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:

Blog Updates

REVISE REVISE REVISE!  It'll make you feel good, I promise!  Don't put it off, JUST DO IT.  

Here is a quick overview of some things I've added to our various posts and links to quickly find your way to main posts. 

1.  Another great blog found with notes on Of Mice and Men and An Inspector calls. 

2. Go to the Of Mice and Men post to see:

• some useful character mind-maps found 
• a link to a folder with all our past papers in it it
• a great video from Mr Bruff which goes over a 30/30 response to support the work we did about that in class.  

3. Go to the IGCSE Q1,2,3 postto access a folder with loads of past papers in it.  You MUST be practicing, the exam is in 4 days time! Anything you do, I'll mark! 

4. Coming soon, your AIC revision posters (although you all have your own copy as well).  In the mean time, use the AIC post to keep revising!  

5.  Don't forget to visit the poetry posts too:  

• General advice and past papers. 
• Comparative plans + advice 
• Revising Unseen Poetry
• Plus all the individual posts on separate poems if you've got any glaring gaps. 

New Revision Guide - for Literature

Thanks to Miss George (for finding) and Kings Down School (for creating) this revision guide.

It has:

1. SUPER USEFUL key quotes to know for each character and overall for Of Mice and Men.

2. The same for An Inspector Calls.  Plus an interesting way to think about AIC as demonstrating the 7 Deadly Sins. 

3. A page of notes on each conflict poem - great for if you've missed any. 

4. Tips on how to revise generally!

You can find it here.