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Great Expectations Activity Pack

Assessment
For each exam board the mode of assessment is considered and specific material for this is included.

"A well-planned resource full of useful & interesting tasks to aid pupils' learning." V Kondou, English Teacher and Independent Reviewer

 

Great Expectations Activity Pack

Hold your students' interest in this dense Literary Heritage novel with stimulating & engaging tasks:

  • A comprehensive combination of activities, questions & worksheets analyse key chapters
  • Cross-referenced to the AOs to ensure full coverage

Special extra activities ensure full understanding of the novel:

  1. Differentiated quizzes
  2. Pre- & post-reading activities look at context, themes & literary techniques (doubles, personfication and dehumanisation)/li>


"I liked everything: the tasks are interesting to capture pupils' attention; context is relevant & aids learning; the assessment questions are relevant to the specifications." V Kondou, English Teacher and Independent Reviewer

 

Perfect examination preparation for AQA & Edexcel English Literature:

  • Student friendly AOs help students to understand how their work will be marked
  • Exam-style questions for exam practice: 'theme & character Q's for AQA' & 'extract-based Q's for Edexcel
  • Sample answers with commentary-based tasks — students identify how the AOs have been met
  • Checklists & assessment grids improve exam responses by 1. encouraging identification of strengths & weaknesses in structure, content & quality 2. allowing students to set personal targets for improvement

This guide adheres to the requirements of the new specifications for GCSE Literature. The summary grid below indicates which units allow for the study of this text and the methods of assessment.

  English Literature English Language English
AQA Unit 4: Section B — Literary Heritage Prose Unit 3a: Understanding spoken & written texts and writing creatively — Part A (extended reading) Unit 3a: Understanding creative texts (literary reading)
One of five texts prescribed for an exam. Optional text for controlled assessment. Optional text for controlled assessment.
Edexcel Unit 1: Understanding Prose    
One of six texts prescribed for an exam.
OCR   Unit 1: Extended Literary Text and Imaginative Writing Unit 1: Reading Literary Texts — Prose
Optional text for controlled assessment.* Optional text for controlled assessment.*

*For OCR Language and English, centres can either choose from the prescribed texts or they can choose their own text.