Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Marking Criterea

  • Skillful interpretation of the question and use of language features, form and structure to craft an exposition essay.
Explanatory
       - take a side/position/opinion
       - argument!!!   - taken from your THESIS
              - Expressive/persuasive
              - logical (logos)
              - high modality (med)
  •  Evaluate how the text sustains or challenges established cultural assumptions
Judgement
        - Controlling info/fear    - if you know information you can control fear
        -  Dramatic irony
        - Unknown - xenophobia - fear of meeting others
        - Fear of death
        - Fear of conflict
        - Fear of failure



XENOPHOBIA ! progress is propelled from humans being afraid of buggers and they use ender to propell this to kill them. intro - link to history and real life examples. body - use of colonisation(which is positive, the progress <<<) [author makes this xenophibia link to reality of xenophibia being a good thing and it helps us develope if society - in the book kill buggers and make a new colony]

Friday, June 10, 2011

Notes

Cav's Guide to writing and essay :)

1. Read - Active reading

  • Reacting
  • How you feel to the writing
  • Allow yourself to react and think abut the writing
2. Hypothesis - Question + idea's
  • Unpack the question
  • Reaction to the question and book
3. Research
  • Find examples
4. Stream of consciousness
  • Just write and write and write and write
  • See what ideas come to you
  • Come to conclusion of strong views/opinion
5. Now a thesis

6. Organize - structure

7. Draft - Edit

8. A++ is written

STRUCTURE

INTRO
  1. Grab attention - Why do we need to listen to your essay. 1-3 sentences
  2. Intro topic - specific to text   1-sentences
  3. Finish with thesis
^^ road map, help the reader out, give them a nice idea of where the essay is going, let them know whats up

BODY
  1. Info
  2. Examples
  3. Paragraph - i) Topic Sentence. - links to thesis ii) Examples - Quotes (summaries the quote, whats happening. Explain relevant of the quote) iii) Transition to next paragraph
CONCLUSION

Monday, June 6, 2011

Ender's Major Events

Battle school

  • Fear of Peter
  • Fear of the Buggers
Battle school was created from the FEAR of the Buggers

Isolation
  • Start of battle school
  • Room leader
  • Lunch                          ------------ Propelled by failure/death
  • Battle room
  • Commander School
Fear is progressed by making Ender Isolated to make him a better and stronger character. ^^^



Fighting
  • Stilson
  • Bonzo
  • Bernard (cyber)
Fear of loss of respect/ego
Fear of Future - negative outcomes if he doesn't do something.

Assessment

In the Science Fiction genre worlds of Ender's Game, progress is propelled by fear.

IMPORTANT
Science Fiction
Genre
Conventions
Progress
Technological
Development of Knowledge 
Species
Human Capabilities/health
Social
Propelled
Pushing forward
Fear
Failure - Like his brother
Not being good enough for the buggers
Acceptance
Lose of control


Enders trouble of acceptance is propelled societal issues and Human Capabilities.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Locke and Demosthenes

Who is John Locke and Demosthenes?
John Locke is a famous English philosopher and physician. He is mentioned in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke's thoughts and actions were aimed at independence and self. Locke thought that we are born without thoughts, and that knowledge is made only by experiences and influences. He was all about independents and social contracting.
Demosthenes is a famous Greek statesmen, he was a very successful man and wrote speeches for other people. He was sort of an outsider from the rest of the public. 
Give a summary of each (2-3 sent) and describe how they are related to Valentine and Peter (2-3 sent).


Summarize Peter and Valentine's position that they take on the nets.




What role does fear play into how successful Valentine and Peter are?




Locke: 


Demosthenes: anti Russian. paranoid.