IGCSE World Literature Essay Revision Independent Revision Tasks Key Documents Make your own copies and use them to help you improve your knowledge and understanding of the novel, as well as your essay writing skills. Japanese SHC, Values & Beliefs Link to PDF copy of the novel Whole novel essay list Extract Perspective slides Past Papers LOL introduction Essay Practice Tasks 1. Complete any written tasks on the Essay Practice Tasks doc. Extension Challenge A* Upward Challenge B-A Foundation Challenge C-B No. What? Why? 1 Mentally Prepare - watch Gives immediate strategies you can https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phcDQ0H_L use to increase your confidence just nY before a stressful event, e.g. job interview or an exam! 2 Make a symbols map - without using the book or any notes, use plain A4 paper and different coloured pens to produce a map of important symbols and how they relate to the themes/characters in the novel. You can have quotes, and then a maximum of 50 extra words as subheadings/ keywords etc. Everything else must be symbols, numbers, abbreviations etc. This helps anchor your brain to different ‘prompts’ for what you want to articulate through visual stimulus. It also helps you to make connections between characters, events and themes in the novel. 3 Re-familiarise yourselves with Japanese SHC, values and beliefs by revising the information on these slides, and working your way through the activities. SHC is a specifically assessed objective for both the extract and the whole novel essay questions. Be as familiar with it as you can get! 4 Look at the whole novel essay list. Group the Critical thinking - helps your brain to IGCSE World Literature Essay Revision essays to show common features - e.g. characters, themes see patterns and connections. 5 Choose one essay from the whole novel essay list (that you haven’t yet worked on) and create a skeleton plan with a brief introduction, topic sentences and quotes and a conclusion. A great revision technique that consistently improves your thinking and planning, as well as your understanding of the novel. It also helps you to learn and memorise quotes. 6 Read and annotate the attached extract. Create a skeleton plan with a brief LOL introduction topic sentences and quotes and a conclusion. The same as above, but with the added benefit of helping you learn annotation skills, 7 Use these perspective slides to examine different perspectives when looking at extracts, or examining ideas from the novel. Critical thinking - encourages alternative perspective understanding. 8 Read and annotate the attached extract,using the different perspectives from these slides. Highlight different aspects depending on the different perspectives they show. Critical thinking - practice exploring the text from different perspectives. 9 Create your own literary techniques glossary. Identify literary techniques that Mishima uses, and explain the impact they have on the reader’s understanding. Expand your understanding. Writers’ craft is also an explicit assessment objective for the essay questions being able to identify, name and discuss their impact is a high level skill. More Revision Tasks Read the information on SHC, Mishima, characters, themes, quote analysis, chapter summaries etc. on Gradesaver and LitCharts. If you’ve already previously read them both - read them again! This will deepen your knowledge of the novel, and give you an analytical rather than a plot driven understanding. Practice your skills by fully answering Past Papers, using the correct timings. The past papers have exactly the same layout as the paper you will sit - the wording and the style of the questions will also be very similar. Trying to answer the questions using the correct timihgs will help develop your exam technique and time management. Re-read the novel again before your mock exam. Each time you read you understand the plot, characters and themes more deeply. You also spot more and more connections. This increases the level of sophistication of your understanding. Read it AT LEAST one more time before your real exam.
