Skills Active Listening Active Note Making Ongoing Consolidation

Skills • Active Listening • Active Note Making • Ongoing Consolidation of Learning • Active Reading Strategies • Understanding & Summarising • Textual Analysis • Clarity & Accuracy of Expression • Developing/ Extending Vocabulary

Student Comments I wish I had: • ‘Made concise notes in class, written these up and kept them organised’ • ‘Revised texts and close reading the whole year so that I could’ve enjoyed and got more out of class work. ’ • ‘Read more at home. ’ • ‘Prepared close reading and newspaper articles more thoroughly for homework instead of just cutting one out and reading it once. ’ • ‘Tried to do more essays in timed conditions at home. ’

Structure • Language Study • Close Reading (Nab) • Writing (Nab) • Literary Study • Textual Analysis (Nab) • Exam • Close Reading 40% • Critical Essay 40% • Writing Folio 20% • Writing Folio

NAB Timetable • Writing – Ongoing focus throughout year. Key inputs for 3 pieces – work developed in own time Writing Folio 1 st Drafts Fri 12/12/14 Folio Deadline – 20/3/15 • Textual Analysis – Key focus of first term and second term 1 st Attempt before Christmas Holidays Completion Date – 16/1/15 • Close Reading – Key focus of first term and second term 1 st Attempt before Christmas Holidays Completion Date – 27/2/15

Resources • • Constant supply of pens Highlighters Lined paper to write on Dividers & polypockets for folder Memory stick Access to Mr Allison’s blog via school website Copies of class texts: ‘The Cone Gatherers’ by Robin Jenkins ‘A View From The Bridge’ by Arthur Miller