Remember to make sure that you are obtaining broadsheet journalism on a weekly basis, and reading comment articles and features, for the language style and points raised.
Enjoy!
Mr. Cameron
Friday, 25 November 2011
YEAR 10 REMINDER - Mr Carroll's class
Please remember to get your drafts completed over the weekend - the first 500 words and back to me by Monday. It is essential this is completed to enable peer assessment to take place in the lesson.
Keep writing.
Keep writing.
Mr Carroll
Friday, 18 November 2011
Year 11 Mock Examination
Next week, you will sit your Literature Mock Paper. Due to Curriculum delivery, you will only sit the 'An Inspector Calls' task and the other section on 'Of Mice and Men' / 'Mr Pip' will be covered in the new year.
Make sure you have read over all of your prep. notes and are ready to demonstrate your ability for next week.
Good luck.
Mr Carroll
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Year 8 set 1 - Multi Modal Language
What are the differences between texting and normal written language?
Texting is a form of digital communication form one mobile to another. Texting was made as a quick and cheap way to communicate with one another. It is informal whereas Standard English and normal written communication is formal. In texting there is no need for punctuation or the proper spelling of words, this is what makes it quick and relaxed. Normal written communication is more serious. In normal written communication you need punctuation and the proper grammar to make a letter or a piece of work appropriate. In a letter you wouldn’t write “how iz u?” you would write “How are you?” with punctuation, fully spelt words and a capital letter where it is needed.
Texting has some similarities to spoken language. One similarity would be slang. Slang is used with in texting and spoken language to make it quick and more relaxed. In data set three at 10:44, Kim said “c ya in a mo xxxx” that sentence is full of slang. Instead of saying “see” she put the letter ‘c’. She also put “ya” instead of “you” and “mo” which is a slang word for minute. That is the slang she used. Spoken language and text are both informal.
One of the main differences between written language and texting is initialism. In data set three at 10:41 am, Jen put “… omg he is here gyaoh…” in this part of her message she uses two initialisms, “omg” which is the initialism for “oh my God” and “gyaoh” which has the same meaning as “get your bum over here”. We use initialisms to make our messages quick and easy.
Another difference used in texting is we use emoticons. Emoticons are used to show how you are feeling. An example of an emoticon being used is in data set three at 10:41 am in a message Jen wrote. She said “in c blok avin chat about,” then she said a boy’s name, “omg his here gyaoh xxxxJ.” She used a smiley faced emoticon to show that she is happy. This makes texting seem more fun because of the things (such as emoticons) you can add to your messages.
Texting can be straight to the point. An example of that is in data set one at 3:30pm, written by Andy. He said “wat time u be home mam”. He didn’t ask how her day was; he was straight to the point. Texting can be short and snappy because of how you can be straight to the point. In spoken language, you can also be straight to the point.
Another similarity texting has to spoken language is that you don’t need punctuation. When you are speaking all you need to do is take pauses then carry on. You don’t go around speaking to people and saying “Hey, how are you. Question mark.” You just say “Hey, how are you?” They know there’s a question mark. This is how spoken language and texting is relaxed.
In conclusion, texting is an informal way of communication that is mainly used by younger people. It is relaxed, it’s short and snappy, and you don’t need to use punctuation or use the correct spellings. Some people think the code of texting is quite creative, but some people think it makes no sense at all. Standard English is formal and more upper class, whereas spoken language is informal like texting is. Standard English/ written language use punctuation, fully spelt words and people take their time writing it, there are no codes. Texting and written language are different. I hope my work has shown and helped you understand how.
Anti Bullying Week.
Stop and Think. Words can Hurt.
Have you ever logged on to somebody else's Facebook account and caused trouble? Have you ever logged in to somebody else's Facebook account and read their private emails?
This week at St George's, we are getting ready for Anti Bullying Week. Pupils in year 7 have been doing some Drama work with Miss Richardson and Mrs Smith, thinking about the effects of bullying and the feelings of the bully victim. Pupils have created extremely powerful pieces of Drama, using still images, freeze frames, stylised movement and contrast to create these powerful pieces.
ALL pupils have a right to feel safe in school and there is ALWAYS somebody to speak to if there are ever any problems.
We need to think about whether our actions would hurt somebody. It is very difficult coming to high school from primary school and it is extremely important that all pupils remember to include everybody as much as they can.
