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I have two Year 10 English classes. If you are wondering which one you are in, this class here – English D – is the one that works in Q12, although we started of in that very bright, airless room, Q11.

This week, we have a number of learning goals in common

• Use paragraphs effectively
• Expand vocabulary
• Use stories to persuade
• Control the four sentence types

On Tuesday, you will choose a learning goals for yourself, from the issues I will have marked in your red book. These goals on the issues in the first piece, which you will write on Monday. Once you’ve mastered each new skill, you will choose another one or two.

On Monday and Tuesday, we will complete a vocabulary builder exercise. As I am getting you to choose the words, I will post the sentences here as we create them.

We will also be doing our red-book writing on Monday and Tuesday. Both pieces will be designed to persuade and we’ll be concentrating on using paragraphs to enhance meaning. I post more about the paragraphs when we get there.

So, here are the two red-book topics.

• Students should be able to pick their teachers
• The Wrong Combination

We will also learning to identify and create the four sentence types. We’ll start with the simple sentence, and move onto the complex sentence.

The simple, valid sentence
The complex sentence

You will create a short story that uses only simple and complex sentences, alternating. This sounds like a very formal exercise, but it is a good way to become mindful of how we use particular sentence types.

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I have two Year 10 English classes. If you are wondering which one you are in, this class here – English G – is the one that works in Q02.

This week, we have a number of learning goals in common

• Use paragraphs effectively
• Expand vocabulary
• Use stories to persuade
• Control the four sentence types

In addition, you will choose a learning goals for yourself, from the issues I have marked in your red book. These goals are based on your first piece. Once you’ve mastered each new skills, you will choose another one or two.

On Monday and Thursday, we will complete a vocabulary builder exercise. As I am getting you to choose the words, I will post the sentences here as we create them.

We will also be doing our red-book writing on Monday and Thursday. Both pieces will be stories designed to persuade and we’ll be concentrating on using paragraphs to enhance meaning. I post more about the paragraphs when we get there.

So, here are the two red-book topics.

• When Choice Goes Wrong
• The Wrong Combination

We will also learning to identify and create the four sentence types. We’ll start with the simple sentence, and move onto the complex sentence.

The simple, valid sentence
The complex sentence

You will create a short story that uses only simple and complex sentences, alternating. This sounds like a very formal exercise, but it is a good way to become mindful of how we use particular sentence types.

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Goals
Write persuasively
Expand vocabulary

Vocabulary Builder Sentence

The courtesan was liable for the degraded customer

You guys came up with the underlined words, so we did end up with a slightly odd sentence. Your completed sentences, with new words in place of these underlined words, were accurate but sometimes a bit clunky. We’ll work on flow and these will improve.

Persuasive Writing

Then, you wrote for 12 minutes in response to a topic: Students should be allowed to choose their teachers.

Most of you included some really sensible idea and examples. I have identified some areas that each of you can improve on, and we’ll get to that work next week.

Until then, have a good weekend.

Okay, I am resetting the golden doors for the start of the new Year 10 subjects, so everyone is on an equal footing.

So far, first place is a four-way tie.

• Meg T (1)
• Amanda G(1)
• Maddy D (1)
• Jorden R (1)

It’s a windy and cold day out there, but we managed to belt out another edition of our magazine. Pop on over and have a look. There is, as always, something for everyone.

Red Space, Green Magazine

Here are some notes relating to some very common mistakes that many of you are making in your writing.

I really liked this piece that Steph wrote in class today. I’d have had her type it, but then it would have lost one of its best qualities.

Running on Empty (900k)

Today’s writing stimulus is “astronaut”.

I want you to imagine that you are on a genuine space mission. Tell your story.

We have a new edition of Red, Space, Red out today. I wanted to share this article. I expected many of the technology articles to be about iPods and YouTube. This one takes a much more human dimension.

For years, diabetics have had to put up with sticking needles in themselves, often two-to-four times a day, for most of their lives. But in the last few years, scientists have made an insulin pump that automatically injects insulin into your system every three minutes.

Technology at its Best « Red, Space, Red

Here’s the link
Add New Post ‹ Red, Space, Red — WordPress

The username and password are on the whiteboard.

Today we discovered that we have plenty of colours to spice up our writing.

1. Apricot
2. Aqua
3. Auburn
4. Baby blue
5. Baby pink
6. Beige
7. Black
8. Blonde
9. Blood Red
10. Blue
11. Blush
12. Bottle Green
13. Bronze
14. Brown
15. Burgundy
16. Caramel
17. Carmine
18. Chestnut
19. Chrome
20. Copper
21. Cream
22. Crimson
23. Dark Pink
24. Eggshell blue
25. Flesh
26. Ginger
27. Gold
28. Grass green
29. Green
30. Grey
31. Gun Metal
32. Hazel
33. Hot Pink
34. Indigo
35. Jade
36. Khaki
37. Lavendar
38. Light Blue
39. Light Pink
40. Lilac
41. Lime
42. Magenta
43. Maroon
44. Mauve
45. Metallic green
46. Midnight Blue
47. Mint
48. Moss Green
49. Navy Blue
50. Opal
51. Orange
52. Peach
53. Pink
54. Purple
55. Red
56. Rose
57. Royal Blue
58. Ruby
59. Russian Blue
60. Salmon
61. Sanguine
62. Sapphire
63. Scarlett
64. Silver
65. Sky Blue
66. Teal
67. Topaz
68. Turquoise
69. Vanilla
70. Vermillion
71. Violet
72. White
73. Yellow

I really enjoyed this article by Locke. I am not much of a petrol head, but when I read this, I would see how people get all excited about particular cars.

Red Space Green Magazine » XY Falcon, Spine-Tingler
XY falcon GT is a spine-tingling car with an orange glow colour that melts your eyes. A blood-rushing 396ci Cleveland engine. A comfortable interior that you would love, more than a fat kid likes chocolate. The eye-shining interior features a dragway billet flamed steering wheel, beige carpet, re-trimmed minus headrest with a compatible custom made leather seat, a sweet-sounding 351 Cleveland radio and also a nice gripping B&M pro ratchet shifter (gearstick). You’re also riding with a wavetek 17×7in (front) and 17×9 (rear) rims.

Today we are doing this slightly differently.

I’ll get you to type up your article then print it.

I’ll correct your article on paper and then give it back to you.

Fix your electronic copy. Use this link to put in up on the website. The username and password will be up on the whiteboard.

This will make it quicker for me to publish your articles this afternoon.

For your Lost in Translation Poetry.

1. Write a short story of between 100 and 200 words.

2. Feed it through about five or six languages on Google Translate

3. Paste the result into a Word document.

4. Put in line breaks to make it read like poetry.

5. Put this document in my drop box.