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URGENT - English Revision!!

Hello everyone!

I'm in Year 11 now and am currently aiming to get 8/9s in English Lit/Lang AQA and I do the texts Romeo & Juliet, LOTF and Pride & Prejudice (with love & relationships poetry)
I am currently at a stable grade 8 for english lang but would definitely want to get this to a 9, and a shaky 7 for english lit so I definitely need more help with that as it would be great to get that to a 9 as well
My main struggle is finding structured resources, as I find myself getting overwhelmed quickly with the large range of resources from Mr Salles' videos, for example
I was wondering if signing up to the Lightup Hub would be best for me, as it seems to be really useful and structured, but doesn't cover LOTF or Pride & Prejudice. Does anyone have any resources they can recommend for these 2 texts as I am struggling to find good, structured ones with quotes included (especially for Pride and Prej)

Any advice/help would be greatly greatly appreciated!

Thank you x
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Reply 1

I memorised 'standard essays' I did in class that got me very high scores, but contained quotes I could apply to pretty much any theme that could come up in the question. For poetry, I did the same thing (chose 2 poems, wrote very high score essays and memorised it so I could compare) and got 86/96 on P2 Eng lit.

Lord of the flies I talked about the kill the pig chant and how it shows the descent into evil, it's monosyllabic so they're forgetting their high class and education, etc. I watched a lot of videos on important LOTF quotes as it was a text I found very difficult to analyse well.

R+J I also did and I used the quote from Tybalt at the start when they're having their argument (what drawn and talk of peace) and how he talks about hell (big deal in Elizabethan England as they were very religious). I used that quote in a lot of essays as it could be used to talk about Juliet's issues in her family problems and how strong the feud was and stuff.

'a plague o both your houses' from Mercutio, said 3x which was a widely held belief you had to say curses 3x for them to work, foreshadowing, also curses both families because it's both families' faults he died

'a crutch, a crutch' from Lady Capulet may connote to the fact Capulet used violence as a crutch, also implies that he's in poor physical condition/not used to the nature of street fights

I will try and find my old Eng lit book or paper and see what I wrote

Reply 2

Original post by millietibbles
I memorised 'standard essays' I did in class that got me very high scores, but contained quotes I could apply to pretty much any theme that could come up in the question. For poetry, I did the same thing (chose 2 poems, wrote very high score essays and memorised it so I could compare) and got 86/96 on P2 Eng lit.
Lord of the flies I talked about the kill the pig chant and how it shows the descent into evil, it's monosyllabic so they're forgetting their high class and education, etc. I watched a lot of videos on important LOTF quotes as it was a text I found very difficult to analyse well.
R+J I also did and I used the quote from Tybalt at the start when they're having their argument (what drawn and talk of peace) and how he talks about hell (big deal in Elizabethan England as they were very religious). I used that quote in a lot of essays as it could be used to talk about Juliet's issues in her family problems and how strong the feud was and stuff.
'a plague o both your houses' from Mercutio, said 3x which was a widely held belief you had to say curses 3x for them to work, foreshadowing, also curses both families because it's both families' faults he died
'a crutch, a crutch' from Lady Capulet may connote to the fact Capulet used violence as a crutch, also implies that he's in poor physical condition/not used to the nature of street fights
I will try and find my old Eng lit book or paper and see what I wrote

Thank you so much this is very helpful! Congratulations on those scores they're so good!

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