Practice Essays

Any of you that don't have your own 'blog' can post your essays here - just cut and paste them into the comment box - BUT remember to add your name to them!!!!

Blogging/Logging.....

Which type of viewing/reading log did you choose and why did you choose it?

Do you think your choice affected what you wrote and how you wrote it? Explain.

Bye bye Shrew (for a while)

We have completed most of our work on Taming of the Shrew.

Which of the three assessment tasks did you find the most difficult? Why?

Which of the three assessment tasks did you find the most straightforward? Why?

Close Reading

Hi all

We have been linking our close reading and formal writing activities to themes and ideas generated by the Taming of the Shrew.

When we 'close read' unfamiliar texts in class such as newspaper or magazine articles, what do you find easy or difficult to do? Do you feel confident when you are asked to analyse a text? Can you easily identify language features or techniques? How do you know if a text is formal or informal?

Class Activities

In this unit we have used quite a few group based activities.
How did you find these? Do you prefer working in groups?
Which activities did you like or dislike?

Yr 12 Taming of the Shrew

So how was it?
Was is that hard to follow?
Did the film text help or not?
Were the bits we read in class easier to follow?
How did you find the 'translated' passages ?
How much have times changed? Or not?

Yr 12 Taming of the Shrew...

Sooooo - what are your thoughts on relationships, marriage and parents after our pre-reading activities?

Yr 12 post here....

Thoughts on those first texts.....

Welcome

So, you are in my English class and you have found my blog. What now?? Well keep in mind that this is a place where we can think out loud (so to speak) about what has been going on in our classroom. Where we can discuss the texts that we have been reading. Where we can comment on ideas that have been raised in previous discussions that you have had more time to think about.
It is also a place where English students from other classes can also comment on texts and the ideas that they may have raised.

First of all the introductory texts : Stealing and Valentine - thoughts and comments?

I've been a bit slow setting this up - sooooo - include any thoughts on War Photographer, Dossy and Internal Assessment (Yr 12).

Which texts did you enjoy or not enjoy? Which texts had the most impact? Which was the hardest to understand? Why?

Any questions you'd like to ask about the texts?

Go for it....