Robert Burns – To A Mouse
Today we explored a stanza of Robert Burns’ Poem “To A Mouse” and discussed the intertextual relationship between its message and that of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! (An annotated copy of the...
Exemplar: Theme Study Written Report
This written report by Jonas Kalvis goes well beyond the minimum requirements of this task, but as such, it also provides an excellent example of where you could take this project if you want...
Theme Study: Outline
With two texts to be submitted every term, the Year 10 Theme Study is an on-going homework assignment that encourages the students to pursue a programme of thoughtful wide reading and viewing that will ultimately raise their general literary awareness. The students choose their own theme and write their journal entries into their personal blogs. Watch out for excerpts and examples from those journals to be published on here as the...
Homework: Plan your Answer
Using the categories we defined in class today, tonights homework is to develop a plan outlining how you’re going to respond to the Controlled Assessment question Decide on your three strongest points in response to the proposition, and then list under each of these the categories of analysis and then some specific devices, like: 1) Spoken language is beginning to be influenced by text communication: a) Language devices i)...
Homework: Spoken Language Study
Building towards our first major GCSE Controlled Assessment, the boys’ focus is now moving from analysis and understanding to writing and explaining. The best way to be able to independently write this up-coming essay assessment is to get plenty of practice and seek feedback. That job starts tonight with the following task:
Homework: Analyse Your Own
Today everyone embarked on the process of evaluating their own spoken language transcripts in order to find the features of language that made them unique and that were characteristic of spoken conversation in general. This is the same analytical approach as we performed as a class previously so the boys were encouraged to look back at that work to guide their work today. These transcripts will be used in the actual controlled...
