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Year 9 English

Semester 2, 2010

Welcome to the wiki for Year 9 English. This wiki will include many different resources for use in your English class, as well as being a place to display your work. Copies of assignment sheet and other handouts will be linked through here so you don't ever have to worry about the sheet getting lost in your locker again.

Link to Remember the Titans wikispace

Essay planning guide.

TEEL: what's it all about.

Brainstorm methods.

Basically using a new sheet of paper or Xmind, start brainstorming ideas in relation to the concepts/ themes you came up with in step 2. Write them on the paper using key words, put them in little circles and then extend upon the ideas. Include any parts of the story relevant to the theme, characters involved and what they think, link between the ideas/ how they’re all connected. You can even use visuals to represent ideas, but remember you will eventually need to put it in words. Again write everything you think of, but give yourself a time limit so you don’t wander too far off track.
 * Concept mapping or brainstorming **

This is kind of like a police interrogation but you are questioning the topic (concepts/ themes). Basically what you do in this technique is start to ask as many questions as you can about the topic. As soon as you think of a question jot it down. Write anything. Start with: what is this all about in the text? Who is involved? What do they think, feel, do, etc? Why do they do this? What is the effect? How does it happen? When? What do I think is going on? Do I agree or disagree with the essay question? Give yourself a time limit to think of questions, then get to answering them.
 * Interrogation **