Year Nine Lesson, February 10, 2010

Objective: Looking at the Subtext of Portia’s Lines

Lesson

1. Act Two, Scene Two Quiz/Review
2. Reading of ‘You paid how much for that?’…Discussion of Subtext/Stressing Different Words…Portia’s Line, ‘I should not know you Brutus’…Discuss ‘Subtext’…What influences the subtext?
3. Reading
4. Complete Subtext Handout

Homework

Due Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Resources

Subtext

WouldtherealPortiaLuciusnew1

Year Seven Lesson, February 9, 2010

Objective: Identifying Language Techniques

Lesson

1. Circle point, evidence
2. Tick Langauge Techniques you know
3. Share definitions
4. Identify the techniques
5. Write PEAL paragraphs

Language Techniques

Language Technique

Pronouns

Triples/Rule of Three

Rhetorical Question

Repetition

Informal Language

Formal Language

Precise Language

Abstract Language

Emotive Language

Imagery

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Simple Sentences

Alliteration

Absolutes

Adverb

Adjective

Verb

First Person

Punctuation

 

Homework

Write PEAL for each of the quotes. Thus, complete the handout.

Year 11 Lesson, February 9, 2010

Objective: Answering the Far from the Madding Crowd Mock

Lesson

1. Read the extract, identify at least five different techniques
2. Share/Discuss
3. Marking Criteria
4. Answer Question

Homework

Complete extract question.

Year 10 Lesson, February 8, 2010

Objective: Marking Criteria and Planning

Lesson

1. Dissecting the coursework question
2. Grade Boundaries
3. Planning

Homework: Prepare for coursework writing.

Coursework Essay Question: How does Hemingway create sympathy for the old man? In your response analyse two passages in detail and show an awareness of the text as a whole.

Three ways Hemingway perhaps creates sympathy for the old man (sub categories).

1. Alienation: a withdrawing or separation from someone or something else.
2. Futility: lack of importance or purpose; meaningless
3. Age: how old you are (physically, emotionally, mentally)

Year Nine Lesson, February 8, 2010

Objective: The Role of Women

Lesson

1. What is Context? Why is it important?
2. The Role of Women
3. Reading–Note methods of Persuassain by Portia
4. Writing–Answer Question: How does Shakespeare present Portia in Act Two, Scene One?

Remember to

• PEAL
• identify the language or structural technique
• Make reference to context and it’s significance

Stretch yourself

• Multiple examples, PEAL
• Compare/contrast to other areas of the text
• Multiple interpretations
• integrate your quotes imaginatively

Homework

Due Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Read the next act, looking at Calpurnia.

Answer the following question. How does Shakespeare present Calpurnia?

AS Media Studies Lesson, February 4, 2010

Objective: PowerPoint Evaluation Overview

Lesson

1. Overview
2. The Questions…Key words
3. Marking Criteria…What the examiner is expecting to see?
4. Evaluating a slide/Feedback Pluses/Possible Improvements

Homework: Begin working on your PowerPoint Evaluation.

Year 10 Lesson, February 4, 2010

Objective: Sympathy for Santiago while he is ashore

Lesson

1. Complete Reading
2. Techniques
3. Annotate Last Extract

Year 11 Lesson, February 3, 2010

Objective: How does Hardy make the fire scene dramatic?

Lesson

1. Create a SUSTAINED response that assesses a RANGE of techniques, using evidence to support points–Class develops a Range of techniques
2. Watch Fire Scene at 2:35 to 7:00 
3. Reading Scene, annotate for areas of Gabriel’s Control and The Fire’s Personification
4. Writing–Answer question–How does Hardy make the fire scene dramatic?

 

Remember

Create a SUSTAINED response that assesses a RANGE of techniques, using evidence to support points

• PEAL
• Identify the langauge/structural technique
• integrate the quote imaginatively
• make comparisons/contrasts…note similarieites/difference from other areas of the text
• give multiple interpretations
• significance in relation to context

 HW:

For Friday, annotate extract for Far essay.

The Old Man in the Sea Final Copy Due Next Week.

February 9, 10, 2010

Year Eleven Lesson, January 28, 2010

Objective: The Old Man in the Sea Context and Identifying specific Techniques Language Techniques

Lesson

1. Context Reading and Discussion
2. Reading of Passages and Identifying relationship to Context
3. Find and label the Techniques in Passage Three
4. Find and Label the techniques in Passage Two

Homework

1. Bring your Old Man in the Sea text to the next lesson. We will be working on that.
2. Complete The Old Man and the Sea final copy of coursework.

Due Dates

Lane Group–Wednesday, February 10, 2010, Lesson Four

Wales Group–Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Lesson One

• If you fail to turn it in, your rough draft mark will be used for the coursework grade. Typed or handwritten, your choice.
• Also, I am available for conferencing on Thursday (January 28) and Friday (January 29) in 2.1 from 3:30-4:30. First come first serve.

Resources

Pages 58-60n Techniques

Year Nine Lesson, January 27, 2010

Objective: Figurative Langauge

Lesson

1. Act One Quiz
2. Video
3. Review of Figurative Langauge Sheet
4. Figurative Langauge Column Activity

Homework:

Complete Figurative Langauge Activity

Resources

Julius Caesar Quiz Two

Four Columns Ladder and Adder Figurative Language