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

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 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. 

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.

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?

12B and 12C1 homework set Tues 27th due Tues 4th Oct - wouldn't be a bad idea for Y13 to revise too!

Homework – What do you know about Grammar?

Have notes available to check in class on Tuesday 4^th October

Note: You need to know definitions and examples.

            E.g. An adjective describes or modifies a noun, e.g. the irresponsible father.

Assumed – you must be 100% confident with the words in this column	Learn now – you should research what the following terms mean, make notes, and learn the concepts	Challenge – if you are already fairly confident with much of column 2, research some of these terms
Nouns	concrete, common, abstract, proper, plurals	Count and non-count nouns
Adjectives	Comparative, superlative
Adverbs	Adverbs of place, time, manner, degree, frequency
Verbs	Regular verbs and irregular verbs Main verb Auxiliary verb Tense (past, present, future)	Modal auxiliary verbs Primary verbs Aspect (continuous, perfect) Subject–verb agreement
Pronouns	First, second, third person	Subject form, object form, possessive, demonstrative
	Determiners	Indefinite and definite article
	Preposition	Prepositional phrase
	Conjunctions	Types of conjunction

Year 12 Week Three: what we've covered and homework

This week we have drawn together the notions of genre, audience, mode and purpose and learnt 7 key frameworks that we will be using in our studies to inform our language analysis:

• Grammar (syntax and morphology)
• Graphology
• Lexis
• Discourse
• Semantics
• Phonology
• Pragmatics

For Tuesday 27th September, please learn 5 new terms from the vocabulary sheet that I gave you at the start of term. Use a dictionary to find and write down the definition, then use the word in your own sentence to show your understanding of it. Be prepared to teach your word to the rest of the class.


For those who still have work outstanding (writing about the context of the Tyrell's Popcorn text), you need to complete this with urgency.

Year 12 Week Two - the terminology onslaught continues

I won't upload the powerpoints from this week as there wasn't much on them in terms of key concepts, but see below for some of the vocabulary we have covered this week.


Key Vocabulary
Controlling Idea
GAMP
Genre
Intertextuality
Audience
Implied and actual reader
Implied and actual writer
Purpose
Primary and secondary purpose
Mode
Context of Production
Context of Reception


Homework for Tuesday 20th September: Read all of the texts about dogs and create a table that states the Genre, Audience, Mode and Purpose of each one.


Write a short explanation (no more than 1 side of A4) of what contextual factors need to be taken into account when reading the Popcorn text. You should be using some of the terminology from above.

Year 12 Homework 1

Read the following article (Article about A-Level English) and answer the questions below. You don't need to hand the answers in, so you can answer them in note format if you wish, but I will be looking at your note-taking skills. Be ready to explain your answers in class, though.

1. What do you understand by the phrase 'modern cultural references'? Paraphrase it. 
2. Give two reasons why people have criticised the A-level. Do you think these reasons are valid?
3. What is the 'crumbling castle' view of language?
4. What viewpoint does Laura Barton hold about this subject? Where does the reader first understand this viewpoint?
5. Find at least two pieces of vocabulary that you would not ordinarily use in your own writing. Write down the words and their definitions. 

 * The version of this article that you have read was the online version. What genre features in this article would you not have found 25 years ago?

*Underline 3 uses of language that stand out to you for any reason. 

Great TV Programme for Child Language Acquisition

This was on TV this week and watching it would be a great way of preparing for our study of Child Language Acquisition next year. Enjoy!

What does Judith Butler mean.. we 'perform' gender?

Straight from the horse's mouth... listen to Judith Butler explaining what she means when she says that we 'perform' gender. Don't forget, the Diversity approach (which Butler is part of) should form a large part of your revision - you need to know it in detail.

Do Men interrupt more?

I came across this interesting article this week and it's a really good example of an article written about language and gender for a non-specialist audience. In particular, notice the way the writer introduces Deborah Tannen and discusses what her research tells us. Also, notice how the writer refers to the original article that she is responding to - we spoke about this in class and this is a good example of how to refer to the source material you might be given.

Year 12 Revision for Paper 2

Article Writing - beyond level 3

A very respected English Language Teacher has written this useful blog about the mark scheme for Paper 2. It would be well worth a look as part of your revision.

Year 12 Link to AQA specification

A couple of people have asked me for an overview of the course. This is the place to get it.

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.

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 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