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Symbols
Dear all,
We discussed the information below in class surrounding common symbols in Literature. Here's the information if you want to access it.
1. Colours: Colours often play a role in stories. Usually they represent emotions like love, anger, or sadness. Red is a passionate color that can symbolize love, anger, or passion. Blue can mean tranquility, peace, sadness, and in some cases fear. Yellow can mean spring, like turning over a new leaf, or it can symbolize sunlight or light. Shades of greens and browns can be used for nature, peace, and to give off a sense of hospitality, unless the browns......
Core Exam Timings
Below are the scripts we used for your Walking Talking Mocks.You can use these to support your revision.
Question 3aRequirements - 1 Black Pen 1 HighlighterWrite your answer using short notes.You do not need to use your own words.Up to 10 marks are available for the content of your answer.To begin with, you will just focus on 3a. This question asks you to look at passage B and you’re going to have to do some summarising. However, before you read the passage, read the question so you know exactly what you’re looking......
Parent Corner
As teachers we know how stressful it can be watching students go through exam season but we also know that stress is more often than not vented at home rather than in the classroom. It is difficult to know what to do especially as you don't know the syllabus requirements or the best way to revise or when the exams are.
This post is aimed at supporting parents in helping their students prepare for the English exams at home.
This year all Year 11 will have exams on Tuesday May the 5th. This is a reading exam.
Some but not all Year 11 students will have a writing exam on Friday 8th May.
All Year......
Extended Exam Timings
Below are the scripts we used for your Walking Talking Mocks.
You can use these to support your revision.
Question 3a
Requirements - 1 Black Pen
1 Highlighter
Write your answer using short notes.
You do not need to use your own words.
Up to 15 marks are available for the content of your answer.
To begin with, you will just focus on 3a. This question asks you to look at passage B and you’re going to have to do some summarising. However, before you read the passage, read the question so you know exactly what......
Hallow'en Macbeth Revision
First of all a couple of apologies:
1) This is later than intended as I badly broke my thumb at the beginning of the holidays and had to have surgery to re-attach it to my hand.
2) Any typos are down to left handed typing.
Your Macbeth / Browning assessment is fast approaching and you need to remind yourself of some of the key parts of your assessment.
We've focused on 8 key skills:
Making effective points
Using and embedding appropriate......
Argument Writing Grade Ladder - Ladders, Pyramids and Cherries
The grade ladders have been useful in targeting top level skills and applying them in our work.
This is a particularly effective way at building your grade because it gives you a hierarchy. If you think of the ladder as a pyramid (too many metaphors?) then you will find most of Rung 1 in your work with examples of higher level skills as you go through to Rung 5 where you will be showing judicious (well judged) examples of top level devices, sentences, punctuation, paragraphs and vocabulary (the cherry on the top of the cake if you will- somebody stop me with these metaphors!).
Overall......
