Contents
Section 1: Tackling the text
A. Background work
- The Second World War:
- relevant facts
- social and political climate
- researching context
- Literary context: genre – literature and film
B. Close reading of text
- Narrative perspective
- Authorial voice
- Interior monologue
- Unreliable narrative voice
- Setting and atmosphere
- Characterisation
- Key characters
- Function of minor characters
- Approaches to understanding character
- Relationships
- Language focus – humour and Irony
- Narrative structure
- Major themes
- Childhood
- Memory
- Imagination v reality
- Social class
- Prejudice
- Critical responses
Section 2: Exam preparation and practice
- Focus on Assessment Objectives
- Using quotations and references
- The exam essay: what the examiner wants
- Sample essays: how to improve the essay
- Teachers’ notes
- Extension tasks
- Wider reading
- Bibliography and useful sources
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Further information
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 Spies 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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