Teaching guide: WW1 and its aftermath

A range of resources to help you plan your teaching and assessment for the WW1 and its aftermath component of A-level English Literature A.

How to use these resources

Whichever texts or text combinations you teach, the sample mark scheme will give you details about some of the aspects of WW1 and its aftermath the texts cover. Don't forget to consult the specification for a list of possible aspects.

These documents will help you to focus your teaching on those aspects and to work towards the relevant exam question in the sample assessment materials. The example student responses with marking commentary act as models for the students and help you to assess their work.

Paper 2A, Section A

• Creating your own questions
• Exemplar student response - band 2
• Exemplar student response - band 4
• Specimen question commentary

Paper 2A, Section B

• Creating your own questions - Unseen text
• Creating your own questions - Comparative texts
• Exemplar student response - Unseen text - band 3 - Fly Away Peter
• Exemplar student response - Unseen text - band 5 - Fly Away Peter
• Specimen question commentary - Unseen text - Fly Away Peter

Unseen extracts

• Unseen extract 1: All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
• Unseen extract 2: All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
• Unseen extract 3: Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
• Unseen extract 4: A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, Frank Percy Crozier
• Unseen extract 5: Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
• Unseen extract 6: Good-bye To All That, Robert Graves
• Unseen extract 7: Good-bye To All That, Robert Graves
• Unseen extract 8: Regeneration, Pat Barker
• Unseen extract 9: Regeneration, Pat Barker