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Let’s first rely on our prior Let’s first rely on our prior knowledgeknowledge
* It is an insult to begin as if you are new to
essays as you have done this before and it would be best to go from what
you know.
* You have written essays in Year 9 for
Inspector Calls and the Giver and in Year 10 for
Romeo and Juliet in Semester 1 and perhaps
for practice for The Catcher in the Rye.
Let’s begin by comparing the Let’s begin by comparing the differences between essays and differences between essays and
commentaries, as we all agree this commentaries, as we all agree this is something we are confident in.is something we are confident in.COMMENTARIES
Introductions: text, writer, thesis
Commentary layout: Intro, body, transition, body ....conclusion
Organization, B: Obey our thesis - embedded quotations, transitional sentences
Paragraph structure: PEERL or PEEDEA
Focus of commentaries: Dissecting and stylistic devices analysis from a brief passage.
What do you have to do in a commentary for A? stylistic devices and evidence
What do you have to do for C? Spelling , register, vocabulary
ESSAYS
Introductions: text, writer, thesis,
Essay layout: Intro, body, transition, body ....conclusion
Organisation, B: Obey the thesis - embedded quotations, transitional sentences
Paragraph structure: PEERL
Focus of Essays: Critical analysis with knowledge of text as a whole. How and why is still relevance.
What do you have to do in an essay for a A? Critical analysis
What do you have to do for C?
What is the best way What is the best way to improve in future to improve in future
essaysessaysWrite up the feedback from your prior assignments and find ways to improve on prior errors. For example, if you have articles or tense circled as errors then look this up in your Pocket Style Manual. If you are having issues with register, check the guide and if still confused ask your teacher.
When writing your new assignment have the written up notes of what you did wrong last time to aim to improve in the next essay.
Class approachClass approachIn the past I have provided generalised feedback on common errors we are doing so that we can aim to avoid these in the future, but it can be easy to become too complacent and read over these and think, oh I’m not doing that, but in fact - unfortunately - many of us are.
We are now going to look at some specific examples of work from the class and look at how we can improve specific paragraphs.
The purpose of doing so is to see what we are doing as a whole and how this can be improved. Please remember we are all doing this not only the one student whose work is being showed. We must view the work that will appear in the following slides with respect and appreciate that this is a helpful learning opportunity and as soon as it becomes an opportunity for disrespect we can no longer continue with the activity.