12 Macbeth

Macbeth of Scotland

Notes on Macbeth (very helpful when writing your essay).

Pick one of the questions below and write a 400 word essay. Due Monday Week One Term Three.

1. Analyse how ONE main character or individual changed to become more (OR less) admirable.
2. Analyse how features of ONE important section made it particularly effective.
3. Analyse how the writer presented a positive OR negative view of humanity and / or society.
4. Analyse how ONE OR MORE symbols were used to present an important idea or ideas.
5. Analyse how a text strengthened or changed your opinion of a particular topic or issue.
6. Analyse how the resolution of a main conflict was important to the text as a whole. 

 A few tips:

• Specifically address all aspects of the question
• Use words of the question in your answer
• Offer quotations or other text evidence to strengthen ideas and weave quotes in
• Show an awareness of the author’s purpose and intention
• Identify techniques (soliloquys, metaphors, symbolism, foreshadowing etc) used and analyse their purpose and intention
• Show an understanding of ideas and context of the text – make connections between ideas or texts or with the real world
• Include analysis in all your paragraphs
• Use T.E.M.P.E.R.S or S.E.X.Y or T.E.E.A

Questions for generating analysis:

•   What does this mean?
•  What does it suggest?
•  What connotations (associations) do individual words have?
•  How does it affect the readers/audience’s thoughts?
•  How does it affect their emotions?
•  How does it link with the other examples in the text?
•  How does it relate to the real world?

An essay exemplar for your perusal. 

  

Good luck!

Y12 - 2.4 Connections Charts

Make sure you hand these in! A second one is due by the end of Week 3. I've attached relevant instructions etc below.

• Details Chart - blank
• 2.4 Connections Instructions

Two more Details Charts are due by the end of the term (all four Details Charts need to be completed by Week 10 Term 2).

11 Formal Writing Internal - 3 Credits

Making a Point
We begin this standard this week. This activity requires you to produce a piece of formal writing that makes a point. The chosen topic will arise from one of the text studies the class has completed in Term One. It is fine if a you base your writing on the same text as you have based your speech (AS 1.6) on. However, the issue or topic discussed must be different. This piece of writing will be:

•  an opinion or persuasive piece on an issue that has arisen from a text study

If you have a strong desire to write about another issue you can, with MsUnuia's approval, write on:

• an issue rising from a class discussion
• a school/local/national/global current event

Conditions:

• This activity will be completed in class. You are not allowed under any circumstances to take your writing home or bring in any pre-prepared material.
• The minimum word count is 350 words.
• This standard will take sixteen spells in total – thirteen in class and three in the computer suite typing and editing a final copy for assessment.
• The thirteen in-class spells include time for preparation and pre-teaching activities.
• You will get your topic approved by Ms U. You are not allowed to write on: drugs, suicide, anorexia or depression .
• You will hand in your work at the end of each spell.