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Literature, Language and Writing for Term 1 2019

Literature

• Short stories

• Film study: Murder on the Orient Express

• Romantic Poetry

Language

Language should be learnt within the context of your literature.

Apply your language analysis sheets to your literature. For the exams, you will be required to know the language from Form 1 as well.

• Summary

• Comprehension

• Errors: Form 2

• emotive and manipulative language

• Bias, prejudice and stereotyping

• assumptions and explain their impact

• implied meaning and inference

• denotation and connotation

• purpose of including or excluding information

• writer/producer’s point of view

• meaning, intention and effect of the whole text

• Relate the text to your own experience

• Identify the genre and its purpose, e.g. an argument which seeks to persuade

• Identify and explain author’s attitude and intentions

• Synthesise parts of texts or whole texts in order to reach conclusions

• Draw conclusions from a text and justify own opinion

Tone words for Form 2

• Aggressive

• Amused

• Arrogant

• Concerned

• Critical

• Disappointed

• Indignant

• Mocking

• Playful

• Urgent

Writing

Essay Writing

• Literary Essay

• Narrative/Descriptive Essay (Bishop Bousfield)

Transactional Writing

• Formal letter

• Blog

Literature, Language and Writing for Term 2 2019

Literature

• Shakespeare: Richard III

Writing

Essay Writing

• Literary Essay

Transactional Writing

• Book review

• Dialogue

Literature, Language and Writing for Term 3 2019

Literature

• Art Spiegelman: Maus

• Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give

Writing

Essay Writing

• Literary Essay

Transactional Writing

• Review

• Newspaper article