National 4 Homework

This is your practice homework for Monday's assessment.

Read the information on the following advert:

Answer the following questions:

1a) What is the purpose of this advert?

b) Write down a word or phrase that helped you work out the purpose.

c) Explain how this word or phrase helped you work out the purpose

2a) Who do you think the advert is aimed at? You may choose more than one answer.

• Children
• Emma
• Caring people
• People with money
• Parents

b) Give a reason with evidence for your answer.

3) Look at paragraph 1 which starts “Emma arrived…” What two signs did she have of being traumatised?

4) Look at paragraph 2 starting “Emma still has a long way to go.” Explain in your own words what Barnardo’s is asking the reader to do.

5) “Emma arrived at Barnardo’s so traumatised.”

What kind of language is the word ‘traumatised’? What effect does it have on the reader?

6a) Do you find this advert effective?

b) Give a reason for your answer. Remembering to give specific examples/evidence.

Check back on Sunday afternoon for answers and advice about Monday's assessment.

Descriptive Moods

Our descriptions change depending on the mood we are trying to create.

Rewrite the following paragraph three times. In the first create a happy mood. In the second, create a sad mood. In the third, create a spooky mood.

I walked into the cottage. There was a clock on the mantelpiece and a fire in the grate. I could tell someone had been here recently. Upstairs, a window was open and the curtains were blowing in the wind. I heard a sound.

All My Sons - Extended Response

An extended response is not an essay, but it does require you to use quotes and write about the text in some depth.

Today, you are doing an extended response on Joe and Chris in the context of the idea of a tragic hero. What are the flaws of each character? What is the misfortune that befalls them? For whom do we feel the most pity/sympathy? Why?

To what extent are these characters tragic in the classical sense?
To what extent are they realistic?

You should use quotes to back up your points and write in depth about each character (1-2 pages of A4.)

Tragedy (when the feeling's gone and you can't go on...)

Here are the slides for today's lesson on the connections between All My Sons and classical Greek tragedy.

Tragedy from missfyvie

All My Sons Introduction

Here are the slides used in the introductory lesson for All My Sons:

All my sons Introduction from missfyvie

Mary Moon extended response - basic plan

This is the plan we put together in class:

Mary Moon and the Stars

Introduction - title, author, summary, description of Mary.

Sympathy - 2 PEE paragraphs about why you'd feel sympathy for Mary

Admiration - 2 PEE paragraphs about why you'd admire Mary.

Conclusion - Give your views on Mary and whether you find her more sympathetic or admirable.

Higher essay plan

This is the plan we put together today.

Task: Choose a poem which depicts a particular stage of life, such as childhood, adolescence, middle age, old age.

Discuss how effectively the poet evokes the essence of this stage of life.

Techniques: Answers to questions on poetry should address relevantly the central concern(s)/theme(s) of the text(s) and be supported by reference to appropriate poetic techniques such as: imagery, verse form, structure, mood, tone, sound, rhythm, rhyme, characterisation, contrast, setting, symbolism, word choice . . .

Plan:

Introduction

Discuss how you are drawn in to the atmosphere and setting of the poem in stanza one and two - finish with a link to the question at the end of each paragraph (2 paragraphs)

Discuss how the change in the mood of the poem is introduced - perhaps Brady and Hindley first, then moving on to the changes of stanza 3. Link back to the question at the end.

Discuss the fulfillment of these changes and the poet's view of growing up that is expressed in the 4th stanza.

Conclusion

S3 Close Reading Practice

Here is a copy of the close reading we started today: Playing Guide and Seek.

Here is a copy of the marking instructions so you can see how well you did.

For your reference, here is the powerpoint presentation on Writer's Craft we used this week:

Writer's Craft Close Reading from missfyvie

Higher resources

Study resources for Higher can be found in my Google drive Higher folder at http://www.tinyurl.com/missfyvie5

S3 - Apollo 13 plan

Show how the director, Ron Howard, created drama and tension in two key scenes of Apollo 13. You should discuss media techniques as well as character and plot.

Introduction

Title and director of film, in a sentence. Connect to the task. Mention some of the techniques used.

Summary

Short summary of film.

Explosion scene

Write a topic sentence to explain that this scene is dramatic and tense. Explain why it is a key scene in the film as a whole. Now use your storyboard and notes to write in detail about the scene, describing what is seen on screen and what techniques are used, and linking this back to drama and tension as often as possible.

Re-entry scene 

Write a topic sentence to explain that this scene is dramatic and tense. Explain why it is a key scene. Now, use your answers to the four questions on the scene to write in detail about the scene, describing the techniques used and explaining how these techniques created drama and tension.

Conclusion

Sum up what you have said in the essay.