Year 11 Holiday Work Easter 2012 Week 1


This revision schedule is designed to help you by directing you towards certain activities on certain days.

Try to keep to this schedule and the suggested times for each activity.

Please use the HCS English Department IGCSE Webpage at https://sites.google.com/site/igcseeng/   to support your revision and provide you with more practice essays and general advice. Have a look at this if you are unsure about how to tackle any parts of the Language Paper in particular.

I suggest you buy and use a new A4 Notebook, exclusively for all your English revision.

Remember, you cannot do this properly in front of your computer or the television...and turn off your ipod and mobile too whilst you´re at it!

Week 1 - Friday 30th March - Friday 6th April

Friday 30th March - Start as you mean to go on!
20 mins: Re-read "The Voice" - write down a single sentence description of what Hardy´s intention was when writing the poem and then jot down 10 techniques within the poem that are used to support that intention.
20 mins: Re-read "Time" - write down a single sentence description of what Curnow's intention was when writing the poem and then jot down 5 techniques within that poem that are used to support that intention.
REMEMBER TO LOOK FOR A RANGE OF TECHNIQUES INCLUDING STRUCTURE, LEXICAL CHOICES, RHYME, IMAGERY etc etc AND TRY TO USE TERMINOLOGY

Saturday 31st March
35 mins: Re-read "Report to Wordsworth". Then using the following sentence as your opening, write the next 100 words, "Report to Wordsworth" is very effective in capturing the damage man is doing to the earth because...."
20 mins: (JBP's group) Start re-reading "Death of A Salesman" - remember to always think about characters, themes and dramatic techniques used by Miller. Always keep your A4 pad handy to jot down any notes that come to mind.
(JJC, MRW, VT, JAC's group) Do exactly the same as above but for 'Journey's End'

Sunday 1st April
40 mins: Re-read "Lament" and "On The Grasshopper and The Cricket". In 2 columns, make a bullet point list of all the different ways nature is presented in each poem and the techniques used. These could take the form of single word quotes or your own observations as you work through the poems.
20 mins Continue reading "Death of A Salesman". Remember the first question will always ask you to look at an extract, so as you are reading through imagine what you would say if asked to write about how any particular passage "...is made effective". Try to look for key areas you would highlight and quote if you had to write an essay on a particular character.
( All other groups, please do the same for 'Journey's End')

Monday 2nd April
60 mins: Continue reading and making notes as suggested above on "Death of a Salesman".
( All other groups, please do the same for 'Journey's End')

Tuesday 3rd April
60 mins: Re-read "So, We'll Go No More A-Roving", "Sonnet 43" and "First Love". Choose two of these poems and write a 400 word essay exploring how the choice of words in your two poems powerfully convey the poet's feelings.


Wednesday 4th April
50 mins Go to the IGCSE website (see above) and download the first of the Language Practice Papers. Do Questions 1 and 2.

Thursday 5th April
50 mins Complete the summary question on the paper you downloaded yesterday.

Friday 6th April
60 mins Use the IGCSE website to run through all the techniques and approaches needed to answer Question 1 of the Language Paper. i.e How to write an article. How to write a speech etc etc. Click through the past papers (there are a lot available to download and view) and familiarise yourself with the typical passages and the wordings of Question 1. Remember to keep a record in your notebook of what you have looked at and any questions you might want to ask your teacher when you get back.



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