Wednesday's lesson

Persuasive techniques

 Remember to include these in your speech and practise them when you rehearse

In your script

In your delivery

·         Rhetorical questions ·         Language choices ·         Quotations ·         Emotive language (language to appeal to our emotions) ·         Colloquial language to connect with the audience ·         Use of personal pronouns (you and we) ·         Appeal to other senses (power point) ·         Appeal to reason and ability to think ·         Statistics ·         Underline words for emphasis

·         Sound confident ·         Hand gestures ·         Projecting your voice ·         Eye contact ·         Emphasis on particular words ·         Speed (slow down!) ·         Expression ·         Using your power point refer to it! ·         Pause ·         Body language ·         Facial expression ·         Sound like you want to persuade the audience

Homework for Wednesday and Thursday

This is pre-planning for your persuasive oral. On Friday, I will discuss the answers to these questions with each of you individually. Email your answers to me before Friday's lesson please.

1. Which aspect or aspects of the representation of women in your fairy tale are you going to compare with the representation you find in your popular texts?

2. What are the two popular texts you have chosen?

3. What is the representation of women in your first popular text?

4. What is the representation of women in your second popular text?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Questions

Year 10 English

Term 1 – Representations of women –

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Episode 22 Season 7 ‘Chosen’

In analyzing the representation of women in a text, you should consider the following questions.

1.     What do/ does she look like? Pay particular attention to the question of whether she is considered beautiful/ physically attractive? Is she young?

2.     What qualities are valued in women in the text?

 

3.     What aspects of the text challenge the traditional representation you identified in your fairy tale?

 

4.     How is the message presented to us? Consider the positioning techniques discussed at the beginning of the term.(Character(Buffy in particular), costume, camera angles, dialogue etc)

 

5.     How are men presented in this text? (Consider power, hero, villain etc)

 

6.     Who has power in this text? Why do they have power?

     7.     Consequences: Who is rewarded? How? Who is punished? How?

     8.   How are women represented in this episode?

 

 

Friday's lesson

Continuing on from yesterday, write a paragraph in which you compare the representation of women in the article "How to Get Any Guy to Like You" with that in your chosen fairy tale.

Deal only with one aspect of the representation and use your topic sentence to identify whether the representation has changed or is similar.

Give evidence from both texts to support your view.

Write a good concluding sentence as well. Post both paragraphs to your blog before the end of the lesson.

Thursday's lesson

If you are not working on your fairy tale response, read the article "How to Get Any Guy to Like You" which is on Blackboard.

Identify the representation of women as you did for your fairy tale. Use dot points.

Identify how the representation is constructed. What aspects of the article tell us that women are presented as you suggest. Use dot points and quote from the article.

Now write a paragraph in which you identify the way women are represented  and discuss how the respresentation is constructed. Use the paragrpah that you wrote on Snow White as the model for your paragaph.

Editing Checklist

Imaginative response

1.    Sentence length – varied length or deliberately chosen length.

2.    Sentence openings – varied openings.

3.    Punctuation – used correctly?

4.    Have you tried to use something other than commas and full stops?

5.    Vocabulary – try to find two or three places where you can use a more effective word – look at verbs particularly.

Monday's lesson and homework

Challenging the representation of women in Snow White.

What does challenge mean? To challenge means to question, disagree with, present a different view of.

What might a female character like Snow White do in a text which challenges the representation of women in Snow White?

·         Instead of opening the door to the queen she would recognise the danger and find a way to protect herself and plan to kill the queen

·         When the huntsman tries to kill her she fights him and he runs away

·         She could build her own house and not have to be protected by dwarves

·         She could show intelligence by reasoning with the queen

·         Instead of marrying the prince straight away she wants to get to know him

·         Arrange to work with the queen to rule the kingdom

If we put the story in a modern setting, how might she behave?

·         She could leave home

·         She could ask to go to boarding school to set herself up in life

·         She could choose to go and live with other members of her family

·         She could secretly set up her own internet business and become a millionaire by 17

What might she say?

·         She might get a better lock and say to the queen “You can’t get in”

·         She could convince the huntsman to be on her side and kill the queen instead

·         She could contact the queen’s advisors and tell them that the queen is trying to kill her and the queen could get in trouble

·         She could go to another kingdom and help them defeat the queen

What would she be rewarded for?

·         Intelligence

·         Courage

·         Bravery

·         Fearlessness

·         Confidence

·         Entrepreneurship

·         Determination

·         Independence

What qualities would be valued in women?

·         As above the things she is rewarded for are the things valued

·         Self-respect

·         Personality

What might she be punished for?

·         Maybe because she killed the queen

·         Leaving her kingdom (if responsibility was valued)

In fact, we probably wouldn’t want to punish her. The problem with fairy tales is that women are punished for things like not obeying the rules or for stupidity.

Homework – work on your assignment. Write a paragraph in which you clearly identify the representation of women. Start with a series of dot points as we did in class for “Snow White”. Choose the one or two most important ideas and write a paragraph as you did in class.