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.