IGCSE English Activities & Exam Practice:
Helen Dunmore, The Siege

Contents

Part 1: Activities for use with the text

Pre-reading: background Information

Reading the novel

• Introduction
• Narrative Sequence 1:
  Before the siege (Chapters 1–5)
• Narrative Sequence 2:
  The siege begins (Chapters 7–15)
• Narrative Sequence 3:
  The height of the siege (Chapters 17–29)
• Narrative Sequence 4:
  Epilogue (Chapter 30)
• Interludes and an Aside:
  Chapters 6, 9, 14, 16, 22 and 27

Post-reading activity

Part 2: Exam preparation and practice

The CIE English Literature Examination

Method

Which question to choose?

• Writing a plan
• The opening of your essay
• What to include in your essay
• The body (main part) of the essay
• Concluding your essay
• A sample essay
• A note on the ‘empathic’ question

Teachers’ notes

Charts (provided as a separate document for students to complete)

Further information

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

• Pre-reading is for use before students start the novel, giving information on the historical background and the author's influences.
• Reading the novel gives chapter-by-chapter activities for use at the end of each chapter.

Part 2 provides activities which guide students through the process of writing exam essays on The Siege for IGCSE. It explains:

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

There are also eight charts for students to complete as they read the novel.

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