English Literature Poems Revision.

KaRiShM4a

Hey! how's everyone doing with revision? I'm finding it really hard - already started late so don't see myself doing very well :eek3:

Quick question: I was wondering if anyone has any good notes/resources for the literature poems? I'm with AQA doing Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and Pre-1914 poems.
Any help will be much appreciated cuz I'm struggling at the moment (exam's on the 25th) This is lastmin revision :frown:

Same here! I'm confused though, you know the paper to do with the prose (to kill a mockingbird, of mice and men, short stories etc), when is it?!

I bought the York Notes the other day and they seem to be quite good :smile:

And my revision hasn't started, I'm so scared!

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OP

Glad I'm not the only one :| If your doing AQA then your exam should be on the 25th aswell? I'm really scared aswell :frown:

there's so much to revise and hardly any time!

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KaRiShM4a

Glad I'm not the only one :| If your doing AQA then your exam should be on the 25th aswell? I'm really scared aswell :frown:

there's so much to revise and hardly any time!

Yeah, I have got an exam on the 25th, but is it poetry or prose, or both?!

Eeeek ! Yeah, and we have loads of others too :frown:

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OP

It's both! I'm doing Of Mice and Men :frown:

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KaRiShM4a

It's both! I'm doing Of Mice and Men :frown:

Omg

Now I'm scared.

How many times did you read it?

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OP

2 so far LOL! what about you?
Btw are you indian? :smile:

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Omg! once

And it was an audio book. But I think it went in alot better than if I had read it. I'm aiming to read/listen to it again this week and watch the film! Aiming though :/ (to kill a mockingbird)

And yeah :smile:

Are you?

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OP

Ooo yeh do that :smile:

I'll try and read the book 2 more times, maybe even 3. I don't mind it's just that I cba (too lazy!) How many lit poems have you learnt and what you predicted for english? & yeh I'm Indian (Hindu) :biggrin:

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Yeah that sounds good :smile:

Is of mice and men quick to read??

Erm... I would say probably about 15 altogether. The poems from other cultures is a separate exam isn't it??

I'm predicted a low A* , worried about whether I will get it though :/ What about you?

Cool, I'm Sikh :smile:

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OP

Yeh it's not too bad, 6 chapters with 116 pages :smile:

What's to kill a mocking bird like?
I'm predicted a B but I'm aiming for an A because I was a few marks off in my january mock. Don't know if I'll get it :frown:

and wow you've learnt so many poems :| I haven't even started - I'm the one who should be worried :| I got 12 to learn for literature and there's 8 for language but yeh that's a seperate exam. Their easy to learn so I can worry about that after lol comparing 4 poems is so hard, how do you structure an answer?

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KaRiShM4a

Yeh it's not too bad, 6 chapters with 116 pages :smile:

What's to kill a mocking bird like?
I'm predicted a B but I'm aiming for an A because I was a few marks off in my january mock. Don't know if I'll get it :frown:

and wow you've learnt so many poems :| I haven't even started - I'm the one who should be worried :| I got 12 to learn for literature and there's 8 for language but yeh that's a seperate exam. Their easy to learn so I can worry about that after lol comparing 4 poems is so hard, how do you structure an answer?

31 chapters, 309 pages :/ But I know I can go through it at least 1 more time.

Yeah I'm sure you can get it! Just believe you can is all I can say :smile:

I'm worried about my predicted grade but I know I've got it in me, you just need to think the same.

So you haven't learnt these in school?!

I can give you some tips on the comparing thing, we've been looking at this for a while.

My teacher taught us the "wardrobe method".

Just made this picture on Paint now for you :smile:

Hope it helps! When I start revising that I'll come back here and let you know if I have any other useful tips.

Basically it's supposed to represent what proportion you should write about each poem. My teacher said that you should definitely write about all four, but you should write in more detail about the first two and then less on the third, and then less on the fourth, but still make good points.

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OP

Yeh I've learnt them in school but my literature teacher was pretty **** and she left for maternity leave so we rushed everything. That's why I'm finding it hard, I don't even understand them properly :angry:

I hate these poems with PASSION!

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Evanesyne

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Gosh, poems are a piece of cake compared to the prose!

We were the only class who had to do Lord of the Flies, the rest could do Of Mice and Men

Ahh, I'm doing the other set (Heaney and Clarke) We got given revision notes on them so it's quite easy. Look at it this way, at least they take less time to read than books.

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