Extended Writing Skills
Presented to teachers at the London Nautical School, but equally relevant to students – here are a few tips for advanced writers as to how to extend and improve already serviceable writing.
Practice for Examinations
In class we have been exploring bias through looking at two newspapers’ treatment of the same issue. The students had to explore the following questions in relation to the attached...
Of Mice and Men – Character Paragraphs: Annotated Drafts
As preparation for developing a piece of extended analytical writing in relation to the novel Of Mice and Men, the students explored a range of dimensions of s self-selected character and then wrote paragraphs to express their conclusions. To follow are some drafts of these paragraphs, written by students that we annotated for improvement as a class:
Of Mice and Men – Character Scrapbook
After yesterday’s brilliant in-class dramatisation of characters from Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, everyone spent today exploring facets of a selected character – creating a compilation of information gleaned by exploring the diverse methods Steinbeck uses to reveal his characters. Everyone followed the following lines of inquiry in relation to their selected character We then wrote a paragraph, selecting the best...
Exemplar: Spoken Language Study
Alex’s Spoken Language study piece provides a good representation of what a student who is achieving higher grades needs to pursue to improve further. It’s also useful as a reference point for those working towards such grades. Here is his original work with teacher annotations. You can also visit his blog to see the process he underwent to achieve this...
