Mr Waugh’s Paragraph Effort: Futility by Wilfred Owen
Futility by Wilfred Owen The title, Futility, is the key to unlocking the deeper meaning of this intensely personal poem by Wilfred Owen. Owen, a young soldier who served in the trenches of World War I, writes in these seemingly simple lines of coming across a recently-dead soldier in an open field. He writes of the illogical, but somehow also profoundly understandable, impulse to move the soldier, who is still warm, into the sun to...
Spoken Language Study: An exemplar of excellent work
To follow is an example of what is possible in this assessment. Your question this year is different, however the topic area is the same. This will give you some idea of how the answer can be structured and developed. My comments should assist you to identify what the assessment criteria is looking for in this Controlled Assessment. Download (PDF,...
Homework: Mobility of Paralinguistic Features
In class today, everyone made a start on answering the following question. The homework is to complete this, on your personal blog, as a test of the swiftness of the response you will get from me to any work you do there. QUESTION: How do spoken language and text language influence each other? Make a statement Give examples Explain how your examples support your statement NAME the language features you’re using as...
First Analytical Writing
Today everyone had a go at writing a paragraph to explain a unique feature of spoken language from their own dialogues. Everyone made an excellent effort. After reading these in class we identified the the main areas for development. These were: Specific examples in the form of quotations were needed The examples needed to be examined in more detail, including identifying the language device within The social attitudes to the ways...
