Category: 9 ENG 11

Diagram these sentences; they include everything you’ve learned so far! (This means you need to look out for: adjectives, adverbs, nouns, verbs,  verb phrases and prepositional phrases)

1. The rusty shovel with the blue handle sat in my garage.
2. These three puppies in the basket on the wood floor have been whimpering since this morning.
3. Every candle in the little house on Main Street burned brightly throughout the night.
4. In April, the cool rain falls on the soil.
5. In May, the plants in Cathy’s garden grow very quickly.
6. May I sit in the red chair? (Tip: turn this into a statement to find the subject)
7.  Ginny happily cooked in the kitchen of her new house.
8.  The skirt with black stripes fell into the laundry basket.
9.  Did the students in Mrs. O’Brien’s class study for the difficult test? (Tip: turn this into a statement to find the subject)
10.  The party guests in the living room talked quite loudly. (Tip: Treat living room as one word. It is a compound noun.)

Here is a list of helping verbs:

am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been
have, has, had
shall, will
do, does, did
may, must, might
can, could, would, should

Diagram these sentences; they include everything you’ve learned so far! (This means you need to look out for: adjectives, adverbs, nouns, verbs,  verb phrases and prepositional phrases)

1. The rusty shovel with the blue handle sat in my garage.
2. These three puppies in the basket on the wood floor have been whimpering since this morning.
3. Every candle in the little house on Main Street burned brightly throughout the night.
4. In April, the cool rain falls on the soil.
5. In May, the plants in Cathy’s garden grow very quickly.
6. May I sit in the red chair? (Tip: turn this into a statement to find the subject)
7.  Ginny happily cooked in the kitchen of her new house.
8.  The skirt with black stripes fell into the laundry basket.
9.  Did the students in Mrs. O’Brien’s class study for the difficult test? (Tip: turn this into a statement to find the subject)
10.  The party guests in the living room talked quite loudly. (Tip: Treat living room as one word. It is a compound noun.)

Here is a list of helping verbs:

am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been
have, has, had
shall, will
do, does, did
may, must, might
can, could, would, should

Today we are going to look at layering evidence in our main body paragraphs. The aim with layering evidence is to make your paragraphs richer and more detailed.

In the past we have focused on TEEL (Topic Evidence Explanation Link), when you layer and extra piece of evidence into you paragraphs the structure looks more like TEEEL (Topic Evidence Explanation Evidence Link).

In reality, you can have three of four bits of evidence in a pragraph, but you have to make sure that you don’t over do it and end up running out of time to complete your essay in the exam.

Example

PK learns many lessons, growing up in South Africa, from the people he meets. Discuss

TEEL

PK develops a deep understanding of the importance of using his head to solve problems. His mentor Geil Pete tells him to think ‘first with the head, then with the heart’ when trying to explain how being small isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Geil Pete illustrates this to PK when he calmy swaps his bucket of tobacco for an empty one just before being asked to empty it by Sgt. Boorman. Geil Pete was in a very tricky situation and may well have been caught with the tobacco, if he hadn’t held his nerve and thought his way out of the situation.  PK learns about the value of using his head from the wise people he encounters; it is this which allows him to develop into such a wise young man himself.

TEEEEL

PK develops a deep understanding of the importance of using his head to solve problems. His mentor Geil Pete tells him to think ‘first with the head, then with the heart’ when trying to explain how being small isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Geil Pete illustrates this to PK when he calmy swaps his bucket of tobacco for an empty one just before being asked to empty it by Sgt. Boorman. Geil Pete was in a very tricky situation and may well have been caught with the tobacco, if he hadn’t held his nerve and thought his way out of the situation. This ability to recognise when stealth is the best approach against brute force comes out in PK himself when caught talking to Gideon Dima; PK understands the best way to avoid trouble with the police is to treat Gideon with the disrespect the police do, thus making them believe he is as racist as they are. PK learns about the value of using his head from the wise people he encounters; it is this which allows him to develop into such a wise young man himself.

Warm Up

‘Discuss’ Essay Questions

Discuss essay questions require you to write as though a particular statment is true. You are not being asked to decided whether you agree or disagree with an idea; instead, you are being asked to explain how a given idea is correct. Look at the question below. Let’s write a lotus diagram for it.

PK learns many lessons, growing up in South Africa, from the people he meets. Discuss

Now you have seen  how to plan for a discuss question, I would like you to have a go at writing a plan for the following:

PK’s childhood prepared him for his role as the Rainmaker. Discuss

Quotes

Once you have completed your lotus diagram, I want you to work  in pairs to fill in a quotes table. You will be allowed to bring this into the exam, so please fill in it as much as you can.

 

 

I have just found out that you are expected to do an essay on TPOO; I gave you incorrect information in this regard – I do apologise.

Not to worry. We have been doing some great work on the text, and we have done a lot of work around writing Text Responses already.

Today, I would like you to go over the notes we made when writing our Romeo and Juliet essays; I would like you to use these notes to create:

• a Lotus Diagram for the following question: The Power of One presents the idea that all violence is bad. Do you agree?
• Write an introduction, main body paragraph and conclusion based on the plan you have created.
• If you finish early, go over your speeches which will be due next lesson.

Pop Quiz 

• Click here for the questions.
• Complete this task in pairs.
• Keep you answers ready for marking next lesson.

Character Map

• Click here for a full list of character names
• Draft a character map in your books that shows the relationship between each person in the film and how they impact on each other.
• Draw a neat character map on the piece of A3 paper provided.

First Assesment Task

• Click here for a description of the writing task and an oral task
• start working on the first written task if you have completed all other work today.

 

 

 

Warm Up

What is the difference between intelligence and wisdom? Write a paragraph.

The Power of One – Focus Questions

1. What is the main message of the film?
2. What is the significance of the blacks and the English turning up to Maria’s wedding?

Themes

Provide a list of moments from the film where the following themes are explored:

• Death (e.g. PK lost his dad when an elephant trampled on him in the bush)
• Racism (e.g. Yappi Botha taking out his anger of PK because PK is English)
• Courage (e.g. PK found the courage to take out Maria)
• Hatred (e.g.  The Afrikaners despise the Africans and the English)
• Loneliness (e.g. PK saw imaginary loneliness birds)
• Friendship (e.g. Peet teaching PK to box)
• Victory (e.g. The different tribes of Africans came together in the concert and sang as one)

Character list

• PK
• St John (Headmaster of English Boarding school)
• Geel Piet
• Sgt. Bormann
• Doc
• Jaapie Botha/Sgt. Botha
• Nanny
• Maria
• Gideon Duma

Warm Up

Why do you think racism exists? Write and paragraph.

Today

• Complete the English Basics Test, please make sure you click submit.
• Review answers to South Africa research task.
• View documentary called Apartheid Did Not Die.