your perfect picture!!

Your Task

Find a picture which shows you your dream place. 

Now create your own picture and explain why your dream place is so special.

Write and make it real!!

Descriptive writing works when the subject is brought to life. This is done by using concrete nouns, decorated by colourful adjectives. The nouns can also be described by sensory details - touch, sight, smell, taste and sound. Descriptive wriitng should also contain varied and interesting verbs.

When you read narrative texts, you will meet many different methods of starting a story. Some of the most common are:

 . Giving a description of the setting or the situation

. Going straight into some dialogue between two or more of the characters

. Offering a description of one or more of the characters

. Going straight into part of the action or narrative

Your Task:

Describe your special place and create a collage to bring it to life 

How will you write yours?

When you read narrative texts, you will meet many different methods of starting a story. Some of the most common are:

 

. Giving a description of the setting or the situation

. Going straight into some dialogue between two or more of the characters

. Offering a description of one or more of the characters

. Going straight into part of the action or narrative

 

Read the opening lines of the description below:

 

Wedding days always started at the haunting, magical hour of early dawn when there was only a pale crack of light on the horizon. For those who were awake, it took the earth hours to adjust to daylight. The cool and damp of the night slowly arose in shimmering waves like water and even the forms of the people bestirred themselves at this unearthly hour were distorted in the haze; they appeared to be dancers in slow motion, with fluid, watery forms.   

 

Your Task

Write a description using any one of the methods above describing a memorable event in your life.  

Your Task:

.Read the article below about Jade Goody

.Write a persuasive letter to Jade's family expressing your tribute to Jade Goody.

Floral tributes to Jade Goody

Floral tributes to Jade Goody

pa.press.net

Thousands of people lined the streets to say goodbye to reality television star Jade Goody.

Wellwishers threw flowers as Jade's funeral cortege travelled from London to Essex and hundreds gathered outside the St John the Baptist Church in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, to watch her funeral service relayed on giant screens.

Singer Jamelia and Davina McCall, presenter of Channel 4 reality show Big Brother, joined Jade's mother Jackiey Budden, 51, widower Jack Tweed, 21, and more than 300 mourners at the ceremony.

Publicist Max Clifford told the congregation Jade was a "very ordinary and very extraordinary" woman who became a "princess" and a "queen".

Jade died on March 22 at the age of 27 after losing a battle with cervical cancer.

Her funeral procession traced the journey of her life - starting in Bermondsey, south London, travelling to her home in Upshire, Essex, then moving to Buckhurst Hill, where Mr Tweed lives.

"When we left the house it was cloudy and overcast.

"As we moved forwards the sun started to come through and that is what in many ways Jade's life was like," Mr Clifford told mourners.

Mr Tweed fought back tears as he read Jack's Poem to Jade during the service and wept as he described the loss felt by him and Jade's two sons.

success seen as sweet or sour?!! Have your say!!

Your task

1) Read the following extract from Games at Twilight:

 

Ravi sat back on the harsh edge of the tub, deciding to hold out a bit longer. What fun if they were all found and caught-he alone left unconquered! He had never known that sensation. Nothing more wonderful had ever happened to him than being taken out by an uncle and bought a whole slab of chocolate all to himself, or being flung into the soda-man’s pony cart and driven up to the gate by the friendly driver with the red beard and pointed ears. To defeat Raghu- that hirsute, hoarse-voiced football champion- and to be the winner in a circle of older, bigger, luckier children –that would be thrilling beyond imagination.       

 

2) Write a PEE paragraph explaining how the writer has tried to capture the thoughts and feelings of the boy, Ravi, who has successfully hidden from Raghu during a game of hide-and-seek.

 

3) Now watch the following clip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk  of the singing sensation Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent!  

 

Write an article persuading young people to agree or disagree with the following statement: Britain does not stereotype and accepts all for who they are! REMEMBER TO USE THOSE ALL IMPORTANT PERSUASIVE TOOLS!

