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All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| This meeting will be recorded |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Exam boards have an Ofqual requirement to record event audio.\u003Cbr>Recordings are kept for the lifetime of the specification and not shared as an accompaniment to session resources.\u003Cbr>The recording will begin now. |  |  |\n| 3 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Important update: GCSE English Literature – Paper 2, Section C Q27 .2 |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| For the June 2019 exams and onwards we’re replacing the term ‘ways’ with the term ‘methods’.\u003Cbr>Previous wording\u003Cbr>‘In both ‘Today’ and ‘Autumn’ the speakers describe attitudes towards the seasons. What are the similarities and/or differences between the ways the poets present these attitudes?’\u003Cbr>New wording\u003Cbr>‘In both ‘Today’ and ‘Autumn’ the speakers describe attitudes towards the seasons. What are the similarities and/or differences between the methods the poets use to present these attitudes?’ |  |  |\n| 4 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\nUnlocking GCSE English Language Paper 2  \n• Structure and Assessment Foci  \n• Question 2: synthesising and summarising; alternative teaching approaches  \n• Question 4: importance of perspectives  \n• Question 5: planning responses and developing sentences  \n5  \nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.  \n| Assessment objectives for paper 2 section A |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| AO1\u003Cbr>• Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas.\u003Cbr>• Select and synthesise evidence from different texts.\u003Cbr>AO2\u003Cbr>Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views.\u003Cbr>AO3\u003Cbr>Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts.\u003Cbr>(AO4, evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references, is not assessed on paper 2) |  |  |\n| 6 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Paper 2 Philosophy and Rationale |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| • Paper two is structured around two linked texts on the same topic. The focus will simply be on what the texts are about and how they are written and won’t require any prior knowledge or understanding outside of this\u003Cbr>• A requirement to include a C 19th, C20th, C21st text in each exam series\u003Cbr>• Synthesis of information from different texts is now a requirement |  |  |\n| 7 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Structure and assessment foci |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| The paper/assessment will not change but we do review question performance each year hence the slight shift in wording in summer 2018. |  |  |\n| 8 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Question 2 to date |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| In your booklet, we have reproduced all the questions from previous support materials as well as those from the live series.\u003Cbr>Familiarise yourself with the wording of the question. |  |  |\n| 9 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. | |\n\n\n| Question 2: the life of a question |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Activity\u003Cbr>How has the question developed over the life of the series?\u003Cbr>In your booklet, you will see a complete list of question 2 used in this specification ( KS3 packs, SAMs, live series) .\u003Cbr>• What are the commonalities?\u003Cbr>• How has the question evolved?\u003Cbr>• What do you notice about the different foci for the questions? Which questions have a concrete focus? Which are abstract? |  |  |\n| 10 | Copyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. 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