Welcome Year 10!
Sticky postHello Year 10 and welcome to the blog page which will support you in your first year of the GCSE programme. It’s going to be a challenging but fun year and you will find everything here to support you: from… Continue Reading →
We worked together to build on the extended writing skills that you will need to complete your Controlled Assessment on ‘Of Mice and Men’. We will be examining the theme of prejudice within the book. Our aim is to be… Continue Reading →
Last week we considered how to look at a text by examining how a camera works. (An idea that I had been thinking about and was developed when I read about work that another teacher had done with his class.)… Continue Reading →
Year 10 Poetry Essay Plan from Summer Turner on Vimeo.
This term we have been studying poetry in all its mystery and brilliance. We started by examining music and rap, which led us to the realisation that poetry also relies upon beats and rhythms to convey its meaning. In fact… Continue Reading →
As part of your work on “conflict” I asked you to research the conflicts that are happening around the world right now. I asked you to specifically focus on one conflict, which you would speak about informally to the class…. Continue Reading →
trim.nmaSnn from Edutronic.net on Vimeo.
See here for reminders of what we have been studying so far. This is a good place to go to if you want to revise something that we have looked at in class. It’s also a great idea if you… Continue Reading →
You will be completing your first piece of Controlled Assessment for the English Language GCSE in English lessons from 23rd-25th October. You will be writing an essay answering the following question: Texting and social networking are ‘destroying’ our language. How… Continue Reading →
Either email this to me by Tuesday or bring to the lesson. Annotate your multimodal transcripts with examples of deviation from Standard English. Use your glossary to identify what these deviations are. In your books, explain what these different features tell us about the conversation… Continue Reading →