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Archive for February, 2010
Programme for week beginning Monday 1st March 2010
Feb 26th
Priorities for the week
S5/6 Close reading and Critical Essay reviews
S4 – Folios (How DID you guess?) 8-) Last week available so let’s get it done. Talks also needed for the people whose names I read out today in Y6
S3 – Poetry Unit
S2C Travel Unit and PSL
S2G SG writing and PSL
S1 – PSL, S1 Poetry Unit and adverts unit (with Mr Grant)
Programme for Week beginning 22nd February 2010
Feb 20th
Priorities for the week:
S5/6 – PSL NAB – Tuesday 23rd February
S4 – Folios. Folios. Folios. (Talk prep in spare time)
S3 – finish Gregory’s Girl CEL
S2C – Travel Unit
S2G – Close Reading
S1 – PSL essays – start drafting
Homework due this week:
S3 – Monday 22nd February – Poetry – see S3 Homework page
School events this week
S5/6 reports due Friday 26th February
GLOW Mentors’ Meeting – T4 – 1600-1730hrs
S5 Homework – PSL
Feb 16th
See copy of the handout on S5 Personal Study of Literature subpage – click S5 link above
DUE for PSL NAB on Tuesday 23rd February 2010
Birthdays this week
Feb 15th
Happy birthday to
Declan (S1) 15th February
Claire P (S4) 17th February
Mr T (still younger than Peirce (007) Brosnan…but only just) 18th February
Queries? Want to know something?
Feb 14th
Click the ‘follow us’ tag on the right hand side of the screen and if you’re already on twitter you can follow ‘x9english’. Queries etc can be sent via this username. Important: if you follow this you will NOT be followed back. This medium is purely for English revision or any other questions you may have to do with English in X9.
New resources for folio redrafting
Feb 11th
Resources including essay frameworks and my PowerPoints for “War Photographer” by Carol Anne Duffy and ‘Brown paper Carrier Bag’ by Roger McGough added to the S4 page. Prose and drama (Mice and Men, Anne Frank, Macbeth etc) to follow.
