This document provides guidance for students on analyzing how the literary text "Cousin Kate" reflects aspects of Victorian life. It includes assessment criteria focusing on knowledge of literary texts, identifying elements of form and language, exploring connections between texts, and understanding relationships between texts and historical contexts. Students are advised to split their response between analyzing an excerpt and making comparisons to other works. The document also includes suggestions for close reading of language, structure, and form and provides homework instructions.

1. How does ‘Cousin Kate’ reflect
aspects of Victorian life?

2. Assessment:
AO1: 3%
• Relevant knowledge and understanding of literary texts
• Appropriate terminology to support interpretations
• Coherent, accurate written expression
AO2: 12%
• Identify relevant features of form, structure and language
• Explore how these shape meanings
• Use specific, carefully chosen quotes
AO3: 3%
• Explore links and connections between different literary texts
• Show understanding of different interpretations
AO4: 27%
• Demonstrate understanding of the relationships between texts and contexts
• Comment on the influence of culture, text type, literary genre or historical period
on the ways in which literary texts were written and were - and are received.

4. In attempting Question 1, students are advised to split their
time evenly between the two parts of the question. It is
perfectly acceptable for students to focus on the extract for
thirty minutes, then spend the next thirty minutes writing
about their relevant wider reading; however, more
confident and sophisticated students may be able to
produce integrated responses in which the extract and the
wider reading comparisons are interwoven throughout the
answer. Contrasts will also be an important part of
successful responses, but their inclusion should be
coherent: arbitrary, bolted-on texts with no obvious
connection to the extract will not help students reach the
higher bands of the mark scheme.

5. Analyse the extract:
How does the writer present his
thought and feelings about aspects of
Victorian life?
Comment on….
Language:
Imagery (metaphor/simile)
Alliteration, assonance, sibilance
Triplets
Connotations of words
Etc.
Structure:
Repetition
Sentence structure (how do they start/finish)
Types of sentence (imperatives etc)
Patterns in language- recurring images or ideas
How does the argument/ narrative progress- look at the beginning and end of the extract.
Form:
How is the argument/idea developed?
How does Ruskin support his argument?

6. Homework:
• Make 3 comparisons between Cousin Kate and
the extract
• Make one point for each and try to comment
on either structure or form as well as
language.
• Post these onto the blog.

7. Self assess- Find 3 things you have
done well from the list
Set yourself a target.
AO1: 3%
• Relevant knowledge and understanding of literary texts
• Appropriate terminology to support interpretations
• Coherent, accurate written expression
AO2: 12%
• Identify relevant features of form, structure and language
• Explore how these shape meanings
• Use specific, carefully chosen quotes
AO3: 3%
• Explore links and connections between different literary texts
• Show understanding of different interpretations
AO4: 27%
• Demonstrate understanding of the relationships between texts and contexts
• Comment on the influence of culture, text type, literary genre or historical period
on the ways in which literary texts were written and were - and are received.