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Literature
Revision skills for QCAA Literature Units 3 and 4, with external-assessment scope distinguished from internal assessment.
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Culture, identity and readers
- Analyse how texts construct culture, place and identityExternal exam
- Analyse how texts position audiences towards cultural valuesExternal exam
- Compare how texts construct representations in different forms and contextsSupporting learning
- Explain why cultural contexts produce different readingsSupporting learning
Reimagining a base text
- Reimagine a base text to challenge a cultural perspectiveInternal assessment only
- Adapt literary conventions and style for a new imaginative purposeInternal assessment only
- Compose and refine a coherent spoken or multimodal reimaginingInternal assessment only
Close textual analysis
- Analyse how voice and focalisation shape access to a textExternal exam
- Analyse how characterisation and setting construct representationsExternal exam
- Analyse how textual structure develops and complicates meaningExternal exam
- Analyse how imagery and recurring patterns develop meaningExternal exam
- Analyse how language choices create tone and audience effectsExternal exam
Developing and testing interpretations
- Develop an independent interpretation from textual tensionsExternal exam
- Evaluate alternative and critical readings against the textSupporting learning
- Evaluate a text’s significance for audiences across contextsSupporting learning
Argument and textual evidence
- Develop a thesis that answers an unseen questionExternal exam
- Select precise textual evidence for an interpretive claimExternal exam
- Connect close textual evidence to interpretive reasoningExternal exam
- Synthesise evidence across a text to support a perspectiveExternal exam
- Develop and qualify a sustained interpretive argumentExternal exam
Control of analytical writing
- Organise and connect an essay’s developing ideasExternal exam
- Sustain a precise critical register for a knowledgeable readerExternal exam
- Control sentences and written conventions to express complex ideasExternal exam
- Plan, draft and revise an independent analytical responseExternal exam
Original imaginative writing
- Shape an original imaginative perspective for a purpose and audienceInternal assessment only
- Manipulate literary conventions to create imaginative effectsInternal assessment only
- Compose and refine a coherent original imaginative textInternal assessment only