The Area of Study Response, also known as Section 3 of Paper 1, is a particularly strange type of essay. In it, you are asked to synthesise ideas from a range of texts with your own personal response, addressing a specific question or statement, under an umbrella concept: Belonging. It’s not an easy thing to [...]
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Tips for Writing the AoS Response
Posted in Area of Study Journal, Assessment, tagged AoS, area of study, Assessment, Belonging, emily dickinson, essay on December 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The End is Nigh
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Assessment, reporting, study on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The end of the semester is upon us. Now that assessment and reporting time is just about over we have a week to create and reflect. Both the year 9s and the 7s will be working on creative projects for peer assessment.
When the report arrives, if you’re wondering what to do better next time, here [...]
The 39th Parallel
Posted in Assessment, School, tagged Assessment, EA1105, EA1207, EN0707, EN09, EX1102 on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Listening to Billy Joel might be good for your understanding of mid-twentieth century history but it is not, according to The Blue Day Book, good for your mood.
What’s happening in class this week?
EN0707 Having completed their wiki posts, the extension class are moving on to Ballads. Today we practised identifying different poetic techniques, tomorrow we [...]
Plunge on into week two
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Assessment, EN0707, EN09, EX1102, Wiki on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Week one was survived by all and even enjoyed by some (myself included). In week two year 7 will working on their wiki before watching the film ‘The Iron Giant’. Year 7s, please make sure you can log into the school network by Monday afternoon’s class.
Assessment due this week:
EN0902 draft essay (two paragraphs) due Monday
EN0905 [...]
Wikimania
Posted in School, tagged Assessment, EN0707, EX1102, Wiki on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wikis are a collaborative creative tool, as anyone who has added their five cents worth to Wikipedia will know. This term we’ll be using wikis to demonstrate our mad research skills and deep understanding of texts. Extension Year 7 are already hard at work brainstorming topics and subtopics for their wiki while Extension Year [...]
