Tick List 🖋️ 📚 – AQA English Literature Paper 1: Student Response & Performance Tracker

Literature Paper 1

AQA English Literature Paper 1 - Student Answer Checklist

✅ Literature Essay Success Checklist: One Question, Two Linked Parts

🔍 Part 1: Analysis of the Extract
☐ Detailed analysis of the extract, explaining what effect this has on the reader or audience
☐ Key themes are clearly explored, considering how these themes impact the reader
☐ Language, structure, and form analysed using subject-specific terminology, explaining why the writer makes these choices and how they affect the reader
☐ Well-chosen quotes used as evidence, with explanations of the reader’s response to these quotes

📖 Part 2: Link to the Whole Play
☐ Clear links made between the extract and the wider play, explaining how these connections shape the reader’s understanding
☐ Relevant context included (e.g. Jacobean beliefs, power, fate, gender), showing how this context influences the reader’s perception
☐ Strong understanding of characters and themes throughout the play, explaining how these ideas make the reader think or feel
☐ Offers a clear and thoughtful personal interpretation, considering the intended impact on the reader or audience

📄 SPAG (4 marks)
☐ Writing is clear, well-organised, and mostly free of errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar

✅ Section B: 19th-Century Novel – One Question, Two Connected Parts (30 marks)

🔍 Part 1: Extract Analysis
☐ The extract is analysed in depth
☐ Language, structure, and form are explored using subject-specific terminology
☐ Well-selected quotes are used as evidence
☐ The effect on the reader is clearly explained

📖 Part 2: Whole Novel Link
☐ Clear links are made between the extract and the whole novel
☐ Themes, characters, and symbols are explored in detail
☐ Relevant context is included (e.g. Victorian society, social responsibility, morality)
☐ A clear and well-supported personal interpretation is given