 

 

Get your thinking cap on!!

Your Task:

Write an article expressing your point of view with reference to the title above.

Please bear in mind 

. Audience

. Purpose

. Text type

Before you write your article, I would like you to read the definition and watch the two clips from you tube which should fuel your creative flair to write an engaging and thought provoking article.

1. Read the following definition of a stereotype:

A stereotype is a phrase relating to all the members of class or set. The term is often used with a negative connotation when referring to an oversimplified, exaggerated, or demeaning assumption that a particular individual possesses the characteristics associated with the class due to his or her membership in it. Stereotypes can be used to deny individuals respect or legitimacy based on their membership in that group.

Stereotypes often form the basis of prejudice and are usually employed to explain real or imaginary differences due to race, gender, religion, ethnicity, socio-economic class, disability, occupation, etc. A stereotype can be a conventional and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image based on the belief that there are attitudes, appearances, or behaviors shared by all members of a group. Stereotypes are forms of social consensus rather than individual judgments. Stereotypes are sometimes formed by a previous illusory correlation, a false association between two variables that are loosely correlated if correlated at all. Stereotypes may be occasionally positive.

 2. Watch the following clip on singing sensation Susan Boyle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk 

 

3. Whilst watching the following clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f2K3gzaGoI  from the film Titanic. Focus on the character of Molly Brown. Molly Brown is an important character. Although she has wealth her basic upbringing projects a stereotypical image. Due to the lack of etiquette she wasn’t accepted into the cliques and circles of the social elite. Think about how she is showing  Jack how to conduct himself whilst dining with the elite passengers on the board.

 

Now you have seen the two clips think about the fictional character Molly Brown and the real person Susan Boyle. Do you think Britain judges people too quickly based on appearance and class? Consider the title:  Is Britain caught in the class warp? How far do you agree or disagree? begin to write your article.

 

 

 

Chocaholic?

Find a newspaper or a magazine article and look for the following presentational devices:

.Headlines
.Subheadings
.Illustrations/photographs
.Bold print
.Underlinings
.Logos
.Slogans


Underline each device in different colours.

Now try and think of an example of each device to advertise your favourite chocolate. Yummy!

Go ahead and convine that Celebrity of yours !

Look at the presentational devices below:
· Headlines
· Subheadings
· Illustrations/photographs
· Bold print
· Underlinings
· Logos
· Slogans

Now design a leaflet to encourage your favourite celebrity to donate money
to a charity of your choice.

Experiment with Style and Presentation !

Every time you pick up a magazine, or look at a web page or newspaper, you are introduced to different types of information presented in hundreds of different styles.


The style of presentation

When you are answering a question on style and presentation devices, it is often helpful to think about what attracts your attention most:

· Is it headlines (eg 'Help')?
· Is it pictures (eg the eyes of a little boy in a photograph)?

Can you think of any examples of the following presentation devices? Try to think about how these devices are used and for what purpose.

· Headlines
· Subheadings
· Illustrations/photographs
· Bold print
· Underlinings
· Logos
· Slogans

Have a look at the style of this leaflet.









Your Task
Use as many presentational devices as you can to write the text of a leaflet to encourage the public to donate to a charity of your choice.

Picture Perfect?? Find your own picture!!

Look at this picture of Romeo and Juliet.




Find 5 other pictures and write a paragraph explaining how you think Romeo and Juliet may be feeling about keeping their love a secret.

Write some loving lyrics. Get Musical!!

Listen to this song: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vTmcs9k_rzy
by Dire Straits about Romeo and Juliet

Now Find a song that attempts to describe Romeo’s love for Juliet.

Write the lyrics of an original song which encapsulates your opinion about Romeo and Juliet's love for each other.

It's all about love, love , love

Romeo and Juliet includes many themes. However the predominant theme is love.

Your Challenge
Write a poem or a sonnet from Romeo’s point of view which encapsulates his feelings for Juliet.