Year 13 Homework and wider reading

Homework due for Tuesday 28th February is to analyse the Scooby Doo texts (available in the google drive if you missed the lesson). Apply everything you have learnt so far about literacy to the texts. Create a table of AO1 features that you have found (remember, you still need to label and use terminology) and link those features to an AO2 concept that we have learnt.


Some wider reading is available on the google drive in the Literacy folder. Also, I recommend this: Michael Rosen summary for a really good overview of the issues surrounding phonics teaching in schools. It's quite detailed, but for those hoping for a really top grade, it's very valuable.


There's also this that you can watch: Phonics screening video
You don't have to watch all of it (it gets a little repetitive!) but it's a great way to understand the system of phonics at work in schools, and good revision for some key terms, like phonemes, alien words, digraphs and split digraphs.


Lastly, there will be an essay to do straight after half-term, so going over your notes would be really useful and revising some of the key terms. Get those mind-maps and flashcards sorted now. You'll be thanking me in June!

Year 12 Gender homework

I think I was a little unclear with deadlines this week, and some of you seem to have quite a bit of work at the moment, so here are some clarified deadlines for outstanding work:

 

For Thurs (12B) and Fri (12c1):
Read articles and summarise key points ready to feedback in class set last Thursday/Friday

 

For Tuesday:

• Watch the film clips on the blogpost below and write a paragraph that summarises the message of the film. There is a sample paragraph to give you an idea of what to write in the booklet that we used last lesson.
• Write a paragraph about how the ManFlu Lozzers text positions the audience to view the male gender. What gender representations are created through language? Use AO1 terminology too!