Year 11 Homework assignments
To be completed during scheduled
homework slots and handed in on the dates shown below*.
You should also be maintaining your 'learning journal'.
[*Week one, Wednesday, period 3; week two, Tuesday, period 5.]
Key, related classwork |
Hand-in date | ||
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ENGLISH LITERATURE, Section B. Poetry Write about two poems. Compare the ways in which the poets use imagery and language to engage the emotions of their readers. 300 words
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Lessons on Armitage's four poems: Hitcher, Homecoming, Kid and 'Mother' | Wednesday 16th January |
14 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE, Section A. Stories In what ways do two of the stories you have read use their openings and their endings to create meaning. |
Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit; Snowdrops; Flight. | Tuesday 22nd January |
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ENGLISH LITERATURE, Section A. Stories Choose two stories which feature adults and children. How do the writers treat these characters and their relationships? Look here for tips (but be very sure you are not copying anyone else's ideas or phrases!
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Wednesday 30th January | |
16 |
PAPER ONE, Section A Non-fiction passages about Carol Ann Duffy and her poetry.
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Duffy: Anne Hathaway, Education for Leisure, Havisham. |
Tuesday 5th February |
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PAPER ONE, Section B Write the text for a web-page which persuades year 11 pupils to work at their homework and for their exams. |
Wednesday 12th February | |
18 |
PAPER TWO, Section A Write about two poems. Compare the ways in which the poets use the endings of their poems to create important meanings. |
Duffy (incl Salome) and Armitage; the two Browning dramatic monologues Chemistry |
Tuesday 26th February |
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PAPER TWO, Section B Describe a
treasured possession. |
Wednesday 4th March | |
20 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE, Stories Complete the two 'revision' poems, the one in the style of Ben's Shed on Chemistry and the other in the style of November on The End of Something.
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Pre-1914 poetry: On my first sonne Review stories and enjoy The End of Something. |
Tuesday 11th March |
ENGLISH LITERATURE, Stories Discuss the importance of setting in two of the short stories you have studied. Plan this essay with one key sentence and six topic sentences. |
Wednesday 19th March | ||
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ENGLISH LITERATURE, Poetry Compare 'Kid' with one other post-1914 poem and two pre-1914 poems of your choice, that are written in the first person. What impression of the speakers do we get? |
Wednesday 26th March, period 3 | |
Week ending April 4th, Eng Lit mocks. Revise the poems: Duffy (Havisham, Anne Hathaway, Before You Were Mine & Education for Leisure); Armitage (Kid, "Mother...", Hitcher & Homecoming); Browning's My Last Duchess & The Laboratory, Johnson's On my first sonne, Yeats' Song of the Old Mother & Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. Revise the short stories: Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit, Snowdrops, Flight, Chemistry, The End of Something. (We shall be reading Your Shoes and Growing Up in due course.) |
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Holiday work: read and answer questions on the stories Your Shoes and Growing Up | |
| 23 | PAPER ONE, Section B Persuade, in an e-mail, a friend to go to London with you for the day. |
PAPER ONE, Section A Practice in class |
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| 24 | PAPER TWO, Section A Compare how two of the poets use arresting imagery in their poems. |
Re-reading poems from different cultures. | |
| 25 | PAPER TWO, Section B Describe your journey to school in as entertaining and as amusing a way as possible. |
Re-reading poems for Literature exam. | |
ENGLISH LITERATURE, Poetry Write about three or four poems. Compare the ways in which the poets write about evil. |
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PAPER TWO, Section A. Poems from Different Cultures Write about two poems. Compare the ways in which the poets use imagery and language to engage the emotions of their readers. |
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PAPER TWO, Section B Describe the best day of your life. This piece could replace the 'original writing' piece in your coursework folder. |
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| Making notes for the literature exam. | Re-reading stories for Literature exam. | ||