In English lessons, pupils have been getting ready for Anti Bullying week, looking at scenarios that have happened in the past as a result of bullying. More work to follow on this soon...
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Don't Get Me Started
year 10 pupils have recently been planning their first Controlled Assessment of the year, a discussiuon about something which gets on their nerves. What do you think of thier openings?
Don’t Get Me Started On... C Sheerin
Don’t get me started on school and in particularly the ridiculous, torturous time that the horrific place, which is indicative of prison, commences. It feels like you’re raising yourself out of your warm, comforting bed merely to undertake an under paid job which is so mind-numbing you feel that eating your own lips would be more fun. If we truly look at why we are forced to undergo this rigorous routine of roaming corridors to face periods of perilous boredom, it is only because our parents force us to so that they can have 6 hours of peace, quiet and tranquillity without moaning, tedious and temperamental teenagers roaming around. If you’re late once for registration, another pointless waste of valuable education time, you get dinner time detention even if you have a respectable excuse such as ‘I got up late due to a power cut’ or ‘the bus was late due to a toxic explosion in another city!’
Don't get me started on poverty Jaques Kphgomou
More than 1.4 billion people around the world are considered to be ‘poor’ and this label is given to them because of a range of factors: lack of education, poor health, lack of access to food and water as well as their environment not being habitable. You see, this upsets me; it makes me feel angry and agitated as I sit in the warmth of my home with every possible need catered for.
I thought everyone was supposed to be equal, but we’re not; were like carnivores trying to survive in a world of fear and happiness, where there are clearly the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. It like the game ‘finders keepers’; we are a race who is filled with selfish thoughts; we are lacking emotion and do not feeling compassion for others.
Clarice Lynch Don’t get me started on... bullies!
Bullying is a gigantic problem that affects lots of children. Three-quarters of all youngsters in the UK say they have been bullied or teased to an extent that has caused great concern, consternation and worry. Over 60% of school children have either been bullied or are currently being intimidated, persecute or harassed on a regular basis; either way that is despicable. School children are meant to be happy and enjoying life, not feeling insecure, apprehensive and depressed all because one culpable child feels the need to cause then immeasurable pain with words ringing in their ears such as: ‘fat’, ‘smelly’ or ‘ugly’. I have had this problem myself and it isn’t a fair thing when vicious, words violate your mind leading to torrential stream of tears and unhappiness.
Don't get me started on chavs... MOLLY GROUNDS
What is this world coming to? People these days, dressed in anarray of disgusting fashionable mistakes walk around the streets of England thinking they’re something special, well let me tell you they’re NOT! They’re violently agitated, turbulent and loud and when I say loud I mean loud and could scream from the highest block of flats to expose my frustrations with them. Many 'normal' people like you and me may come across to them as being posh, suave and elegant, in other words normal, and this group of nuisances are labeled be us as ‘chavs’, the most despicable group existing on the planet.
Mitchell Hutchinson
Don’t get me started on ‘chavs’ on benefits
All able bodied claimants should be employed on public works as a condition of claiming benefits. It is not fair that they drink our country dry and live off the fat of the land for free. We work hard whilst they lie on their backs on think of England doing all this for them.
Why do we let them?
These blood sucking leeches are wiping our government clean of any financial advantages they have over other countries and as a result we are seen as a minnow in the world economy. Our parents pay plenty of tax out of their hard EARNT wages to let these lazy feeble-minded people stay at home (an abode which is more than likely provided by our government) and sit in front of the television transfixed by like-minded heroes on Jeremy Kyle.
Do these people have any use in this modern age? Their daily routine most likely involves a range of abhorrent pastimes: taking drugs, committing criminal offences and drinking alcohol. We see these people hanging around on corners of shops and alleyways and live in fear when we should be feeling a sense of fear when we realize where our taxes are going.
Don’t get me started on celebrities
Callum Hill
The media’s a drug for celebrities; they provide a fix for them to get hooked on which then makes us addicted too. However, the main failure is that the media then cast out what’s really happening in the world and we become fixed on a world of madness through programmes like ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ gazing at idiotic ‘B’ list celebrities who have nothing to offer the world. I don’t know about you but that makes me livid. Does it annoy you too? It must!
