A2 Lit CW : 1-1s

A reminder that the first draft of the coursework needs to be submitted by 11am tomorow. You can either put it in my purple tray just inside 1D11 (English team rm) or email it to me at cdignum@rutc.ac.uk.

I have arranged the 1-1s as follows. {I have looked at your timetables on Richmis to allocate some of you slots outside of our normal lesson time - please let me know ASAP if you can't make it} Please bring your own copy of your essay to annotate during the feedback (remember that I can't give you a marked copy)

Monday (come to D8 - ground floor, near reception)
9.45 - Amy
11.30 - Hawri
12.45 - Jessye
1.15 - Chikira

Tuesday (1E6)
1.50 - Josie
2.10 - Karin
2.20 - Olivia
2.50 - Aisling

Thursday (1E5)
9.00 - Blu
9.20 - Aleksandra
9.40 -
9.50 - Miranda
10.10 - 

Friday (now in D2 - near reception)
10.35 - Katisha
10.55 - Suzan
11.15 - Mahi
11.40 - Dan

Please make sure that you are on time & come with your own copy of your essay. Some students like to record the feedback on their phones for later use & I'm quite happy for you to do that if you'd like to. No lessons with me next week (David as usual)- normal lessons commence the week after next (week commencing 11th March).

A2 Literature - 1st draft checklist

Before you hand your 1st draft in at the end of this week, please self check it to make sure it's as good as you can make it:

- Does your opening paragraph introduce each text (full titles, authors, dates) and make explicit reference to the question? Do you set up your thesis?

- Does the first line of each paragraph set up each paragraph? (ie, is it a topic sentence?) Does the first sentence of each paragraph refer back in some way to the previous one (even if only briefly, through 'We can also see this idea developed by ...'; 'In contrast...' etc)

- Is each text handled fairly equally?

- Are you including (and preferably embedding) quotations from each text?

- Have you included specific, detailed textual analysis?

- Is the essay genuinely comparative?

- Have you used appropriate secondary criticism? Is it genuinely contributing to your essay?

- Does your essay make clear your appreciation of the contextual influences on each text? (You might want to go back & watch the short video on this blog which reminds you of the key contextual points for each text)

- Have you added footnotes?

- Is there a bibliography?

- Is there a word count?

- Have you spell-checked it? Checked the basics?

- Have you looked again at the examples of previous students' coursework I gave you?

I will be having 1-1s with you next week to give you feedback on your essays. We will sort the appointment times out in Thursday's lesson.  Your first draft needs to be handed in to me by Friday 11am, please.

If possible, please could you double space your essay & make sure it's in size 12 or 14 font. Thanks!

IB - Waiting For Godot

Please watch the last 50 minutes of this (Act 2) in place of next Wednesday's lesson - thank you! We will discuss the second part of the play in next Thursday's lesson.

A2 Comms - Feminism & Post Colonialism in the news

This week it was reported in the news that the government is considering launching an advertising campaign in Romania and Bulgaria to try and persuade people that England is not a good place to emigrate to - read more about it here. 

This has, of course, sparked lots of creative & humorous responses about what this advertising campaign might look like. To see examples of these spoof adverts, click here.

Meanwhile, in The Guardian, one columist reflects on whether a feminist can wear high heels. Definitely useful to read.

A2 Comms - cw links

Jennifer - for you, and another one, and this one
Tom - one for you and another one
Amna - one for you
Luke - one for you and another one
Annabel - one for you on Disney
Abigail - one for you (paragraphs 2 & 3) and another one (not specifically about your programme, but about representation of race in reality tv, so should have some useful ideas for you to think about.