Monday, May 21, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
How to tackle guiding questions
Every Individual Oral Commentary-fragment is accompanied by guiding questions. It is not required to answer them directly and explicitly, although you can of course do so; their function is to help you structure your commentary.
Always make sure to decide first what the question expects of you. Let's take the two guiding questions from the Heart of Darkness practice fragment as an example:
1) How are some of the motifs from the story presented here?
2) How does Conrad create tension in this fragment?
What do you have to know?
1) what the motifs in HoD are
2) what devices an author can use to create tension
What information does the question provide you with?
1) This fragment contains clear motifs.
2) There is tension in this fragment; you just have to find it.
What do you have to do?
1) Find the motifs; identify them; then analyze them: what effect do they have on the fragment/story?
2) Identify the tension in the fragment; explain how it is create and how it affects the fragment.
Always make sure to decide first what the question expects of you. Let's take the two guiding questions from the Heart of Darkness practice fragment as an example:
1) How are some of the motifs from the story presented here?
2) How does Conrad create tension in this fragment?
What do you have to know?
1) what the motifs in HoD are
2) what devices an author can use to create tension
What information does the question provide you with?
1) This fragment contains clear motifs.
2) There is tension in this fragment; you just have to find it.
What do you have to do?
1) Find the motifs; identify them; then analyze them: what effect do they have on the fragment/story?
2) Identify the tension in the fragment; explain how it is create and how it affects the fragment.
Monday, May 7, 2012
The planning till the end...of the year
07/05
09/05
11/05
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1) Streetcar Scene Six
2) Discuss writing assignment
Language & Racism
3) Examentekst 2007-1; news report
Streetcar ready
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14/05
16/05
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1) Streetcar
Scene Seven & Eight
2) Practice
Individual Oral text (HoD)
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21/05
23/05
25/05
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1)
Streetcar Scene Nine & Ten
2) Examentekst
2007-1
3) Discuss exam text 2007-1, 5; work
on portfolio
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28/05
30/05
01/06
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1) X (free day)
2) Streetcar Scene Eleven; start on summary
3)
Practice Individual Oral text (Macbeth); planning orals
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04/06
06/06
08/06
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1) DEADLINE
PORTFOLIO 3 - no lesson
2) Examentekst 2007-1 finished
3) Last lesson
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The requirements for Portfolio 3
Deadline: Monday 4 June, 2012
Contents:
1) your notes about A Streetcar Named Desire
2) your practice Type of Text (some were short, some were véry creative!)
3) your magazine article/editorial about Language & Racism
4) your mini-essay on Scene Five of Streetcar
5) your news report about Scene Six of Streetcar
That is not too bad, is it?
Contents:
1) your notes about A Streetcar Named Desire
2) your practice Type of Text (some were short, some were véry creative!)
3) your magazine article/editorial about Language & Racism
4) your mini-essay on Scene Five of Streetcar
5) your news report about Scene Six of Streetcar
That is not too bad, is it?
Written Task: News report "Streetcar"
Write a short (max. 200 words) news report about the suicide of Blanche's young husband Allan Grey as discussed in Scene Six of the play.
This report has to be written "in the context" of the play, so put yourself in the shoes of a newspaper reporter in the late 1940s. Decide for yourself whether the paper you write for is a serious paper or a more gossipy tabloid!
Keep in mind the two-fold purpose of the Written Task:
1) to show your knowledge of the topic you are writing about (in this case "Streetcar")
2) to show your understanding of a particular type of text by applying the right register and stylistic devices in your writing.
This report has to be written "in the context" of the play, so put yourself in the shoes of a newspaper reporter in the late 1940s. Decide for yourself whether the paper you write for is a serious paper or a more gossipy tabloid!
Keep in mind the two-fold purpose of the Written Task:
1) to show your knowledge of the topic you are writing about (in this case "Streetcar")
2) to show your understanding of a particular type of text by applying the right register and stylistic devices in your writing.
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