aqa
A-level
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE
Paper 2 Exploring Conflict
Wednesday 5 June 2024 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours 30
minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
an AQA 12-page answer book
a copy of the set texts you have studied for Section A and Section B. These texts must not be
annotated and must not contain additional notes or materials.
Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7707/2.
There are two sections:
Section A: Writing about Society
Section B: Dramatic Encounters
Answer three questions in total: two questions from Section A and one question from Section B.
Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked.
Information
The maximum mark for this paper is 100.
The marks for questions are shown in brackets. There are 55 marks in total for the questions in
Section A and 45 marks for the question in Section B.
You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
It is recommended that you spend 80 minutes on Section A and 70 minutes on Section B.
approved 7707/2
, 2
Section A
Writing about Society
Answer on one text in this section.
Answer both questions on your chosen set text.
Either
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
0 1 Read the section of Chapter 2,
from
‘Ken Thompson, the owner of an Anchorage auto-body shop, Gordon Samel, his
employee, and their friend Ferdie Swanson, a construction worker, set out for the bus on
September 6, 1992, stalking moose.’
to
‘You better call the troopers. There’s a man back in the bus by the Sushana. Looks like
he’s been dead for a while.’
This describes the finding of Chris’s body by a group of local Alaskans and their
notification of it to the State Troopers.
Recast the base text into an account that Ferdie Swanson gives to an Alaska State
Trooper about the discovery of Chris’s body.
In your transformation you should consider:
Swanson and his friends’ reactions to the discovery of Chris’s body during their
intended hunting trip
his interactions with the state trooper and his impressions of Chris’s final days in the
bus.
You should write about 300 words.
[25 marks]
and
0 2 Write a commentary explaining the decisions you have made in transforming the base
text for this new account and the effects of reshaping Krakauer’s original description.
In your commentary you should:
consider how you have used language to shape your intended meaning
demonstrate the connections between the base text and your transformed text
structure your commentary clearly to express your ideas.
You should write about 400 words.
[30 marks]
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