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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde GCSE Literature Revision. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Revision Guide. 1 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde GCSE Literature Revision. Mrs Flood’s Advice – How to Revise for this exam. 1. You need to re read the text several times. As you read annotate every paragraph as if it were an extract based question. 2. You need to make detailed revision notes on the characters, chapter summaries and themes. 3. Have a page for every chapter detailing key quotations. You need to learn a selection of them for the exam. 4. You need to have your generic introduction approved and then learned off by heart. 5. For this text, it is imperative that you show awareness of the historical context and background to the text. I have included a guide to this on the next few pages. 6. You will need to know literary theory based on this text. 7. Make notes on the structure of the text and how it was written. 8. Practice as many exam questions as possible before the exam. 9. Many of your Friday essays have been based on this text; you need to revise these thoroughly. 10. Access key websites like ‘bite size’ ‘sparknotes’. 11. Higher level responses will show evidence of critical research – you need to access on line journals and academic papers and have a stock of critical quotations to hand to throw into answers to impress the examiner. 2 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde GCSE Literature Revision. Background and Context: Robert Louis