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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 →
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 →
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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 →
Today we listened to some clips about teenager’s views of multimodal communication and you began to respond to these views. This is important preparation for your controlled assessment; you will need to be able to reflect on the different opinions… Continue Reading →
This week we looked in more detail at multimodal language – when we would use multimodal communication and how it alters depending on the context. We looked at some of the terminology which we will use to help us understand… Continue Reading →
In today’s lesson we looked more closely at multimodal language (including texting, chat rooms, social networking and email). We imagined that we had to explain this type of communication to an alien being – from why it is used through… Continue Reading →