Paragraphs
Select your BEST paragraph from yesterday’s class. You will need a hard copy of it.
Read over your work VERY CAREFULLY. You should look for the following:
- Have you explained the key idea in a meaningful and intelligent manner, explaining its different dimension and applications (as opposed to just repeating it or using a couple of synonyms to rephrase it)?
- Have you provided relevant evidence to illustrate how this idea operates? In particular, you have included quotes and embedded them fluently?
- Have you avoided retelling the story, instead choosing specific, targeted examples from at least two sources to support your idea? Is the connection between each example and the idea clearly articulated?
- Have you concluded the paragraph effectively by returning to the key idea, using key terms?
- Is you vocabulary varied, specific and accurate? Pay close attention to avoiding informal or conversational phrasing.
- Are there any spelling or grammatical errors? Look for how capital letters have been used, whether apostrophes have been used correctly and if run-on sentences have been avoided by using connectives and full stops correctly.
Once you have edited YOUR work, swap with someone who you have not worked with before and edit each others’ work. Provide advice for improvement.
Finally, use this advice to rewrite your original paragraph, making whatever improvements you can. Hand in this work before the end of class.
Articles
Have a look through at least three of the articles that have been added to this Padlet wall:
From these articles, identify at least three examples that you could use in a context response. Make notes on each of these examples so that you can use them in an intelligent, detailed and specific manner in an essay. Include any links to Fahrenheit 451 or another text you have studied in your notes.
If you find any other articles that would be useful to the class, please add them, including the same format and information as the ones already up there.
Practice
Below you can find a series of practice topics for the upcoming Assessment Task:
- “In future worlds, maintaining one’s individuality in the face of social pressures and governments is an often difficult and dangerous thing to do.”
- “Despite the bleak worlds many futuristic texts depict, we are left with the feeling that there is hope for humankind.”
- Technology will not lead to mankind’s salvation.
- “Science, technology, politics and social organisations have ceased serving humanity; they have instead become our masters.”
- Our vision of the future is a reflection of our worst fears.
- Our need to imagine future worlds is born out of our dissatisfaction with our current world.
- The future is one where individuals are denied freedom of expression.
- We will not be able to control technology; technology will control us.
