Spring Inset Notes 2010 Controlled Assessment

Spring Inset Notes 2010

Controlled Assessment

Writing Reading English (a) First person writing Linked Shakespeare/ poetry essay 20 marks 20 marks (England only) (b) Third person writing Time a llowance: 4 hours 20 marks Different Cultures Prose essay Time allowance for all the 20 marks Writing work: 2 hours Time allowance: 2 hours English (a) Descriptive writing Essay on an extended te xt (prose Language (b)Narrative/expressive or drama taken from the GCSE (England and writing 20 marks English Literature set text list or Wales) Time allowance for all the any Shakespeare play.) writing work: 2 hours 40 marks Time allowance: 2 hours English Linked Shakespeare/poetry essay Literature 40 marks (England and Time allowance: 4 hours Wales)

Notional Mark/Gra de relationships for all Controlled Assessment tasks. 20 40 80 U 0-3 0-7 0-15 G 4-5 8-11 16 -23 F 6-7 12 -15 24 -31 E 8-9 16 -19 32 -39 D 10 -11 20 -23 40 -47 C 12 -13 24 -27 48 -55 B 14 -15 28 -31 56 -63 A 16 -17 32 -35 64 -71 A* 18 -20 36 -40 72 -80

General Co ntrolled Assessment Regulations

What is new?

• The assessment structure is unitised so that students may bank their marks for units over the two years of the course. At least 40% of the assessment must take place at the end of the course.

• All Controlled A ssessments will be completed in controlled conditions with a time limit.

• Students are allowed preparation time before the assessment session.

1 • Responses must be written. It will not be possible for oral responses to be made.

• Students are not allowed to write draft responses. (QCDA ruling for all Boards.)

• Students are allowed to have clean copies of the texts they are working on in the assessment session.

• Students are allowed to take one A4 sheet of notes into the Reading assessments. These notes must n ot contain a plan or a draft essay. If a student’s folder is chosen for external moderation, the notes they have used must be included with the work.

• Work may be word -processed but spellchecker and grammar programs must be disenabled (except in the case o f the GCSE English Literature Linked Shakespeare/poetry work) and students must not be able to log onto their centre files via the Internet.

• Once the assessment session is completed, students are not allowed to revise their work.

• For the Reading section, generic tasks will be set by the Board.

• Example tasks will also be given but centres may adapt these tasks to suit the candidates. These example tasks will be changed yearly and will be available on the WJEC secure website from April in the year precedin g the assessment of that particular unit.

• All the GCSE courses are unitised. Assessment sessions will take place in June and January. See the Specifications for each subject for details regarding which Units are available in particular assessment sessions before January 2012. After this time, most units will be available in both January and June.

What remains unchanged?

• All work will be marked out of 20 or 40 using the existing mark grade relationships where 12 (or 24 in the case of the mark being out of 40) is a notional C grade.

• External moderation procedures will remain much as they are at present.

• Assessment criteria remain much as they are present. Please see specifications.

• Adapted forms of the existing coversheets will be used.

2 • Teachers are ex pected to make intext and summative commentary to support the assessment of each piece of work and establish a reliable rank order within the centre.

Writing (GCSE English and GCSE English Language)

GCSE English

Writing

Generic tasks

Students must pr oduce one piece of first person writing (20 marks) and one piece of third person writing (20 marks). Students may have up to a total of two hours to complete the work.

Example t asks

First person: Often in life things do not turn out as we expected them. Recount an experience that you have had where you have been surprised by the outcome.

Third person: Write a story in the third person about a situation where a person is put into danger or a difficult situation.

GCSE English Language

Writing

Generic tasks

Students must produce one piece of descriptive writing and one piece of narrative/expressive writing.

Example t asks

Descriptive: Describe the scene on a beach or at a funfair .

Narrative/expressive : Either (a) Memories or (b) Write a stor y with the title ‘Revenge’.

The generic tasks will remain through out the shelf life of the Specification. The actual tasks will be changed annually.

3 Reading tasks (GCSE English, GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature

GCSE English (not av ailable in Wales)

Shakespeare and poetry (20 marks)

For this task, students will be expected to have read a selection (at least 10) of poems from the WJEC GCSE Poetry Collection. Two groups of poems will be selected by the Board and two generic theme bas ed tasks will be set. Students may choose to respond to either of the generic tasks. Tasks will be in three parts. All centres will receive free copies of the WJEC Poetry Collection. The selections of poems will be changed regularly. Since the students are studying two texts at least for this part of the course, they may have up to four hours to complete the work.

