8B Fri 2nd March
Please complete questions on Shakepeare.
G6 Fri 2nd March
Please learn the words from the media unit cover – you already know them, so just go over the defintions one last time!
Also, continue working on your framework for the upcoming podcast. Please share the document with me and label it with your name, e.g. Isabelle’s podcast.
Jem – don’t forget to add your 2 articles (biased & balanced) to the 6C google doc.
G12 Mon 5th March
For Monday, read act two and anwswer these questions:
Also, read through these notes:
Notes on context and background
G6 Mon 27th Feb
Dear reporters
Type your two articles – one biased, the other balanced – use the points to below to help you check your structure.
• Who is the main person the story is about?
• What has happened to him/her?
• Where did the event take place?
• When did it happen?
• Why did it happen?
• How did it take place?
Don’t forget to write a headline for each article.
You will share the articles on googledocs in class so make you have carefully proofread your work!
8C Tues 28th Feb click here!
Please make sure you have completed Joe’s Account and questions p.12-13.
6C: Fri 24th Feb
Please bring your:
unit cover sheet for media
hand out on balanced and bias
English portfolios!
G12 Mon 27th Feb
Class work for Mon 27th Feb:
Re-read act one and answer these questions. Either share your work with me in a Googledoc or email the work. What you don’t complete will be homework for Wed 29th Feb.
Homework for Mon 27th Feb.
Good luck with all your mock exams!
From Doll’s House, do the pre-reading activities (p.5 & 6) and read Act 1. Make notes on simliarities and differences with Death of a Salesman, such as use of stage directions, the protagonist and themes.
Email me your work.
Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother.
Nora: That I no longer believe. I think that above all else I am a human being, just as much as you are…
6C Podcast Book Review
list of adjectives
Please fill in the framework (click here!!) to help you prepare for your podcast. Save the file and label it with your name: Isabelle’s Podcast
G8 Reading Shakespeare (click here)
8C: Friday 17th Feb
For period 6, please click here to read the text and to do the questions. Write your answers in your notebook.
Then select a piece of work from your English portfolio to show next Wednesday to your parents during SLC.
Once you’ve completed this, do the work set for you for Literacy Objectives (you know, the orange books): read p 7-11 do qs p12-15 (don’t do interview).
G8 Independent Reading
Next due date: 8B 8th March, 8C 7th March
This gives you a chance to explore reading of your choice (any genre, fiction or nonfiction), and to respond to it personally in either though written responses or in oral presentations. I expect your responses to become increasingly mature and attentive to writers’ language literary techniques, and intentions, as you progress over the academic year.
In each response: (create a file named “Independent Reading”)
- Write the title of the work, the author’s name and its genre. (ie. fiction-adventure, fiction-fantasy, non-fiction – historical, etc.) Try to cover a variety of genres.
- Indicate the amount of page numbers and the date.
- Write a personal response to what you have read. (Ideas are given below.) Any summarizing should not take up more than two or three lines!
- Include something creative, inspired by the reading: short poem(s), drawings, magazine cut-outs, interesting quotations from the work, letter to the main character, diary entry of a minor character,anything creative that shows you are thinking about the reading. Write a short paragraph to explain the creative response.
Personal Response Ideas
Only choose one task from below:
- personal reactions/opinions about events and characters in the work
- what you would do if you were in a character’s position
- your favorite/least favorite characters and why
- things that surprise you, confuse you, or raise important questions in your mind
- how the story reminds you of your own life or a friend’s
- explain what you think happened before the story began.
- explain what you think happened after the story ended
- why you would or would not recommend this work to a friend
To be chosen from February 2012 onwards:
*-your thoughts on the writer’s style, language, or writing in general
*-interesting descriptions, lines of dialogue, or use of language (give quotations and explore them)
*-what you are learning/realizing/thinking about as you read
*-any literary techniques or features you notice (ie irony, foreshadowing, themes, flashback, suspense building, cliffhangers, imagery, metaphors, and so on)
*-what you believe the author is trying to say or do through this work
*You should gradually make more and more of these types of responses throughout the year.
Don’t forget to reguarly update your Shelfari account and look at what your peers are reading too.
Your work (450-600 words) should be printed out and handed in on the due date: 8B 8th March, 8C 7th March
