GCSE English Lesson 9 Spelling 101 and punctuation

GCSE English Lesson 9

Spelling 101 and punctuation exercises. GCSE Spellings - test

Retrieve your subject terminology sheets from your files. Continue completing them and keep them on your desks to add to during the lesson. You MUST use subject terminology in the exams and so MUST begin to use it in lessons on a regular basis so you are totally familiar with it.

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LO: AO 3: Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts. (Q 4 – 16 MARKS)

Read the extract ‘Budding Spring – In the City’ by American journalist Fanny Fern and written in 1871. What is the article about? What is the writer’s viewpoint? EVIDENCE!

Find a quotation from the extract to support the following statements: 1. The milkman arrives early in the morning. 2. The rag-man’s bells are noisy. 3. The journalist wants peace and quiet. 4. It is not only the noise that is annoying.

You now have 10 minutes to address the following task: Using quotations, summarise the writer’s perspective on noise in the city. Now give your answer to a partner.

Consider these two answers by students. Which do you think is the better and why? Student A. The writer goes to the back of the house because of all the noise at the front of the house. There is a dog barking, cats screeching and a man is ‘smoking at his window’.

Student B. The writer tries to escape from the noise by saying ‘fly for refuge’, which shows how desperate the writer is, but there is a dog barking and cats screeching in the garden at the back of the house too. The word ‘Alas!’ shows the writer’s surprise and distress at not finding any peace there either.

What Student A says is true but does not explain how the writer feels about it. Student B makes it clear that the writer is desperate to escape, and is both surprised and distressed at the continuing noise.

Mark the answer you have been given, out of 8, bearing in mind the comments on the answers of the two students. Give reasons for your marks. Return marked answer to author of it.

What techniques does the writer use to put her viewpoint across? On the whiteboards around the room make a list of techniques (using subject terminology), give examples and explain their effects. Technique Example Effect on reader What effect does the writer’s use of pronouns and tenses have on the reader? Is there any irony (use of words that mean the opposite of what is said, for humour or emphasis) used and if so what is its effect?

In pairs, read and discuss the second text. What do each of these quotations tell you about the writer’s perspective in the second text? a) ‘For some… For others…’ b) ‘surprisingly agreeable’ c) ‘both intrusive and undesirable’ d) ‘to create peaceful, quieter spaces or vibrant, exciting-sounding areas’ e) ‘can be very soothing’ Compare your answers.

Q 4 - 16 mark ‘comparing’ question. When comparing writer’s perspectives you need to identify what those perspectives are and how they are presented, considering language, structure and/or tone.

Q 4 – 16 marks For this question you need to refer to the whole of Source A, together with the whole of Source B. Compare how the writers convey their different attitudes to city sounds. In your answer, you could: compare their different attitudes compare the methods the writers use to convey their different attitudes support your response with references to both texts.

PLAN - copy this down using two different colours. Summarise first writer’s perspective 2. Summarise and compare second writer’s perspective 3. Analyse how first writer uses language to present perspective 4. Analyse and compare how second writer uses language to present perspective 5. Analyse first writer’s tone 6. Analyse and compare second writer’s tone 7. Conclusion – which text is the most effective? NOW PLAN your answer. 1.

Using the plan you have just noted address the following Q 4 (16 marks) task: For this question you need to refer to the whole of Source A, together with the whole of Source B. Compare how the writers convey their different attitudes to city sounds. In your answer, you could: compare their different attitudes compare the methods the writers use to convey their different attitudes support your response with references to both texts.

Reflective logs.