Welcome to my blog!

Hi Year 9!
This is my blog. I use it to communicate with my students when they are at home. I can put pictures, links and essays up here for them to read, outside of class time.

I have a task for you - Please write this in your books!

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Blogs and internet journals
A blog is like a personal web site, that is easy to update. It is a way to stay in contact with friends and family. Most people use their blog as a diary, where they can record information about their day-to-day life. It allows you to have a free internet presence. And you can personalise it too!

Common Features of Blogs
Title
The title of a blog will tell readers a little about what to expect from the blog's content.
Profile
This tells readers about the owner of the blog. it may include age, gender and location, and will often give some information about the owner's interests. It may also include a photo, or icon.
Posts
These are the journal or diary entries. They also have a title, and can include links and photos. The time and the date the post was created is recorded at the bottom.
Comments
Blogs are interactive. If you read a post and want to reply to something that was said, you can leave a comment.
Links bar
Owners will personalise their blogs by creating a list of links to web pages they lke to visit. They might be personal interest, work related, or links to friends' pages.
Archives
This is a list links to posts that were made in the past.
Personalised items
Lots of blog owners personalise their blogs with other items, for example:
Quotes
Local time
Local weather
Pictures
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Activity
In your books, draw up a sketch of my blog, identifying each of the features with a label.
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You can see other blogs here, and here.
I hope you've enjoyed checking out my blog! Now, the next step is to try creating one of your own!

Critical Theory - another perspective

I'm getting worried that one voice is not enough to teach one class how to attack literary critcism, so I went to see what good ol' Wikipedia had to say about it.
There's some good stuff - lots on the history of where the ideas some from, links to specific theories, and external links to other sites.
Including this one.
It only includes some of the theories we've looked at, but it is such a great resource!

And I love the orange!

Paper One Help

My mind is turing to revision already, and Year 12 aren't even back from exams yet.
Though if you're interested, here's some reading for you:

I thought this was a very useful summary of what you can expect from Paper 1, Section I. Read all of it!

And this is a fabulous explanation of the differences between a dominant and resistant reading of "Journeys Over Land and Sea", with a reference to 'Mariner'

Austen's sex and sensibility

A fantastic four-page feature article on the endurance of Austen's popularity, despite the lack of modern topics of interest.
Read it for its ideas for Module A, and consider it's FA elements as you do!

Good luck today, guys.

Miss

Death-moth

This is a picture of a Death's-head Hawkmoth, taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Acherontia_lachesis.jpg

There is some intersting reading there too. I stole some:

The name Death's-head Hawkmoth usually refers to one of the three species (A. atropos, A. styx and A. lachesis) of moth in the Acherontia genus. Found throughout the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, and increasingly as far north as southern Great Britain due to recently mild British winters, this moth is easily distinguishable by a skull-shaped pattern on its back.
The moth also has numerous other unique features, such as an ability to emit a loud squeak if irritated. The sound is produced by expelling air from its pharynx. It is commonly observed raiding beehives for honey. It is attacked by guard bees at the entrance, but the thick cuticle and resistance to venom allow it to enter the hive. It is able to move about in hives unmolested because it mimics the scent of the bees (Moritz et al., 1991).

Quiz

Quick Emma/Clueless quizzes.

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