Gender revision

Morning all,

Following on from Monday's lesson, please complete these language and gender tasks. This will link well as a follow up task to creating your knowledge organisers (we will do the same for regional variations and accent & dialect tomorrow):

Task 1

If you haven't already, please complete your knowledge organiser ensuring that you have outlined all the theories and case studies.

Next, challenge them: what is the criticism of each theory / what debate does it set up? A few sentences is fine.

Task 2

Read the four wider reading articles at the back of the booklet and write a bullet point summary of each. Do this with any other wider reading articles you have found too.

Task 3

For each text, write a paragraph on how the theories are reflected in the argument.

More meanings & reps

Morning all,

This week we will be continuing to work on ensuring our meanings & reps responses are as effective as possible. For most of us, that means integrating as much terminology as possible to support and make way for effective and detailed AO3 comments.

Please look at Thursday's work, which has been returned to you. I have given most of you a specific target to work on. Today can you please make some improvements and corrections to your work, and then type up your improved response - as some of you only managed to write 1-2 paragraphs in the short time we had, can you all ensure that you type up a complete response.

In class tomorrow, we will be doing an entire meanings and representations paper (2 texts, all 3 questions) which I will mark and grade according to the exam board's mark scheme. The texts we are using are linked here. Use the rest of this lesson to prepare for the assessment tomorrow. Remember, terminology is very important here so you really need to focus on this!

Any issues/questions then please let me know!

Meanings & Representations

Morning all,

Continuing with our revision of meanings & reps, please find below some resources to help you.

Firstly, click here for a SlideShare presentation which focuses on AO1. You obviously won't know/use all of these terms however it's a good resource to refer to for terminology and the frameworks. Please make a note of some of these.

Next, read through this article and complete the box at the bottom. Remember, the more articles and perspectives you look at for M&R, the more prepared you'll be for whatever could come up in the exam.

Then, access this PPT and work your way through the tasks to help you to build up to an effective M&R response. We will be doing a timed M&R question in class tomorrow (not for this text though!), so the more prep you do, the better.

Today, aim to write approx. 2 PEED paragraphs for this text, and remember to focus on close analysis of terminology. There are 2 paragraphs already written for you as a model, but these only focus on the 2 opening paragraphs of the article, so you will need to continue from this.

Any issues, let me know.

Language & Identity - Sapir Whorf Hypothesis and 'Woke'

Morning all,

We'll finish watching 'Word of the Year' today, and afterwards will focus on the word 'woke' and its evolution.

Please first read this article regarding the Sapir Whorf hypothesis and summarise it on your blogs you should have a summary about this from Monday, so type this up and add to it after reading the article.

Next, read this article on the word 'woke' and summarise what has happened to the word and its usage - why has it become problematic? Also, please do a short meanings and representations analysis for this article.

Any questions let me know.

Linguistic close analysis practice

Morning all,

As we're revising meanings & representation we need to revise the process of close linguistic analysis. Please find attached an article by Charlie Brooker along with a grid to help you build up some analysis.
Please read the article and fill in the grid which as much detail as you can (and as much terminology as you can) and then write up a response to the question "How does the article use language to create meanings and representations?" on your blog.

The focus today is on terminology, so please ensure you make this central to your work today.

Link to worksheet and article - download a copy to Word.

Opinion Articles - 'Teenspeak'

Morning all,

Please find below the PPTs from the last few lessons:

Lesson 1 on Age
Lesson 2&3 on Age

Today you need to write your opinion articles, which need to be handed in tomorrow for me to mark over half term. You have an example that I gave out on Monday to help you - please let me know if you need another copy. Here is another example:

Example opinion article

A few pointers on what to include for this topic:

- The Vera Regan TED Talk on the 'like' discourse marker' (click here)
- The Jon McWhorter TED Talk re. texting (click here)
- Any theory discussed in the above PPTs
- Most importantly: your own opinion!

Use the models to help you, and remember to include wider reading as well as the expected theory. Spend some time today looking through the articles we started looking at on Monday.

Let me know if you need some help.

Coursework and Accent & Dialect Essay

Morning all,

Lots to be getting on with today. Firstly can those of you who have not sent me your essay re-write ensure you do this before the end of the lesson.

Additionally I would like to take in an early draft of your coursework and commentary today. Please ensure your original writing is approx. 750 words and your commentary is around 400-500 words.

Any questions let me know.