ANNUAL EXAMINATION 2020

FORM III ENGLISH

Your name:

Master’s initials:

General Instructions
Monday 4 November
• Working Time: 2 hours
• Write using black pen 1:15pm

Structure of Paper & Instructions Checklist

Each boy should have the following:
• Section 1: Passage analysis and short
answer questions (15 marks). ☐ 1 question paper
Spend 35 minutes on this section.
☐ 1 essay plan (coloured sheet)
• Section 2: Creative writing (15 marks).
☐ 3 writing leaflets
Spend 35 minutes on this section.

• Section 3: Essay plan and essay (25

marks). Complete each section in a new leaflet.
Spend 50 minutes on this section. Place your essay plan INSIDE your essay
leaflet.
Total marks: 55
ALP
 Section 1: To Kill a Mockingbird
15 marks
Attempt Questions 1–4
Allow about 35 minutes for this section.
Please label this section accurately in your first leaflet.

Read the extract closely and answer the questions that follow in the first leaflet, clearly
labelling each question.

“Is he all right?” Aunty asked, indicating Jem.

“He’ll be so presently,” said Atticus. “It was a little too strong for him.” Our father sighed.
“I’m going to bed,” he said. “If I don’t wake up in the morning, don’t call me.”
“I didn’t think it wise in the first place to let them—”
“This is their home, sister,” said Atticus. “We’ve made it this way for them, they might as
well learn to cope with it.”
“But they don’t have to go to the courthouse and wallow in it—”
“It’s just as much Maycomb County as missionary teas*.”
“Atticus—” Aunt Alexandra’s eyes were anxious. “You are the last person I thought would
turn bitter over this.”
“I’m not bitter, just tired. I’m going to bed.”
“Atticus—” said Jem bleakly.
He turned in the doorway. “What, son?”
“How could they do it, how could they?”
“I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it
again and when they do it—seems that only children weep. Good night.”
But things are always better in the morning. Atticus rose at his usual ungodly hour and was
in the living-room behind the Mobile Register when we stumbled in. Jem’s morning face
posed the question his sleepy lips struggled to ask.
“It’s not time to worry yet,” Atticus reassured him, as we went to the dining room. “We’re
not through yet. There’ll be an appeal, you can count on that. Gracious alive, Cal, what’s all
this?” He was staring at his breakfast plate.
Calpurnia said, “Tom Robinson’s daddy sent you along this chicken this morning. I fixed it.”
“You tell him I’m proud to get it—bet they don’t have chicken for breakfast at the White
House. What are these?”

* Missionary tea – a tea party where a group of missionary women get together and discuss religion.

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“Rolls,” said Calpurnia. “Estelle down at the hotel sent ‘em.”
Atticus looked up at her, puzzled, and she said, “You better step out here and see what’s in
the kitchen, Mr. Finch.”
We followed him. The kitchen table was loaded with enough food to bury the family: hunks
of salt pork, tomatoes, beans, even scuppernongs. Atticus grinned when he found a jar of
pickled pigs’ knuckles. “Reckon Aunty’ll let me eat these in the dining-room?”
Calpurnia said, “This was all ‘round the back steps when I got here this morning. They—
they ’preciate what you did, Mr. Finch. They—they aren’t oversteppin‘ themselves, are
they?”
Atticus’s eyes filled with tears. He did not speak for a moment. “Tell them I’m very grateful,”
he said. “Tell them—tell them they must never do this again. Times are too hard...”
He left the kitchen, went in the dining room and excused himself to Aunt Alexandra, put on
his hat and went to town.
We heard Dill’s step in the hall, so Calpurnia left Atticus’s uneaten breakfast on the table.
Between rabbit-bites Dill told us of Miss Rachel’s reaction to last night, which was: if a man
like Atticus Finch wants to butt his head against a stone wall it’s his head.

1. Read the following exchange between Atticus and his sister and answer the two
questions underneath:

“I didn’t think it wise in the first place to let them—”

“This is their home, sister,” said Atticus. “We’ve made it this way for them, they might
as well learn to cope with it.”
“But they don’t have to go to the courthouse and wallow in it—”
“It’s just as much Maycomb County as missionary teas.”
a) What have the children witnessed just prior to this scene? (1 mark)

b) What comment is Atticus making about the values and attitudes of Maycomb
County when he states “It’s just as much Maycomb County as missionary teas”?
(2 marks)

2. To whom is Atticus referring, and what does he mean, when he tells Jem “They’ve
done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it—
seems that only children weep”? (2 marks)

3. How is Atticus’s parenting style characterised in this extract? In your response,

provide two examples and techniques to support your assertion. (3 marks)

4. In this extract, Jem is clearly disturbed by the events he has witnessed. How does
Lee represent Jem’s character growth throughout the text, as he comes to
understand the nature of the world around him? Your response should quote from
this extract, and other parts of the novel. (7 marks)

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 Section 2: Creative Response – Parents and Children
15 marks
Allow about 35 minutes for this section.
Please label this section accurately in your second leaflet.

Use the quote above as a stimulus for a narrative about parents and children which
contains a

Remember that you will be marked on your ability to:

• Compose an engaging imaginative response skillfully centred around fathers and
children
• Sustain a thoughtful use of the stimulus as a basis for your piece
• Demonstrate skillful control of language and structure appropriate to audience,
purpose and form

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Section 3: Macbeth
25 marks
Allow about 50 minutes for this section.
Please label this section accurately in your third leaflet.

Part A: Essay Plan (5 marks) (5 – 10 minutes)

Complete your essay plan on the coloured A-4 page provided. When you have completed
your essay, please place the essay plan inside your essay leaflet.

Part B: Essay Question (20 marks) (40 – 45 minutes)

In Act V scene I, the Doctor says to the gentlewoman “Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural
troubles” as he observes Lady Macbeth.

How has Shakespeare explored Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's “unnatural deeds” and their
consequences in the play, Macbeth (1606).

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 ESSAY PLAN Name:

Master:
Brainstorming

Thesis statement

Topic Sentence 1

Topic Sentence 2

Topic Sentence 3

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