Year 12 Lesson Resources - worksheets, powerpoints etc

I have played around a bit with the folders in Google Drive where I have been saving our lesson resources, so the previous links might not work.


This one should give you access to everything I've put in the year 12 folder.

Don't tell me I'm not good to you...

A quizlet for language and gender theorists. Not finished yet, but getting there.

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Year 9 Poetry Terms homework

Homework for two weeks (I said it was due March 10th, but that's interform, so March 11th)

·        Learn the definitions. You should know what all the terms mean and be able to give an example. Get someone to test you or try here: https://quizlet.com/_ol9je

·        Learn how to spell the terms.

·        Create a beautiful poster on one of the techniques, demonstrating your understanding of it. Include a definition, a way to remember how to spell the term, and some different examples from poetry (plenty of poetry books in library – Mrs Fletcher will help if you ask). You may wish to use your own examples.

Onomatopoeia	Words or groups of words that are used to imitate the natural sounds of things. “the pitter patter of rain on the windows”, “Pow!”,
Repetition	The use of the same words, or phrases, used close together
Rhyme	The echoing of sounds within or at the end of lines E.g.     I travelled among unknown men,             In lands beyond the sea;             Nor, England, did I know til then             What love I bore to thee.
Pace	The speed of the poem; whether the words and rhythm make you want to read it quickly or slowly
Simile	When one thing is said to be like another; a comparison. E.g. She was as white as a sheet It dried up, like a raisin in the sun
Stanza	Another word for verse. It refers to the groups of lines in a poem
Rhythm	The beat of a poem, particularly the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
Personification	An inanimate object is given human qualities E.g. the wind kicked the window and laughed out loud
Alliteration	The repetition of a letter or letter sound, especially at the beginning of words. Used for emphasis and to link ideas. E.g. five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Metaphor	When one thing is said to be another. E.g. The moon was a ghostly galleon
Line	A formal structural division in a poem. May vary in length from one syllable to a large number of words.
EXTENSION:
Assonance	An imperfect form of rhyme which counts only the vowel sound of the chief rhyming syllable: a half-rhyme
Hyperbole	Write your own definition here:
Enjambment	Write your own definition here:

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If you subscribe to this blog, you should get an email every time I post something. Unfortunately I also use this for my year 9 class, so you might get a few things aimed at them too, but the vast majority of posts are for English Language. Might be useful for some of you who are a little... forgetful?

Year 12 Gender Investigations

Year 12 English Language groups have been investigating various issues surrounding language and gender. You can use this page to see what others have found. Hopefully we can get an overview of the issues investigated, the results of your investigations and see if there are some patterns.

Leave your comment below in the following format:
Your name:
What you investigated: (summarise in a couple of sentences)
Your findings: What your results were, any statistics you can provide, anything particularly surprising.
Your conclusion: Your 'golden nugget'. Something to remember in the exam (eg. "Females actually use a greater range of swearwords" or "The number of terms for promiscuous females still outweighs those for males, echoing Stanely's much earlier work".

Year 12 - more Directed Writing style models.

The more you read, the better you'll write :)

Rhianna and the pop stars who change their accents

Is there such a thing as correct grammar?

Prejudice about accents still exists

Daily Mail style of writing

Women pioneer vocal trends

Last but not least, an article about writing articles!

Summarise the argument of one of the articles in the comments section of this blog for one of my amazing English Language Star Stickers :)

Year 12 - opinion article on Dialect. Useful style model for Paper 2 writing task

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/saying-no-to-gizit-is-plain-prejudice-8488358.html

This article really nicely blends AO2 (language issues and concepts) with a strong shaping of argument. There'll be prizes for people that leave a comment on this blog, either identifying one of her arguments, or identifying where she would have hit AO2 if this were an exam piece.