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.