Political and social protest writing - creating your own questions

How to use the Elements of political and social protest writing resource package B to set questions for Paper 2B, Section B.

Paper 2B, Section B

If you have used the relevant question from the specimen assessment materials and want to set a question on a different text combination or a different element of political and social protest writing, you can use these documents in the following way:

1. Look at how the relevant questions from the specimen assessment materials are constructed, for example:

'In Harvest, the world is unmade in seven days and it is those with political power who are solely to blame.'

To what extent do you agree with this view? Remember to include in your answer relevant detailed exploration of Crace's authorial methods.

The question wording (To what extent…authorial methods) can remain unchanged, with the exception of the name of the writer (here 'Crace').You will need, however, to construct a different 'view' depending upon the element of political and social protest writing you want the students to explore.

2. Read the relevant Text Overview to help you construct a different 'view' to debate. Look for elements of political and social protest which occur in the text but don't forget that the absence of elements in a text is equally valid for debate. Other sources can be used to construct a view include:

• look at the list of elements of political and social protest in the specification and make up a critical view around one of these
• take a view from one of the writers in the Critical Anthology around which to structure a debate
• research critical views about political and social protest writing, on this or other political and social protest texts, and adapt the quote in a more general sense so that students can consider how far this can be said to be true of the text they have studied.

This resource is part of the Elements of political and social protest writing resource package.