Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Reading to analyse, evaluate and discuss
Dear all,
That was another wonderful session this morning and I enjoyed the buzz of the classroom. I was listening to your conversations and I found them fascinating. The five articles were specifically different: 106 year old virgin, snakes slithering on our streets, salmonella in Tunisia, graveyard yobs and school dinners. All though, from the headlines, was not all that it seemed.
So, we had a sneaky delve into summarising, readership, words, language, photographs, purpose(s) and evaluation. These are the key principles for our first assessment, but that's not for a while.
Next Tuesday we will watch 'The Flyer' and again we will work in groups and feed back to the collective. I feel this is working very well and there (in my opinion, but correct me if I'm mistaken) is a real sense of community within the Access to Languages group.
Very well done to those who submitted their reflective pieces to me yesterday. I really enjoyed reading them and I hope you appreciated my comments / asides, call them what you will.
It's all good as the McCain chips advert told us, and I look forward to seeing you all next week.
Cheers, Mark
That was another wonderful session this morning and I enjoyed the buzz of the classroom. I was listening to your conversations and I found them fascinating. The five articles were specifically different: 106 year old virgin, snakes slithering on our streets, salmonella in Tunisia, graveyard yobs and school dinners. All though, from the headlines, was not all that it seemed.
So, we had a sneaky delve into summarising, readership, words, language, photographs, purpose(s) and evaluation. These are the key principles for our first assessment, but that's not for a while.
Next Tuesday we will watch 'The Flyer' and again we will work in groups and feed back to the collective. I feel this is working very well and there (in my opinion, but correct me if I'm mistaken) is a real sense of community within the Access to Languages group.
Very well done to those who submitted their reflective pieces to me yesterday. I really enjoyed reading them and I hope you appreciated my comments / asides, call them what you will.
It's all good as the McCain chips advert told us, and I look forward to seeing you all next week.
Cheers, Mark
Assonance...
Many assonance examples can be found in prose and poetry. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. It is used to reinforce the meanings of words or to set the mood.
Assonance Examples
In this example by Carl Sandburg, in Early Moon, the long “O” sounds old or mysterious.“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
Assonance examples are sometimes hard to find, because they work subconsciously sometimes, and are subtle. The long vowel sounds will slow down the energy and make the mood more somber, while high sounds can increase the energy level of the piece.
“And stepping softly with her air of blooded ruin about the glade in a frail agony of grace she trailed her rags through dust and ashes, circling the dead fire, the charred billets and chalk bones, the little calcined ribcage.”
The words "glade," "frail," "grace," and "trailed" help set the chilling mood of the work, and it is repeated and emphasized at the end with “ribcage.”
Here are a few short assonance examples:
- “Hear the mellow wedding bells” from Edgar Allen Poe
- “Try to light the fire”
- “I lie down by the side of my bride”
- “Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese”
- Pink Floyd’s “Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground”
- “It's hot and it's monotonous.” by Sondheim
- “The crumbling thunder of seas” by Robert Louis Stevenson
Monday, 12 September 2011
Some books that you may wish to buy
The following books (available from Blackwell at the princely sum of one pound) are sure to help you with your studies this year and beyond: 'How to write essays' by Sandra Ashman and Phyllis Creme, 'Taking notes from lectures' by Sandra Ashman and Phyllis Creme, 'Reading for study' by Sandra Ashman and Phyllis Creme, 'Improve your memory' by Ron Fry and 'Citing references' by David Fisher and Terry Harrison. Now, I bought these last year and referred the students to these texts, so hopefully they are still available and they are of assistance to you. All the best, Mark
Reflective writing tasks
Hi all,
Thank you for taking the time to write up your reflective writing pieces on 'all about me' and 'what your bedroom says'. Both exercises are designed to make you think, reflect and just go for it! Lloyd asked a great question, how formal does it have to be? Answer: you decide.
I will read them and give you feedback, but possibly not until next week now. I will be interested in what you have to say and how you write. Spelling will also be commented upon too as a reference point.
As always I welcome your comments, so how did you find the exercise?
Tomorrow we will have a look at analysing and evaluating some short newspaper articles on different subjects and we'll split into five groups I think.
All the best and let's hope there aren't any Mary Poppins incidents after lunch as it is VERY windy out there. My hair will be going all ways...
Mark
Thank you for taking the time to write up your reflective writing pieces on 'all about me' and 'what your bedroom says'. Both exercises are designed to make you think, reflect and just go for it! Lloyd asked a great question, how formal does it have to be? Answer: you decide.
I will read them and give you feedback, but possibly not until next week now. I will be interested in what you have to say and how you write. Spelling will also be commented upon too as a reference point.
As always I welcome your comments, so how did you find the exercise?
Tomorrow we will have a look at analysing and evaluating some short newspaper articles on different subjects and we'll split into five groups I think.
All the best and let's hope there aren't any Mary Poppins incidents after lunch as it is VERY windy out there. My hair will be going all ways...
Mark
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Vodafone and communication
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