Year+12

//__Welcome Year Twelve!__//

Ladies - Internal school exams are only one week away and NCEA exams are in ten weeks so it is time to start hitting the books in a very serious way!

There are number of ways this page can help you get the most out of this critical stage:
 * Go to __Revision__ to find revision class preparation.
 * Go to resources to find handouts, information about NCEA and Internal Standards and links to a number of websites.


 * Current standard - 2.7 Presentation Speech Due for delevery in week 9**

What should you be doing now?? Tuesday; Create an essay outline for a Film essay in response to the question **Analyse how** links between the **beginning **and **end of the text **helped you understand a **main theme or issue **. Your completed essay should be left in the box on the corner of Mrs JLs desk on Wednesday. If you have not completed an Othello essay then you should complete one! Wednesday: Revise poems, poetry notes and language glossary in rediness for a poetry essay on Thursday. Thursday; Create an essay outline and write an essay in response to the question: For EACH of the texts, analyse how the writer used symbolism and / or figurative language to develop an important idea.
 * 1) Check your notes - do they still make sense? Can they be condensed? are there links now that you didn't notice before?
 * 2) Review the glossaries of language features. Use them to flesh out your notes.
 * 3) Practise writing introductory sentences based on the essay questions from each standard. Try to create one or two sentences you are comfortable using for each TYPE of question with each type of text.

//__Term 3__// [|Information about Literacy Credits] Week 5 you are expected to draft a formal speech for internal assessment standard 2.7, practising it in your prep time in week 6-7. **Actual assessment will be in week 9.** [|Information about 2.7 Formal Speech on Studyit] [|Link to Achievement Standard 2.7 Version B5 The Art of Persuasion] In weeks 6 and 7 we are revising for achievement standards 1.3 Shakespeare, 1.4 Poetry, 1.5 Film and 1.6 Oral and Visual Text.