Here are some quick links to some resources you might need if you are revising at home:
National 5 and Higher
Advanced Higher
critical essay questions to practise
Good luck! 🙂
Category: Havisham
Higher Critical Reading
This week, the Higher class have been looking at some of the main themes explored in their final Iain Crichton Smith short story – home. After a collaborative task, the final details of the 6 given themes are collated below – with some themes providing basis for more discussion than others!
Off the back of this, the class were asked to choose the theme they felt they could write the most about and answer a 10-mark style answer on this. Responses were varied and interesting!
The class also had a look at a couple of trickier to analyse essay style questions on Havisham – They were to write plans on two then choose the one they felt the most confident about to produce a critical essay on. An example is attached below for anyone uncertain or who missed this lesson 🙂
October Holidays!
Higher and National 5 classes have both ended the term by doing a full Scottish text paper. The Higher class even had the added challenge of starting a Havisham critical essay within the allotted timeframe. If you missed either of these practice papers, please download them from here:
and complete them for after the holidays, so I can track your progress.
Both Highers and National 5s should also ensure they complete the word choice questions in their close reading booklets during the October break.
The Advanced Highers took part in a creative writing workshop this week where they looked at prose fiction exemplars from a variety of candidates and professional writers, discussing the standards they would have to meet. They have all been allocated dissertation supervisors and given the deadline of 24th October for their notes and detailed plans to be submitted, now that their proposals have been edited.
Remember, remember: first drafts of Advanced Higher portfolio piece one are due 5th November!
Havisham
We started a lesson off a fortnight ago by recapping all of the knowledge we knew about Havisham from National 5. After annotation of the poem and talking through the trickier bits, I challenged the class to put the poem in its correct order with no support, then to look at a series of questions on the poem in mixed groups.
The class had as long as they needed to answer 4-8 questions on each stanza before they moved on to a different base.
After this, the class looked at exemplar essays before planning an essay as a whole class based around an atmosphere of despair (SQA 2018).
Individual essays of this were written over the course of a double period then marked on merit, to great success! 🙂
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