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2948130-22056400GCSE English LiteraturePaper 1Wednesday 13th May 2020 (morning)1hr 45mins3310762312300Name: .........................................................English Teacher:..........................................Essay Practice Booklet4611522-266131Act 1Read this extract from the Prince’s speech in Act 1, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet, then answer the question that follows. At this point of the play, the Prince is issuing his warning to the houses of the Capulet and the Montague following the disturbance on the streets of Verona.PrinceRebellious subjects, enemies to peace,Profaners of this neighbor-stainèd steel!—Will they not hear?—What, ho! You men, you beasts,That quench the fire of your pernicious rageWith purple fountains issuing from your veins,On pain of torture, from those bloody handsThrow your mistempered weapons to the ground,And hear the sentence of your movèd prince.Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streetsAnd made Verona’s ancient citizensCast by their grave-beseeming ornaments,To wield old partisans in hands as old,Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.Question: Starting with this extract, discuss how the theme of justice is presented.Write about:How Shakespeare presents the theme of justice through the character of the Prince.Shakespeare’s methods to presents the theme of justice in the play as a whole[30 Marks]AO4 [4 Marks]Assessment Objectives:AO1: Read, understand and respond to the text. Use quotations to support and illustrate interpretations.AO2: Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects.AO3: Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.AO4: Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.Essay PlanAO1AO2AO3PETAL Paragraph developed:........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................4707057-266131Act 1Read the following extract from Act 1 Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows.At this point in the play, the Nurse has been called back to help Lady Capulet talk to Juliet about marrying Paris. She discusses her relationship with Juliet.Starting with this conversation, explain how you think Shakespeare presents the Nurse in the playWrite about: ?how Shakespeare presents the Nurse in this extract ?how Shakespeare presents the Nurse in the play as a whole[30 marks]AO4 [4 marks)NURSEEven or odd, of all days in the year,Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;She was too good for me: but, as I said,On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;That shall she, marry; I remember it well.'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--Of all the days of the year, upon that day:For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;My lord and you were then at Mantua:--Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,When it did taste the wormwood on the nippleOf my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!Essay PlanAO1AO2AO3PETAL Paragraph developed:........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................4707056-402609Act 1Read the following extract from Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows.At this point in the play Lord Capulet and Tybalt are discussing Romeo who has arrived at the Capulet feast, uninvited.Starting with this conversation, explore how you think Shakespeare presents Lord Capulet.Write about: ?how Shakespeare presents Lord Capulet in this extract ?how Shakespeare presents Lord Capulet in the play as a whole[30 marks]TYBALTThis, by his voice, should be a Montague.Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slaveCome hither, cover'd with an antic face,To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.CAPULETWhy, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?TYBALTUncle, this is a Montague, our foe,A villain that is hither come in spite,To scorn at our solemnity this night.CAPULETYoung Romeo is it?TYBALT'Tis he, that villain Romeo.CAPULETContent thee, gentle coz, let him alone;He bears him like a portly gentleman;And, to say truth, Verona brags of himTo be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:AO4 [4 marks)Essay PlanAO1AO2AO3PETAL Paragraph developed:........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................4706620-400685Act 2Read the following extract from Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows.At this point in the play Romeo is hiding underneath Juliet’s balcony, having met her at the Capulet feast. They have both just discovered the identity of the other.Starting with this conversation, explore how you think Shakespeare presents Romeo in the play.Write about: ?how Shakespeare presents Romeo in this extract ?how Shakespeare presents Romeo in the play as a whole[30 marks]AO4 [4 marks)ROMEOHe jests at scars that never felt a wound.JULIET appears above at a windowBut, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,Who is already sick and pale with grief,That thou her maid art far more fair than she:Be not her maid, since she is envious;Her vestal livery is but sick and greenAnd none but fools do wear it; cast it off.It is my lady, O, it is my love!O, that she knew she were!She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?Her eye discourses; I will answer it.I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,Having some business, do entreat her eyesTo twinkle in their spheres till they return.What if her eyes were there, they in her head?Essay PlanAO1AO2AO3PETAL Paragraph developed:........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................4775295-400053Act 3Read the following extract from Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet and then answer the question that follows.At this point in the play, Romeo has secretly married Juliet and encounters Tybalt who seeks revenge for Romeo’s unwelcome attendance at the Capulet feastStarting with this conversation, explain how you think Shakespeare presents young men in the play,Write about: ?how Shakespeare presents young men in this extract ?how Shakespeare presents young men in the play as a whole[30 marks]AO4 [4 marks)MERCUTIOGood king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.TYBALTI am for you. DrawingROMEOGentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.MERCUTIOCome, sir, your passado. They fightTYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followersMERCUTIOI am hurt.A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.Is he gone, and hath nothing?BENVOLIOWhat, art thou hurt?MERCUTIOAy, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.Essay PlanAO1AO2AO3PETAL Paragraph developed:........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................4775295-400053Act 4Read this extract from the distressed reaction of the Capulet household to Juliet's death in Act 4, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet, then answer the question that follows. At this point of the play, Juliet's apparently dead body has been found on the morning of her wedding to Paris.CapuletReady to go, but never to return.—O son, the night before thy wedding-dayHath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,Flower as she was, deflowered by him.Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir,My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,And leave him all; life, living, all is Death’s.ParisHave I thought long to see this morning’s face,And doth it give me such a sight as this?Lady CapuletAccurs’d, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!Most miserable hour that e’er time sawIn lasting labor of his pilgrimage!But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,But one thing to rejoice and solace in,And cruel Death hath catch’d it from my sight!NurseO woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!Most lamentable day, most woeful dayThat ever, ever, I did yet behold!O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!Never was seen so black a day as this.O woeful day, O woeful day!ParisBeguil’d, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!Most detestable Death, by thee beguil’d,By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown!O love, O life! Not life, but love in death!CapuletDespis’d, distressed, hated, martyr’d, kill’d!Uncomfortable time, why cam’st thou nowTo murder, murder our solemnity?O child, O child! My soul, and not my child!Dead art thou! Alack, my child is dead,And with my child my joys are buried.Starting with this conversation, explain how far you think Shakespeare explores parental relationships in Romeo and Juliet.Write about:? how Shakespeare presents parents in this extract? how Shakespeare presents parents in the play as a whole.[30 marks] AO4 [4 marks]Essay PlanAO1AO2AO3PETAL Paragraph developed:........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................4775295-400053Act 5Read this extract. At this point of the play, Romeo is banished and awaits news of Juliet. The Friar’s message explaining the plan has been delayed and, instead, Romeo receives news of Juliet’s death from his friend, Balthasar.SCENE I. Mantua. A street.Enter ROMEOROMEO If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;And all this day an unaccustom'd spiritLifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.I dreamt my lady came and found me dead--Strange dream, that gives a dead man leaveto think!--And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,That I revived, and was an emperor.Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd,When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!Enter BALTHASAR, bootedNews from Verona!--How now, Balthasar!Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?How doth my lady? Is my father well?How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;For nothing can be ill, if she be well.BALTHASAR Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,And her immortal part with angels lives.I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,And presently took post to tell it you:O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,Since you did leave it for my office, sir.ROMEO Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.Starting with this conversation, explain how far you think Shakespeare explores character flaws in the play.Write about:? how Shakespeare presents Romeo’s character flaw in this extract? how Shakespeare presents character flaws in the play as a whole.[30 marks] AO4 [4 marks]Essay PlanAO1AO2AO3PETAL Paragraph developed:........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ................
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