Year 12 Revision resources

I've created a new folder where I'm going to put resources that are useful for revision. I have put some glossaries in there, and I've also added a text that might be useful to practice writing about for Paper 1 (representation). I'll add more texts in here as I find them.

Here's the link.

Year 9 half term homework on Caliban

I suggest that you do this as quickly as you can after today's lesson - don't leave it until after half-term, or you'll forget what we did in the lesson. Sorry - it looks a bit strange on the page as I've copied it from Word, but you should still be able to follow it.

Act 2, scene 2: Another part of the island. Caliban meets Trinculo and Stephano.

 

Enter CALIBAN with a burden of wood.

CALIBAN

All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
By inch-meal a disease!

(A noise of thunder is heard)

His spirits hear me
And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,
Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire,
Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but
For every trifle are they set upon me;
Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me
And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which
Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I
All wound with adders who with cloven tongues
Do hiss me into madness.

Enter TRINCULO

Lo, now, lo!
Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me
For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat;
Perchance he will not mind me.

 


My notes on text:

Inch-meal = every inch (every bit of him)

What does Caliban want to fall onto Prospero?

(He thinks the thunder is Prospero’s spirits spying on him.)

“yet” = but
“I needs must” = I can’t help myself
“nor” = not
They won’t pinch or frighten me with illusions (urchin-shows)
“firebrand” = piece of wood set alight and used as a torch
“pitch me i’ the mire” = throw me in the swamp
“bid” = commands
“every trifle” = every little thing
“mow” = make faces
“cloven” = forked
"perchance” = maybe
“mind me” = notice me
 Homework: use my notes, a dictionary, and maybe the internet, to help you understand this small extract. You need to do exactly what we did in class with the first extract.

What are your ideas about Caliban here? My thoughts about Caliban are that…

How does Shakespeare give you those ideas? (find some quotations from the text and underline particular words that give you these ideas)

Make notes on the questions above, then write your ideas into a PEE paragraph, explaining how the quotation you have chosen supports your opinion about Caliban.

Aiming higher? Explore the point (more than one quotation?); offer an alternative view (this could also mean...); link to the audience at the time; link to Shakespeare's viewpoint.

Library homework: learn the following terms and their definitions ready for a test:

Adjective	Describes a noun, eg the horrible cat.
Noun	The name of a person, place or thing, eg Paris, Sarah, table, love, hatred
Adverb	Describes or gives more information about a verb or adjective, eg she swiftly walked, he was very cold.
Verb	The word that carries the action of the sentence (doing or being), eg. She gazed out of the window, he was annoying
Pronoun	Stands in place of a noun, eg he, she, we, it, you, they

 

Writing about language - lessons for week commencing 1st February

No slides this week, but resources are in the folder: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0n14k4_2wH8dFF6MnpTVk8wWU0



Key learning points for this week:

• Feature articles are 'lively' (this is a key word in the mark scheme) - we looked at what kinds of features constitute a 'lively' style 
• The structure of your article is really important - the title and subheading should give the reader your controlling idea: what you will be arguing in the rest of the article
• You should be able to write a summary sentence for each paragraph. Each of these sentences should help to create your overall argument when you put them together. 
• Think carefully about your audience - remember that the style of an article for The Guardian will be really different from the style of an article for The Daily Mail, or the BBC, or Elle magazine. 

Year 12 Sample responses to mock paper - Proms

Read through the sample response saved in our lesson resources folder, paying particular attention to the examiner's comments.


Notice how focused it is on representation and how it integrates lots of language terminology into the answer.


https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0n14k4_2wH8dFF6MnpTVk8wWU0

Year 12 work until end of February

Year 12 Work tasks and deadlines - February

Piece of Work	Due Date
Article on language and gender	Thursday 11th February (1 hour)
Mock exam DIRT tasks (do task on front of your paper, circle all language terminology used in your answer, read the sample response - link below)	Thursday 11th February (30 minutes)
Wider reading (Pegg article and any others given)	Thursday 25th February (30 minutes)
Revise terminology for test	Thursday 25th February (1 hour)
Investigation work	Thursday 25th February (2 hours)

Year 9 Sonnet homework due Tuesday 9th February

I can't post the sheet for this one, so if you lose it, you'll have to beg, borrow or... ask for it!

Your task is to familiarise yourself with the form of poetry called the sonnet. Shakespeare loved them. They were usually about love, and it is nearly Valentine's day!

New words in the dictionary

Remember the lesson where we looked at transgender being one of the words of 2015? Here's a really good post from another language teacher (his whole blog is worth exploring if you fancy doing some wider reading) on the subject:

EngLangBlog: A Word of Warning: While some changes to language are roundly condemned by pedants, purists and prescriptivists - creaky voice, rising intonation, split infini...