11Y - Timed essay - Catcher in the Rye

Hi gents,

For next lesson (Tuesday 3rd May), you need to have completed the Catcher in the Rye essay question we started looking at in today's lesson:

Write about Holden’s relationships with females in The Catcher in the Rye, and how Salinger presents these relationships.

Give yourself 45 minutes in exam conditions to write this essay.

Bring it with you to Tuesday's lesson.

Have a great bank holiday,
Mr Kirkaldy

11Y - Work for Easter holidays

Hi gents, You have two weeks off and the sun is shining - perfect for getting on with some English revision:

• Re-read as many of the set text as you can: - Catcher in the Rye - Poems from Different Cultures - the English Literature poems (Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and the pre-1914 poems)


• Go to the Cheney Takeaway channel on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/CheneyTakeaway) there is a lot of very good revision stuff on there

Have a great holiday, see you in a couple of weeks,

Mr Kirkaldy

11Y - revision

Hi gents, In today's lesson you were all given a Cheney Takeaway menu that will direct you to revision material on YouTube. Think about what areas you feel you need to work on and direct your revision in that direction. On Friday: we will be doing a Paper 1, Section A exam conditions test - implementing the Reading Non-Fiction skills we've been looking at in the last few lessons:

• following an argument


• differentiating fact and opinion


• commenting on linguistic devices


• commenting on presentational devices


• comparing and cross-reference

See you then, Mr Kirkaldy

11X - Media Studies Evaluation

Hi guys,

Remember, on Friday you will be finishing off the Evaluation section for your Media Studies practical coursework.

Come to the lesson prepared and ready to evaluate how effectively your product:

1. met its aims and purpose
2. used appropriate generic conventions
3. used representations
4. used narrative
5. addressed the chosen or preferred audience(s) and/or user(s)
6. revealed media organisational issues

See you on Friday,
Mr Kirkaldy

11Y - Work for Friday

Hi boys,

For Friday:

1. Finish annotating your copies of 'Homecoming' - use BBC Bitesize and any other websites you find that are useful. Remember the Success Criteria for analysing poems
2. Check out the Cheney English Department 'Takeaway Teacher' page on YouTube - more videos will be coming out so keep an eye on them: http://www.youtube.com/user/CheneyTakeaway

See you on Friday,
Mr Kirkaldy

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11X - Media Practical

Hi all,

Don't forget: Friday 11th Feb, we will be in J24, using the computers there to FINISH your magazine front cover/contents page.

EVERYONE must hand in their finished product by the end of the lesson.

Please get to the lesson as quickly as possible, I will meet you there.

Mr Kirkaldy

11Y - Timed essay

Hi gents,

Don't forget, on Friday you will be writing an exam conditions essay:

(a) Compare how female speakers are presented in ‘Havisham’ by Carol Ann Duffy and one
poem from the Pre-1914 Poetry Bank.

and then

(b) Compare how male speakers are presented in ‘Sonnet 130’ by William Shakespeare and one poem by Simon Armitage.

Come prepared as you will be starting the essay as soon as you walk in the room.

11Y - Homework for 'Mother, any distance'

Gents,

Some work I want you to do for tomorrow's lesson on 'Mother, any distance'. We will then look at an exam conditions essay that you will write in Friday's lesson.

1. Think of 2 ways in which holding the tape measure conveys something about the relationship between mother and son.
2. Lines 11 and 15 are very short and so they have an extra impact on the reader. Why - what is the impact?
3. The poem is in 3 stanzas. Copy and complete the chart showing how the 3 stanzas deal with different ideas:

Stanza Surface meaning Symbolic/Representational meaning

1

2

3

11Y - Homework - 11.2.11

Hi boys,

Over the weekend, you need to finish your plan to the essay you are going to write UNDER EXAM CONDITIONS on Monday morning:

Compare the ways that poets present violence in ‘Hitcher’, ‘My Last Duchess’, and two other poems from the Literature Anthology.

MAKE SURE YOU BRING THIS PLAN AND YOUR ANTHOLOGY WITH YOU ON MONDAY.

Have a nice half-term,
Mr Kirkaldy

11X - Media Studies coursework

Hi guys,

By now you should have all finished the 'Planning' sections for your Media Studies coursework. This should include:

• Statement of intent
• Mood board
• 2/3 drafts with questionnaire
• Detailed final draft

You now have to complete your actual productions. This means making a FRONT COVER and a CONTENTS PAGE to a professional standard. Look back in your notes to check that your production uses all the CONVENTIONS of a magazine front cover and contents page and that you use the CODES appropriate to your TARGET AUDIENCE.

If you have photos saved you can get them on the shared area: W:\Media Studies\10X2 - Mr Kirkaldy

You have this week to complete your work - I will be in on FRIDAY to collect it.

Have a great half-term,
Mr Kirkaldy

11Y - Poetry comparison sheets

Hi boys,

For Friday: complete your poetry comparison sheet for 'Hitcher', 'Stealing', 'My Last Duchess' and 'Havisham'.

Be ready to feedback your ideas in the lesson. Be as detailed as you can. Here are your success criteria:


Skilled analysis/ comparison
1.Find points of similarity in the subject matter of the poems
2.Find points of similarity in the structure of the poems
3.Find points of similarity in the language of the poems

Excellent analysis/ comparison
1.Select appropriate quotations to act as reference points between the poems
2.Comment on how the structure of the poems reflects on the ideas contained within the poems
3.Identify key language features (eg poetic devices) and comment on their effect

See you Friday,
Mr Kirkaldy

11Y - Havisham homework

Hi boys,

For tomorrow's lesson, I want you to annotate your copies of 'Havisham'. Concentrating on:

• similarities/differences to 'Hitcher', 'Stealing' and 'My Last Duchess'
• the structure of the poem
• language and imagery

See you tomorrow,

Mr Kirkaldy

11X - Media work

Hi guys,

In the next couple of weeks we need to finish off the planning side of our magazine front cover/contents page project and move onto the production stage.

In your planning section you need:

• 2/3 rough drafts of different 'treatments' you could use for your magazine
• some market research into which treatment is the most effective (ie create a questionnaire and ask your target audience which treatment the like best). You can record your results as a table, pie chart, etc
• once you've decided what your final design is going to look like, you need to to a detailed plan of what it will look like. This will include what text you're going to use (coverlines, straplines, etc). You will also need to know what is going to go into your magazine so that you can do your contents page

The more of this work you can do at home and come to lessons fully prepared, the better.

Mr Kirkaldy

PS. I am still missing a few research sections. I must have that asap so that I can mark them, so if I haven't got yours (Patrick, Mohammed, Rob, Zoe, Adam), please get them to me asap. Otherwise you will be staying for the after-school coursework catch-up session on Wednesday.

11Y5 - Poetry work

Hi boys,

In our next lesson (Fri 28th) we will be finishing off 'Stealing' by Carol Ann Duffy.

We will then move on to look at two other poems that deal with the criminal mind: 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning and 'Havisham' by Carol Ann Duffy.

Over the weekend, I want you to look up these poems on the internet, gain an understanding of what they are about, and then come to the lesson with ideas about how they are similar/different to 'Stealing' and 'Hitcher'.

Mr Kirkaldy