2026 AQA A-level ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE 7707/2 Paper 2 Question Ppr + Mark Scheme

2026 AQA A-level ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE 7707/2 Paper 2 Question Ppr + Mark Scheme

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.