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In class we have been exploring bias through looking at two newspapers’ treatment of the same issue. The students had to explore the following questions in relation to the attached articles:
Religion And Society (1984 George Orwell) I have been reading the book ’1984′ by George Orwell, in relation to my theme studies this text has great relevance to what my theme is about. The book displays differences in society and how segregation works, this relates directly to the theme ‘Religion And Society’ because we see segregation […]
For four weeks the students have been exploring the deliberate use of sentence-level grammatical structures as part of the following Grammar for Writing programme
Starting on Tuesday 5 March, the Of Mice and Men Controlled Assessment will be run. The two official outline sheets are embedded in this post. Recent posts also give guidance on your individual preparation for this assessment. Remember – everything written on your blog will get a response before the commencement of the assessment on […]
Today we explored a stanza of Robert Burns’ Poem “To A Mouse” and discussed the intertextual relationship between its message and that of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought […]
As preparation for developing a piece of extended analytical writing in relation to the novel Of Mice and Men, the students explored a range of dimensions of s self-selected character and then wrote paragraphs to express their conclusions. To follow are some drafts of these paragraphs, written by students that we annotated for improvement as […]
Chris Lewis presents to the class on the findings of his longitudinal Theme Investigation into Communism.
After yesterday’s brilliant in-class dramatisation of characters from Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, everyone spent today exploring facets of a selected character – creating a compilation of information gleaned by exploring the diverse methods Steinbeck uses to reveal his characters. Everyone followed the following lines of inquiry in relation to their selected character We then […]
Alex’s Spoken Language study piece provides a good representation of what a student who is achieving higher grades needs to pursue to improve further. It’s also useful as a reference point for those working towards such grades. Here is his original work with teacher annotations. You can also visit his blog to see the process he […]