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Excellent Website for Maths and Science
http://www.khanacademy.com

For a guide to each of the poems from other cultures for English
- do a youtube search - there are wonderful videos for each of them

English Language - Exemplar Material a selection of marked answers for the Summer 2008 exam - Paper 1
http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/qp-ms/AQA-3702-1H-W-CEX.PDF

Paper 2 2008
http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/qp-ms/AQA-3702-2H-W-CEX.PDF

__Very simple analysis of questions in English Language Paper 1: __
The paper includes two texts on a topic The questions appear to be divided into the following categories: 1. A question testing the pupil's understanding of what is in the texts 2. A question about style - how language has been used to influence the reader's understanding - Literary devices - cluster of 3, superlatives, rhetorical questions, personal pronouns, statistics, anecdote, The tone of the pieces - optimistic, negative, cynical, humorous etc 3. A question on Layout and Presentation 4. Question about facts and opinions in texts

The last question will be loosely based on the same topic of the 2 texts - presenting the material in a different way either to Argue, Persuade or Advise in the form of a Letter, Speech, Leaflet or Newspaper Article If it is to argue or persuade then the literary devices mentioned above should be included (obviously invent your own - dont copy from the texts - but do use ideas from texts to prompt your own opinions You must remember the rules for letters, speeches etc........

Paper 2 in simplest forms Q1 Compare 2 poems - one is given, the other is your choice. The phrasing of the question is different but you need same information to answer any of them. you just have to make sure that you relate everything to the key word of the sentence - e.g - structure, culture, impact Is this a helpful way to start an analysis of each of the poems? //** Method, Medium, Message **// ==**Message** //- what poet is really trying to say// == ==**//Medium//**//- storyline of poem// == ==//**Method**// //- literary devices, layout, imagery// == Limbo - //Message: Resilience of African Culture// //Medium - Description of how Africans brought on ships from Africa to USA// //Method -// //Uses rhythm and imagery of the Limbo dance,// //African dialect,// //Onomatopoeic - words sound like beat of a drum (many momosyllabic words).// //Repetition again drum like and builds to a cresecendo - creates a tension in reader and makes reader feel the trials and the joy that they felt.// //The description mirrors the history of the african people - how it was hard for a time when they were taken into slavery but their spirit was strong and they triumphed - this in turn is mirrored by the limbo dance movements themselves.// <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//Poem Title also refers to a state of being neither here nor there - not a part of anything - again relevant to time in slavery// <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//Importance of drum (its listed in History of the World in one hundred objects)//

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