Narrative Writing Next Steps

Narrative Writing Next Steps

It's time to get improving those narrative writing skills Year 10!

1. Complete the Next Steps worksheet. Everything you need to do this is here.

- Download and save the worksheet.
- Read the instructions carefully and make sure you complete all tasks.
- Remember to print off two copies of your completed Next Steps sheet. One will go in your folder with your assessment and the other will be stuck into your yellow English books.

One of the best ways to become a better narrative writer is to read good narratives.

2. Pick a quick read from the fiction section.

3. Read it.

4. Open a Word document.

5. Write a review. This should include a brief summary (no plot spoilers!) and what you liked about the writing. Once you have completed this, send it to me at l.marvin@lutterworthcollege.com

An Inspector Calls: Structure

Structure in An Inspector Calls

1. Download and save the work sheet.
2. Complete all tasks on the worksheet.
3. Save and print you work.
4. Stick the worksheet into your book.

Any work not completed in the lesson will be set as homework.

Child Language Acquisition Revision

Child Language Acquisition Revision

It is time to do some serious revision, Year 13! Your mock examination is on Wednesday 14th December (am).

Here are some resources to help you to get ready.

Revision Packs/ Knowledge Organisers:

• A revision pack for spoken language acquisition
• A revision pack for literacy acquisition
• A knowledge organiser for literacy acquisition (reading)

Spoken Language Acquisition Do This Now Sheets from Lessons:

• Do This Now 1 (utterances, stages and viewpoints)
• Do This Now 2 (overgeneralisations and viewpoints)
• Do This Now 3 (Child Directed Speech and viewpoints)
• Do This Now 4 (Studies and theorists)
• Do This Now 5 (Child Directed Speech and Imaginative Play)

Literacy Acquisition Do This Now Sheets from Lessons:

• Do This Now 1

Quizlets:

Quizlet on literacy acquisition
Quizlet on spoken acquisition key terms
Quizlet on spoken acquisition theorists.

Obviously, you should all be using your AQA text books. Chapter 4 has all you need for literacy and spoken language acquisition.

Enjoy :)

Year 13 English Language NEA: Original Writing

Looking for a Style Model?

Year 13 Language NEA: Original Writing

Use the links below to explore potential style models:

Style models for opinion articles:

- The Guardian's Mind Your Language
- The Guardian's Comment is Free
- Oliver Kamm's The Pedant - you'll need to subscribe to The Times to access this column
- Daily Mail columnists Jan Moir, Piers Morgan, and Katie Hopkins

Style models for opinion blogs:

- Deborah Cameron's Language: A Feminist's Guide


Style models for persuasive speeches:

- Emma Watson's He for She United Nations Speech - also available to watch here

Style models for informative guides:

- BBC Magazine Online

Also useful...

• If your memory needs a nudge, the introductory PPT for the Original Writing part of the NEA is here.7

• The proposal form is here.

• The mark scheme for the Original Writing part of the NEA is here. You will need to go to page 27.

• You should aim to write about a specific language topic - ideally one which you are passionate about. The NEA is a brilliant opportunity to consolidate, and expand on, your existing knowledge of an aspect of your A Level Language course. This will be excellent preparation for your Paper One and Paper Two examinations.

• Remember, you can't use the same topic as your style model. So, for instance, if you chose a Deborah Cameron blog post about language and gender, you would need to select a different language topic. You could, however, pick a style model and then argue the opposite side of the argument to your style model.

• When looking for a style model, bear in mind the different audiences being targeted. For example, Oliver Kamm's The Pedant will be for a more specialist audience than a Jan Moir opinion piece for the Daily Mail and so there will be differences in register and style.

• You have been given lots and lots of articles and blog posts on Language and Gender and Language Change. Do look through these resources as they are style model gold mines!

Men and Women Communicate Differently Next Steps

Evaluate the idea that men and women communicate differently

Next Steps:

1. Open a word document and title it 'Language and Gender Assessment Two Next Steps: Acting on Feedback and Improving my Evaluative essay writing'.

2. Open, copy and paste the two A grade exemplars into this document.

3. Read both exemplars and the feedback for exemplar one.

4. For each exemplar, highlight WWW in green and EBI in orange.

5. Use the comments function in Microsoft Word to explain your highlighting of WWW / EBI.

6. Go back to your essay, or one of the extracts we discussed last lesson, and re write at least two paragraphs in this word document.

7. Use the comments function to annotate your paragraphs so you can show what you have done to improve.

8. Print off this document and file in your English Language folder.

EXT: If you have time, challenge yourself to a game of Gravity on this Quizlet set.

HOMEWORK: complete tasks 1 - 9

Year 10 Descriptive Writing Assessment Next Steps

Descriptive Writing Assessment: Next Steps

It's time to get improving those writing skills Year 10!

1. Everything you need to do this is here. *

Read the instructions carefully and make sure you complete all tasks.

You need to print a copy of the word document and show it to me.

Time to enjoy some writing and reading:

2.  Vote on the winner of the two sentence story competition.

3. Pick a quick read

4. Open a Word doc.

5. Write a review. This should include a brief summary (no plot spoilers!), what you liked about the writing, who you would recommend it to and a relevant picture. Once you have completed this, send it to me at l.marvin@lutterworthcollege.com
 

*Thank you to Mr Shovlin for creating this rather fabulous resource!

Year 13 Gender Representation in Fiction

Gender Representation in Fiction and Non Fiction

Gender stereotypes influence the construction of gender representation in both fiction and non fiction texts.

The tweet above is an example of how pervasive these stereotypes have become and the extent to which they influence how gender is represented. Although we frequently read about women being described in terms of their appearance with verbs such as 'flaunt' and 'pour', it 'sounds weird' when we read about men being described in the same way.

What does this suggest about current societal attitudes in terms of men and women?

Indeed, the important questions which you must bear in mind when exploring gender representation are:

- How is language being used to construct/ represent a gender?

- What societal attitudes about gender does this reflect?

- What do you think is the relationship between the language used and the societal attitudes? Which comes first in terms of influence?  

This PowerPoint provides you with examples of fiction and non fiction. When analysing them, have the questions above in mind.  

Remember: top band analysis has to explore and evaluate the use of grammar - as well as the other language levels. Looking at clause types and the proportion of active/ passive sentences which are attributed to male/ female characters will gain you more marks than just commenting on the connotations of an adjective.

Thank you to:

https://debuk.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/just-dont-do-it/