Thursday 9 April 2009

It's Up To You

COURSEWORK

DON'T FORGET YOUR TUESDAY DEADLINE. IF YOU HAVEN'T STARTED YOUR NEXT DRAFT, DO IT NOW.

  • Pointless imho wasting the class time we have left on coursework, since you will all by this stage either be sailing or you will need individual input. Find me lesson 5 on Thursday or see me and sort out when we're both free. (Are your Wednesday afternoons now available or do they remain timetabled forever?)

MARKING

It is worth familiarising yourself with the marking criteria. If you want I can mock-grade your drafts on Tuesday. The criteria keywords are:

Sophisticated, perceptive and analytical 28-30 (Band 4)

Secure, detailed and systematic 24-27 (Band 4)

Appropriate and effective 20-23 (Band 3)

Relevant, clear 16-19 (Band 3)

I don't want any of you aiming for anything less than this, so I'm not going to encourage you by adding them.

George you should be revising to hit the top of Band 4, rather than middle of second band 4. Fliss: What about "glory" or "holy" for your keyword? Free? So it's more about the key part of the experience? Or "lay it down" cos that was what Baby Suggs said? I keep thinking of "let my people go" but it's been used. Emma: use Baby Suggs's feelings from the beginning of the account - she feels guilty, never blames Sethe; looking back she might talk about her own "pride" in making the feast first because she feels so guilty. And the shoes. Richard I think yours needs to tell a story more clearly. Make Paul D say that he's putting these things away in the tobacco tin. Is it that every time he rolls a cigarette and relaxes these things pop into his head and then he represses them? Also make sure it's laid out as prose, not poetry. Emily remember your structure - about 300 words for the conversation about the party, 300 for seeing the riders and deciding not to do anything about them, and about 300 for the aftermath (going to see / finding out what's happened). All of you - if you get stuck, put a note on here.

  • Lesson Times: we may have as many as three, if you are attending classes on 8th May, which raises the question of what we want to do with the time left.

    OPTIONS FOR THE LAST THREE FRIDAYS

  • You could all prepare revision notes on various themes and share them.
  • We could go through January's examination paper - I would suggest as a class exercise; work through each section in twos and feed back to the class. Alternatively you could sit it as an exam, or you could take it home, prep. it and use a double to discuss what different people have done.
  • We could use one of the interesting non-fiction extracts from the Anthology - I myself favour the particularly funny one about Darwinism, but it might be just too easy - and apply the context question to them.


OTHER STUFF


Do you want to do some extra poetry and/or drama?


We could do an extra class or two on either poetry or drama ie in order to discuss either Endgame or Our Country's Good, or some more poetry.


This requires you both to think and to let me know, as you all need to have read whatever we pick, and I need to set up extra lessons if you actually want them.

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