WJEC GCSE English Activities & Exam Practice:
To Kill a Mockingbird

Contents

Part 1: Activities for use with the text

Context

Chapter-by-chapter activities

Part 2: Exam preparation and practice

1 Types of questions set by WJEC

• Types of question set by WJEC
• Choosing which question to answer

2 Making a plan

• Examples of plans for exam essays

3 How to begin your essay

• What makes a good introduction?
• Examples of introductions to WJEC questions

4 Structuring your essay

• Writing effective paragraphs
• Linking paragraphs

5 How to use quotations and references

• What to avoid
• How to quote and refer effectively
• Key points to remember

6 The body of the essay

• Writing about characters
• Writing about events
• Writing about themes and ideas
• Giving your views on the author ’s intentions and motives
• Commenting on style and structure
• Using appropriate language

7 Concluding the essay

• What makes a good conclusion?
• Examples of conclusions to WJEC questions

8 Sample essays

• Foundation Tier specimen questions and answers
• Higher Tier specimen questions and answers

9 WJEC-style practice questions

Teachers’ notes

Further information

Part 1 provides activities for classroom and homework use throughout the course.

• Context is for use before students start the novel.
• Chapter-by-chapter activities are for use at the end of each chapter.

Part 2 provides activities which guide students through the process of writing exam essays on To Kill a Mockingbird for WJEC. It explains:

• types of essay
• planning
• how to begin an essay
• how to structure an essay
• how to turn a C-grade into an A*.

New version

The new version of the resource takes into account that the novel is treated as an 'other cultures' text in the new 2010 specification, and that there is a new, passage-based two-part exam question format.

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