The Tempest extract question — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
The Tempest extract question
Exam skills
What you need to know
How the Shakespeare question works: moving from the extract to the whole play, the assessment objectives and the 4 marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar.
How to plan and structure an answer, using The Tempest as the worked example, with a model answer and commentary.
A question set out as AQA sets it, with its wording and marks.
Paper 1 Section A: one question with no choice, closed book, about 50 minutes of the 1 hour 45 minute paper.
A model answer of about 800 words, with its extract printed, that uses the extract and the whole play.
The level the model answer would reach and why, with a Grade 5 and a Grade 8 paragraph side by side.
How to use the time: reading and annotating the extract, planning, and balancing the extract against the rest of the play.
Using context in proportion: linking ideas about power, magic and colonisation to the question rather than adding history for its own sake.
