Higher homework for Feb break (sorry!)

Persuasive proposals to be completed for Monday 22nd (first day back!!)

'Queens English Society' Task- Choose a stance- whether you belive the society should have been closed or not- then change the article to persuade. Use the information in the article and bend it. Add lots of persuasive techniques and any other info you can find. Try to structure it properly. Try to make it stylish and powerful!


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Persuasive plan and example plan

My Persuasive Essay Plan

• You must have at least four main points to thouroughly convince your reader
• Each point should be supported by two pieces of evidence
• Evidence should be a variety of: professional opinions, real life examples, statistics and data, quotes, article excerpts, anecdotes, trusted website information etc.
• Keep track of where you found your evidence. To do this, idenitfy your sources in the bibliography section at the end of this proposal.

Good luck!!! 

 

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Full Name:

 

 

Title of Essay:

My Overall Argument:

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First Point:

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• Evidence 1:

• Evidence 2:

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Second Point:

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• Evidence 1:

• Evidence 2:

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Third Point:

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• Evidence 1:

• Evidence 2:

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Fourth Point:

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• Evidence 1:

• Evidence 2:

Bibliography

This is where you keep track of where you found your evidence. It is necessary to include a bibliography when you submit your completed essay.

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Evidence for body paragraph 2:

 
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Evidence for body paragraph 3:

 
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Sample Persuasive Essay Proposal

Full Name: Emily Smith

Title of Essay: Why we should assist Euthanasia

My Overall argument: Euthanasia should be legalised

 

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First Point:    Disallowing the practice of Euthanasia to people who suffer is cruel

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• Evidence 1: "The current prohibitions require a person with great physical strength and/or mental suffereing to continue to endure their suffereing against their wishes, which cannot be right!"- Article from the 'Guardian Newspaper', written by Dr Kailash Chand, GP: http://www.theguardian.com/society/joepublic/2009/jul/01/euthanasia-assisted-suicide-uk

• Evidence 2: Sue Roriguez, a mother in her early thirties, died slowly of Lou Gehrig's disease. She lived for several years with the knowledge that he muscles would, one by one, waste away until the day cane when. full conscious, she would choke to death. She begged the Courts to reassure her that a doctor would be allowed to assist her in choosing the moment of death. They refused. She lived on in terror, helped eventually by a doctor who, in February 1994, covertly broke the law to help her die in peace.- Real life example: http://www.euthanasia.cc/cases.html

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Second Point:  Allowing people to die will free up scarce health resources

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• Evidence 1: In most countries there is a shortage of health resources. As a result, some people who are ill and could be cured are not able to get speedy access to the facilities they need for treatment. At the same time, health resources are being used on people who cannot be cured, and who, for their ouwn reasons, would prefer not to continue living.- BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/infavour_1.shtml

• Evidence 2: In 2009, Americal Health Care paid $50 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients' lives- that's more than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Education.- Article from the CBS News Website, 'The Cost of Dying': http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-5711689.html

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Continue for third point, fourth point, etc.

 

Folio submission notes and link to template!

SUBMITTING YOUR ENGLISH FOLIO

Your English Folio MUST be submitted on paper, but using the SQA’s specially formatted sheet.  The format looks like the sheet you are reading now.

You can get a Word copy of the folio template from the SQA website here:    http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/47410.html

by clicking on the heading called “Submitting Coursework” ( You can also get a pdf of the template there, but you will not be able to type into it if you use the pdf format)

You can also get a copy of the template here:

http://tinyurl.com/firrhillhttp://tinyurl.com/firrhill

I can also give you a copy of it on a memory stick, if you ask me nicely!

You can type directly onto the template, or you can copy and paste in your writing from another file. You can also print the template and hand-write directly onto it. Both of your Folio pieces MUST be contained within one template. Give a clear indication of where each piece of writing starts by giving each piece a clear title and starting each piece at the top of a new page.

If you are typing directly into the template, it will give you a font, font size and layout automatically.  If you are typing in another file to paste in, please remember:

·         use 12 point print size

·         take a double return for new paragraphs

·         use 1 and half line spacing

Please make sure that your writing stays inside the margin box on the template.

Remember that discursive and persuasive pieces should have a bibliography.

Make sure you know the allowed word count for each piece and you stick to it.

Your Scottish Candidate Number, and a page number must be at the foot of every page in the template, using the boxes provided. These are for the purposes of identification.

It is recommended that the portfolio pieces are printed double-sided, but please do not use staples to attach your pages together.

'Cone Gatherers'- Homework- Chapter 9 Questions to be completed for Friday 13th (SPOOKY!)

Work in pairs to answer the following:


1.What led up to the Doctor’s appointment?


