Welcome 12C! Homework 1

For Monday  11th Sep:
1. Sign up to Google Classroom using the code lhevgwb. You must sign in with your school email address. If you don’t wish to use this, forward all emails to your usual account.
2. Follow me on twitter if you would like to - @EnglangGeek
3. Read the article given to you in class and answer the questions

For Friday 15th 
1. Learn the terms in the Quizlet https://quizlet.com/_1kpngp ready for a test

Survey

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/92TFCYP

Gender revision / wider reading - year 12 and year 13

This is useful for everyone: Year 12, we have finished Language and Gender now, so it's all down to you. https://aggslanguage.wordpress.com/gender-interaction-theory-%E2%80%93-holmes-tannen-cameron-defrancisco/ This is a really useful post on a blog I've recommended before. You certainly don't need to learn all of this, but it's useful background / wider reading - especially for those aiming for those higher grades.

Year 13 - this may be a nice way to ease yourself into your gender revision. We'll be coming on to this after Easter.

Year 12 Homework and Private Study for Tuesday 21st March - 12B only

It would be a good idea to re-visit the Diversity mind map from today ready for next week when we will be coming back to this. Also, remember that we will be re-visiting the Tannen test from last Tuesday.


Some of you may wish to work on that paragraph that we started in class, weaving the diversity approach in as a challenge to the Difference approach. If you want to hand this in on Tuesday I will look at it.


Compulsory homework for everybody: Read about Lakoff in the Gender Theorist Booklet (some information also in the appendices) and make notes ready for next week. You need to ready to apply her theories as we won't be going over it in class.

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!

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!

Lessons week commencing Monday 5th December

Dear students,

I'll be returning for our lesson on Tuesday 6th. Please make sure you have all work with you that was set for your lessons during my absence.

Year 13 - please bring gender notes with you.

Thank you.

Year 12 Cover Work

I will ask the sixth form team to email this to you all, but posting here too just in case. I have created a folder in our Google Drive (access this from the menu on the right of this page) called Cover Work. All of the work for next week, including copies of what I gave you on Tuesday are in here.

If you have any questions or technological difficulties, email me directly and I will forward the work to you.

Year 13 Cover Work

I have asked the sixth form office to email you all with the cover work, but I have also put it on the google drive. If you go to the Y13 Google Drive resources (link on the right of this page), you will see that I have create a folder called cover work. Everything that you need is in there, including copies of the sheets I gave you on Tuesday.

If you have any difficulties accessing it, please email me and I can send you the work directly.

Writing for a non-specialist audience: Y13 revision, Y12 pre-reading

Here's another example of an article written about a linguistic issue, but aimed at a non-specialist audience.

Both the AS and the A-Level paper require you to write this type of article, so it's worth reading as many of them as possible. The more that you read, the more likely you are to be able to write in this kind of style.

Notice how it transforms the linguistic ideas into language that is accessible for a general audience, for example:

"How do they even begin to separate, or “segment,” individual words from the stream of language that they hear all around them all of the time?"

Year 13 have learnt about segmenting in CLD this term. They should be able to use it hand-in-hand with the term 'gestalt expression'.

Year 12 Genre Conventions homework

This is due for Tuesday 22nd November

I would like you to investigate the genre conventions of charity adverts.

1. You need to be confident that you understand what 'genre' and 'genre conventions' actually mean. Do some research and write down some notes and definitions so that you are confident that you understand the concept.
2. Read the website here and have a go at the task: what do all of the adverts have in common?
3. You may wish to read more widely about charity adverts.
3. Produce a guide for year 7 children, informing them what genre conventions would be expected of a charity advert, ie/ a list of features they would need to include if they were to write their own charity advert. OR Create a poster with a charity advert of your choice in the middle, labelled with the genre conventions identified.
4. Identify these genre conventions in the Elephant text that we looked at on Tuesday. Make a list of genre features with quotations if appropriate
5. Challenge (optional): Write a paragraph evaluating how closely the elephant text adheres to genre conventions.

Grunwell done well? (Sorry, it's been a long day...)

Y13, I came across this Quizlet that someone has prepared to learn the typical ages that children acquire phonemes from. Add it to your list of private study tasks.

Year 12 Phonology homework

Research and make notes on the following terms for Tuesday's lesson (8th November)


Alliteration
Assonance
Sibilance
Consonance
Paralinguistics
Prosody
Sibilance
Glottal Stop
*How are different consonants described?
*What is the difference between phonology and phonetics?

Year 13 Private Study

It's here - the page you've all been waiting for... See above for a new page with guidance on work you can do in your private study time.

Enjoy!

Y13 Swearing... in front of the kids?

Lovely little article to accompany Miss Moody's lesson this week here. Go on - impress her by referencing this article next lesson :)

Y13 great article for Language Change

See this!

Is it semantics or pragmatics?

https://languagedebates.wordpress.com/tag/pragmatics/

One of the lovely year 12s asked for clarification on the difference between semantics and pragmatics. It's a question that's been asked many times, and one that linguists are still pondering. There's a link above to a useful blog post by someone far more knowledgeable than me. Have a read and see if it makes the answer a little clearer.