Troops,

Read and complete the tasks between pages 17-20 of the Sentence Structure activities photocopied booklet.

You can do it!  Keep working hard!

MrT

The Road Unit 2

Troops,

By next Friday you should have completed the following home learning tasks. 🙂

Word choice task on Species Extinction article

Sentence Structure Task on Species Extinction article

Find a non-fiction article with a strong tone/s.  Identify the language that creates this / these tone/s.

Complete the tasks in the Tone section of How To Pass Higher English (69-72)

Afternoon, troops.  🙂

Complete the sentence structure RUAE task on ‘Humans Are Ushering In The Sixth Mass Extinction Of Life On Earth, Scientists Warn’.

Show how the writer uses sentence structure to emphasise the danger posed by humans to the natural world. (3 marks) 

Finish this for Friday 30th.

You can do it.  Onward and upward.  MrT

Good afternooon, carriers of the fire.  Get stuck in to these activities!

Complete tasks on pages 3 and 4 of your The Road study booklet for Tuesday 20th August.

Complete the RUAE task on ‘Humans Are Ushering In The Sixth Mass Extinction Of Life On Earth, Scientists Warn’.  (Show how the writer uses word choice to emphasise the concerning impact of humans on the natural world. (2 marks) AND Show how the writer uses word choice to emphasise the human capacity to overcome environmental problems. (2 marks))  Finish this for Friday 23rd, please.

You can do it!  MrT

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/26/climate-protesters-stage-die-in-at-queensland-museums-dinosaur-exhibit

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/07/too-much-screen-time-hurts-kids-where-is-evidence

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/02/facebook-google-data-change-our-behaviour-democracy

Troops, the deadline for draft 1 of your Reflective Writing piece is Friday 21st June.  🙂

You can do it!

Carriers of the fire, welcome!  You may well be wondering why there is a picture of wild brook trout on your English blog.  All will be revealed in time!  Here are the zeugma / syllepsis post-its we made last week.