The plan so far...

Dear all
As we've been interrupted even more (!), I thought it would be wise to share the plan as well as today's lesson.
Do what you are told on the final slide.
Make sure you see me for your feedback at the end of assembly; if you miss this, I can get it to you in Friday's lesson.
On Friday, I will set you you some cover for your lesson without me - ensure you use this time judiciously.
On Monday 8th of July, you'll plan and peer assess your work. I'll also be there to answer any questions etc.
Thursday 11th July you'll sit your CA and you will complete it on Monday 15th.
If you've not finished it here,  it'd be less complicated if you come after school so you can get it out the way. I have other plans for our final Monday lesson. I also think that you should easily complete this in two hours though and will not need to come after school: it's an 800-1000 word essay.
Please share any good articles in the comments box.
Best wishes,
Ms

8 your own response for blog from Cherwelllearning

This week so far...

Hi
Right - today and yesterday we looked at debates and have evaluated some sample essays. Here then, we found that there are a couple of things that students have missed: some analysis of data and links to debates around spoken language. The report on Controlled Assessment (AQA) also said that student missed the latter point here: debates. Reassuringly, they also said that students are more successful in this task if they use their own data. This knowledge should help you evaluate your own responses as you go. We also found that, actually, this is quite a simple task - I think the class were reassured looking at these essays. Leave a comment if you disagree!

Lessons 6 and 7 for blog from Cherwelllearning

Homework

Hi guys

Your homework this weekend is to write a transcript of a verbal conversation. It will take a while to write up just a couple of minutes.

Here is a guide. You could also add in some further non-verbal features if you can too. If you do this, do one layer of purely verbal exchange and add a second layer of non-verbal in a different colour.
You must have a transcript of verbal dialogue and you could go further by including the non-verbal.

Let me know if you have any problems.
Ms

The guide is in your booklet, but is also here:

Pauses

(3)

These are indicated by brackets. Long pauses can suggest different things e.g. anger, frustration, or stumped for something to say. The numbers in the brackets indicate how long the pause is. A short pause is indicated by (.)

Overlapping speech

Word [word

           [word

Two people talking at once can be difficult to transcribe. Here’s an example:

Person 1: I saw Attack the Block last night it was [totally a – mazing

Person 2:                                                                       [yeah. I love films like that.

Cut off speech

Wor-

A dash shows that a word has been cut off midway

Unclear Speech

(words) a guess at what might have been said if it is unclear

()            Unclear talk, where it is impossible to work out what is said.

Loud Voice

Word            to indicate that a word or phrase is loud, you can underline it.

Word            to indicate that something is even louder, like a shout, you can put in bold.

Speed of talk

>word word< Arrows pointing inward show faster speech

<word word> Arrows pointing outward show slower speech

Spoken Language this week

Hello all
This week's lessons are in the PPT below. Homework is on the final slide.
The documents are:
David Crystal
John Humphrys
Clearly, Humphrys' argument could be seen as outdated, but this is actually a perfect point for your argument. Technology changes multi-modal communication. The QWERTY keyboard on smartphones ensures that it is actually more difficult to write in 'text speak'. However, the fact that it did exist has changed the way we communicate. We still do use many of the features of that JH's argues against. Have you ever written tbh, lol or btw? Have you ever used an emoticon to show to someone that your point is friendly, you feel awkward etc? As much as many of you are resistant to the idea that you may use this, as you put it, 'chav' language (I have many objections about the word Chav, which I will happily to talk to you about), I should imagine that almost all of you use some sort of features to replicate poken language in your digital communication...
This is such a fun unit!
Ms :)