In today’s lesson we focused on revision for the Of Mice and Men literature essay. We started by considering Section A; exploring the writers methods in an extract. We used the slide below as a checklist for extract annotation:
We were given a photocopied page and 5 minutes to highlight key ideas. We were then asked to choose four ‘methods’ that we noticed, and had to plan our responses. We used the skills ladder to push us from explaining to evaluating:
Here are our outcomes: (Click to enlarge)
Miss Ryan's GCSE English & Media 
First of all I would really like to thank you for your time and effort to put up the notes for us. I’m finding them extremely helpful and I really appreciate it. Secondly, I’d just like to point out that some of the handwritten notes were kind of hard to read. Well, there is this application, called Genius scan (available for both apple and android software), which is really useful for taking pictures of handwritten documents. I hope it helps.
Again, thanks! 🙂