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 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/