Wednesday 16 May 2012
Year 7 Homework due Monday 21 May
An easy one for you this week!
Please interview a member of your family or a friend about what they are concerned about at the moment when they read/see/hear the news?
Bring their comments with you to the lesson so you can incorporate their ideas into your news report i.e. 'A local teacher recently gave us her views about the high quality homework being done at the moment in schools in Bicester. She disregarded the idea in the local news recently that students are not completing homework to a good standard. In fact she told our reporter that her Year 7 homework is the best she has ever seen!'
Friday 11 May 2012
Year 10: Homework due Friday 18 May
You will need to complete essay plans for 4 of the 8 questions studied in class. Remember to include lots of context information and use words/phrases like The American Dream, racial inequality, women's rights and status, migrant workers, The Great Depression etc.
Use half a page of A4 for each plan and don't spend longer than 10 minutes on each one.
Include quotations with page numbers!
Use half a page of A4 for each plan and don't spend longer than 10 minutes on each one.
Include quotations with page numbers!
Year 9: Homework due Friday 18 May
Well done to those of you who managed the homework for this week even though I hadn't got it on the blog!! Lots of excellent research which will help you when it comes to writing your essays next week - well done. For those of you who didn't manage it here is a reminder...research life in the US in the run up to the 2008 election - what were the difficulties and challenges that Obama mentions in his victory speech?
For Friday 18 May:
Look for a well known personality (it could be a sports person, a politician, an actor or singer) and watch a speech or interview with them. Analyse their body language, tone of voice, what they talk about and facial expressions. Are they formal or informal?
You could go further and see if you could find a formal plus an informal situation and then compare them - much like we did for Obama's speech and TV appearances.
For Friday 18 May:
Look for a well known personality (it could be a sports person, a politician, an actor or singer) and watch a speech or interview with them. Analyse their body language, tone of voice, what they talk about and facial expressions. Are they formal or informal?
You could go further and see if you could find a formal plus an informal situation and then compare them - much like we did for Obama's speech and TV appearances.
Year 8: Homework due Friday 18 May
Thank you for some brilliant character profiles - some rather interesting choices!
Homework due in on Friday 18 May:
Put a case forward in support of watching your favourite of the films studied so far (Oliver, Great Expectations or Fellowship of the Ring).
Answer the following questions to prompt you
1. Why is your choice of film the best 2. Why should we devote 3 lessons to watching a film (what is the educational value?!)
Put your argument on the blog or bring it in
You could go further and explain what you think of the value of films overall - i.e. why the film industry is so huge and popular, why are actors paid so much, why do people like particular types of films
Homework due in on Friday 18 May:
Put a case forward in support of watching your favourite of the films studied so far (Oliver, Great Expectations or Fellowship of the Ring).
Answer the following questions to prompt you
1. Why is your choice of film the best 2. Why should we devote 3 lessons to watching a film (what is the educational value?!)
Put your argument on the blog or bring it in
You could go further and explain what you think of the value of films overall - i.e. why the film industry is so huge and popular, why are actors paid so much, why do people like particular types of films
Year 7: News feedback and next homework
Very well done to everyone for some great homework handed in this week. I'm delighted that the research you did for homework paid off with some very entertaining and interesting news reporting in the lesson - great dramatic performances from you all!
This week we will be developing knowledge of newsreporting to produce another piece of drama.
This week's homework involves creating a character for you to become. Your character will be an anchor on the news (think Huw Edwards or Fiona Bruce). You will need to create a character - give details about what your character looks like, likes and dislikes, age, name, family details, how long you've been reading the news, if you've been to anywhere exciting to report...
Please bring it to the lesson on Monday 14 May.
Extra work would be to look at a real anchor who you particularly like or respect and write about why you have chosen them.
This week we will be developing knowledge of newsreporting to produce another piece of drama.
This week's homework involves creating a character for you to become. Your character will be an anchor on the news (think Huw Edwards or Fiona Bruce). You will need to create a character - give details about what your character looks like, likes and dislikes, age, name, family details, how long you've been reading the news, if you've been to anywhere exciting to report...
Please bring it to the lesson on Monday 14 May.
Extra work would be to look at a real anchor who you particularly like or respect and write about why you have chosen them.
