Knowledge Organisers for English How do you use

Transcript:Knowledge Organisers for English How do you use:
Knowledge Organisers for English How do you use them? Self quiz – read and write down what you remember Look, cover, write, check Create flashcards that you test yourself on to learn the knowledge Create mini quizzes and swap and check your knowledge Dual code – create a series of pictures or symbols that link to the information on the KO Apply the information in context – use them to help you write an essay or plan an essay How NOT to use them: Copy out the information with the KO directly in front of you Ignore them You will study: Macbeth Animal Farm A Christmas Carol The Poetry Anthology Context for the Anthology Unseen Poetry YOU ALL NEED TO LEARN THIS INFORMATION MACBETH CORE KNOWLEDGE – Y11 AQA Context Patriarchy - Women not as important as men Jacobean men held women responsible for the original sin (Adam & Eve) Divine Rights of Kings: God like status of Kings meaning that they should not be killed Monarchy: King James 1st was hugely interested in Witchcraft & wrote Daemonologie Treason – Gunpowder Plot Religion – The catholic/ protestant divide and suspicion this caused The Great Chain of Being – a hierarchy in Christianity that starts with God The Code of Chivalry – a moral conduct that included behaviour towards women and went beyond the battlefield A Christmas Carol CORE KNOWLEDGE AQA Context Dickens used conventions from the Gothic genre –death, spirits, supernatural, Huge population increase in London in Victorian Britain. Overcrowding. Large supply of labour meant employers could pay low wages. ¼ of population living in poverty. No welfare state to provide benefits for poor. Charity was vital. Many children died in childbirth/infancy No printers or copiers in 19th century. Clerks wrote everything out by hand. Dickens’ father ran up huge debts, and got sent to a debtors’ prison. Dickens then taken out of school and sent to a Blacking factory at age 12.Terrible conditions. Cruel employers. Low pay. Poor Children sent to terrible evening ‘ragged schools’ where they were neglected, and not educated well which meant they would stay poor. Education wasn’t compulsory. Only rich children enjoyed good schools. Dickens visited ragged schools – ones for the poor Religious society –most went to church, and believed in after life and knew Christian message of forgiveness. Dickens was inspired to write the book by insomnia filled night walks in London ANIMAL