For GCSE English controlled assessment, any Shakespeare play may be chosen to link with the poems.

Theme: Relationships between men and woman

Generic task

Many plays and poems are concerned with the relationship between men and women. Choose a relationship in a Shakespeare play you have studied and link it with the way a similar relationship is presented in poetry.

Poetry selection

Sample tasks:

• Examine the way Shakespeare presents the relationship between Romeo and Rosaline in the early part of the play. • Examine the way Wyatt presents his love for the unobtainable woman in Whoso List to Hunt . In your response refer to other poems. • What is your response to the pieces of literature you have read? Make links between them.

4 • Examine the way that Ferdinand woos Miranda in The Tempest and the way the relationship develops. • Examine the way that Heaney portrays the beginnings of a relationship in Twice Shy . In your response refer to other poems where relationships are developing. • What is your response to the literature you have read? Make links between them.

Theme: Conflict

Generic task Many plays a nd poems are concerned with the experience of fighting or warfare. Choose a situation where conflict and death occurs in a Shakespeare play and link it with poetry where there is a similar situation.

Poetry selection

Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen If I should die Rupert Brooke The Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson The Send Off Wilfred Owen The Hero Siegfried Sassoon Drummer Hodge Hardy A Refusal to Mourn Dylan Thomas The Man he Killed Hardy MCMXIV Philip Larkin The Conscript WW G ibson

Sample tasks

• Examine the way Shakespeare presents conflict in a section of Romeo and Juliet . • Examine the way Owen presents conflict in Dulce et Decorum Est . Refer to other poems about conflict in your answer. • What is your response to the litera ture you have read? Make links between the pieces.

• Examine the way Henry V thinks about his army before engaging in the Battle of Agincourt (Act 4 scene 1). • Examine the way poets write about the men going into battle (for example in MCMXIV by Larkin or The Send Off by Owen). • What is your response to the literature you have read? Make links between the pieces.

• Examine the way Macduff is told about the murder of his wife and children and his reaction to the news.

5 • Examine the way the mother is told of the death of her son in The Hero and the way she reacts. Refer to other poems in your answer. • What is your response to the literature you have read? Make links between them.

Different Cultures Prose (20 marks)

For this task, student will be expected to writ e a response to a task based on a Different Cultures prose text. Students may choose to write on any Different Cultures prose text in the GCSE English Literature set text list. In this section of the folder, it is important that the students are given a ta sk which will allow them to look at social, cultural and historical contexts though this will not be the main focus.

Generic task

Look at the way a theme or character is presented in your chosen text. Include in your response any social, cultural and his torical contexts that are important to your understanding of the theme or character.

Sample tasks

How does Meera Syall present her experiences of racism in Meera’s community in Anita and Me ?

How does Steinbeck present the theme of loneliness in Of Mice and Men ? Concentrate in your answer on one or two characters.

How does Harper Lee show that the treatment of Tom Robinson is cruel and unfair in To Kill a Mocking Bird ? Look particularly at the way he is treated by Bob Ewell and Atticus.

GCSE English Lan guage: Extended text essay. (40 marks)

For this part of the course, students need to write an essay based on one of the prose or drama GCSE English Literature set texts or on a play by Shakespeare. In this essay, the focus must be different from the thema tically linked texts essay in the GCSE English Literature folder. It is likely, therefore, to be on how the writer creates character or atmosphere. Students may have up to two hours to complete this work. Students may choose to write about one of the texts that they are studying for the GCSE English Literature external assessment.

Drama

Generic tasks

Examine how your chosen dramatist presents a particular character. Refer closely to the text in your answer to support your views.

6 How does your chosen dra matist create atmosphere in a part of the play you have studied?

Sample tasks

Examine the way Shakespeare presents Macbeth’s character in the first Act of the play. Explain why we have mixed views about him.

How does Priestley shape our views about Arthu r and Sybil Birling in An Inspector Calls ? Look closely at what they say and how they say it.

How does Shakespeare create atmosphere in the first scene of Hamlet ?

Examine the way Miller creates tension in the last part of Act 1 of A View from the Bridge.

Prose

Generic tasks Examine how your chosen novelist presents a particular character. Consider how the reader could interpret the development of the character in different ways. Refer closely to the text in your answer.

