Friday, 1 February 2013

Context Posters for Frankenstein

Hello Y10
As it happened, most of the class were absent on Wednesday so the work you need to do is just to finish your context poster.
Lucky you.

Friday, 25 January 2013

Emotion in Frankenstein

Hi Y10
Some great presentations this week! Well done. Now that we know about context, it's good for us to start to do some close analysis. 
Some key points for this assessment then. 

  • Formative Assessment: Explore the ways emotional voices are presented in the texts you have studied.
  • Controlled Assessment: Explore the ways disturbed characters are presented in the texts you have studied
  • About 2000 words.
  • Clean copy of scenes/chapters/text used in the C.A.
  • 4 hours given.
  • 20 lessons + 4 for Controlled Assessment
What are expected to produce throughout this unit of work?
Throughout, you are collating your own quotation banks, character profiles and contextual information.
Don't forget the homework in the final slide. Example paragraphs are also here. 
Chapter 5 lesson


Friday, 18 January 2013

Context Presentations

Hi Y10
I am very excited about your presentations next week. They certainly have the makings of excellent teaching and it'll be interesting to see what you've research, how you've linked it to the text and, of course, how you have chosen to present it. 
You'll be giving your presentations on Monday and Wednesday next week.
This is what you need to include:
Skilled presentations - 
1.Comment on the effect and importance of the context in which the text was written 
2.Have clear links to the text
3.Present the information clearly so that the aspect is understood
Excellent presentations - 
1.Explain with increasing sophistication the significance of the historical context on the text
2.Have precise and detailed links to the text
3.Present the information in a dynamic and informative way

As a reminder, in this CA you are expected to:
-Respond to texts critically and imaginatively; selecting and evaluating  relevant quotations to illustrate and support your interpretations
·Explain how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes and settings
·Explain links between texts, evaluating writers’ different ways of expressing meaning and achieving effects
·Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts; explain how texts have been influential and significant to you and other readers in different contexts and at different times
This final point is the focus for these presentations and it's the relate bit that's key! We've worked really well on the first two points with OMAM and you targets from the formative assessment here will of course apply to these texts too. 

Let me know if you have any questions.

Ms

Thursday, 10 January 2013

Frankenstein

Hello all
To understand the plot (if you don't already) use this video, which I think is very good to guide you/ support your learning.
HOMEWORK: Finish the storyboard/comic strip to summarise key moments and points in the novel (however you have chosen to tell the story).
  Skilled Storyboards will have...
1.A title that reflects your understanding of the extract
2.A summary of the extract with some quotes
3.Pictures that accurately reflect the content of the extract
Excellent Story boards will have...
1. A title that shows a sophisticated understanding of the significance of the extract/ section
2. A summary of the key point with well selected and embedded quotations
3. Pictures that reflect a sohisticated appreciation of Shelly's use of imagery
 Next week we'll have a focus on context and you'll give presentation on an aspect of the context that I will give you.
Let me know if you have any problems/ questions.
Ms

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Here's the Candy''s dog lesson...

Something that happened....

Here's the lesson on the change in title and the pessimistic outllook of the novel. There are some key words here you may want to use. Leave a comment if you need any help...

Friendship and George and Lennie

Hi Y10
This is our lesson on Friendship and the contrast between George and Lennie's realtionship and everybody else's... There are two people that aren't lonely and one of them shoots the other in the back of the head. How is Steinbeck presenting loneliness here? What is he trying to say about loneliness? What's he saying about understanding each other?