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Miss MacPhail’s class are finishing their work on chapter 9 of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. There will be a tutorial on Tuesday afternoon where pupils can ask questions and talk through example answers for the 10 mark question in the Scottish Text section of the Critical Reading paper.

Mrs Nelson’s class will update visualisers and will be working on the 2019 Critical Reading Paper. They will be discussing the 10 mark question at Wednesday’s live lesson.

Ms MacDonald’s class will work on chapter 10 of Jekyll and Hyde. They will also spend some time specifically on the 10 mark question. Live lessons will be on Monday and Friday this week.

Miss Sullivan’s class will continue with RUAE revision. Pupils should submit all work by the end of the day Thursday.

Miss MacPhail’s class will return to their work on Sailmaker. Pupils will be updating character visualisers and analysing quotes in relation to the play’s themes. There will be a tutorial on Thursday afternoon where pupils will have the chance to explore the Scottish Text section of the Critical Reading paper and ask any questions.

Ms MacDonald’s class will continue to work on Symbolism in Sailmaker. Pupils will work from Slides 45-53 in the distance learning PowerPoint.

This week pupils are moving on from Added Value unit and starting a new unit on Persuasive writing, Today, they will be thinking about what persuasive actually means and where we see examples of persuasion. Throughout the rest of the week, they will start building up their skills and gaining practice with techniques. This week’s focus will be alliteration.

S3 will continue work on ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’. They will be thinking about characterisation and will be producing visualisers on the character of Mary Maloney in the second part of the story, selecting textual evidence to support their statements.

This week classes 2.1-2.4 will be starting a media unit on Jurassic Park. They will develop their summarising and paraphrasing skills and will start to look at media techniques.

Classes 2.5-2.7 do not have English this week.

This week classes 1.1-1.3 will be planning, writing and editing their own poems about their favourite Scottish food.

Classes 1.4-1.6 will be staring a media study of Disney Pixar’s brilliant film, ‘Up’. This week they will be analysing film posters and summarising key points of the film.

Pupils are continuing with the unit on Family. Pupils should also complete any unfinished work that they have not submitted.

This week pupils are starting the Employability unit and should complete a reading and a listening on this new topic. Pupils should also complete a Directed Writing task as a follow on from their assignment 2 weeks ago. In addition, pupils are reminded that they should be learning their talking answers and starting to prepare to undertake this exam.

This week pupils will be focussing on Talking and Writing skills.

Pupils should continue with the Week 3 tasks on the desert island project. Some of the islands are sounding great so far!