How does your chosen novelist create atmosphere in part of a novel you have studied?

Sample tasks

Look at the way Lennie is presented in the early part of Of Mice and Men . Explain George’s mixed view of Lennie.

Examine the way Mrs Bennett is presented in Pride and Prejudice . How does Jane Austen make us have mixed views of her?

How does Dickens create a ghostly atmosphere in A Christmas Carol ?

Choose a section of Lord of the Flies and explain how Golding creates a frightening atmosphere.

GCSE English Literature: Linked Shakespeare and po etry task.

This task is common with the GCSE English Controlled Assessment. The only differences are that in the Literature folder it will be marked out of 40 rather than 20 and that students will not be allowed to use the two Shakespeare set texts on the Literature list ( Othello and Much Ado about Nothing ).

7 WJEC GCSE Poetry Collection

The poetry collection contains poems on the following themes:

• Love • Family and parent/child relationships • Youth/age • Power and ambition • Male/female relationships and th e role of women • Hypocrisy/prejudice • Conflict • Grief

A number of the poems will fit into more than one theme.

The Passionate Shepherd Marlowe The Sunne Rising Donne Cousin Kate Christina Rossetti Shall I compare thee Shakespeare Valentine Caro l Ann Duffy A Frosty Night Robert Graves How do I love thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Flea Donne Since She whom I lov’d Donne Catrin Gillian Clarke Mid -term Break Heaney What has happened to Lulu? Charles Causley Follower Heaney The Almond Tree Jon Stallworthy Long -Distance II Tony Harrison On My First Sonne Ben Jonson A prayer before Birth McNeice Antique Shop Elizabeth Jennings My Heart is like a Withered Nut Caroline Norton Crabbed Age and Youth Shakespeare (from The Passionate Pilgrim) Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas Old Age Gets Up Ted Hughes Sweet 18 Sheenagh Pugh Hawk Roosting Ted Hughes My Last Duchess Browning What is this life? WH Davies Ozymandias Shelley I Have Longed to M ove Away Dylan Thomas The Interrogation Edwin Muir Porp hyria's Lover Browning Human Interest Duffy To His Coy Mistress Marvell My Mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun Shakespeare

8 To Virgins Herrick The Beggar Woman William King The Will ing Mistress Aphra Behn Twice Shy Heaney They did not expect this Scannell Meeting Point MacNeice Whoso List to Hunt Wyatt A Married State Katherine Philips Song of the Worker’s Wife Alice Grey Jones (Translated from the Welsh by Katie Gramich ) Afternoons Philip Larkin A Woman to her Lover Christina Walsh Let me not to the Marriage of true Minds Shakespeare Havisham Duffy Chapel Deacon RS Thomas In Church Thomas Hardy The Hunchback in the Park Dylan Thomas Refugee Blues (Say th is City) Auden Displaced Person looks at a Caged Bird DJ Enright Base Details Sassoon The Capon Clerk Sheenagh Pugh You will be hearing from us shortly UA Fanthorpe Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen If I should die Rupert Brooke The Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson The Send Off Wilfred Owen The Hero Siegfried Sassoon Drummer Hodge Hardy A Refusal to Mourn Dylan Thomas The Man he Killed Hardy MCMXIV Philip Larkin The Conscript WW Gibson

WJEC GCSE English Literature w ritten paper prescribed texts list

Unit 1 Section A Different Cultures prose Of Mice and Men Steinbeck Anita and Me Syall To Kill a Mockingbird Lee I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou* Chanda’s Secrets Stratton*

Unit 2 a English/Ir ish/Welsh Literary Heritage drama Othello Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare An Inspector Calls Priestley

9 Hobson’s Choice Brighouse A Taste of Honey Delaney

Contemporary prose Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha Doyle Heroes Cormier Never Let Me Go Ishiguro About a Boy Hornby* Resistance Sheers

Unit 2 b Contemporary drama: The History Boys Bennett* Blood Brothers Russell A View from the Bridge Miller Be My Baby Whittington My Mother Said I Never Should Keatley

Englis h/Irish/Welsh Literary Heritage prose Silas Marner Eliot Pride and Prejudice Austen A Christmas Carol Dickens Lord of the Flies Golding Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve Abse

* Centres are advised that these texts deal with adult themes and/or contai n language of an adult nature.