Year 12 Practice Gender article

If you want to practise writing some articles, here's another question to try. Remember to take on board your TARGETS from your last article and incorporate what you did in your DIRT.


Sample article question

English Language Class 12B (Mrs Desai and Miss Moody) - new lesson time

If any of you happen to read this, please can you spread the word that our lesson times will be changing after Easter. This is a permanent change.

Our lessons will now be:
Wednesday period 1 - New Block Physics
Friday period 2  (same as before)

We will no longer be having a lesson on a Thursday.

You should receive an email about this from the Sixth Form team, but please do spread the word in case people don't check these emails.

Thank you!
Mrs Desai

Is txting killing our language?

What does LOL actually mean? 'Lots of love'? Yes, if you are my Grandad and you are writing it at the bottom of an email. 'Laughs out loud'? Yes, often. 

In this video, though, John Mcwhorter argues that the meaning of LOL has evolved. Useful for thinking about Pragmatics, Language Change for next year, chatroom contexts for the exams, and just interesting for budding linguists.

Is Txting killing our language?

Year 9 Poetry homework - due first lesson back after Easter holidays

Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity

During that summer

When unicorns were still possible;

When the purpose of knees

Was to be skinned;

When shiny horse chestnuts

    (Hollowed out

    Fitted with straws

    Crammed with tobacco

    Stolen from butts

    In family ashtrays)

Were puffed in green lizard silence

While straddling thick branches

Far above and away

From the softening effects

Of civilization;

 

During that summer--

Which may never have been at all;

But which has become more real

Than the one that was--

Watermelons ruled.

 

Thick imperial slices

Melting frigidly on sun-parched tongues

Dribbling from chins;

Leaving the best part,

 

The black bullet seeds,

To be spit out in rapid fire

Against the wall

Against the wind

Against each other;

 

And when the ammunition was spent,

There was always another bite:

It was a summer of limitless bites,

Of hungers quickly felt

And quickly forgotten

With the next careless gorging.

 

The bites are fewer now.

Each one is savored lingeringly,

Swallowed reluctantly.

 

But in a jar put up by Felicity,

The summer which maybe never was

Has been captured and preserved.

And when we unscrew the lid

And slice off a piece

And let it linger on our tongue:

Unicorns become possible again.

 

John Tobias

 

Year 9 English Homework Task 1

     

1.   Before you read the rest of the poem, what does the title suggest that the poem will be about?   Try to think of 2 ideas and explain each idea.  (4 marks)
    (4 marks – 1 mark for each valid answer and 1 mark for each valid explanation.)
    
2. Choose a word/phrase/line from Stanza 1 which you find interesting and explain the poet’s choice of words and what you think he meant or was trying to achieve? (1 mark for valid quotation and 1 mark for valid explanation)  (2 marks)
    
3. From the rest of the poem find TWO examples of a word/phrase or line which provides evidence that the poet enjoyed his childhood.  (4 marks – 1 mark for each valid answer and 1 mark for each valid explanation.)  (4 marks)
    
   Total: 10 marks

Year 12 homework due back after Easter

Homework over Easter is to thoroughly learn the gender theorists we have covered. If you have lost any resources, have a look in the shared drive to supplement your notes. Also, remember the Quizlet that might help you revise.




There will be a test after Easter, and I need to see evidence that you have revised for it.


In addition, I would like you to prepare to come back to Paper 1 (Representation) after Easter. Revise the language level that you are still not secure in and increase your ability to use the terminology.
 Find one text (anything at all) and pick out 5 language features from the text. Label them precisely, then for each one try to say why the writer has chosen that particular language feature - what job is the language feature doing to manipulate the reader? If you are really struggling to find your own text, there is a text on the shared drive that you could use (here).




Eg. This chancer of the exchequer’s budget has unravelled. He must take responsibility for cold political decisions with no basis in economics or morality (from The Guardian)




The choice of the past tense verb 'unravelled' in this single-clause sentence gives the impression that there is no going back as an 'unravelling' suggests something which was once whole, but is now hard to put back together. This is further emphasised by the use of the perfect aspect 'has unravelled' which highlights that the action is complete: there is no chance of the process being stopped. This represents Osborne as incompetent and not in control of the budget for which he holds responsibility.

Got four minutes to spare?

Here's a nice little clip discussing how texting as a means of communication can have an effect on your emotions.


Four in four

Year 12 Current Homework

12B Mrs Morgan/ Mrs Desai


Devise a new test based on the level of terminology you are revising (most of you were level 4). It should have at least 6 questions and you should also know the answers. It would be good to have them written down on another sheet of paper. Due Tuesday 8th March


Create a poster or a mind-map based on the approach you were given in the lesson (Deficit, dominance, difference or diversity). Show the key ideas of the approach, key theorists and what they said, and any criticisms of that theory. You may need to use your gender theorists booklet and the quizlet to help you with this. Due Thursday 10th March


12C Miss Moody/ Mrs Desai


Devise a new test based on the level of terminology you are revising (most of you were level 4). It should have at least 6 questions and you should also know the answers. It would be good to have them written down on another sheet of paper. Due Thursday 10th March (extended from this week)


Plan two arguments from the sheet you were given in the lesson. Follow the structure on the sheet. You should come up with the paragraph plans, a suitable title and a sub-heading. Reading your title and sub-heading should leave us in no doubt as to what your controlling idea is. Due Thursday 10th March.


Create a poster or a mind-map based on the approach you were given in the lesson (Deficit, dominance, difference or diversity). Show the key ideas of the approach, key theorists and what they said, and any criticisms of that theory. You may need to use your gender theorists booklet and the quizlet to help you with this. Due Friday 11th March