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Getting to know a text: What can you infer? Anton is standing knee-deep in tea-coloured water. Everything else might have been damp, but the crowd remained impressively goodhumoured throughout.

1 Getting to know a text: What can you infer? Anton is standing knee-deep in tea-coloured water. Everything else might have been damp, but the crowd remained impressively goodhumoured throughout. American rock band The Killers, who brought a touch of salubriousness to the proceedings by performing in tuxedo3 jackets and glitter. Outside, a man wearing a huge pink Afrowig4 is twirling round and round in bare feet.

2 Getting to know a text: What can you infer? The road to Greenwich during the whole of Easter Monday is in a state of perpetual bustle and noise. The chief place of resort in the daytime, after the public-houses, is the park Occasionally you pass a deal6 table, on which are exposed pennyworths of pickled salmon (fennel7 included), in little white saucers: oysters, with shells as large as cheese-plates, and several specimens of a species of snail floating in a somewhat biliouslooking green liquid. add to this the screams of women, the shouts of boys, the clanging of gongs, the firing of pistols, the ringing of bells, the bellowings of speakingtrumpets

3 Question 1 4 Marks 5 Minutes Read again lines 1-14 of the source. Choose four statements below which are TRUE. Shade the boxes of the ones you think are true. Choose a maximum of four statements. A B C D E F G H Anton is standing in water, covered in mud. Anton is being carried away by the current. Glastonbury is a scene of near-total devastation. The moorings of the tents are floating down the hillside. The writer is shivering and caught in a thunderstorm. Half-naked people are running after their tents. At first, the writer was not pleased to be sent to Glastonbury. The writer was not surprised to find it was wet and muddy.

4 Question 1 4 Marks 5 Minutes Read again lines 1-14 of the source. Choose four statements below which are TRUE. Shade the boxes of the ones you think are true. Choose a maximum of four statements. A B C D E F G H Anton is standing in water, covered in mud. Anton is being carried away by the current. Glastonbury is a scene of near-total devastation. The moorings of the tents are floating down the hillside. The writer is shivering and caught in a thunderstorm. Half-naked people are running after their tents. At first, the writer was not pleased to be sent to Glastonbury. The writer was not surprised to find it was wet and muddy.

5 Question 1 4 Marks 5 Minutes Read again lines 1-19 of the source. Choose four statements below which are TRUE. Shade the boxes of the ones you think are true. Choose a maximum of four statements. A B C D E F G The road into Greenwich is busy on Easter Sunday. Transport rolls along at the utmost speed. Businesses and houses are crammed with people. Servants do not get the day off. People are anxious to get to the park. Women are not happy as their bonnet caps fly off when running down the hill. Many take part in sports in the park.

6 Question 1 4 Marks 5 Minutes Read again lines 1-19 of the source. Choose four statements below which are TRUE. Shade the boxes of the ones you think are true. Choose a maximum of four statements. A B C D E F G The road into Greenwich is busy on Easter Sunday. Transport rolls along at the utmost speed. Businesses and houses are crammed with people. Servants do not get the day off. People are anxious to get to the park. Women are not happy as their bonnet caps fly off when running down the hill. Many take part in sports in the park.

7 NAME: How confident are you with each question? Write a sentence to explain why underneath.

8 Question 2 The BIG Question 8 Marks 8 Minutes You need to refer to Source A and Source B for this question. The things to see and do at Glastonbury Festival and Greenwich Fair are different. Use details from both Sources to write a summary of the differences in the festivals. [8 marks] DO NOW: What can you recall about the festivals? Source A (Glastonbury) Source B (Greenwich)

9 Point- What connections can you see? Source A Evidence Inference Source B Evidence Inference Quote from both sources Inference- What does it suggest? Use details from both sources to write a summary of the difference between the festivals. Alternatively Whereas Unlike Instead of In contrast

10 Glastonbury Festival and Greenwich Fair are immensely different places with different activities. Glastonbury is a music festival with amazing acts performing on stage outdoors to crowds of people willing to attend whether it snows or rains. It is a very light-hearted festival despite the weather most years and people make their way to Glastonbury from all over the United Kingdom. Greenwich Fair, on the other hand, is a very different attraction with a very different atmosphere. This is a fair of old, with people travelling by omnibus and carriage instead of by train to get there. Music isn t the main focus of this fair although it is full of many shantys and songs played by fair goers. Children play games at Greenwich, and it is full of stalls and food. Glastonbury is a rainy festival of amazing music and a cheerful atmosphere, Greenwich, although it has the same atmosphere, is a festival in which people get together to have fun doing many things. All Level 2 4 marks. Statements show difference and there is an inference attempted on both texts. There is little textual detail.

11 Glastonbury and Greenwich Fair both hugely popular events, but incredibly different in their content. Glastonbury, not only a modern festival, is all about the live music and brining all different styles together (1950 s, pop, alternative etc), whereas Greenwich Fair is something much more theatrical, with shops and band parades and pantomimes and various other dramatic presentations. From the descriptions in atmosphere, they are also hugely different. Glastonbury is described to have a very safe family friendly atmosphere according to people taking part. Apart from the fact that it seems to look like a near-total devastation, everyone seems relatively calm, happy and friendly. However, this does not seem to be the case at Greenwich. Charles Dickens describes it with the firing of pistols, the ringing of bells, the bellowing of speaking trumpets among other things. This gives a crazy, almost out of hand picture of something people in this day and age may expect to be more civilised (Victorian 1839). The drinking and smoking in pubs, the rowdiness of the games played and the attitudes towards women especially make the fair seem like one huge brawl, though also rather jolly and merry; everyone is having fun. Everybody seems to take part in everything, which also contrasts Glastonbury All Level 4 where 8 marks you cans choose which concerts to go to. Overall, I think the main difference is that Glastonbury is much calmer than the chaotic, A very discombobulating confident response atmosphere which pulls of together Greenwich, the despite key differences my own (and between probably the key others) assumptions. differences It between gives a real the insight texts in as a to very how perceptive society has way. grown The candidate what is makes feels is a now very acceptable judicious use when of text one lets to support their hair these down. ideas and the number of perceptive inferences made highlight the quality of the interpretation.

12 Question 2: Self Assessment Have you Made a clear point about the connections between the texts? Identified relevant quotes from each text? Made inferences about the places? Used connectives to reveals differences between the texts?

13 NAME: How confident are you with each question? Write a sentence to explain why underneath.

Alliteration Sibilance Simile Personification Onomatopoeia

14 Question Three Do Now: Choose nine terms from the list below to complete your Bingo card. Alliteration Sibilance Simile Personification Onomatopoeia Repetition Adjective Metaphor Verb Noun Semantic field Hyperbole Adverb Rhetorical Question Pronoun Emotive language

Question 3: The BIG Question 12 Marks 12 Minutes You now need to refer only to Source B from lines 20 to end. How does Dickens use language to make you, the reader, feel part of the fair?

15 Question 3: The BIG Question 12 Marks 12 Minutes You now need to refer only to Source B from lines 20 to end. How does Dickens use language to make you, the reader, feel part of the fair? [8 marks] Key words retrieved from the question. Why are they important? Point Evidence 1) Use your topic sentence to make a point relevant to the question. 2) Select evidence from the text pick out a key quotation. Analyse Link 3) Analyse the evidence this should be the longest part of the paragraph. 4) Finish the paragraph by establishing a link back to the question.

16 Five minutes walking brings you to the fair itself; a scene calculated to awaken very different feelings. The entrance is occupied on either side by the vendors of gingerbread and toys: the stalls are gaily lighted up, the most attractive goods profusely disposed, and unbonneted young ladies induce you to purchase half a pound of the real spice nuts, of which the majority of the regular fair-goers carry a pound or two as a present supply, tied up in a cotton pockethandkerchief. Occasionally you pass a deal6 table, on which are exposed pennyworths of pickled salmon (fennel7 included), in little white saucers: oysters, with shells as large as cheese-plates, and several specimens of a species of snail floating in a somewhat biliouslooking green liquid. Imagine yourself in an extremely dense crowd, which swings you to and fro, and in and out, and every way but the right one; add to this the screams of women, the shouts of boys, the clanging of gongs, the firing of pistols, the ringing of bells, the bellowings of speakingtrumpets, the squeaking of penny dittos8, the noise of a dozen bands, with three drums in each, all playing different tunes at the same time, the hallooing of showmen, and an occasional roar from the wildbeast shows; and you are in the very centre and heart of the fair. This immense booth, with the large stage in front, so brightly illuminated with lamps, and pots of burning fat, is Richardson s, where you have a melodrama (with three murders and a ghost), a pantomime, a comic song, an overture, and some incidental music, all done in five-and-twenty minutes. Just a-going to begin! Pray come for erd, come for erd, exclaims the man in the countryman s dress, for the seventieth time: and people force their way up the steps in crowds. The band suddenly strikes up and the leading tragic actress, and the gentleman who enacts the swell in the pantomime, foot it to perfection. All in to begin, shouts the manager, when no more people can be induced to come for erd, and away rush the leading members of the company to do the first piece. Band 1 (1-3 marks) 2 (4-6 marks) 3 (7-9 marks) 4 (10-12 marks) What have you done? Simple subject terminology Simple textual detail Simple comment on effect of language Some subject terminology Some appropriate textual detail Attempts to comment on the effect of language Accurate subject terminology Relevant integrated textual detail Clear explanation of effect of language Sophisticated use of subject terminology Judicious textual detail Analysis of language effects

COULD develop more than interpretation of your quotation. Step 1: Independent: Look at the image that you have been given.

17 Question 3: The BIG Question Success Criteria MUST identify the quotation that your image links to. SHOULD explain and analyse the effect of the language of your quotation. Remember to use key terminology. COULD develop more than interpretation of your quotation. Step 1: Independent: Look at the image that you have been given. Identify the quote that matches the image. Step2: Independent: What does the image suggest being part of the fair? Step 2: Group ideas: Each group member has 1 minute to share their analysis for their image. Step 3: Now move to the next image and repeat.

18 What language technique? Evidence? Analysis and ideas? Alternative interpretations?

19 Useful sentences: This metaphor/simile/personification is used to show... The clever use of this adverb/verb/adjective/image represents... The writer is trying to symbolise... This imagery is effective because... The use of the adjective/noun/verb evokes a sense of Remember to write a lot about a little! As well as Furthermore In addition to Also Moreover Point Evidence Analyse Link 1) Use your topic sentence to make a point relevant to the question. 2) Select evidence from the text pick out a key quotation. 3) Analyse the evidence this should be the longest part of the paragraph. 4) Finish the paragraph by establishing a link back to the question. This suggests This links to Alternatively, it might This indicates This higlights The reader will This demonstrates This reveals

20 A variety of devices are used in Source B by Dickens to invite the reader into the atmosphere of the fair. One of these is the selection of unusual verbs in lines which when placed into such a long list have an impressive cumulative effect upon the image produced. Particularly notable among these is the showmen s hallooing, an onomatopoeia which not only directly demonstrates the sound created but also encompasses a wider range of sounds and the bawdy nature of the men s hawking and the fair itself. Another device which assists in the presentation of the fair is Dickens use of colloquial speech when referring to people at the fair. When the man running the theatre show invites potential customers to pray come for erd Dickens is not only directly increasing the description of the fair but also increasing the credibility of the text through the use of naturalistic speech. This makes the whole image that bit more believable. Dickens also uses juxtaposition to produce a vivid image of the fair. When Dickens asks the reader to imagine themselves in a crowd which moves them to and fro, in and out while creating a rhythm which vividly solidifies the image in the reader s head by invoking images of repeated movement, this turn of phrase also implies the jostling nature of the crowd and thus the busy atmosphere as the fair. Level 3 8 marks This candidate uses subject terminology, but not always accurately. A range of textual details have been chosen, placing the response in Level 3 and the response has clearly explained the effect of the writer s choices of language on two occasions.

21 Set yourself a target from this learning check. Band What have you done? 1 (1-3 marks) 2 (4-6 marks) Simple subject terminology Simple textual detail Simple comment on effect of language Some subject terminology Some appropriate textual detail Attempts to comment on the effect of language Have you made a range of clear points about the language techniques used? PROVE IT! Highlight an example of this in your work. Have you included a range of quotations? PROVE IT! Highlight an example of this in your work. 3 (7-9 marks) 4 (10-12 marks) Accurate subject terminology Relevant integrated textual detail Clear explanation of effect of language Sophisticated use of subject terminology Judicious textual detail Analysis of language effects Have you explained the effect of the language techniques on the reader? PROVE IT! Highlight an example of this in your work. Have you tried to develop a range of interpretations of the language? PROVE IT! Highlight an example of this in your work.

22 NAME: How confident are you with each question? Write a sentence to explain why underneath.

23 Question 4: The BIG Question 16 Marks 20 Minutes Record the key words in this question: For this question, you need to refer to the whole of Source A, together with the whole of Source B. Compare how the writers have conveyed their different views and experiences of the festival and fair they describe. In your answer, you could: compare their different experiences compare the methods the writers use to convey those experiences support your response with references to both texts. This is the most important word in the question as it is asking you to write about the effects of the language through the techniques (language or structure) that the writers have used.

24 How do the writers feel? What do the writers think about the festivals and their experiences? ( Positive / Neutral / Negative / Ambivalent / Frustration / Rage / Eager / Enthusiastic / Nervous / Uneasy / Concerned / Reassured / Sceptical / Humorous ) Source A (Glastonbury) Source B (Greenwich)

25 Emotion Thoughts Experience TEXT A Evidence Suggest to reader? Emotion Thoughts Experience TEXT B Evidence Suggest to reader?

26 Compare how each Source conveys their different views and experiences of the festival and the fair Compare the overall message in each of the speeches. Are they similar or different in content? The writers experiences are similar/different because 2 A B Point Quote Explain In the same way / Similarly On the other hand / However Point Quote Explain x4 Text A uses to highlight the view of (QUOTE) This suggests Similarly/In the same way/also On the other hand/ However / Conversely

27 Set yourself a target from this learning check. Band/ Mark What do you need to do? Level Level Detailed differences identified. Judicious quotations from both texts. Perceptive analysis of methods used to convey ideas. Clear differences identified Relevant quotations from both texts. Explains clearly how methods convey ideas. Have you identified the writers viewpoint? PROVE IT! Highlight an example of this in your work. Have you supported this with relevant quotes? PROVE IT! Highlight an example of this in your work. Level Level Some differences identified. Some relevant quotes Some comment on how methods used to convey ideas Simple awareness of differences Simple references Simple identification of how differences are conveyed. Have you explained the views and attitudes of the speakers through analysis of language/structure? PROVE IT! Highlight an example of this in your work. Have you made your comparisons clear through the use of connectives? PROVE IT! Highlight an example of this in your work.

28 One difference I immediately picked up between Elizabeth Day s and Charles Dickens pieces of writing was that Day s view on Glastonbury was much less positive then Dickens on Greenwich. Day was expecting much less than Dickens and is why she was the more praiseful about her trip. Where Day uses adjectives such as healthy and brilliant Dickens uses noise or present seemingly keeping his true opinion hidden. These words could mean he is amused by these activities or that he is disappointed while Day pleasantly appreciates even the fact that people are still smiling after a 6 hour thunderstorm. Line 35 and 36 confirm Day s impressed nature towards the soaked through people of Glastonbury. Moreover, Day was less reluctant to talk to those at the festival than Dickens was. This may be because there is a more unsafe atmosphere about the place. Charles Dickens describes the peoples movement more dangerously, as they force their way up the steps and earlier roll along at their utmost speed. Even though the weather is much more friendly in Greenwich in 1839, the people seem not. By looking at the two pieces of writing, I believe that surprisingly Elizabeth Day enjoyed Glastonbury more than Charles Dickens enjoyed Greenwich. My judgement has been made because of the adjectives used to describe the people and the activities. All Level 2 8 marks This candidate identifies some different views some misunderstanding but some are valid. There are some useful references to support = again some are not apt. However, there is an attempt to compare.

29 Elizabeth Day has a very negative view of the Glastonbury before she actually visits the festival. She tells us my reaction was one of undiluted horror when she is given the assignment. Her negative view also seems to be conveyed in the opening paragraphs when she uses vocabulary like devastation, shivering and disaster she implies that Glastonbury is a very unpleasant place to be. By contrast, Dickens doesn t actually tell us his view of Greenwich Fair but he describes the experience of actually being there. Though he presents us with similar sounding negative aspects of the fair, dust flies in the clouds, crowded with people, ladies scream with fright, his tone suggests it s still a popular and happy place to be as he states Everybody is anxious to be at the fair. Elizabeth Day s views change as a result of her experience of Glastonbury itself. She begins to paint a picture of a happy and civilised place despite the hardships. She uses noun phrases like well spoken degree students, broad grins, tuxedo jackets, polite chit-chat to make this sound like a ball or a prom rather than camping in a field. Even the drizzle is described as polite. Dickens methods are very different however. Dickens uses lengthy complex All Level 4 16 marks. sentences packed with lists, for example, lines 4-7 and lines to convey the assault on the senses that is Greenwich Fair. He still seems enthusiastic in his view as he wants the reader to Shows a detailed understanding of the different views and experiences in both texts. experience it with him you are in the very centre of the fair. Both writers enjoy their experience but in different ways and to different degrees. Day concludes by saying it s almost Analyses a range of methods, supported by judicious quotations. nice suggesting the experience has changed her view. Dickens packs in the attractive details with the less attractive details and seems to maintain his view right through that this is all part Perceptive comparison. and parcel of an experience not to be missed.

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (8700) Insert SPECIMEN MATERIAL 2. Insert to 8700/2. Paper 2 Writers viewpoints and perspectives

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (8700) Insert SPECIMEN MATERIAL 2. Insert to 8700/2. Paper 2 Writers viewpoints and perspectives SPECIMEN MATERIAL 2 GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (8700) Paper 2 Writers viewpoints and perspectives Insert The two sources that follow are: Source A: 21 st Century non-fiction A newspaper article called Are We