AQA AS Level English Literature Activities and Exam Practice: Cold Mountain

Contents

Section One

A. Pre-reading 

• Preparing for study
• Literary context
• The Civil War: social and political background
• Religious context
• Major influences – American Transcendentalists

B. Textual notes and activities

• Setting and atmosphere
• Narrative voice
• Characterisation: Key characters.

Function of minor characters

Approaches to understanding character

• Relationships
• Style and language focus
• Narrative structure
• Major themes

Section Two

• Focus on Assessment Objectives
• Critical responses
• Using quotations and references
• The closed book exam – useful tips for revision
• Interrogating the question – looking for key words
• The exam essay: what the examiner wants
• Sample essays: how to improve the essay
• Teachers’ notes
• Extension tasks
• Wider reading
• Bibliography
• Useful links and sources

Further information

Where to start? gives hints on study and revision.

Section 1 provides information and activities for classroom and homework to support reading the text.

Section 2 provides advice and activities which guide students through the process of writing exam essays on Cold Mountain for AQA. It includes:

• how to analyse essay questions
• how to hit the Assessment Objectives
• how to tackle the exam
• how to turn a C into an A
• examiners' comments on a sample essay.

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