Below are some resources to help you with your revision of 'Whale Rider'.

Here is a link to a model essay on travelling with key tips: https://taughtly.co.uk/model-essay-travelling-in-the-whale-rider/ 

This is a video explaining the essay and the approach to score highly:

Below is a link to a comprehensive exam guide featuring lots of key quotations and key context to help you score the best marks - remember it's AO1 (knowledge of the novel but NOT close analysis of language etc) and AO4 (illuminating your insights with context) which score here.

AO1 (20 marks) + AO4 (20 marks) = 40 marks

Make flash cards for the topics with quotations / references and specific context then TEST, TEST, TEST! Don't just read it as that will only make you familiar... for the exam you need to memorize your content as you WON'T have a copy of the novel.

Here are some of our in-house documents giving you listings of all the context for different themes in one shorter document (TEST, TEST, TEST!) as well as all the past questions from the exam papers:

And here's a quick summary of the novel itself from Mr B's read-through if you want to identify parts to re-read / refresh your memory quickly:

Want to test your knowledge retrieval skills? Here are some Quizlet flashcards on the comprehension of the novel and key quotations to help test yourself: