Chapter 5 homework

Visit the online version of Of Mice and Men at http://tinyurl.com/micemenonline

What insight do we get about Lennie over the course of Chapter 5?

Using "appropriate textual evidence" (words from the mark scheme), explain your perceptive interpretations - just like we did with Crooks' room.

You must include Lennie's episode with the puppy as well as his later interaction with Curley's wife.

Take care with spelling, punctuation and grammar as nearly everybody lost a significant amount of marks on this in the exam.

Aim for at least 500 words, as the assessment will be up to 1200 words so we need to start practising racking up larger pieces of writing.

Setting in Of Mice and Men - Crooks' Room

Setting in Of Mice and Men: The Bunkhouse

Setting in Of Mice and Men: The Brush/Waterhole

George in Of Mice and Men

Characters in Of Mice and Men

Themes in Of Mice and Men

Conflict in Of Mice and Men (GCSE)

View and vote for your favourite year 13 trailer

For those who haven't seen them yet, click below to get to the year 13 trailer page on the VLE - after you have watched them all, click the link at the bottom to vote for your favourite!

OMAM - Chapter Summaries

Did some of our Of Mice and Men reading pass you by?
Check out the following chapter summaries below of what we have read so far:

Chapter 1: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/section1.rhtml
Chapter 2: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/section2.rhtml
Chapter 3: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/section3.rhtml

10M2 George and Lennie - Play Doh

Click above for Play Doh George and Lennies :-D

10M2 George and Lennie (Ch1)

Click above to see all of your George and Lennie picture mindmaps from the Chapter 1 descriptions. When you have a minute, please find yours and post onto your Blog. Was very impressed with the detail people managed to pick out, well done!

Reminder of Homework / OMAM Online

http://www.shipk12.org/web/filemgmt_data/files/Steinbeck_-_Of_Mice_and_Men.pdf
Click on the link above for an online version of the novel Of Mice and Men - might be useful if you need a last minute quote or a reminder of what happens in the book.

Reminder of Homework for Friday:
Write up notes on each of the characters we have looked at so far as Blogposts.

BONUS QUESTIONS:
For each character: From what we have read so far and what you know of them:

1. Which modern day actor/celebrity would play this character in a 2012 movie version of the novel?
(Grab a pic of them off the internet)

2. Is there a song that would sum up this character? This might involve a search on your iTunes for the perfect song choice... For example, for Curley's wife, you might think Lady in Red by Chris De Burgh, or if you are not middleaged, perhaps Maneater by Nelly Furtado :-)

LIKE & LOATHE

 CHECKLIST FOR A TV REVIEW:

•Present tense

•Compare to other TV shows (Critics know their stuff when it comes to TV!)

•Description of characters

•Short sentences for effect eg. Really? How boring. Is this entertaiment? How dull.

•Asides (as if we didn’t know)

•Your personal opinions as well as facts

•Paragraphs – Can’t get above a D without them

•Impressive adjectives

•Informal words as well as formal

•Humour – “This is about as funny as….”

•Plot of an episode or the series – avoid SPOILERS

•TV programme chosen: _____________________________

Stage 1: Brainstorm your ideas about your TV show

•Stage 2: Make links between your points in order to think of a central theme that will run through your article. Decide on three key points you want to make in your article:

Eg.

•1. Believable young characters

•2. Likeable older characters

•3. Comparisons with the reality of school life

•Stage 3: Plan your paragraphs for each key point.

Stage 4: Write one paragraph in your English books ready to be peer assessed

PERSUASIVE DEVICES:

List of Three, emotive Language, anecdotes (stories from your own experience), facts and examples, rhetorical questions, hyperbole (exaggeration), sarcasm and humour, counter opposing view, engage the audience using personal pronouns.

WORD BANK:

exciting, entertaining, mesmerising, spectacular, breathtaking, wonderful, hilarious, unexpected plot twists, unbelievable, phenomenal, hype, suspense, captivating, gripping, spine-tingling, informative, incredible, surprising, mind-blowing, fabulous, extraordinary, tremendous, compelling, witty,

Requested words:
Embarrassing
Voyeuristic
Abstract

Neurobiologist

Year 10 lines that made me LOL

"I started off wide awake, but ended up half dead" --- Amy W

"If you like watching puppies getting slaughtered, then you'll love watching The Big Bang Theory as both give you the 'satisfying' feeling of making you want to vomit" --- Phil Y

"as fun as picking flies out of pepper with boxing gloves on" --- Phil Y

"It's like being in a pool of urine and someone comes and throws crap on you: do you duck your head under the urine or take a bucket of crap to the face ... or view this montrosity." --- Phil Y

"Especially when the host is as orange as a 'glamourous lady' from Essex." --- Katie R

"Eastenders is for those who love being depressed." --- Mia H

"pouting lips like a fish" --- Abbey S

"As funny as a man in a skirt" --- Jordan R

Examples of comic similes

• You will be able to think of better but here's some from the net to keep you amused and get you thinking of a killer line to include in your Controlled Assessment.
• "All the talent of a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs. In a bag."
• "He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say “when.”
• "You really are as thick as clotted cream, that's been left out by some clot, and now the clots are so clotted, you couldn't unclot them with an electric de-clotter "
• "I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese" - Rowan Atkinson, Blackadder
• "I'm thick. I'm as thick as the big print version of the Complete Works of Charles Dickens" - Hugh Laurie, Blackadder
• "This show is about as funny as being stuck in a bathroom with a very heavy guy who spends two hours releasing his burrito combos then he leaves"
• "This show is about as funny as gettin stabbed in the eye with a dull pencil."
• "This show is about as funny as toothache!"
• "Unfortunately, this show is about as funny as Tron, which is to say, not at all."
• "This show is about as entertaining as watching mould grow"
• "This show is about as entertaining as lima bean casserole"
• "This show is about as interesting as changing cat litter"
• "The presenter on this show is about as interesting as a binbag."
• "He has all the personality of an airport departure lounge"

"She has all the personality of a plastic chair"

"As boring as a wet weekend in Wigan"

"The only people who might be entertained by this are those who have not encountered electricity before. And even then I'm not too sure."

REMEMBER: Do not steal lines - but nothing wrong with a bit creativity and inspiration. Use what is out there to guide what your review contains. If you like something here, think about how you can change it to make it your own.

No Blogs. Sad face.

Just gone through the Blogs on the right hand side. Unfortunately, cannot find Blogs for the following. If they exist please let me know the URL asap or if they don't yet exist, pleaser make it happen!!
Charlie A
Mia H
Stuart R
Phil Y


Thanks
Mr H

Like or Loathe task to be completed NEXT WEEK

Don't shoot the messenger Year 10, but in our English Department meeting we have been told that all pupils must complete their Like or Loathe task by the end of NEXT WEEK. This means that we can then focus purely on the Head Injury task for the rest of the time before Half Term. So we will be looking at some tips and tricks to include as well as a plan and then...  Next Wednesday - This is our opportunity to put as much notes as can fit onto an official AQA planning sheet: The only thing you can take into the controlled assessment. Remember: No full sentences, but you can use diagrams and symbols - handy!  Thursday and Friday's lessons - The Controlled Assessment in examination conditions. All you will have is the AQA planning sheet with whatever you put on it. Click here for a LOVE planning sheet
Click here for a LOATHE planning sheet

Below is a PowerPoint with all the tips we have looked at so far ie. humour and the use of discursive markers UPDATE: There may be some possibly for us to do this the week after - but this will then be eating up into time reserved for Task 2: The story based on a poem task, so be aware of this.

Introducing task 2: Case History - Alison (Head Injury)

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Open publication -

Do you know your book villains?

Here is the link to the book villains competition.

The closing date is Monday 1st October.

You can submit your answers using the submission box on the competition page.

The winner will be the person with the most points - if there's a draw, we will select one entry at random.

The prize is a brand new set of the Hunger Games trilogy of books :-)

Homework details: Making your blog

Hi Year 10, here are the instructions for creating a Blog.

1. Create a blog at www.blogger.com - name it dhsmediaFIRSTNAME followed by the initial of your SECOND NAME so John Smith would have the blog address of dhsmediajohns - if you call it anything different, just make sure you tell me the address so I can find it.

2. Reply to this post with your address so I can keep tabs on your postings to see if you are on the right lines.

3. Make your first post - All I would like is a cheesy introduction saying hello, introducing yourself and the Blog: "My name is x and this is going to be my homework blog for GCSE English Language and English Literature."

4. Do the quiz mentioned in the previous post. Copy and paste your result in a new post.


Any problems, reply and I will answer directly.

Mr Howard

QUIZ: What is your learning style?

FIRST HOMEWORK: I would like you go onto the following link - What is your learning style? and complete the quiz on that page.

We all learn differently! Some clever psychology folk have said that we all have a learning preference that fits into one of four categories known as "VARK"
Visual - You learn best from pictures and colour
Auditory - You learn best from hearing or speaking
Read/Write - You learn best from reading and writing
Kinesthetic- You learn best from 'doing' and require a more active way of learning.

90% of your teaching fits into the Read/Write category but unfortunately only 10% of young people actually have this learning preference: What a waste of time!

Therefore, I would like you to complete the quiz at the link above and post on your Blog what type of learner you are with your score from the quiz and what that says about you.
Then I would like you to try and insert the picture from the selection below that fits your learning preference. Any questions, reply to this post
Mr Howard=)

Just what is a Blog anyway?

Introduction

Hi all, this is going to be our Class Blog. On here I will be posting homework reminders, examples of our best work, English quizzes and any other business we can come up with.

Here's to a good year!

Mr Howard =)