Exploring 'The Story of an Hour' Setting in Kate Chopin's Work

In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," the setting plays a crucial role in depicting Mrs. Mallard's emotional journey upon hearing of her husband's death. The detailed description of the environment reflects her internal turmoil and eventual realization of newfound freedom and self-assertion.

• Kate Chopin
• Setting
• Emotional Journey
• Freedom
• Self-Assertion

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1. Year 11 Language Paper 1 Revision Booklet 2023-24 Name: Teacher s Name: 1

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4. 1. Section A: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin Watch the video lesson on Paper 1 Question 1 available at https://amysmithliterature.wordpress.com/aqa-gcse-english-language/ . As you watch, read the source below and answer Question 1. Mrs Mallard has been told that her husband has died in a railway disaster. She retires to the privacy of her bedroom to mourn her loss. There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul. 1 She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. 5 There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window. She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion on the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams. She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off under on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought. There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. but she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward 15 her through the sounds, the scents, the colour that filled the air. 10 Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognise this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: free, free, free! The vacant stare and the 20 look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulse beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body. She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and grey and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. 25 There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination. 30 And yet she had loved him sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognised as the strongest impulse of her being! Free! Body and soul free! she kept whispering. 35 4

5. Question 1: Read the first 2 paragraphs. List 4 things you learn about the setting. [4 marks] 1._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Watch the video lesson on Paper 1 Question 2 available at https://amysmithliterature.wordpress.com/aqa-gcse-english-language/ . Then write your answer. Question 2: Re-read paragraph 3. How does the writer use language to describe the woman s reaction to the loss of her husband? You could include the writer s choice of: - - - Words and phrases Language features and techniques Sentence forms (8 marks) Write your response here and on the next page: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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7. Question 3: Use the whole source. How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader? You could write about: - What the writer focusses your attention on at the beginning of the source - How and why the writer changes this focus as the source develops - Any other structural features that interest you (8 marks) Watch the video lesson on Paper 1 Question 3 available at https://amysmithliterature.wordpress.com/aqa-gcse-english-language/ . Then write your answer. Write your response here and on the next page: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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9. Question 4: Focus this part of your response on paragraph 5 onwards. Having read this section of the text, a student commented: Mrs Mallard is completely liberated from an unhappy, constrictive marriage. She is energised by this transformation in her life. To what extent do you agree? In your response you could: - Consider the student s reactions in this part of the story - Evaluate how the writer presents Mrs Mallard s liberation - Support your response with references to the text (20 marks) Watch the video lesson on Paper 1 Question 4 available at https://amysmithliterature.wordpress.com/aqa-gcse-english-language/ . Then plan and write your answer. Plan your answer here: Write your response here and on the next page: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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12. 1. Section B: Creative writing a lonely street Watch the video lesson on Paper 1 Question 5 available at https://amysmithliterature.wordpress.com/aqa-gcse-english-language/ . Then plan and write your answer. EITHER Write a story about a lonely place as suggested by this picture. OR Describe a journey into the unknown. (24 + 16) Plan your answer here: 12 Write your response on the next page.

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15. 2. Section A: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Read the extract twice through: The unnamed narrator dreams of a house that she used to live in. Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley* again. It seemed to me that I was passing through the iron gates that led to the driveway. The drive was just a narrow track now, its stony surface covered with grass and weeds. Sometimes, when I thought I had lost it, it would appear again, beneath a fallen tree or beyond a muddy pool formed by the winter rains. The trees had thrown out new low branches which stretched across my way. I came to the house suddenly, and stood there with my heart beating fast and tears filling my eyes. 5 There was Manderley, our Manderley, secret and silent as it had always been, the grey stone shining in the moonlight of my dream. Time could not spoil the beauty of those walls, nor of the place itself, as it lay like a jewel in the hollow of a hand. The grass sloped down towards the sea, which was a sheet of silver lying calm under the moon, like a lake undisturbed by wind or storm. I turned again to the house, and I saw that the garden had run wild, just as the woods had done. Weeds were everywhere. But moonlight can play strange tricks with the imagination, even with a dreamer s imagination. As I stood there, I could swear that the house was not an empty shell, but lived and breathed as it had lived before. Light came from the windows, the curtains blew softly in the night air, and there, in the library, the door stood half open as we had left it, with my handkerchief on the table beside the bowl of autumn flowers. 10 15 20 Then a cloud came over the moon, like a dark hand across a face. The memories left me. I looked again at an empty shell, with no whisper of the past about its staring walls. Our fear and suffering were gone now. When I thought about Manderley in my waking hours I would not be bitter; I would think of it as it might have been, if I could have lived there without fear. I would remember the rose garden in summer, and the birds that sang there; tea under the trees, and the sound of the sea coming up to us from the shore below. I would think of the flowers blown from the bushes, and the Happy Valley. These things could never lose their freshness. 25 30 *The name of a large estate house in its own grounds 15