In my eyes, many celebrities are nothing more than puppets being manipulated by others: they’re overpaid, selfish, self-loving plastic robots who have no mind of their own. Just because they have lots of cash to splash; they think they can neglect their responsibility of setting an example to millions of people throughout the world and act in the most vulgar of ways to gain more publicity. But what is this doing to the children who watch them? To the future generations who need to be set an example?
Don’t Get Me Started On... C Sheerin
Don’t get me started on school and in particularly the ridiculous, torturous time that the horrific place, which is indicative of prison, commences. It feels like you’re raising yourself out of your warm, comforting bed merely to undertake an under paid job which is so mind-numbing you feel that eating your own lips would be more fun. If we truly look at why we are forced to undergo this rigorous routine of roaming corridors to face periods of perilous boredom, it is only because our parents force us to so that they can have 6 hours of peace, quiet and tranquillity without moaning, tedious and temperamental teenagers roaming around. If you’re late once for registration, another pointless waste of valuable education time, you get dinner time detention even if you have a respectable excuse such as ‘I got up late due to a power cut’ or ‘the bus was late due to a toxic explosion in another city!’
Don't get me started on poverty Jaques Kphgomou
More than 1.4 billion people around the world are considered to be ‘poor’ and this label is given to them because of a range of factors: lack of education, poor health, lack of access to food and water as well as their environment not being habitable. You see, this upsets me; it makes me feel angry and agitated as I sit in the warmth of my home with every possible need catered for.
I thought everyone was supposed to be equal, but we’re not; were like carnivores trying to survive in a world of fear and happiness, where there are clearly the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. It like the game ‘finders keepers’; we are a race who is filled with selfish thoughts; we are lacking emotion and do not feeling compassion for others.
Clarice Lynch Don’t get me started on... bullies!
Bullying is a gigantic problem that affects lots of children. Three-quarters of all youngsters in the UK say they have been bullied or teased to an extent that has caused great concern, consternation and worry. Over 60% of school children have either been bullied or are currently being intimidated, persecute or harassed on a regular basis; either way that is despicable. School children are meant to be happy and enjoying life, not feeling insecure, apprehensive and depressed all because one culpable child feels the need to cause then immeasurable pain with words ringing in their ears such as: ‘fat’, ‘smelly’ or ‘ugly’. I have had this problem myself and it isn’t a fair thing when vicious, words violate your mind leading to torrential stream of tears and unhappiness.
Don't get me started on chavs... MOLLY GROUNDS
What is this world coming to? People these days, dressed in anarray of disgusting fashionable mistakes walk around the streets of England thinking they’re something special, well let me tell you they’re NOT! They’re violently agitated, turbulent and loud and when I say loud I mean loud and could scream from the highest block of flats to expose my frustrations with them. Many 'normal' people like you and me may come across to them as being posh, suave and elegant, in other words normal, and this group of nuisances are labeled be us as ‘chavs’, the most despicable group existing on the planet.
Mitchell Hutchinson
Don’t get me started on ‘chavs’ on benefits
All able bodied claimants should be employed on public works as a condition of claiming benefits. It is not fair that they drink our country dry and live off the fat of the land for free. We work hard whilst they lie on their backs on think of England doing all this for them.
Why do we let them?
These blood sucking leeches are wiping our government clean of any financial advantages they have over other countries and as a result we are seen as a minnow in the world economy. Our parents pay plenty of tax out of their hard EARNT wages to let these lazy feeble-minded people stay at home (an abode which is more than likely provided by our government) and sit in front of the television transfixed by like-minded heroes on Jeremy Kyle.
Do these people have any use in this modern age? Their daily routine most likely involves a range of abhorrent pastimes: taking drugs, committing criminal offences and drinking alcohol. We see these people hanging around on corners of shops and alleyways and live in fear when we should be feeling a sense of fear when we realize where our taxes are going.
Don’t get me started on celebrities
Callum Hill
The media’s a drug for celebrities; they provide a fix for them to get hooked on which then makes us addicted too. However, the main failure is that the media then cast out what’s really happening in the world and we become fixed on a world of madness through programmes like ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ gazing at idiotic ‘B’ list celebrities who have nothing to offer the world. I don’t know about you but that makes me livid. Does it annoy you too? It must!
In my eyes, many celebrities are nothing more than puppets being manipulated by others: they’re overpaid, selfish, self-loving plastic robots who have no mind of their own. Just because they have lots of cash to splash; they think they can neglect their responsibility of setting an example to millions of people throughout the world and act in the most vulgar of ways to gain more publicity. But what is this doing to the children who watch them? To the future generations who need to be set an example?
