Author: Miss Sullivan

This week, pupils are practising their Reading, Writing and Listening Skills on the topic of describing people.

Mrs Nelson’s class will undertake a specimen Jekyll and Hyde exam paper and also the 2018 RUAE exam paper.

Miss MacPhail’s class are moving onto chapter 10 of ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. They will be continuing their work on exam strategy in their tutorial on Tuesday.

Ms MacDonald’s class will work on answering questions on the Scottish Set Text element of the Critical Reading paper.

This week pupils are continuing with ‘The Lighthouse’. They will look at setting, then will focus on consolidating everything they have learned before planning a critical essay.

 

Miss MacPhail’s class will spend their double period looking at how to answer the 8 mark questions in the Scottish Text section of the Critical Reading exam.

Ms MacDonald’s class will continue with Sailmaker Act Two and will look at past paper questions during our live lesson on Tuesday.

Miss Sullivan’s class will look at the 2018 SQA RUAE past paper on Tuesday’s tutorial so should read the paper in preparation.

This week, pupils will continue working on persuasive techniques. This week they are gaining practice in using alliteration.

S3 will be writing PEA paragraphs about how Roald Dahl builds tension in ‘Lamb to the Slaughter. They will also think about the narrative perspective and how Dahl encourages the reader to feel sympathy for the central character, Mary Maloney.

This week, S2 will be learning more about media techniques by studying the film “Jurassic Park”. They will learn about camera angles, sound, mis en scene and more.

This week classes 1.1-1.3 will begin their study of Pixar’s brilliant film ‘Up’ by looking at and analysing film posters.

Classes 1.4-1.6 will continue their work on ‘Up’ by evaluating the trailer and summarising key points of the film.

This week, S5/6 will continue working on The Lighthouse and will look at literary techniques such as foreshadowing and pathetic fallacy where they will analyse examples from the text.

This week pupils are continuing to work on the topic of employability with some reading and listening tasks. Pupils should also complete Sample 6 from the directed writing booklet.