English Literature GCSE Paper 1: Shakespeare and the Nineteenth Century Novel
This exam is 1hour and 45 minutes long (2 hours 10 minutes with extra time)
Total 64 marks (40% of your literature mark)
You will need to learn quotations from Macbeth and Jekyll and Hyde.
Part A – Shakespeare 34 marks (4 marks for SPaG) =1hour (1 hour 15 mins)
- Choose the Macbeth question IGNORE THE REST
- Spend 10 minutes annotating the extract and planning your response.
- Introduce the extract and explain at what point it appears in the play: This is the moment when Macbeth decides whether or not to kill King Duncan. He has just heard the witches’ prophecies and he has been very disturbed…
- Write (min) 2 PETAL paragraphs starting with the extract and then linking to the whole play.
- Write (min) 1 PETAL paragraphs using quotation from the rest of the play
Point (Answer the question)
Evidence
Technique
Analysis of effect and connect to context
Link to the rest of the play/ themes/ context
- A brief conclusion with a personal evaluative response: I find the use of the supernatural in the play particularly exciting/ effective because….
- Allow 10 minutes to proofread your answer.
Part B – Nineteenth Century Novel 30 marks 45 mins (56 mins)
- Choose the Jekyll and Hyde question IGNORE THE REST
- Spend 10 minutes annotating the extract and planning your response.
- Introduce the extract and explain at what point it appears in the novel: This is a description of Hyde from very early on in the novel, before the reader really knows…
- Write (min) 2 PETAL paragraphs starting with the extract and then linking to the whole novel.
- Write (min) 1 PETAL paragraph using quotation from the rest of the text
Point (Answer the question)
Evidence
Technique
Analysis of effect and connect to context
Link to the rest of the play/ themes/ context
- A brief conclusion with a personal evaluative response: I found the presentation of this attack particularly exciting/ effective because….
- Allow 5 minutes to proofread your answer.
GCSE English Revision 