For revision I'm going over all the wider reading I've done learning a few short quotes from each one and picking out all the different types of love. Then I'm learning features of each time period but I'm trying to learn them by picking out examples from the wider reading so it's easier to remember and so I have an example.
For prose I've done:
Wuthering Heights
The Magic Toyshop
Enduring Love
Then extracts from Dracula, Tom Jones, Jude the Obscure, Lorna Doone and Jane Eyre. And any extracts from past exam questions
For Drama I've done:
Othello
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf
Happy Days
She Stoops to Conquer
The Importance of being Earnest
A Doll's House
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Way of The World
For Poetry I've done Petrarch, a lot of John Donne poems, a lot in the romanticism period such as William Blake, Keats, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge. Then I'm using my Carol Ann Duffy from last year as postmodern poetry
I have other wider reading extracts that I've looked at but those are the ones I've gone into detail about in class and so will revise the most.
For the essay wider reading is only worth 10 marks in each question it's more important to compare the two extracts first and then introduce the wider reading. You don't really need a lot of wider reading as long as it's a strong link and you have examples of why it compares or differs. I looked at one example and he'd only used one text throughout the whole essay which is okay just as long as it's strong.
I hope any of this helps
I'm struggling with the exam too I really need a B in the exam and I feel so underprepared