An Inspector Calls
Mr Carroll (Head of Department)
Yr 11 GCSE English
The Controlled Assessment Deadline is this week.
Make sure you are ready to complete the final session.
Good Luck
Mr Carroll
Make sure you are ready to complete the final session.
Good Luck
Mr Carroll
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Monday, 7 March 2011
Mr Carroll's Year 9 Controlled Assessment prep.
Homework is due in on the following dates:
Monday 7th
Act 1 Scene 1 up to Romeo’s entrance Analyse and commence written work
Set deadlines
Wed. 9th
Cont. With Act 1 Scene 1 up to Romeo’s entrance Cont. With written work
Fri 11th Library Lesson
Romeo’s situation discussed by parents and Benvolio
Mon. 14th
Act 1 Scene 1 – Romeo on stage – analyse & commence writing section
Wed 16th
Act 1 Scene 1 – Romeo on stage – continue to analyse & write section
Fri. 18th
Writing a conclusion
Writing a plan
Mon. 21st
Writing a Plan
Revision
Organise your essay
Homework Schedule
· By Monday 7th March – Introduction to MBC – & Prologue
· By Friday 11th Act 1 Scene 1 Up to Romeo’s Entrance
· By Monday 14th March Act 1 Romeo discussed by his parents
· By Friday 18th Act 1 Scene 1 Romeo’s Entrance on stage & Conclusion
· Monday 21th Plan completed
SIT EXAM – CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT Wednesday
Thursday, 10 February 2011
YEAR 10 Mr Cameron's Spoken Language Study Task
“Investigate a type of public talk, such as political speeches, school assemblies etc.”
Barak Obama – Victory speech in Chicago after winning the race for the White House, 4th November, 2008
David Cameron – Speech to the Conservative party conference, 6th October, 2010
The Question
Explore how Barak Obama, in his 2008 Chicago victory speech and David Cameron, in his 2010 Conservative conference speech exploited the medium of the political speech to persuade.
Barak Obama – Victory speech in Chicago after winning the race for the White House, 4th November, 2008
David Cameron – Speech to the Conservative party conference, 6th October, 2010
The Question
Explore how Barak Obama, in his 2008 Chicago victory speech and David Cameron, in his 2010 Conservative conference speech exploited the medium of the political speech to persuade.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Year 10 - Spoken Language Study (Ms Norris's class)
This task will be completed the week beginning the 28th February 2011 so the first draft needs to be in straight after half term.
Our task is: What devices do people use to maintain brevity when texting? How does this relate to the way we speak?
Remember that you have 3 hours to complete this task and it's longer than the previous 2 - between 800-1000 words.
The key to success is a confident exploration and analysis of data so make sure that you have good data showing a variety of devices.
Good luck!
Our task is: What devices do people use to maintain brevity when texting? How does this relate to the way we speak?
Remember that you have 3 hours to complete this task and it's longer than the previous 2 - between 800-1000 words.
The key to success is a confident exploration and analysis of data so make sure that you have good data showing a variety of devices.
Good luck!
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
YEAR 10 Spoken Language Study MR CARROLL
TITLE - TASK TO BE TAKEN ON: 28th February 2011
Make sure you have fully prepared to undertake this essential unit of work.
Electoral debates are not only a way to voice political ideals, they can also influence the way the electorate perceive a political candidate, their policy and their ability to lead.
Explore how Nick Clegg J.F. Kennedy (1960) and President Barak Obama (2008) initially projected themselves, in their opening statement. You should refer to the successes of with their opening engagements in your analysis when exploring their performance.
Any prep. work should be emailed to Mr Carroll as soon as possible at
mike.carroll@salford.gov.uk
Make sure you have fully prepared to undertake this essential unit of work.
Electoral debates are not only a way to voice political ideals, they can also influence the way the electorate perceive a political candidate, their policy and their ability to lead.
Explore how Nick Clegg J.F. Kennedy (1960) and President Barak Obama (2008) initially projected themselves, in their opening statement. You should refer to the successes of with their opening engagements in your analysis when exploring their performance.
Any prep. work should be emailed to Mr Carroll as soon as possible at
mike.carroll@salford.gov.uk
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