Higher RUAE Reading for Understanding, Analysis

Transcript:Higher RUAE Reading for Understanding, Analysis:
Higher RUAE Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation The Exam Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes Total marks: 30 2 passages 1st passage + analysis questions = 25 marks Compare 1st and 2nd passage (areas of agreements and/or disagreements) = 5 marks Use your checklist! Revision Techniques Put every term and definition onto a flashcard AS YOU GO Read broadsheet newspaper articles and annotate them Use old past papers wisely Speak to me if you are unsure about any technique Watch/listen to satirical comedy Use your checklist to reflect on progress Show Understanding Own words Bullet points One point per mark Includes: Summarise points made Show understanding of word from context Show how sentence performs linking function Example: Thinking of Grandpa now, I recall the clouds of pungent smoke that he puffed from his favourite briar, his small shrewd eyes, still very blue, and the gleaming dome rising from fleecy tufts of white hair Question – What three characteristics of Grandpa does the author remember? 3 marks Answer and Explanation She remembers her grandfather smoked a strong-smelling pipe. He also had intelligent blue eyes and a bald head with a little fluffy white hair. Explanation / Method Understanding of ‘briar’ – shown by using the word ‘pipe’ Metaphor ‘gleaming dome’ – simplified to bald head Understanding of ‘shrewd’ – shown by using the word ‘intelligent’ ‘Grandpa’ is colloquial – more formal term ‘Grandfather’ is used ‘Eyes’ is a common word, no obvious alternatives Understanding Question Read lines 1 – 7 Explain in your own words why the writer seems surprised that there is so much coverage of the “countryside debate”. 2 marks Rural Mania The “countryside debate” has rarely been out of the news in Britain in recent years. Reading the newspapers, watching television, listening to the radio, entering a bookshop, one could be forgiven for thinking that we still live in small peasant communities dependent upon the minutest shift in agricultural policy. Sometimes it has seemed almost as if we were still in the early nineteenth century when we relied on the countryside to survive, so extensive have been the debates, so fierce the passions aroused. Answer “one could be forgiven for thinking that we still live in small peasant communities dependent upon the minutest shift in agricultural policy.” Idea that we are still a rural society (1) affected by farming laws (1) “it has seemed almost as if we