missgillaly - Year 9 Essay Questions and Study Tips

STUDY TIPS:

Make cue cards with terminology, quotes
Study with a classmate
Use bright colours when writing study notes
Pin up study notes around your walls, bathroom, hall - anywhere where they will be seen often!
Write timed essays under pressure with no notes,
Make up songs or rhymes to remember key details

LITERATURE ESSAYS - Respond to either a film, non-fiction, novel, play or short story studied in class.

Describe the beginning OR end of your text(s) and explain why it was important.
Describe an interesting or unusual character in a text(s) you have studied this year. Explain why you found them interesting or unusual.
Describe an event from your text(s) and explain why it is important.
Describe an important idea from your text(s) and explain what techniques the author used to help you understand this idea.
Describe an important idea from your text(s). Explain how a main character helped you understand this idea.
Describe an interesting setting from your text(s) and explain why this was important.

Techniques could include - Film camera angles and shots, costume, language techniques, dialogue, contrast, twist.