16. Question 1: Step by Step Read the question Annotate the question Look at the number of marks available 4. Look at the space available 5. Re-read lines 1-9 on page 15 Select 4 facts about the grounds of Manderley 7. Write your answer in full sentences 1. 2. 3. 6. Question 1: Read again the first part of the source, lines 1 to 9. List four things from this part of the text about the grounds of Manderley. [4 marks] 1._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Question 2: Step by Step Read the question Annotate the question Look at the number of marks available 4. Look at the space available 1. 2. 3. Question 2: Re-read paragraph 2. There was Manderley, our Manderley, secret and silent as it had always been, the grey stone shining in the moonlight of my dream. Time could not spoil the beauty of those walls, nor of the place itself, as it lay like a jewel in the hollow of a hand. The grass sloped down towards the sea, which was a sheet of silver lying calm under the moon, like a lake undisturbed by wind or storm. I turned again to the house, and I saw that the garden had run wild, just as the woods had done. Weeds were everywhere. But moonlight can play strange tricks with the imagination, evenwith a dreamer s imagination. As I stood there, I could swear that the house was not an empty shell, but lived and breathed as it had lived before. Light came from the windows, the curtains blew softly in the night air, and there, in the library, the door stood halfopen as we had left it, with my handkerchief on the table beside the bowl of autumn flowers. How does the writer use language here to describe the house? You could include the writer s choice of: - - - Words and phrases Language features and techniques Sentence forms (8 marks) 16

17. Question 2: Plan your answer in the table below Three things about three things e.g. secret and silent e.g. grey stone e.g. shining Quotation 1: There was Manderley, our Manderley, secret and silent as it had always been, the grey stone shining in the moonlight of mydream. e.g. Secret adjective mystery and builds tension e.g. Silent the house is full of unspoken truths e.g. Sibilance musical, nostalgic, something has been lost Quotation 2: The grass sloped down towards the sea, which was a sheet of silver lying calm under the moon, like a lake undisturbed by wind or storm. Quotation 3: choose your own 17

18. Write your response to question 2 here and on the next page: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 18

19. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Question 3: Step by Step Read the question Annotate the question Look at the number of marks available 4. Look at the space available 1. 2. 3. Question 3: Use the whole source. How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader? You could write about: - What the writer focusses your attention on at the beginning of the source - How and why the writer changes this focus as the source develops - Any other structural features that interest you (8 marks) 19

20. Question 3: Plan your answer in the table below Analysing Structure What is the effect of including a flashback? What does the writer focus on and why? Beginning of the source: Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me that I was passing through the iron gates that led to the driveway. What does the writer shift the focus to and why? What changes or shifts do you notice within this quotation? Shift in the middle of the source: Time could not spoil the beauty of those walls, nor of the place itself, as it lay like a jewel in the hollow of a hand Then a cloud came over the moon, like a dark hand across a face. The memories left me. What does the writer focus on and why? What atmosphere or mood does the narrative end with? Ending: I would think of the flowers blown from the bushes, and the Happy Valley. These things could never lose their freshness. Question 3: Write your answer here and on the next page ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 1 Point flip the ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain why the writer structures the text in this way. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

21. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain why the writer structures the text in this way. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain why the writer structures the text in this way. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21

22. Question 4: Step by Step Read the question Annotate the question Look at the number of marks available 4. Look at the space available 1. 2. 3. Question 4: Focus this part of your answer on the second half of the source, from line 16 to the end. A student, having read this section of the text said: The writer conveys the beauty of the place. To what extent do you agree? In your response, you should: write about your own impressions of the place evaluate how the writer has created these impressions support your opinions with quotations from the text. [20 marks] Question 4: Planning your Answer 5. Draw an agree/disagree table 6. Write short points and quotes aim for 3 agrees and 1 disagree (although you can change the balance if you need to) Agree the place is beautiful Disagree the place is not beautiful e.g. The house lived and breathed it is full of life and joy Question 4: Planning your Answer 7. Decide what order you will write your paragraphs in. Use numbers to label them in your table. 22

23. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ surface level e.g. ostensibly ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23

24. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 3 Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 4 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24

25. 2. 2. Section B: Creative writing B: Creative writing a natural scene a natural scene EITHER Write a description inspired by this image. OR Write a story about a surprising event. (24 + 16) Plan your answer here using the structure your teacher has taught you (look at the knowledge organiser for a reminder): Write your response on the next page. 25

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28. Use the marking criteria to reflect on your creative writing piece Did you achieve this? (yes/no/maybe) Add a quotation from your work as evidence Target Communication is convincing it reads like a novel / short story Communication is compelling it is a short story I would be interested in reading Tone, style and register are matched to audience you have written in the style of a novelist Content and organisation: 24 marks Extensive and ambitious use of vocabulary Sustained crafting of linguistic devices you have used a range of language devices throughout Use of structural features e.g. circular structure Inclusion of a range of complex ideas e.g. you explore different moods, emotions, aspects of character Paragraphs are linked Sentence demarcation is accurate full stops, commas etc are in the correct place Technical accuracy: 16 marks Wide range of punctuation used accurately Uses the full range of sentence forms for effect Secure control of complex grammatical structures High level of accuracy in spelling Extensive and ambitious use of vocabulary 28

29. 3. Section A: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Read the extract twice through: The Bell Jar tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a young woman from the suburbs of Boston, who gains a summer internship at a magazine in New York. It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn t know what I was doing in New York. I'm stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick, and that's all there was to read about in the papers --goggle-eyed headlines staring up at me on every street corner and at the fusty, peanut-smelling mouth of every subway. It had nothing to do with me, but I couldn't help wondering what it would be like, being burned alive all along your nerves. 1 5 I thought it must be the worst thing in the world. New York was bad enough. By nine in the morning the fake, country-wet freshness that somehow seeped in overnight evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream. Mirage-gray at the bottom of their granite canyons, the hot streets wavered in the sun, the car tops sizzled and glittered, and the dry, cindery dust blew into my eyes and down my throat. 10 I kept hearing about the Rosenbergs over the radio and at the office till I couldn't get them out of my mind. It was like the first time I saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward, the cadaver's head --or what there was left of it --floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and behind the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadaver's head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar. 15 I knew something was wrong with me that summer, because all I could think about was the Rosenbergs and how stupid I'd been to buy all those uncomfortable, expensive clothes, hanging limp as fish in my closet, and how all the little successes I d totted up so happily at college fizzled to nothing outside the slick marble and plate-glass fronts along Madison Avenue. 20 I was supposed to be having the time of my life. I was supposed to be the envy of thousands of other college girls just like me all over America who wanted nothing more than to be tripping about in those same size seven patent leather shoes I'd bought in Bloomingdale's one lunch hour with a black patent leather belt and black patent leather pocketbook to match. And when my picture came out in the magazine the twelve of us were working on --drinking martinis on some Starlight Roof in the company of several anonymous young men with all-American bone structures hired or loaned for the occasion --everybody would think I must be having a real whirl. 25 Look what can happen in this country, they'd say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for nineteen years, so poor she can't afford a magazine, and then she gets a scholarship to college and wins a prize here and a prize there and ends up steering New York like her own private car. Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus. I guess I should have been excited the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. 30 35 29

30. Question 1: Step by Step Read the question Annotate the question Look at the number of marks available 4. Look at the space available Re-read the first paragraph on page 29 Select 4 facts about the narrator Write your answer in full sentences 1. 2. 3. 5. 6. 7. Question 1: Read again the first paragraph of the source. List four things from this part of the text about the narrator. [4 marks] 1._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4._____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Question 2: Step by Step Read the question Annotate the question Look at the number of marks available 4. Look at the space available 1. 2. 3. Question 2: Re-read lines 8-11. New York was bad enough. By nine in the morning the fake, country-wet freshness that somehow seeped in overnight evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream. Mirage-gray at the bottom of their granite canyons, the hot streets wavered in the sun, the car tops sizzled and glittered, and the dry, cindery dust blew into my eyes and down my throat. How does the writer use language here to describe New York? You could include the writer s choice of: - - - Words and phrases Language features and techniques Sentence forms (8 marks) 30

