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I got an A in AS English lit but it was complete luck and i only just scraped it. I've read all the books I'm supposed to and kept up to date with my suggested wider reading, but im not sure how to use this wider reading. Also, when choosing quotes to learn am i supposed to find quotes based on setting/characters/themes or just general quotes?? Help.
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(Original post by dnr_23)
I got an A in AS English lit but it was complete luck and i only just scraped it. I've read all the books I'm supposed to and kept up to date with my suggested wider reading, but im not sure how to use this wider reading. Also, when choosing quotes to learn am i supposed to find quotes based on setting/characters/themes or just general quotes?? Help.
I got an A in AS English lit but it was complete luck and i only just scraped it. I've read all the books I'm supposed to and kept up to date with my suggested wider reading, but im not sure how to use this wider reading. Also, when choosing quotes to learn am i supposed to find quotes based on setting/characters/themes or just general quotes?? Help.
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(Original post by dnr_23)
I got an A in AS English lit but it was complete luck and i only just scraped it. I've read all the books I'm supposed to and kept up to date with my suggested wider reading, but im not sure how to use this wider reading. Also, when choosing quotes to learn am i supposed to find quotes based on setting/characters/themes or just general quotes?? Help.
I got an A in AS English lit but it was complete luck and i only just scraped it. I've read all the books I'm supposed to and kept up to date with my suggested wider reading, but im not sure how to use this wider reading. Also, when choosing quotes to learn am i supposed to find quotes based on setting/characters/themes or just general quotes?? Help.
okay so you need to be learning quotes from each character from your main set text. so for example we studied Brontë's Wuthering Heights so the main characters were Heathcliff, Nelly, Catherine, Cathy and Edgar Linton. There can be lots of themes within a novel but say the main ones for this text was love, hate, family, motif of fire, motif of passion etc etc. you need around 6-10 quotes of love for cathy, 10 for Heathcliff and so on. This is how I revised for English lit and lang at A level and managed a B. Also may I add that wider reading along with your set text is soooooo important I think I had around 4 to accompany Wuthering heights? focus your quote learning more on the texts you cant take with you in the exam though! (if your board is WJEC) hope this makes sense!
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(Original post by wolfmoon88)
Depends on what book you are reading. I find it quite helpful to go back and review annotations and notes you may have on all the books you have read. I would find a mixture of both thematic/ setting/ characters and general quotes. Often times you will find that general quotes often overlap with the other quotes so you won't need to choose/memorize that many.
Depends on what book you are reading. I find it quite helpful to go back and review annotations and notes you may have on all the books you have read. I would find a mixture of both thematic/ setting/ characters and general quotes. Often times you will find that general quotes often overlap with the other quotes so you won't need to choose/memorize that many.
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okay so you need to be learning quotes from each character from your main set text. so for example we studied Brontë's Wuthering Heights so the main characters were Heathcliff, Nelly, Catherine, Cathy and Edgar Linton. There can be lots of themes within a novel but say the main ones for this text was love, hate, family, motif of fire, motif of passion etc etc. you need around 6-10 quotes of love for cathy, 10 for Heathcliff and so on. This is how I revised for English lit and lang at A level and managed a B. Also may I add that wider reading along with your set text is soooooo important I think I had around 4 to accompany Wuthering heights? focus your quote learning more on the texts you cant take with you in the exam though! (if your board is WJEC) hope this makes sense!
okay so you need to be learning quotes from each character from your main set text. so for example we studied Brontë's Wuthering Heights so the main characters were Heathcliff, Nelly, Catherine, Cathy and Edgar Linton. There can be lots of themes within a novel but say the main ones for this text was love, hate, family, motif of fire, motif of passion etc etc. you need around 6-10 quotes of love for cathy, 10 for Heathcliff and so on. This is how I revised for English lit and lang at A level and managed a B. Also may I add that wider reading along with your set text is soooooo important I think I had around 4 to accompany Wuthering heights? focus your quote learning more on the texts you cant take with you in the exam though! (if your board is WJEC) hope this makes sense!
im not allowed any books in the exams
but thanks for the advice!
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Are you with AQA? Make sure you fully understand the new exam structure, I was surprised when I really looked at it today. For my revision, I'm making myself videos on all of the possible question areas and annotating my books until you can barely read them! ;-) I'm studying The Handmaid's Tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Othello, Feminine Gospels and Streetcar.
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sounds good, i know the wider reading is important but im not sure what im supposed to be looking for when i read it you get me??
im not allowed any books in the exams
but thanks for the advice!
sounds good, i know the wider reading is important but im not sure what im supposed to be looking for when i read it you get me??
im not allowed any books in the exams
but thanks for the advice!
