English Literature: Are you ready to take a big step?

Now that you are ready to do some serious revision, here are some tasks below that you can use to make sure you're revising effectively:

1) Print off/access blank copies of the poems you have been studying. From memory, annotate onto this copy everything you can remember. Then, compare this to your notes. What have you missed out? What do you need to focus your revision on? Once you know what you don't know (!), make yourself some flash cards to help you remember this.

2) Do the following exam questions for the Short Stories (some of you may not have studied these). You can use the questions as many times as you wish (as long as it's appropriate for the story!):
- Write about the ways that growing up is presented in one of the short stories
- 'Morals are important'. Write about the ways that morals are shown to be important in one of the short stories.
- Explore the portrayal of character in one of the short stories.
- 'With age comes responsibility'. To what extent is this true of the short story?

3) Find a quote for each of the following things from Of Mice and Men:
Dreams, Light, Dark, Setting, Symbolism, The Great Depression, Lennie, George, Crooks, Curley, Curley's Wife, Hands.

4) For each of these quotes, mind map them with all of the things you can say

5) Follow one of the links below to an 'unseen' poem. Answer the question next to it.
Links:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-do-not-love-you-except-because-i-love-you/  How does the poet present love in this poem?

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-2/  How does the poet present nature in this poem?

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/do-you-remember-childhood/ What do you think the poet's views on childhood are?


Good luck- there's plenty here to be getting on with! Remember to bring your work to your teacher for feedback, or come along to the English Clinic, S12, 12:45-1:15 Every Thursday lunch time.

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain