1. Y13 English Literature Exam Checklist
E = essential O = optional
TP and Blake (Section B)
Task Time
Read the OCR context booklet (introduction and guided
reading) Blake
AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SELECTED CONTEXT AND CRITICS
NOTES AND PU ONTO A CONTEXT OR CRITICS POSTER (NOT
JUST HIGHLIGHT)
1.5 HOURS http://www.ocr.org.uk/quali
fications/as-a-level-gce-
english-literature-h071-
h471/
E
Read the OCR context booklet (introduction and guided
reading) for Tis Pity
AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SELECTED CONTEXT AND CRITICS
NOTES AND PU ONTO A CONTEXT OR CRITICS POSTER (NOT
JUST HIGHLIGHT)
1.5 HOURS http://www.ocr.org.uk/quali
fications/as-a-level-gce-
english-literature-h071-
h471/
E
Find the critics sheet on Blake and select 7-10 quotes to add
to your sheet (particularly one you don’t agree with)
Ask Jackie or Victoria or Yasmin if you need more help
1 hour E
Find the critics for Ford and select 7-10 quotes to add to your
sheet (particularly one you don’t agree with)
Ask Jen or Alys if you need more help if you need more help
1 hour E
Watch the Ackroyd videos on context - Ackroyd Liberty
AckroydNature
(he is a critic too btw) and make notes on Rousseau and other
movements and influential figuresyou’re your context section
(Paine/Woolstonecraftetc)
2.5 hours http://youtu.be/oLwRXlSgiS
Q
http://youtu.be/QoCN0Dw9
gaU
E
Read the extra Tis Pity context stapled hand-out (with the bit
about James I – Charles’ father – saying that he will show the
people his ‘arse’) and add to your context and critics sections
Critical essays (casebook) for Blake –
choose 3 essays
1 hour
3 hours
E
O
Watch the film of Tis Pity and write down the director’s
interpretation in your critics section
2 hours http://youtu.be/a5wVtB96q
PA
E
Watch the play at the Oxford Playhouse and write down
interpretations in your critics section
2 hours O
Write down as many themes as you can + examples form both
texts (start with Blake) in big mind maps
3 hours E
Plan 3 essays (see past questions) 2.5 hours E
Write 3 essays 3 hours E
Check your Revisions Cards have key quotes on them (see an
examples of Jen’s opposite) and get someone to test you on
them at least 3 times
4 hours 1762-Emile- Rousseau
“nature never deceives us, it
is we who deceives
ourselves”
Poem links: NS, NS, EG, tGoL
E

2. MSND (Section A)
Make sure you’ve got notes on all of the characters and key
themes (aim for 8-10 little quotes 1-6 words - per
character/theme)
3 hours E
Check that you’ve read the Montrose piece and added to
critics/interpretations section
1 hour E
Watch both films and add to your critics/interpretations
section
Hoffman’s version (DeNiroetc)
Adrian Noble (RSC production)
I can lend you these - just ask
5 hours E
Check that you’ve read the Bevington piece and added to
critics/interpretations section
45 mins E
Check that you’ve read BOTH introductions and added to
critics/interpretations section. Dutton and Price.
2 hours E
Read the critics throughout time stapled piece (with Coleridge
and Samuel Pepys in it)
2 hours E
Read the critics sheet given out on Thursday before half term
(that gives you critics by theme)
1.5 hours E
Makes sure that you have critics to disagree with 2 hours E
Plan 3 essays (see past questions) 1.5 hours E
Write 3 essays
(One due Tuesday and another after half term)
3 hours E
Write down as many themes as you can + examples form both
texts (start with Blake) in big mind maps
2 hours E
Read through the context handout (with what does
Midsummer mean…) and add to your context section
1 hour E
Look at the Royal Shakespeare Company Website. It has past
production and information on context and interpretation.
1 hour http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/sh
akespeare/plays/a-midsummer-
nights-dream/
O
Read further essays in the casebook series or performances of
A ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’
3 hours O