Category Archives: Standard Grade English

4A1 English, Close Reading, Standard Grade English

Standard Grade Close Reading

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Dear Lovely 4th Years,

Here are a couple of links to a couple of documents you might find useful for practicing Close Reading. One is packed with advice about how to approach certain Close Reading question types at Standard Grade, the other is a collection of Credit paper questions from years ago, when dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are arranged in question types and will give you plenty to practice your Close Reading skills with. Of course, you could always simply type “SQA Past Papers” into Google and get more recent papers from there too.

Good luck.

S4 CLOSE READING QUESTIONS 2008 – 2003

Standard Grade Close Reading – Some Advice

Mr K.

3A1 English, Standard Grade English

The 4A1 English Glow Group Site Has Landed!

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Dear all,

All you Third into Fourth year English types – be advised: your new Glow site has arrived. There are still some things to be added, and there are bound to be some dead ends and issues, but go and have a look around. It will grow even bigger with time. Right now, alongside a load of other stuff, it is the easiest way for you to access the Wiki site on A View From The Bridge.

Don’t delay now.  Hurry along.  All you’ll need to do is to have your username and password at the ready and click here.  See, it’s quite easy, isn’t it?

Let’s rock’n’roll!

3A1 English, Standard Grade English

“Wind” Essays – Topics, Themes and Ideas

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I have uploaded a Word document containing a copy of the words and phrases we collected on the board of the topics and themes you could construct your paragraphs around in your essay to our Glow group site. I have also added a couple more ideas to the document, if they help.  You can access our group site here. Obviously, you will need your password to get in!

Basically, you are to use these to help you construct topic sentences for each paragraph of your essay. You can then go on to discuss the examples from the poem that link to that idea or topic.

Remember, the esssays are due in next Monday (31st January).

Good luck,
Mr K.

3A1 English, 3H2 Drama, 5A6 Eng, Int 1 English, Standard Grade Drama, Standard Grade English, Uncategorized

Welcome To The Official Kirkucopia Glow Blog

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Welcome indeed. After so long in the internet wilderness, Kirkucopia has finally found an official home on Glow.

This will, over time, become the main Kirucopia blog site, running side-by-side the other one for the time being, until all issues are ironed out. Just  like the other Kirkucopia, it will provide links to websites, music and documents that help you complete your work and enhance your learning.

I will transfer some of the more recent posts from the old blog onto this one, so that there will be some continuity between the two sites.

See what you think.

Mr K.