Political and social protest writing: creating your own questions

How to use the accompanying resources to create your own exam practice questions for Paper 2B, Section C, for the Elements of political and social protest writing component.

Paper 2B, Section C

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:

'Political and social protest writing often focuses on rebellion against those in power.'

Explore the significance of rebellion as it is presented in two political and social protest texts you have studied. 

The question wording (Explore the significance of…as it is presented in two political and social protest texts you have studied) can remain unchanged, with the exception of the area to be explored (here 'rebellion against those in power'). 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 texts 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:

• 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 another political and social protest text 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 texts they have studied.

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