mrhowse 6:31 am on March 12, 2019  

KS4

ISSUE DATE: 29th April 2019
DUE DATE: 7th May 2019

TASK: My Speech

  1. Read, revise and review all devices from the knowledge organiser (page 2):
    Paper 2 – Section B: KO – Persuasive Writing
  2. Choose one of the following topics for your speech:
    i) Work experience is the most significant thing students can do at school.
    ii) It’s our job to save the environment our parents ruined.
    iii) Brexit has fractured our society unnecessarily.
  3. Use the appropriate document to support your planning:
    Climate Change
    Brexit
  4. Provide a plan / mindmap / intricate itemised list of ideas, devices, narrative argument
  5. Write a six minute speech
  6. Practice your piece

 

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ISSUE DATE: 23rd April 2019
DUE DATE: 29th April 2019

TASK: Public Speaking

  1. Read, revise and review all devices from the knowledge organiser (page 2):
    Paper 2 – Section B: KO – Persuasive Writing
  2. Read the article:
    Better Public Speaking
  3. Answer the questions (below) on a sheet of paper
  4. Submit the questions to your teacher (with your name) no later than the due date

QUESTIONS:

  1. What three things are you advised to do before you deliver your speech? Why do you think this is important?
  2. Summarise what the Rhetorical Triangle is and why it is important.
  3. Define the significance of “ethos”. Why is it important?
  4. How do you appeal to your audience’s intelligence? What must you consider?
  5. How do you appeal to your audience’s emotions?

REVISION:

  1. Sign up to the website: http://senecalearning.com/
  2. Join the classes:
    10A1 – Class code: eeihfogl0c
    10B1 – Class code: vpnmi4ckmi
  3. Start your revision prep for AP3

 

ISSUE DATE: 1st April 2019
DUE DATE: 15th April 2019

TASK: The Perfect Sentence

  1. Read, revise and review all devices from the knowledge organiser (page 2):
    Paper 2 – Section B: KO – Persuasive Writing
  2. Read the article:
    How to write the perfect sentence
  3. Answer the questions (below) on a sheet of paper
  4. Submit the questions to your teacher (with your name) no later than the due date

QUESTIONS:

  1. Identify the device used by Baldwin to describe a sentence. What do you feel, imagine and think about what he is saying?
  2. Identify the device used by Orwell when complaining about writing a book. What do you feel, imagine and think about what he is saying?
  3. List every way that the writer describes Woolf’s sentences. What do these suggest about her as a writer?
  4. What is the sparingly conveyed intimacy of Nelson’s sentence? What is suggested about the narrator, their situation and the time?
  5. Only is both an adjective (can modify nouns) and an adverb (can modify verbs, adjectives, and adverbs). It is synonymous with “alone”, and it means that everything else is excluded. Using the sentence:
    “She told him that she loved him”
    a)     Insert the word only in as many different positions as you can, and b) identify the meaning of each sentence.For example:
    “Only she told him that she loved him”: She’s the only person who said that she loved him. No one else.

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ISSUE DATE: 25th March 2019
DUE DATE: 1st April 2019

TASK: The Essay

  1. Read, revise and review all devices from the knowledge organiser (page 2):
    Paper 2 – Section B: KO – Persuasive Writing
  2. Read the article:
    On Essays – Literatures Most Misunderstood Form
  3. Answer the questions (below) on a sheet of paper
  4. Submit the questions to your teacher (with your name) no later than the due date

QUESTIONS:

  1. Identify what the essay intimately exposes.
  2. Why is it “ironic that for many readers, the introduction to the [essay] form begins with a high school homework assignment”?
  3. What are the “enchantments of the fiction form” that Ozick says are shared by essays? Explore how each of these might work in an essay.
  4. What does Lopate argue that the “essay reverses”?
  5. What other forms has the essay developed into? Why is this important?

REVISION:

  1. Sign up to the website: http://senecalearning.com/
  2. Join the classes:
    10A1 – Class code: eeihfogl0c
    10B1 – Class code: vpnmi4ckmi
  3. Start your revision prep for AP3

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ISSUE DATE: 12th March 2019
DUE DATE: 18th March 2019

TASK: Scene Design

  1. Read, revise and review all devices from the knowledge organiser (page 2):
    Paper 2 – Section B: KO – Persuasive Writing
  2. Read the article:
    Scene Setting – Story – Robert Mckee
  3. Answer the questions (below) on a sheet of paper
  4. Submit the questions to your teacher (with your name) no later than the due date

QUESTIONS:

  1. Summarise what Turning Points are and provided an example
  2. Define what Setups and Payoffs are – how do they work within a scene?
  3. How does a writer create emotional transitions in their reader/audience?
  4. Summarise, using diagrams and text, the meaning behind “True choice is a dilemma”.
  5. Using the above knowledge, write the opening to a scene where a character has a turning point. Don’t forget to use Description, Exposition, Dialogue, Action, and Thought.