry (Component 2, section B, part 2)
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