GOOD LUCK for 22nd and 24th May

With your first exam speeding towards you, it is essential to say calm.  Prioritise your revision.  At this stage, it is too late to try to go over everything.  Make sure for both An Inspector Calls and Of Mice and Men you know:

• Context
• Priestley's and Steinbeck's intentions - the effect they hoped their writing would have on audience/reader
• Plot
• Themes
• Characters linked to themes (memorise some key quotes for each character)
• Some key literary and dramatic techniques (AIC: lighting, entrances and exits, dramatic irony, dialogue) (OMAM: setting, dialogue and dialect, character description, symobolism, foreshadowing)

MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL:
CALMLY LOCATE THE QUESTIONS ON AN INSPECTOR CALLS AND OF MICE AND MEN in the exam paper  AND...

Read the questions and read them again - then aim to use the key words in  the question in your answer.

HOW TO SOUND LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT?

• Use verbs such as:  suggest, infer, present, articulate, demonstrate, creates, builds, determines when commenting on writer's techniques
• Use modal verbs such as:  could, should, may to show you understand that you are putting forward an opinion
• Use pronouns such as one, we or the reader instead of 'I'
• Always link your comment to the question
• Aim to mention the technique as part of your comment (ie metaphor, alliteration)

Remember to always stick to the paragraph formula: 

1. Point
2. Evidence/Quote
3. Technique
4. Analyse/Comment/Explain
5. Link to question