Year 11 Revision Tasks for Feb 2015 Half-Term

Hi Year 11,

On Wednesday 26th of February you will do your second complete Exploring Modern Texts mock.  

The first one you did in December (Inspector Goole and an extract about Curley/Lennie).  

You did well - now it is time to revisit and deepen. 

LOADS of extra help, videos, brainstorms, key quotes are on the individual blog posts for Of Mice and Men and An Inspector Calls. 


REVISION LIST TO BE READY:

1. For ERIC, SHEILA and GERALD complete the brainstorming sheet given today in class. Another copy to print is here.   You can use this electronic copy of AIC to find quotations. 

2.  For CANDY, CROOKS AND CURLEY'S WIFE complete the brainstorming sheet given today in class.  Another copy to print is here.  You can use this electronic copy of OMAM to find quotations. 

3. I have given you a past paper. 

Quick revision - Planning for AIC
(a) Decide which essay Q you want to answer - highlight key words.  
(b) Set a timer for 15 minutes
(b) Write your 6 quotations down. 

Stretch revision - Writing up AIC
(a) Set a timer for 30 minutes
(b) Write up your 6 PEA paragraphs

Quick revision - Planning for OMAM
(a) Read the essay Q and highlight key words
(b) Set a timer for 15 minutes 
(c) Read the extract and decide which 3-4 quotes you're going to analyse for Part A
(d) Decide which 2-3 other quotes from the whole novel you're going to use for Part B

Stretch Revision - Writing up OMAM
(a) Set a timer for 30 minutes
(b) Write up your 6 PEA paragraphs. 

I'll be checking emails frequently, so do get in touch if you need some help! helen.ralston@oasisshirleypark.org (or your English teacher obviously, if you're not in my class! ) 

Year 11 ICT Lesson - Tuesday 6th Jan - Period 5/6

Dear Year 11,

I'm sorry that I'm not here today. Use the time to be PRODUCTIVE and make progress on:

1. Your Shakespeare coursework. Email it to me.  

2. Use this blog to help you add notes to any of the poems we've done so far that you've got FULL ANNOTATED poems:

Flag

next to of course god america i

Charge of the Light Brigade

Out of the Blue

Belfast Confetti

Poppies

If you go to shared/Year 10 English/Miss Ralston you will find REVISION guides which are AWESOME for all the above poems and videos for Poppies. 

There are also copies of videos to watch on Poppies, if you can't access them via the blog/youtube.  

Year 10 Mon 24.11 - ICT Lesson - Preparation for EXAMS

Dear Year 10, 

I'm sorry I'm not here today.

Please be your normal EXCELLENT selves and use this 100 minutes to make progress in your learning. Especially as this lesson is preparation for your exam (!!SIMS grade!!) that is happening on Thursday 4th December. 

Learning Objectives

• To know and understand the format of the IGCSE exam. 
• To know a range of different text types and their features. 
• To practice my ability to do Question 2. 

1. Go to this blogpost on the IGCSE exam 
2. Complete Part A of your preparation worksheet (by 1.50pm at latest) 
3. Complete Part B of your preparation worksheet (by 2.20pm at latest)  Bitesize information - Newspaper reports
4. Complete Part C of your preparation worksheet (by 2.55pm at latest) 
5. Tidy today's sheets into your IGCSE plastic pocket and return your folder to our box.  

I look forward to being impressed on Thursday by what you have achieved.  The lesson we'll do on Thursday will build on this work from today. 

Miss Ralston

Year 10 - Period 3/4 Thursday 6th Nov

Dear Year 10,

How you ALL conduct yourself in this ICT lesson will determine whether or not you are in an ICT room tomorrow.  Make sure you do as well today as you did the last time we were in ICT and you were independent, focused learners. 

1.  Type up your descriptive essay so far.  You need to follow this format.   If you want to see what it looks like in word (not google docs) then you can see it in Shared/Year 10 English/Miss Ralston.  There you will also get copies of the photographs to paste on the top of your work. 

2.  Email your work to a learning partner.  They must participate in meaningful peer-assessment and email it back to you.  

3. Use this link to write one or two fridge magnet poems:

• The NATURE or LOVE kit is probably best for the monsoon wedding. 
• The ORIGINAL kit is probably best for the war scene.
• The ORIGINAL kit is probably best for the earthquake scene.

Experiment!  The whole point of poetry is you can be precise, focused on the words, not worried about whole sentences.  

4.  Save your work as IGCSE Descriptive Coursework - YOUR NAME.  Email it to me: helen.ralston@oasisshirleypark.org   

Revision 11m3 - Thurs 23.10

1.  Use this model and scaffold to complete a PEA-conn-PEA for the following past paper.

Explore the methods used to present love for your country in Flag and one other poem from the Conflict cluster. 

Model: 

Both Agard and Cummings use alliteration to present the idea of love for your country.  In Flag it says "outlive the blood you bleed." This suggests that a Flag's power is permanent and will survive any sacrifice that you make.  The word "blood" implies that it is worth getting injured or even killed for the honour of country.  Also, alliteration is used in next to course god america i: "heroic happy dead."  This emphasises that men were willing to sacrifice themselves in order to become war heroes.  The word "dead" is very blunt and highlights that Cummings is being sarcastic and he thinks it is ridiculous that love for your country can lead you to an early, and perhaps pointless death.  


Your turn. 

Use these quotes and the sentence starter below to write up a PEA-conn-PEA.  It is exactly the same as all the other PEAs you've done (OMAM, Aunt Pegg, Shakespeare) it's just two smushed together!

Quotes: 
"Then blind your conscience to the end." 
"They did not stop to think, they died instead."

Both Agard and Cummings show a similar message that a love for your country can lead you to being influenced.    At the end of Flag Agard writes: "..............


2.  Turn to your Aunt Pegg and OMAM exam practices.  Look at your EBIs.  They are either numbers (eg 2.1, 2.6 etc) or letters ( [a], [e] etc).  Click here to see what your EBIs stand for and write them out on your exam practices in green pen.  

3. Use the remaining time to actively revise (that means you have to be DOING something, not just reading/watching) any of the work we've done this half term:

• OMAM
• Flag 
• next to course god america i
• IGCSE

Revising Hawk Roosting

1. Here is the powerpoint we used in class:


2.  Here are some great annotations from a discussion that Lauren, Bella



 3. A great and really detailed revision guide from Whitworth school on this poem. 


4. Great revision questions. Click to go to a version you can zoom in on:

Revising The Right Word

1.  This is the powerpoint we used in class. 

To get this poem, it's important to understand Dharker's intention/message/lesson about:

• prejudices we have
• how words can have the power to manipulate how we think/feel/react - words can make our prejudices worse!

Remember, the first 6 stanzas describe exactly the same image (someone outside a door) but how differently you react to that person when they're called a TERRORIST (stanza 1)  to when they're called a CHILD (stanza 6).





2. You can also see some annotations from a discussion that Lauren, Bella and I had below:



3.  A great revision resource, lots of questions to get you thinking about The Right Word, click on it to go to a version you can really zoom-in on: