iGCSE English Language: Coursework Project (40%)

Your final coursework folder will include: A bibliography (a list of the sources you have used and where you got them from);

A reading and research commentary;

Your final written piece (article, letter, speech);

A writing commentary.

Your first task: 1) Create a folder called English Language Coursework; 2) Create a word document called Bibliography. As you use a source, add this to this document. For example: Clay Shirky TED Speech (2009) http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_f acebook_can_make_history.html 3) Create THREE different word documents called: Reading Commentary, Written Response and Writing Commentary.

You are going to complete your written piece first. You are going to draft this in your school e-mail so it automatically saves every few minutes, you can e-mail it to me for feedback and so you can access it anywhere! You should be using lessons and time at home to complete your coursework!

The Headteacher in your school is considering lifting the internet filter for ALL pupils. Write a to/for giving your views. Format: Letter: Addresses, Dear.., Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully Article: Headline, sub-headline, picture and caption, statistics/facts from article in colour Speech: Greet your audience Good morning. I am here to speak to you today

Purpose: Argue Persuade Discuss

Audience: Headteacher Teachers Parents Teachers

Your written piece!

Introduction: Engage your reader and establish what the point/argument of your piece will be. Paragraph Two: Make your first point and remember to support this with a quote from one of your sources. Paragraph Three: Make your next point with a reference to a source. Paragraph Four: As above! Paragraph Five: As above! Paragraph Six: Make your final point to convince your reader to agree with your point of view. Make it every clear what your point of view is! Aim to write about 1000 words!

Use the correct layout for a letter, article or speech. Write a clear introduction Adapt your writing for your audience Make the purpose clear persuade for or against internet filter. Engage your reader Use GRIPPERS 3PS Use adventurous vocabulary Split writing into TiPToP paragraphs Use of a range of connectives particularly to link paragraphs Use a range of sentence lengths A varied approach to starting sentences Accurate spelling Accurate use of punctuation Capital letters in the correct places Use wording which makes sense to the reader Include a clear conclusion Use real facts, statistics and other information from sources Keep a clear list of sources (bibliography)

Checklist for whole written piece!

 Checklist for every paragraph

A topic sentence: introduce what the focus of the paragraph will be;

Your argument/point of discussion;

One or two references to your sources as appropriate; A counter point/address what another point of view may be; A final sentence leading into your next point/paragraph; Include a range of high quality/rhetorical/persuasive features (see examples); Include connectives/connecting phrases as appropriate.

Example Paragraph
The main work that Wikileaks has carried out, has involved acting as an intermediary

between whistle-blowers, the media and the public. There is a long standing principle of the
press acting as a recipient for confidential information, in order to flag up a problem or issue with an organisation, Wikileaks provides this same service in a modern, digital form. As Steve Hewlett, a Guardian columnist and presented of BBC Radio 4s The Media Show said in a

recent interview, The Wikileaks USP wasthat you could leak to Wikileaks and be entirely
secureas opposed to having to meet a journalist (2011). Many people were clearly attracted by this idea and Wikileaks seemed happy to publish the information they were given, or hand it over to newspapers such as Der Spiegel, The New York Times and The Guardian. Apart from

the information on Kenyan corruption, according to the BBC and the Issues Series, Wikileaks
has been supplied with (and published) 90,000 leaked US military documents relating to Afghanistan, 400,000 relating to the war in Iraq and (in the most controversial leak) 251,000 American diplomatic cables (Firth, 2011)(BBC News, 2011).

Examples of high quality/persuasive techniques!

1) Rhetorical question Do you want to see the enjoyment being taken out of education? 4) Rule of 3

2) A fact From Summer 2014, the exam in English will be worth 60%. 5) Opinion

3) Emotive Words More and more teenagers are feel exasperated and depressed. 6) Imperative

You say education, education, education.

7) Alliteration

Im really not keen on putting all my chances into one exam chance.
8) Expert opinion

Ask us what we feel.

9) Personal Evidence

The sad, sober reality is that school is becoming a controlled assessment factory.

The Head of Ofqual said

One class in my school tried out doing the 100% exam route in 2013 and they found that.

Different Types of Sentence Starters 1) Furthermore, Sport is critical 2) Slowly, change is emerging as a to the mental health and wellgeneration of young people aim being of all students in the school higher than their current community. limitations. Connective 4) Health. Aspiration. Wholeness. Qualities to nurture in young people. Adverb 3) Sport: its about more than a playful knock-about on the astroturf at break. Words with colons

5) Unless teachers like you 6) Are you kidding? Change must provide more adequate facilities, happen now. sport becomes something that takes place on the PS4. Unless/even though/until sentences Questions

Single word sentences

7) Goal! Who hasnt experienced 8) On your marks get set 9) Act now. Make a difference to a rush of pride as their team There is a race to run and a line those entrusted to your care celebrate? to cross in order for our school to now. be truly outstanding. Exclamation Ellipsis or fragmented sentences Imperative

Additional sentence starters/connectives 1) Start with a connective / discourse marker Furthermore, Although, However, 4) Start with three single word sentences 2) Start with an adverb (-ly) 3) Start with a topic word followed by a colon Money: People: Hope: 6) Start with a question

Slowly, Quickly, Urgently, 5) Create a complex sentence that start with either UNLESS, EVEN THOUGH or UNTIL. Unless you decide to Even though you think Until we start to 8) Start with a fragmented sentence (,,,)

Hope. Ambition. Legacy.

Do you want to.?

7) Start with an exclamation Success!

9) Start with an imperative verb

Kids cryingpeople watching.

Do something now.

Email what you have done so far to: raw@churchdownschool.com

An additional example paragraph!

Is the toxic online world becoming a real threat to teenagers emotional and physical stability? A recent article from The Guardian online suggested 'most parents five-to 15-year-olds believe they know enough about the internet to keep their children safe.' However according to research by internet security system McAfee in 2012, four-fifths of teenagers say they know how to hide their online behaviour from their parents. This would suggest that teenagers could possibly be exposing themselves to harmful or offensive content and hiding this from their parents. This is very concerning as it means teenagers, who are at a delicate age, are exposed to sights promoting anorexia, pornography and even gambling. Would you be happy with your children being exposed to this kind of material? Considering this, this means that the digital world is shaping the minds of the future, how they think and how they feel, this means it is extremely important to monitor what they are being exposed to at this delicate age.