Year 12 homework for Tuesday 31st January and useful revision for Y13

Miss Representation 
The Mask You Live In 

Homework – watch the two film trailers above. Below is the start of an essay that a student wrote after considering the issues raised by the film about the representation of women. Consider the issues raised by ‘The Mask you live in’ and write the opening of an essay about the effects of representation on men.

Objectification of Women:
Every day, women around the world are objectified, treated as less of an equal, and denied the same opportunities as our fellow men. 

Why? The media. 

If the media is sending girls the message that women are objects and that is their primary being, girls will think that this is their path to power. Conversely, the more girls self-objectify the more likely they are to have lower confidence, lower ambition, lower cognitive functioning and lower grades. 

Year 13 Literacy Homework

Task: Read p4-5 of literacy booklet about Creative and Rule-based attitudes. Do the task. Read the last pages of the booklet (expected standards at school) and answer the following questions:
• What is Key Stage 1?
• What are the 4 key areas children are assessed on in terms of their writing in KS1?
• State two things that are expected in terms of handwriting (look up the words legible and orientation if you don’t understand them?
• What punctuation marks are children expected to be able to use accurately? Write a sentence that includes all of the punctuation marks they are expected to use. You may have to write 2?
• What aspects of grammar are children expected to have mastered?
• What process should children be using as they write?

Due date: Tuesday 31st Jan

Y13 Aiming for an A or an A*?

There is a summary of an article I've read recently on the Google drive. This is the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0n14k4_2wH8a1dpN3pVWG11Z1E

It's a useful overview of where linguists currently are  in the nature / nurture debate. Enjoy!