Morning all,
Today I want you to read through your Ode to the Hoody essays and the comments that I have made.
On reflection, please type up your essays onto your blog, ensuring that you are making the corrections identified in the comments. Remember to follow the Point-Evidence-Explanation-Develop structure in your paragraphs.
After this, type up your text message analysis paragraphs you wrote on Monday, ensuring that there are some comments referencing John McWhorter's TED Talk to hit AO2. Click here to access Monday's PPT with a link to the TED Talk.
Please also revisit your notes from the induction period (as tomorrow is our last induction lesson before we start exam topics properly) and ensure you are confident with your understanding of how we approach texts with a linguistic focus.
If/when you finish this, let me know and I'll give you the extension task.
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
1st Computer Room Lesson 19th September
Morning everyone,
Welcome to our first computer room lesson. We will be in here every Wednesday completing work set on this blog and doing research when we start our sociolinguistic topics. Please complete all computer work on your blog, and ensure your blog is always up to date.
2 tasks to complete today. Firstly if you haven't emailed me the link to your blog please do this now as a matter of urgency. Send the email to cal@stbrn.ac.uk . Then:
1. Please ensure that your transition task is all completed, along with the challenge task of writing a PEE response to one of your articles. If you haven't done this, use today's lesson to complete it. If you already have completed this, revisit your PEE with the linguistic and analytical skills you have learned over the past 2 weeks - what improvements can you make to your writing on reflection? Add in some GRAMPS commentary, discussion of frameworks, ensure you are using the word classes and make sure your terminology is specific.
2. Next week we will be starting to think about the use of language in social groups, and tomorrow in class we will be watching a documentary on language & identity. With this in mind, I want you to think about how our language use contributes to the identities we construct for ourselves, and your 'linguistic fingerprint'. We will be beginning with some discussion about accents and dialects and the prejudices that come with this.
Write a PEE paragraph on each article below, discussing how the author presents ideas about attitudes to accents.
An article on 'accentism', with a focus on the Brummie accent
An article about trainee teachers being told to modify and change their accents
Any issues let me know!
Welcome to our first computer room lesson. We will be in here every Wednesday completing work set on this blog and doing research when we start our sociolinguistic topics. Please complete all computer work on your blog, and ensure your blog is always up to date.
2 tasks to complete today. Firstly if you haven't emailed me the link to your blog please do this now as a matter of urgency. Send the email to cal@stbrn.ac.uk . Then:
1. Please ensure that your transition task is all completed, along with the challenge task of writing a PEE response to one of your articles. If you haven't done this, use today's lesson to complete it. If you already have completed this, revisit your PEE with the linguistic and analytical skills you have learned over the past 2 weeks - what improvements can you make to your writing on reflection? Add in some GRAMPS commentary, discussion of frameworks, ensure you are using the word classes and make sure your terminology is specific.
2. Next week we will be starting to think about the use of language in social groups, and tomorrow in class we will be watching a documentary on language & identity. With this in mind, I want you to think about how our language use contributes to the identities we construct for ourselves, and your 'linguistic fingerprint'. We will be beginning with some discussion about accents and dialects and the prejudices that come with this.
Write a PEE paragraph on each article below, discussing how the author presents ideas about attitudes to accents.
An article on 'accentism', with a focus on the Brummie accent
An article about trainee teachers being told to modify and change their accents
Any issues let me know!
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
First week of lessons - PPTs
Afternoon everyone,
I hope we've all recovered from our whistlestop tour through Grammar this morning!
As promised, here are the PowerPoints from our first 4 lessons so far. Please read over them and make sure your notes are detailed. (click the links to access)
As a reminder, your Ode To Hoody initial analyses are due tomorrow.
See you tomorrow
Claudia
Lesson 1 - Intro
Lesson 2 - Frameworks
Lesson 3 - Extended Analysis
Lesson 4 - Word Classes
I hope we've all recovered from our whistlestop tour through Grammar this morning!
As promised, here are the PowerPoints from our first 4 lessons so far. Please read over them and make sure your notes are detailed. (click the links to access)
As a reminder, your Ode To Hoody initial analyses are due tomorrow.
See you tomorrow
Claudia
Lesson 1 - Intro
Lesson 2 - Frameworks
Lesson 3 - Extended Analysis
Lesson 4 - Word Classes
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Welcome to my new Year 1 Language Class!
Hi everybody,
Welcome to St Brendan's, welcome to English Language, and welcome to my Language Blog!
This blog will be an incredibly useful resource to support your study of English Language. Check this blog regularly to find homework tasks, lesson resources and revision materials, as I update weekly with all of these important things. I will be asking you to use your own blogs you created as part of your transition tasks in a similar way - you will be uploading notes, completing homework tasks and recording your research on your blog so it's all there for you to reflect on when it comes to revision.
The first post on your blog should be your transition task. If this is not completed, please do so before our next lesson. Click here to download the transition task if you can't find it.
Please sign in to blogger now and comment below this post with the URL of your blog. It should be something like 'claudialanguageblog'. Please also email me at cal@stbrn.ac.uk with your blog URL a with the subject line 'Link to my English Blog' and sign the email off with your name.
I hope you enjoy the course!
Claudia
Welcome to St Brendan's, welcome to English Language, and welcome to my Language Blog!
This blog will be an incredibly useful resource to support your study of English Language. Check this blog regularly to find homework tasks, lesson resources and revision materials, as I update weekly with all of these important things. I will be asking you to use your own blogs you created as part of your transition tasks in a similar way - you will be uploading notes, completing homework tasks and recording your research on your blog so it's all there for you to reflect on when it comes to revision.
The first post on your blog should be your transition task. If this is not completed, please do so before our next lesson. Click here to download the transition task if you can't find it.
Please sign in to blogger now and comment below this post with the URL of your blog. It should be something like 'claudialanguageblog'. Please also email me at cal@stbrn.ac.uk with your blog URL a with the subject line 'Link to my English Blog' and sign the email off with your name.
I hope you enjoy the course!
Claudia
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