AQA To Kill a Mockingbird 2016 *official thread*

I'm doing the Relationships section, so not the same.

I was only ever into MCR, never got into the other 'emo' bands for some reason. I think their breakup put me off the others, since I'd only got into them a few months before haha. Didn't want to go through that emotional pain again

Ah, good luck with relationships poetry!

I was the opposite, I got into the others first and then discovered MCR, only then to find out they had broken up.

Surprisingly, part a for TKaM went much better than part b.

For a, I wrote about Atticus shooting with an 'empty gun' and the quote: 'the heads below us jerked up'. I couldn't make anymore points because I went into too much detail on these. Unfortunately, part b didn't go too well...

Even though I liked the question, it was too basic for me to be perceptive about it or have multiple interpretations (even though it was after the exam that I realised all the other stuff I could possibly have written about). I wrote about how the black community is segregated and they live in the outskirts of town, how a Boo Radley wasn't put in jail because Tate didn't have the heart to 'put him in beside negroes'. I also wrote a brief paragraph on Maycombs Missionary Society and their ethicalhypocrisy - pretending to care about remote tribes while there are children (mostly black) suffering in their own town - which had potential but I ran out of time.

I don't think I will be able to get my forecast grade because I didn't add context or any alternate interpretations. Neither did I add any A* themes and ideas we learnt about (Epistemic injustice, Feminism, Freudian theory and etc). I don't think I explicitly mentioned what it tells about the society they lived in because I thought it would be obvious in what I was writing - now that I think about it, i don't think I really answered that.

Oh well, Good luck for poetry on Thursday everyone!! I am doing character and voice and hoping to God none of the foundation poems come up because I haven't even looked at them.

I talked about Mrs Dubose's attitudes, Calpurnia, Atticus' views to add contrast and white people gambling in the black church. I'm also doing character and voice, do you need any help?

I am pretty confident with CaV, it's just that I am worried a foundation poem might come up. I was looking at past papers for higher tier and one which was 1/2 years ago had a question on The River God and Give. We have barley looked at any F poems at school so I am just worried that might happen again.

Anyway, how do you feel about your exam today? I just need to get a high A* on unit 2 to average an a*

I think I did ok, but I didn't get a chance to do context for my Calpurnia paragraph as I ran out of time.

I'm hoping for Medusa on the poetry paper. My Last Duchess and Brendon Gallacher came up last year.

What text did you do for Section A?