SECTION A: POETRY from JO PHILLIPS ed: Poems Deep & Dangerous Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: Registers Out of the warm primordial cave of our conversations, Jack's gone. No more chit-chat under the blankets pegged over chairs and nipped in drawers. Throughout his first five years an ear always open, at worst ajar, I catch myself still listening out for sounds of him in the sensible house where nothing stirs but the washing machine which clicks and churns. I'm loosening his arms clasped round my neck, detaching myself from his soft protracted kiss goodbye. Good boy, diminishing down the long corridors into the huge unknown assembly hall, each word strange, even his name on Miss Cracknell's tongue. (Michael Laskey) How does Laskey make Registers so moving?

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2015). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [AO1] show detailed knowledge of the content of literary texts
2. [AO2] understand the meanings of literary texts and their context, and explore texts beyond surface meaning to show deeper awareness of ideas and attitudes
3. [AO3] recognise and appreciate ways in which writers use language, structure, and form to create and shape meanings and effects
4. [AO4] communicate a sensitive and informed personal response
5. [Band 1] Answers in this band have all the qualities of Band 2 work, with further insight, sensitivity, individuality and flair. They show sustained engagement with both text and task.
6. [Band 2] Sustains a perceptive, convincing and relevant personal response
7. [Band 2] • shows a clear critical understanding of the text
8. [Band 2] • responds sensitively and in detail to the way the writer achieves her/his effects
9. [Band 2] • integrates much well-selected reference to the text