Thursday 3 May 2012
Year 7 homework
Thank you for your article analysis. Unfortunately only 8 were handed in on time which is not at all good considering there are 23 students in the class!
Very well done to both Emma and Gemma whose article analyses were superb. Great work girls.
If you haven't given it to me yet then make sure you bring it to next lesson.
For Monday 7 May (I know it's a bank holiday so just make sure you have it for Tuesday's lesson!)
Watch the news
Watch an episode of the news and list the news items covered - next to each item write down the amount of time spent on it
i.e. Lost kitten 5 minutes
Gerbil sucked up by hoover 2 minutes
Spurs win the premiership 15 minutes
Very well done to both Emma and Gemma whose article analyses were superb. Great work girls.
If you haven't given it to me yet then make sure you bring it to next lesson.
For Monday 7 May (I know it's a bank holiday so just make sure you have it for Tuesday's lesson!)
Watch the news
Watch an episode of the news and list the news items covered - next to each item write down the amount of time spent on it
i.e. Lost kitten 5 minutes
Gerbil sucked up by hoover 2 minutes
Spurs win the premiership 15 minutes
Wednesday 2 May 2012
Year 8 homework for Friday 11 May and reminder for this Friday
A reminder that our new homework day is Friday so the new deadline to do homework 2 is this Friday - 4 May:
1. Create a new book cover for either Oliver or Great Expectations - for either one ensure you are showing your understanding of the atmostphere
OR
2. Write a film review of the scariest film you have seen (please remember that I need to read them and the scariest film I have seen is Ghostbusters! Don't overdo the blood and gore...)
Unfortunately I'm still missing a few homeworks from the Dickens research one. Get this to me this Friday if you haven't already handed it in.
Homework due Friday 11 May - plenty of notice to get this one done!
Choose a character from a film. Write a review of the character by answering the following questions (you may also like to include a photograph)
1. Which four words would best describe this character's personality?
2. How would you describe their physical features?
3. How does the audience feel towards the character? (i.e. do we feel fear or pity etc?)
4. Do you think that the actor playing the role is a good choice? why?
5. Why did you choose this character?
Either add a comment to this post or bring it in on paper or in your book.
1. Create a new book cover for either Oliver or Great Expectations - for either one ensure you are showing your understanding of the atmostphere
OR
2. Write a film review of the scariest film you have seen (please remember that I need to read them and the scariest film I have seen is Ghostbusters! Don't overdo the blood and gore...)
Unfortunately I'm still missing a few homeworks from the Dickens research one. Get this to me this Friday if you haven't already handed it in.
Homework due Friday 11 May - plenty of notice to get this one done!
Choose a character from a film. Write a review of the character by answering the following questions (you may also like to include a photograph)
1. Which four words would best describe this character's personality?
2. How would you describe their physical features?
3. How does the audience feel towards the character? (i.e. do we feel fear or pity etc?)
4. Do you think that the actor playing the role is a good choice? why?
5. Why did you choose this character?
Either add a comment to this post or bring it in on paper or in your book.
Year 9: further feedback and hw for Friday 4 May
A pretty poor show so far for Year 9 homeworks unfortunately. Only a handfull handed in for both set so far. If you haven't done them then re-read the blog and find out what you have to do:
1. Your comments about different accents
2. The differences between spontaneous speech and prepared speech
Some impressive homeworks handed in however so very well done if you have completed both to a high standard...notably Daniel P and Genesis!
Right - homework due this Friday...very easy as you've done most of it already.
Write a review of your own speech in no fewer than 100 words (no more than 200!).
Use the following questions to prompt you - how successful was your argument? how confident were you? did you use body language well? what would you improve if you had to do another speech? do you think you interested your audience?
In on Friday 4 May along with the first two if you haven't done them yet.
1. Your comments about different accents
2. The differences between spontaneous speech and prepared speech
Some impressive homeworks handed in however so very well done if you have completed both to a high standard...notably Daniel P and Genesis!
Right - homework due this Friday...very easy as you've done most of it already.
Write a review of your own speech in no fewer than 100 words (no more than 200!).
Use the following questions to prompt you - how successful was your argument? how confident were you? did you use body language well? what would you improve if you had to do another speech? do you think you interested your audience?
In on Friday 4 May along with the first two if you haven't done them yet.
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