Articles you could use as a style model:
1. How to survive your family at Christmas:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/dec/22/christmas.guybrowning
(funny and well written ‘How to style guide)
2. How to survive your first week at University
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/aug/14/uni.first.week/print
(more of a match to your target audience)
3. 10 ways to survive university (similar idea, different structure)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6055277/A-level-results-10-ways-to-survive-university.html
Other articles giving tips on Glastonbury which you could use for ideas:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6762841.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1030641/So-DID-fashionista-LIZ-JONES-survive-Glastonbury.html
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/2005/06/22/how-to-survive-glastonbury-91466-15651785/
Hope this helps
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Cover for period 1 and 2
(Year 13 Lit in En4)
1. Think back to the novels/short stories you have read. Which of the characters most stand out in your memories? Find yourselves a copy of one of these novels/stories from the library, PIC or English office. (Wuthering Heights/the novels you did your projects on over the summer/GCSE short stories or novels would all be available or search for online versions of the texts). Then have a go at analysing the techniques of characterisation used by the writer. use the following questions to help ensure you go beyond the level of merely describing what the character is like:
What does the writer want to show us about the character by the details they choose to present?
From whose eyes do we ’see’ the character and what effect does it have?
What sort of details are given about the character’s appearance?
How is direct speech used and what does the writer draw attention to? (tone/registe idiolectal/dialectal features etc.)
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(Year 12 Lang En1)
Work on planning your first piece of coursework. The two students whose style models I have have the go -ahead to use these and should use the time today to plan how thy will structure their own piece and research their topic. Others should ensure that they have annotated their style models IN DETAIL, commenting on graphological, lexical, semantic, grammatical and discourse features, then start planning their own writing.
Anyone who wants to can e-mail their plans/ideas/style models for checking, or post questions on this blog. Thank you
Mrs Latham
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For those who expressed an interest in the writing to advise text type. Have a look at this article from the Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1023675/Festival-dos-donts-survive-festival-season.html
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http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/qs_product_tbp?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=100&productId=168998
I managed to buy all three for £4.99 from The Book People. It would be worth seeing if they’ve still got this offer. You need the Penguin edition. We will supply clean copies of The Ghost Road but if you want to annotate you’ll have to buy your own.
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Period 3 Year 12 Literature (BS1):
- Consider the importance of setting in novels and try to answer the following questions:
· What does the term ‘setting’ actually cover/how broad is it?
· Thinking back to novels you have read, can you identify any examples of when setting has been to:
o reveal the mood of characters?
o reveal personality of characters?
o suggest something about the author’s view?
o create a distinctive world?
o develop theme/s?
(You can comment on ANY not necessarily all of the above!)
- Have a go at writing the opening of a short story which focuses heavily on setting to create mood and atmosphere as well as providing a sense of place and perhaps revealing something of character.
(We will share these next lesson and discuss)
Period 4 Year 13 Language (EN1):
Options are:
- Watch a further episode of Melvyn Bragg’s The Adventure of English and make notes. I’d suggest the last episode. This is available on the media server. Just search ‘adventure’ and all the programmes come up.
- Complete a past exam question. These are available online at aqa.org.uk or go to http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gceasa/qp-ms/AQA-ENB6-W-QP-JUN08.PDF
for the 2008 paper and complete the travel writing question.
- Do own revision from exercise books/the PIC resources.
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The world of Wuthering Heights was brought to life on the 6th May when we went to visit the Parsonage Museum and surrounding areas. The day began with a talk by Brontë expert Sue Newby about the context and life of the Brontë family, followed by a guided tour of the village and churchyard. Time was then spent exploring the museum and breaking for lunch, before going to the second talk, which was a useful guide to some of the differing critical receptions to the novel throughout the years.
In the afternoon, we all (?) enjoyed a moorland walk in the sunshine, taking in the Brontë waterfall and incorporating a steep climb up to Top Withens, the place which is regarded by many to be the inspiration for the setting of Wuthering Heights.
You can post comments here about how you found the trip. Consider:
1. How would you rate it from 1-5? (1 being excellent, 2 being very good, 3 being good, 4 being satisfactory, 5 being poor)
2. What did you find useful/interesting?
3. Is there anything we should do differently if we ran the same trip next year?
Some photos attached.
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adding-evaluative-comments
See this link for all those word pairings you could use to make sure your analysis of effects created in poetry is suitable ‘evaluative’. Try playing around with them to see which sound best and start using them more regularly in your written responses.
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Unseen
Make sure that you are confident about what should and shouldn’t be talked about under specific headings for the unseen, eg figurative language, imagery, irony, structure, language, narrative voice, theme, sound. Create revision cards with prompt questions.
Poetry
Reread all the poems - decide what is the best feature of each one, eg stunning imagery, evocative use of sound etc
Make links between poems - go for AO1 ideas first and then bullet point plans to include theme, form and structure, and language.
Challenge yourself to create an argument for the exam questions on the powerpoint Mrs Latham made (on the idrive)
Prose
Organise ideas about WH and CP into the themes Mrs Latham gave you - use material from the idrive to help you.
Decide how you will incorporate form and structure, then language into a response for each theme. Go back through your books and use the idrive again for this.
Make mindmaps and cards of key quotations (especially ones that are good for recycling).
Use the language bank on the idrive) and challenge yourself to include three of the words or phrases in an analytical paragraph about a key theme. Add to the language bank, focusing on WH.
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Go to this link and you can get past papers. At least use for planning and at best complete full timed responses!
AQA past papers
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