31. Question 2: Plan your answer in the table below Three things about three things e.g. fake Quotation 1: By nine in the morning the fake, country- wet freshness that somehow seeped in overnight evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream. Adjective, suggesting that the freshness of New York is a fa ade. This suggests that people are pretending to be civilised, kind, welcoming. This suggests the problems of capitalism it creates a fa ade of respectability. Quotation 2: choose your own Quotation 3: choose your own 31

32. Write your response to question 2 here and on the next page: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 32

33. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Question 3: Step by Step Read the question Annotate the question Look at the number of marks available 4. Look at the space available 1. 2. 3. Question 3: Use the whole source. How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader? You could write about: - What the writer focusses your attention on at the beginning of the source - How and why the writer changes this focus as the source develops - Any other structural features that interest you (8 marks) 33

34. Question 3: Plan your answer in the table below Analysing Structure What is the effect of starting with describing an electrocution? What does the writer focus on and why? Beginning of the source: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn t know what I was doing in New York. I'm stupid about executions. What does the writer shift the focus to and why? What is the effect of using the execution as a motif? Shift in the middle of the source: I knew something was wrong with me that summer, because all I could think about was the Rosenbergs and how stupid I'd been to buy all those uncomfortable, expensive clothes What does the writer focus on and why? What atmosphere or mood does the narrative end with? Ending: I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Question 3: Write your answer here and on the next page ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 1 Point flip the ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain why the writer structures the text in this way. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 34 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

35. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain why the writer structures the text in this way. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain why the writer structures the text in this way. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 35

36. Question 4: Step by Step Read the question Annotate the question Look at the number of marks available 4. Look at the space available 1. 2. 3. Question 4: Focus this part of your answer on the second half of the source, from line 22 to the end. A student, having read this section of the text said: Plath presents a troubled narrator who clearly feels uncomfortable in New York. We feel a lot of sympathy with her. To what extent do you agree? In your response, you should: write about your own impressions of the narrator evaluate how the writer has created these impressions support your opinions with quotations from the text. [20 marks] Question 4: Planning your Answer 5. Draw an agree/disagree table 6. Write short points and quotes aim for 3 agrees and 1 disagree (although you can change the balance if you need to) Agree the narrator is troubled and uncomfortable, and we feel sympathy for her Disagree the narrator feels comfortable e.g. She is only pretending to be happy I was supposed to be the envy Question 4: Planning your Answer 7. Decide what order you will write your paragraphs in. Use numbers to label them in your table. 36

37. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ surface level e.g. ostensibly ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 37

38. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 3 Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 4 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point flip the Q. Include the writer s name. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fluently embed evidence. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Explain the surface level e.g. ostensibly ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zoom in and ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ dig deeper e.g. on closer inspection x 3 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Use because/ but/ so to extend your ideas. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 38

39. 3. Section B: Creative writing New York EITHER Write a description inspired by this image. OR Write a story entitled New Beginnings (24 + 16) Plan your answer here using the structure your teacher has taught you (look at the knowledge organiser for a reminder): Write your response on the next page. 39

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42. Use the marking criteria to reflect on your creative writing piece Did you achieve this? (yes/no/maybe) Add a quotation from your work as evidence Target Communication is convincing it reads like a novel / short story Communication is compelling it is a short story I would be interested in reading Tone, style and register are matched to audience you have written in the style of a novelist Content and organisation: 24 marks Extensive and ambitious use of vocabulary Sustained crafting of linguistic devices you have used a range of language devices throughout Use of structural features e.g. circular structure Inclusion of a range of complex ideas e.g. you explore different moods, emotions, aspects of character Paragraphs are linked Sentence demarcation is accurate full stops, commas etc are in the correct place Technical accuracy: 16 marks Wide range of punctuation used accurately Uses the full range of sentence forms for effect Secure control of complex grammatical structures High level of accuracy in spelling Extensive and ambitious use of vocabulary 42