GCSE English Language Revision Checklist- 3rd June
Exam Practicalities
Check your class books.
I know how long the exam is.
I need to ask for help
Keep Revising
Revised and
confident.
I need to ask for help
Keep Revising
Revised and
confident.
I know what questions I need to do
I know how long to spend on each
section
I know how to write a PEEE
Of Mice and Men
You will get better at this by doing
past questions.
I know the story.
I know my key language terminology
I can identify two key extracts for the
following characters and am confident
about making points about them.
 Curley
 Candy
 Lennie
 George
 Curley’s Wife
 Slim
 Carlson
 Crooks
I can identify two key extracts for the
following themes and am confident
about making points about
 Dreams
 Loneliness
 Friendship
 Relationships
 Nature/ settings
 relationships
 Violence and anger
I know how to write an effective,
developed answer using PEEE and
analyzing techniques.
Writing
You will get better at this by doing
pact questions.
I know how to identify the PAF of the
question
I am confident I know how to write
the following type of texts
 Speech
 Blog
 Review
 Article
 Letter
 Leaflet
I can PLAN.
This means I can generate ideas,
organize my ideas into paragraphs
and develop each paragraph.
I can use AFOREST PRAM effectively.
I understand how to use full stops and
capital letters.
I can use commas and other types of
punctuation effectively.
I can use short impact sentences in
my writing effectively.
I need to ask for help
Keep Revising
Revised and
confident.
GCSE English Literature Revision Checklist- 20th May
Exam Practicalities
Check your class books.
I know what is in each exam.
I need to ask for help
Keep Revising
Revised and
confident.
I need to ask for help
Keep Revising
Revised and
confident.
I know how long I spend on each part
of each exam.
I know what the exam will look like.
I know how to write a PEEE.
Animal Farm
You will get better at this by doing
past questions.
I know key characteristics of the main
animals including:
-Napoleon
-Boxer
-Snowball
-Squealer
-Benjamin
-Clover
-Mollie
I am confident I could analyse an
extract, talking about a character.
I know my key language terminology.
I can analyse why key terminology has
been used.
I know what the following themes
mean:
-Dishonesty
-Corruption
-Commandments
-Education and Intelligence
-Fear
-Violence
-Revolution and rebellion
-Leadership
-Propaganda
-Trust
-Loyalty
I know two extracts that link to each
of the key themes, and I can make a
range of points about the theme in an
extract.
Of Mice and Men
I know the book.
I know key context about America,
the Wall Street Crash, Migrant
workers, and racism in society and
can link it to Of Mice and Men.
I can plan a five paragraph essay on
the significance of the following
characters:
 George
 Lennie
 Slim
 Curley
 Curley’s wife
 Carlson
 Crooks
 Candy
I can locate, or have learnt key
quotations about the characters
above.
I can plan a five paragraph essay on
the significance of the following
characters:
 Dreams
 Hope
 Loneliness
 Setting
 Nature
 Friendship
 Violence and anger
 Relationships.
I can locate, or have learnt key
quotations about the characters
above.
I need to ask for help
Keep Revising
Revised and
confident.
Unit 2 Poetry- 22ND May
Unit 2 Poetry
I know the storyline of all 15 poems
I know language techniques.
I can identify the main thoughts and
feelings in each poem and identify key
quotations that emphasis these
thoughts and feelings.
I can make comparisons between the
poems. This means:
 I can link poems that work
well together.
 I can identify similar thoughts
and feelings.
 I can identify different
thoughts and feelings.
I can write developed PEEE about the
thoughts and feelings in the poems
I have practiced unseen poems by
using my anthology and looking at
poems in other clusters.
I need to ask for help
Keep Revising
Revised and
confident.