2. What happened during it?


3. What are the consequences of it?



4.How is Duror portrayed as an isolated character in this scene? (treat as a 4 mark question)



5.In what ways is the end of this chapter a second turning point (try to lay this out like the 10 mark question- refer to previous chapters in your analysis). At this stage, you can use your notes.

i.e. This chapter acts as a second turning point as… In previous chapters… but from this point on… (2 marks)


Then analyse one quote from the end of this chapter (2 marks) and 3 quotes from elsewhere to prove that it is a turning point (2 marks each).

Braodsheet review- homework instructions

BROADSHEET REVIEW

 

Choose a quality piece of journalism, from a broadsheet newspaper, which is comment or opinion-based.  Good papers to use include: The Herald, Scotsman, Times, Telegraph, Independent, Guardian, Scotland on Sunday, Sunday Herald, Observer on Sunday etc. You can use an on-line article if you wish.

 

•     Read through the article and then complete the following:

 

1.   a summary of the main point / argument of the article, including date, paper and journalist’s name (try to include purpose and audience if you can- why it was written and who it was written for!)

 

2.         a summative analysis of key features of the writer’s craft

a.         tone and register

b.         word choice and imagery

c.         use of humour

d.         use of anecdote / statistics / expert witness

e.         structure, including linking paragraphs, contrasts and developments of argument

f.          specific use of rhetorical skills such as hyperbole and understatement, antithesis, climax and anti climax

 

3.A brief conclusion evaluating the success of the piece.

 

One of these should be completed every 2 weeks, due in on a Wednesday.  After the initial few, they should not take you longer than 15 minutes. As you get more and more feedback, your reviews should become better and better with time! Note form is acceptable if clearly headed.

HIgher homework- due Friday 23rd

•Revise notes


•Complete Scottish text questions below:

The Cone Gatherers by Robin Jenkins – Passage 3

The following section of text comes from the opening of Chapter Five and gives further elaboration on the character of Neil.

In Neil, so canny about admitting happiness, all the hindrances had vanished, one by one, like the early mists over the loch. Now, in the warmth and splendour he sang softly the sad Gaelic song that had been his mother’s favourite: it was about a girl who, though without tocher or dowrie, still did not lack sweethearts. He sang it Gaelic, although his knowledge of that ancestral language was grown meager and vague.

Among those hindrances to happiness had been the big gamekeeper. He could not forget Duror’s quiet, inconceivable hatred; and all last night he had felt that his and Calum’s argument over the trapped rabbit would in some way be sensed by the gamekeeper, strengthening his vow to have them driven from the wood. In the morning sunlight, however, that fear of their desperate pity being detectable in the dead fur and glazed eyes seemed ridiculous. Duror would come to the ride, pick up the rabbit, and put it into his bag, without even thinking about them. Indeed, according to what Mr. Tulloch had said, the gamekeeper had enough to worry him in that his wife had been an invalid for many years. If they kept out of his way, they would not be troubled by him; and how much more out of the way could they be than at the top of this ninety-foot larch?

Another hindrance had been the constant sight of the mansion house chimneys, reminding him of their hut, which to him remained a symbol of humiliation. But this morning he remembered what Mr. Tulloch had said about the lady: she was rich and high in rank, but she was also generous and just; and her son, the thin boy in the red cap, had waved to them and shouted in a friendly voice. Those people represented the power of the world, and so long as he was humble it would be benignant. He and Calum would be humble. In spite of his bitterness, humility and acquiescence in public had always been his instinctive defence: so far it had been successful enough.

The greatest and most persistent obstacle was, of course, the fear of what would become of his brother if he were to die. Though he was a healthy man, except for his rheumatism in wet weather, he could meet with any of a number of likely accidents: a fall from a tree, for instance; a wound from axe or rutter, followed by lock-jaw; pneumonia after a day’s soaking on the hill; even an adder bite. Once, when suffering from a suppurating finger caused by a splinter from a fence stop, he had been chafed by Mr. Tulloch for looking so solemn and frightened over what, by manly standards, was a trivial injury. He had confided in the forrester, who had listened with a smile of sympathy, and assured him there was no need to worry about Calum, who would always find a place at Ardmore. Neil had learned that even kindness made promises it could not fulfill, but he had been grateful to Mr. Tulloch and afterwards his heart had been lighter. In the larch tree this morning, when he examined that promise anew, he found it fresh and sound.

Practice Questions on Passage 3

 

1.       2.       3.         4.       5.

Analyse the writer’s use of language in the first sentence of the extract (lines 1-2) to effectively convey Neil’s state of mind.     Show how word choice is used in lines 7-17 to express Neil’s initial perception of Duror as a ‘hindrance’.     Referring closely to lines 18-26, explain clearly in your own words Neil’s interpretation of the Runcie-Campbell household and his course of action towards them in response.     Analyse the effect of sentence structure in lines 27-39 in revealing Neil’s thoughts as they develop.     Discuss how well the presentation of Neil’s character in this section reflects his development as a character in the rest of the novel.

3       2                          2       3         10       (20)

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