English Literature Macbeth week beginning 7th October

Read the following extract from Act 3 scene 2 of Macbeth and then answer the question that follows. 

At this point in the play Macbeth has arranged the killing of Banquo and is reflecting on the killing of Duncan.

MACBETH

15We have scorched the snake, not killed it.

She’ll close and be herself whilst our poor malice

Remains in danger of her former tooth.

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,

Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep

20In the affliction of these terrible dreams

That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead,

Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,

Than on the torture of the mind to lie

In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave.

25After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.

Treason has done his worst; nor steel nor poison,

Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing

Can touch him further.

LADY MACBETH Come on, gentle my lord, 30Sleek o'er your rugged looks. Be bright and jovial Among your guests tonight.
MACBETH      So shall I, love, And so, I pray, be you. Let your remembrance Apply to Banquo; present him eminence, Both with eye and tongue: unsafe the while that we 35Must lave our honors in these flattering streams, And make our faces vizards to our hearts, Disguising what they are.
LADY MACBETH      You must leave this. Starting with this extract, explain how you think Shakespeare presents deceitfulness. Write about: how Shakespeare presents deception in this extract how Shakespeare presents deceit in the play as a whole

English Language Paper 2 week beginning 30th September 2019

Source A


Source B


1) Tick the 4 statements that are true.

A Burnout only happens to lazy people
B Burnout can be life-threatening
C More people have experienced burnout in their current job than those who have not
D Burnout can take a long time to recover from
E The writer believes that we should work harder when we feel tired
F The writer has memory problems
G Social workers were found to be less stressed at works than other professions
H Half of GPs in the UK are at risk of burnout


2) You need to refer to Source A and Source B for this question.

Use details from both sources. Write a summary of the differences between the symptoms of fatigue experienced in Source A and the symptoms of fatigue experienced in Source B (8 marks).


3) Look at Source A, lines 39 -57
How does the writer use language to convince the reader that they should not allow themselves to burn out? (12 marks)


4) You need to refer to both Source A and Source B for this question.

Compare how the two writers portray their different perspectives on fatigue.


5) "People today work harder than ever before and have less leisure time".

Write a broadsheet newspaper explaining your point of view on this statement (16 marks).

English Literature Romeo and Juliet week beginning 23/9/19

Read this scene from Act 1, scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question which follows.  

At this point in the play, Romeo is feeling sad that he has been rejected by Rosaline.

BENVOLIO Good morrow, cousin.
ROMEO    Is the day so young?
BENVOLIO But new struck nine.
ROMEO    Ay me! Sad hours seem long. Was that my father that went hence so fast?
BENVOLIO It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?
ROMEO Not having that which, having, makes them short.
BENVOLIO 155In love?
ROMEO Out.
BENVOLIO Of love?
ROMEO Out of her favor, where I am in love.
BENVOLIO Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, 160Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!
ROMEO Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will! Where shall we dine?—O me! What fray was here? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here’s much to do with hate but more with love. Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost thou not laugh? BENVOLIO No, coz, I rather weep. ROMEO Good heart, at what? BENVOLIO At thy good heart’s oppression. ROMEO Why, such is love’s transgression. Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate, to have it pressed With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. Farewell, my coz

Starting with this conversation, explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Romeo as loyal.

Write about:

·         How Shakespeare presents Romeo in this extract

·         How Shakespeare presents Romeo in the play as whole

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You may wish to consider the following points or add points of your own:

How is Romeo portrayed? (Impulsive? Rash? Immature? Naïve? Loving?)

      Is Romeo really depressed about being rejected by Rosaline or is he playing the role of the Petrarchan lover which had become a bit of a cliché during the time Shakespeare was writing?

How does Romeo’s infatuation with Rosaline foreshadow events later in the play?

What do the oxymorons in this passage suggest about Romeo’s attitude to love?

        Is Romeo portrayed in the same way throughout the rest of the play or does he change?

Possible scenes to look at: Act 1, scene 4 (Romeo’s interactions with Mercutio); Act 1, scene 5 (when Romeo falls in love with Juliet at first sight); Act 2, scene 2 (The balcony scene); Act 3, scene 1 (when Romeo kills Tybalt); Act 3, scene 5 (when Romeo spends a final night with Juliet); Act 5, scene 3 (Romeo’s death)        
          Does he really love Juliet? – “Juliet is the sun” – however, could it also be said that he is idealising her and worshipping her instead of loving her as a fellow human being?       Is he rash/impulsive? – he asks her to marry him – he rushes things. Does this lead to his death? 

Possible quotations to use:

O she doth teach the torches to burn bright.

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night

As a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear. (I.v.)

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. (II.ii.)

With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,

For stony limits cannot hold love out. (II.ii.)

O sweet Juliet

Thy beauty hath made me effeminate

And in my temper softened valor’s steel! (III.i.)

English Language Paper 1 week beginning 16/9/19

Read this extract from chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Extract from The Great Gatsby

(1) From the first paragraph, list four things we find out about Gatsby's guests. (4 marks)

(2)

Read the paragraph beginning, “There was music from my neighbour’s house”… “to repairing the ravages of the night before.” 

How does the writer use language to describe the neighbour and his behaviour? (8 marks)

(3) How does the writer use structure to interest the reader? (8 marks)

(4) Look at line 52 to the end of the extract.

A student said: “The narrator feels out of place and uncomfortable at Gatsby’s house”. 

To what extent do you agree? (20 marks)

(5)

Write a description suggested by this picture

OR

Write the opening of a short story about a party

Remember to use:

Onomatopoeia

Five senses

Alliteration

Similes

Triples

Metaphors

Adjectives/adverbs

Personification

Sentence types/openings (simple, compound, complex)

You may find some of these words helpful…

Nouns

Decorations, music, glasses, dresses, faces, expressions, laughter, light

Adjectives

Deafening, raucous, rowdy, cacophonous, piercing, boisterous, shrill, melodic, melodious, croaky, rasping, penetrating

Verbs

Prattle, gossip, flirt, argue, impress

Dance

Laugh, giggle, shriek, snort, howl

Adverbs

Beautifully, divinely, gaily, gracefully, lightly, merrily, wildly

boisterously, derisively

easily, heartily, hysterically, immoderately, lightly

loudly, nervously, quietly, silently, simply, softly

uncontrollably, uproariously