Language Paper 1, Language Paper 2. Unseen Poetry
Overview
Pupils will revisit AQA Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 in order to prepare for their Autumn mocks. This will be the first opportunity to sit the paper in full in exam conditions and a rigorous reflection process will support them in developing their skills further. In addition to this, pupils will continue to study a range of unseen poetry to familiarise themselves with this element of the exam and build on their resilience and resourcefulness with these proactive approaches.
Unit aims:
- Explain, comment and analyse a writer’s use of language and structure in fictional and non-fiction texts,
- Compare writers’ ideas perspectives in non-fiction text,
- Write creatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences,
- Use a range of vocabulary and sentences for clarity and purpose and effect,
- Explore content, themes and a poet’s craft in unseen poetry,
- Evaluate poet’s use of methods to impact the reader/audience,
- Develop effective revision strategies.
Example Key Words
Alliteration
The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words. (See also consonance and assonance.)
Assonance
The repetition of vowel-sounds.
Beat
A stressed (or accented) syllable.
Blank Verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Caesura
An audible pause internal to a line, usually in the middle. (An audible pause at the end of a line is called an end-stop.)
Climax
The high point; the moment of greatest tension or intensity. The climax can occur at any point in a poem, and can register on different levels, e.g. narrative, rhetorical, or formal.
External Links
- GCSEPod – Power and Conflict poems