Hope this helps
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(Original post by dnr_23)
sounds good, i know the wider reading is important but im not sure what im supposed to be looking for when i read it you get me??
im not allowed any books in the exams but thanks for the advice!
sounds good, i know the wider reading is important but im not sure what im supposed to be looking for when i read it you get me??
im not allowed any books in the exams
but thanks for the advice!
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(Original post by wolfmoon88)
ok ummm for wider reading I would say that they are there to support your points but they should not detract from your contextual argument. when you use sources from wider reading, do not use it as a substitute for your main quotations/examples. But do use it to further elaborate on your points. For example, In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice "Insert Quotation" shows that Anti-Semitism exists in the play. This is further corroborated by Harold Bloom's commentary on the play when he said this "insert quotation' or just a general gist in one sentence. The significance of this is.
Hope this helps
ok ummm for wider reading I would say that they are there to support your points but they should not detract from your contextual argument. when you use sources from wider reading, do not use it as a substitute for your main quotations/examples. But do use it to further elaborate on your points. For example, In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice "Insert Quotation" shows that Anti-Semitism exists in the play. This is further corroborated by Harold Bloom's commentary on the play when he said this "insert quotation' or just a general gist in one sentence. The significance of this is.
Hope this helps
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(Original post by btea)
Are you with AQA? Make sure you fully understand the new exam structure, I was surprised when I really looked at it today. For my revision, I'm making myself videos on all of the possible question areas and annotating my books until you can barely read them! ;-) I'm studying The Handmaid's Tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Othello, Feminine Gospels and Streetcar.
Are you with AQA? Make sure you fully understand the new exam structure, I was surprised when I really looked at it today. For my revision, I'm making myself videos on all of the possible question areas and annotating my books until you can barely read them! ;-) I'm studying The Handmaid's Tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Othello, Feminine Gospels and Streetcar.
The Portrait of a Lady Adventures of Huckleberry FinnSister Carrie
My Ántonia
The Age of Innocence
The Sound and the Fury
A Farewell to Arms
Native Son
SO IM SWAMPED. OCR have also given us a booklet of university level essays as wider reading to accompany the course.
Annotating is def a good start ill make sure i do the same! what kind of videos are you making?? And will you split each novel by chapter and learn quotes/themes or just look at each novel as a whole? thanks x
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(Original post by LowriEW)
what is your main set text? find the connections within your set text with the accompanied ones. again as an example- key theme in wuthering heights would be say.. isolation, i then found a connection of isolation in the color purple by alice walker and finding a few quotes which sound like the theme of isolation. trying to simplify it as much as i can i know how bloody hard it is!
what is your main set text? find the connections within your set text with the accompanied ones. again as an example- key theme in wuthering heights would be say.. isolation, i then found a connection of isolation in the color purple by alice walker and finding a few quotes which sound like the theme of isolation. trying to simplify it as much as i can i know how bloody hard it is!
-Gatsby/Grapes of Wrath,
-hamlet,
-paradise lost compared with A doll's house
there will also be an essay question like "write a critical appreciation of this unseen passage, relating to your studies of American Literature from 1880-1940." so we have to read loads of essays about american literature in history and its so vague and difficult
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(Original post by dnr_23)
doing OCR, the course im doing is American Lit 1880-1940 but thats just for one of the exams. our main texts overall are The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, Streetcar, A Doll's house, Paradise Lost and Hamlet. For this american lit exam we have to also read:
The Portrait of a Lady Adventures of Huckleberry FinnSister Carrie
My Ántonia
The Age of Innocence
The Sound and the Fury
A Farewell to Arms
Native Son
SO IM SWAMPED. OCR have also given us a booklet of university level essays as wider reading to accompany the course.
Annotating is def a good start ill make sure i do the same! what kind of videos are you making?? And will you split each novel by chapter and learn quotes/themes or just look at each novel as a whole? thanks x
doing OCR, the course im doing is American Lit 1880-1940 but thats just for one of the exams. our main texts overall are The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, Streetcar, A Doll's house, Paradise Lost and Hamlet. For this american lit exam we have to also read:
The Portrait of a Lady Adventures of Huckleberry FinnSister Carrie
My Ántonia
The Age of Innocence
The Sound and the Fury
A Farewell to Arms
Native Son
SO IM SWAMPED. OCR have also given us a booklet of university level essays as wider reading to accompany the course.
Annotating is def a good start ill make sure i do the same! what kind of videos are you making?? And will you split each novel by chapter and learn quotes/themes or just look at each novel as a whole? thanks x
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