AS ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ELLA 1 INTEGRATED ANALYSIS AND TEXT PRODUCTION
REVISION SPIES – AN OVERVIEW
Read and re-read the play actively and critically
Production question 50 minutes / 45 marks /do first
10/15 minutes plan – 30 minutes write – 5 minutes edit and correct
Analytical question 40 minutes / 30 marks /do second
5/10 minutes plan – 15/20 minutes write – 5 minutes edit and correct
PLOT
TITLE
1 Present day – return to childhood home
2 The Close
3 The sitting room and the hideout
4 4 spying journey’s
5 The Box, Barbara and Mrs Hayward
6 Night. The box and the man. Keith interrogates Stephen. Beating on the tramp
7 The thermos
8 Barbara in the lookout smoking and the box
9 The basket. Confrontation with Mr Hayward. Stephen and Peter
10 Stephen and Peter, confrontations with Keith and parents, night and Peter’s death
11 Present day reflections
CHARACTER
CHARACTER PRIMARY CHARACTERISIC QUOTATION COMMENT REFERENCE
Keith
Mrs Hayward
Mr Hayward
Barbara Beril
Aunty Dee
Uncle Peter
Stephen’s family
KEY THEMES
MAIN POINT QUOTATION COMMENT
Childhood
Friendship
Identity
Power
Class
SETTING
The Close
The Barns
The Haywards house
The tunnel - railway line
The lookout
NARRATIVE VOICE
Older Stephen
Younger Stephen
WRITING STYLE – use frameworks to analyse questions – grammar, syntax, register, lexis & literary
KEY FEATURES QUOTATIONS COMMENT
Descriptive writing
Reflective writing
Dialogue
Action
SOME KEY EPISODES
pages 44 - 51 - investigating Mrs Hayward's room
pages 115 - 118 - Stephen's midnight walk
pages 145 - 147 - The Thermos
pages 177 - 181 - Mrs Hayward asks Stephen to take the basket to the barns
pages 186 - 190 - Stephen's confrontation with Mr Hayward
