Year 11 Holiday Work - Week 2

Week 2 - 5th April - 11th April
Monday 5th April
30 mins: Go to www.guardian.co.uk and have a look at any story or stories which catch your interest. Spend 30 minutes reading these through. Work out what the purpose and audience of the piece is and jot down: 5 language features (specific words, similes, metaphors, slang etc etc) which you feel are being used to fulfil the purpose of the piece and any evidence in the language used to suggest it is for a specific audience.

This is an exercise you can repeat with any piece of non-fiction text you happen to read over the holidays in books, newspapers or magazines. When reading though, just underline any language techniques being used and also have a think about the effect of any presentational devices. Keep a record in you’re A4 pad of anything you do this with.

Tuesday 6th April
20 mins: Remind yourself of all the techniques you might use in a piece of persuasive writing. Jot these down in your A4 books.


Wednesday 7th April
15 mins: Write the opening paragraph of a text for a speech in which you persuade young people that it is really important to take an interest in politics.

15 mins: Write the opening paragraph of a letter to parents arguing for the need for a school second hand uniform shop and persuading them to donate old uniforms to it.

Thursday 8th April
45 mins: Write an article for a school magazine advising Year 11 students what to do with their lives after taking GCSEs OR Older people often blame younger people for today’s problems. Write an article in which you argue that the older people are the ones to blame.

Friday 9th April
30 mins: Go to http://web.aqa.org.uk/qual/newgcses/english_med/new/english_a_materials.php?id=02&prev=02&tabid=2

This is the website for your exam board. Spend this time looking at the past papers and mark schemes available to you. Remember you are Studying Language A and you are all doing Higher Tier. Where it says “select a series” simply pick a previous year’s past papers.

You might also have a look the past paper section for your Literature A syllabus at:
Saturday 10th April
A day off.

Sunday 11th April
45 minutes: Re-read the 1st four poems in Section A of the poems from “Different Cultures”. For each poem produce a mind map, which has four seperate strands. Use different colours for each strand. Strand 1 = a brief summary of what the poem is about. Strand 2 = key words or phrases from the poem. Strand 3 = key poetry features used - rhyme, structure, similes, narrative voice etc etc. Strand 4 = a list of good poems for comparison and a brief outline of why. 
REMEMBER go to www.bbc.co.uk and put the name of the poem, in the search box to find readings of the poems to listen to.


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