How to use the Easter holiday to revise and prepare for your

IOC
1. Re-read the texts
2. Get blank copies of the texts we have focused on in class and
practice annotating (poems can be easily found online)
3. Go through the many, many useful resources on the VLE
4. Practice IOC openings for each potential text
5. Make sure you know the stimulus text or story for each Duffy
poem
6. Learn key/ relevant information about the Vietnam war to set The
Things they Carried in context
7. Make a list of useful discourse markers to use to structure your
IOC however, furthermore, in addition, next, in contrast etc.
8. Re-listen to the model IOC on Little Red Cap on the VLE
9. Create IOC plans for each of the texts you have studied
10.
Make sure you can identify and comment on the effect of
at least 10 literary features in each of the texts mark them in
red in your text
11.
Get together with another student and listen to each other
deliver an IOC what questions would you ask?
12.
Try to think about the possible guiding questions for each
of the poems you have studied how could you use them?
13.