Content covered for Year 11 GCSE English Language & Literature Tuition Classes
Creative/Imaginative Writing
Focus on narrative writing: 5-point story arc, dialogue, ambitious vocabulary, sentence structures, and punctuation.
Techniques: descriptive paragraphs, foreshadowing, and improving vocabulary.
Revision of punctuation and conjunctions.
Structuring and writing full narratives with feedback.
Shakespeare
Plays covered: Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Merchant of Venice.
Focus: character, themes, plot, extract analysis, and memorizing quotations.
Linked themes for AQA and separate for Edexcel.
English Language Structure
Analyzing novel extracts: mood, atmosphere, structural techniques.
Key techniques: flashbacks, dialogue, contrasts, sentence structures.
Poetry Analysis
Poems: Charge of the Light Brigade, Exposure, Poppies, The Prelude.
Focus on themes, context, quotations, poetic techniques, and comparison of poems.
Transactional Writing
Focus on different formats: speech, leaflet, letter, article.
Techniques: PAF (Purpose, Audience, Form), persuasive techniques, structure.
19th Century Novel
Novels: A Christmas Carol, Jekyll & Hyde, Sign of Four, Jane Eyre.
Focus on characters, themes, plot, context, and extract analysis.
Modern Texts
Texts: An Inspector Calls, Lord of the Flies.
Focus: plot, themes, character analysis, memorizing quotations, and structuring responses.
Comparing Modern & 19th Century Texts
Comparison techniques for AQA Paper 2 Q2/Q4 and Edexcel Q7a/Q7b.
Analyzing similarities, differences, perspectives, and attitudes between texts.
Student Support
Review sessions based on student needs and exam preparation.
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