CFE Higher English 2015 - 2016

What is the first bit about commonality for 2 marks? I seem to have completely missed that until now! Is it identifying generally how the question/extract relates to the rest of the text? I'm reading the marking instructions from last year's paper and still not really getting it.

What is the first bit about commonality for 2 marks? I seem to have completely missed that until now! Is it identifying generally how the question/extract relates to the rest of the text? I'm reading the marking instructions from last year's paper and still not really getting it.

Yeah just doing the same basically, mind maps etc for possible 10 mark questions that could come up.
Hope your exams go well @Jeff548

What's your prediction for the 10 marker?

No one else worried about the close reading? I just did a paper and it went horribly, now I am even more scared and want to go in a cave and hide and cry forever

English is my WORST subject :'(

Anybody got any quotes on either Calum and Neil relationship OR Lady Runcie Campbell as a characater who struggles with her position of power???

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Thanks

I'm doing Men Should Weep for the Scottish text, can't say I'm too happy about it though. I'm doing Duffy for the essay. How's Men Should Weep been for you?

I'm pretty confident with Men Should Weep. Just about got my head around the language n such but i feel like i'm trying to memorize 345665636633 quotes bc there's so many areas that could pop up 4 the 10 marker. My teacher seems to think it will be one of the bigger themes or characters but there's so many main characters and themes nnrefnrngin. I'm praying that it's poverty but at the same time i think i prefer more specific questions ahh idk. How are you finding it?

I don't think it'll be nature?( i wish it was!!) , sacrifice or Duror because that's in the specimen, exemplar and 2015 paper. I think its probably going to be like Death/war , Good vs evil or social class?
What do you think?

For Calum and Neils relationship I know:

"it was enough that they were together" - brotherhood
(in the tree at the start where they both need each other's help: Calum needs Neil to find the way home and Neil needs Calum to get down from the tree.

"Neil knew what Calum represented, pity so meek"
Neil acknowledges the fact that his brother is vulnerable to the outside world and therefore believes it is his duty to look after him.

"To look after his brother he had never got married but once came near it...revived his heart melancholy" and "His dignity and composure, proper to a sea captain, crumbled into abjectness of a peasent." -sacrifice to look after his brother

After the beach hut: "we were driven out like slaves... does she think we were monkeys?" shows he is infuriated at Calum's mistreatment.

For LRC's power:

"She would have given the cone gatherers the use of the beach hut if Duror hadn't dissauded her." - her inability to take responsbililty and follows Duro's advice.

At the beach hut scene she enters with the "loudest peal of thunder" implying her destruction. "Get out, for god's sake. Get out!"- The cone gatherers are afraid of her as she scolds them for using her beach hut.

"people below us on social class, I agree we ought never to be arrogant" yet she comments "Obviously they are our inferiors and it is our duty to find an attitude towards them"
-her struggle with her aristocratic status and religious beliefs. First she implies everyone should be treated equally but soon remarks that it is only a "duty", a aristocrat's responsibility to look down on them.

OMG YES!! everyone always finds Close reading so easy and i find it so difficult too!

Struggling to show how these quotes represent nature, help please?

"Mottled yellow of the chestnuts"

and "bronze of beech"

I think it may be nature, but worded differently if you know what I mean. Either that or war or LRC or Roderick. Probs not social class because that was specimen paper but not sure?


Legend, thank you!!!!

Because I know someone who for word choice questions for example does:

"grotesque" implies ugly showing writer's attitude of disgust towards farming

Would that get the mark? If so, I write waaaaay too much!

Do you think our close reading passage will be as straight forward as last year's? And do you think our last question will be agree or diasgree? Lastly, would the sqa normally ask questions about tone or isn't this quite rare, what is the likelihood of it being asked???

I want 5A's but English is my main concern, and then Biology. Funny because those are two most english heavy subjects and two I dread and they're the two that are BLOODY FIRST!!!!!!!!