GCSE English - November resit

Confirmation of times & locations for the November resits:

Wednesday 1st: E20b
Friday 3rd: E25a

Both exams start at 9.30am but you should aim to be at the venue at 9.15am. Make sure you have black pens & a bottle of water!

See below for the revision screencasts...

Paper 1

Paper 1 - written task

Paper 2 - part 1

Paper 2 - part 2

GOOD LUCK!

A2 Comms - Boujee

Following on from our discussion about the word boujee, here's an article from The Guardian that you might be interested in.

A2 Comms - Introducing Post Colonialism

A2 Comms & Culture: Introducing Post Colonialism

Kenya: A white man's country

A2 Comms: Consolidating Marxism

A2 Comms: Consolidating alienation; hegemony & false consciousness

Alienation

Hegemony

False Consciousness

GCSE - How to approach Paper 2, part 2

GCSE English - How to approach Paper 2, part 2

This is the second screencast on how to approach Paper 2, focusing on questions 4-7b.

GCSE - how to approach Paper 2, Part 1

GCSE English - How to approach Paper 2, part 1

This screencast refers to the sample paper which features the World War 1 letter and the Jack Monroe extract:

A2 Comms - Adorno & Marcuse: consolidate your knowledge

Adorno

Marcuse

A2 Comms: The Frankfurt School

A great introduction to, and discussion about, The Frankfurt School.

A2 Comms - Reminder of formal assessment on 12th October

A2 Comms - Cultural capital

Watch the explanation of cultural capital below:

and then apply the idea of cultural capital to this clip from The Wire.

A2 Comms - preparing for the formal assessment (Oct 12th)

A2 Comms - Marxist analysis

The following will give you an idea of how we can do Marxist readings of contemporary cultural texts.

Click below for:

Marxist analysis of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

Marxist analysis of Orange is the The New Black

GCSE - How to approach Paper 1

How to approach Paper 1, Section A

Part 1

Part 2