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Year 9 – (Term 2) The role of women Reading tasks Grammar  In the early 19th century women had no place in politics. The suffragettes Definition: A conjunction began in 1832 & ended in 1918 when parliament passed a bill allowing all A comparative analysis & a comparative a non- that is being used at the 1901-1957 women over 30 to vote. fiction analysis Fronted start of a sentence such as  Women had victories but suffered many hardships during this time, even conjunction “However, you could argue The Modernists were some extremely edgy lads & ladies, who made a point of offending as at the hands of the police who force fed them during their hunger Writing tasks that…” or “And it rang and many people as they could in order to explore new territory in their work. It isn't surprising that protests. The following people are considered influential to the cause: rang.” one important journal that published these writers' works was called Blast. Three, two, one, Blast Emily Pankhurst & Millicent Fawcett. : An adverbial off: these guys meant to clear out the old as quickly & violently as possible to make way for new  Women were presented as dangerous & villainous. The cartoons were A formal letter to advise & a biography Definition that comes at the ways of seeing & being. particularly vicious. Fronted beginning of the sentence.  The industrial revolution & WW1 provided women with opportunities to adverbial What is Modernism? prosper & be united for their country. Women, in most cases , were Writing a biography e.g. After dinner, she went  Concerned with the inner-self & , defined as a rebellious period better represented in Literature due to their efforts in wartime. for a nap.  Rejected popular ideas associated with the Romantic period e.g. a dismissal of idealised  Anne Frank’s Diary is moving text due to its autobiographical style. This  They are personal pieces of writing recording Bounce-back grammar from Y7 & Y8 views concerning nature & the beauty of being. Also rejected the Victorian strict authentic first-hand account of hope at a time of great darkness is truly thoughts & feelings about life experiences Noun types, verb types, adjective types, code. BOUNCE BACK – ROMANTICISM AND VICTORIANS. moving.  The reader gains an understanding of the writer's adverb types, articles, simple and  Associated with nihilism (the rejection of all religious & moral principles, in the belief personality continuous tenses, sentence types, clause  that life is meaningless) & questioning of humanity Possible writing purposes The reader gains an insight into the writer's life types, pronoun types, conjunctions, noun   Concerned with decline of civilisation due to the bleakness of the industrial revolution, People & places are described in detail phrases globalisation & the First World War.  Language is descriptive & imaginative  A highly liberating (freeing) & creative period that moved away from previous Q - Explain what you think about.....  They are written in the 3rd person  Be factual conventions e.g. modernism experimented with , & Comparative conjunctions  Give a balanced view (but not contradictory) . Reading skills: Explain  Use evidence to support your view What is comparison & why is it AND – also, BUT – however, Profile of a modernist writer- .  Use connectives of comparison additionally, meanwhile, yet, rd st  Regarded as the modernist inventor – one of the most important writers of the  Write in 3 or 1 person important? similarly, as, both, whilst, although, in 20th century too, comparably, as contrast,  Modernism focuses on something seemingly ordinary & then portrays it as if it were Q - Advise the reader of the best way.... Comparison is when you place two things side by side well as, likewise differently, unfamiliar & bizarre  Be factual to examine the similarities & differences. Comparison is although, though,  The novel (Joyce’s most famous novel) focuses on one day following the Instruct  Write in vital because we can identify changes in attitudes differ Leopold Bloom (it is 783 pages long!) Advice  Use connectives amongst writers & learn to value different ideas, also, it  It is narrated as a stream-of-consciousness that allows the reader to trace Bloom’s  Use technical terms will add another layer of interpretation to your writing. actions & thoughts. Consequently, the style breaks the illusion of reality.  Write in 2nd person You can compare thoughts, language style, poetic terms, intended effects, structure & form. War Q - Argue the case for/against.... Stretch yourself  Between 1914 and 1918, over nine million people died. Entire cities were razed to the  Rhetorical questions Writing Skills: ground. Nations crumbled, only to be re-formed amidst political turmoil and enough bad  Argue Emotive language How does using conventions of different Look up ‘new paradigms’, ‘avant-garde’, blood to launch another war (World War II, to be precise) a few short decades later.  Counter arguments ‘imaginism’, ‘vorticism’, Also take a look at  Poets such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Ivor Gurney have a  purposes increase the likelihood of IAMAFORESTER ’s writing. strong association with World War One. As a group, their poems are often violent and getting the desired response from the realistic, challenging earlier poetry which communicated a pro-war message. The first-hand Q - Persuade the writer of the statement that... experience of war is maybe one reason why there is such a shift in the attitude of poets  IAMAFORESTER reader? towards war. Persuade  One-sided argument Looking forward to next term…. The purpose of a text, is the 'job' the writer wants the Modernist form text to do: e.g. persuade/ advise/ argue/ entertain/ inform/ instruct. Writers use a specific selection of  Stream of consciousness - a person's thoughts & conscious reactions to events, seen as a Writing a letter language, structure and form techniques to do that job . And what has contemporary literature done continuous flow. The term was introduced by in his Principles of for us? Well, it's broken down boundaries. Psychology (1890). By following the conventions (rules) of a certain  the use of both addresses & date (top right) purpose, which are familiar to the reader, and normally Where some other eras and literary  Satire - the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose & criticise people's movements have tried to draw a line stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of politics & other topical issues.  a formal of address e.g. Dear Sir/Madam or a named recipient elicit (get) certain responses, the writer is ensuring that  effectively/fluently sequenced paragraphs the text does its job on the reader. So just as a hammer between high and low culture, it mixes  Irony - the expression of meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, things up. It's the opposite of snobby, and typically for humorous or emphatic (emphasis) effect.  an appropriate mode of signing off: Yours sincerely (if you know the would not normally be effective for a relaxing massage, humour would not normally be effective for an doesn't worship a particular set of "classic"  The unconscious - Freud's idea about the stormy seas of desire and animal need that are person’s name) OR Yours faithfully (if you don’t know the person’s name. instruction-based recipe book. authors or texts. Postmodernism comes crashing about in the back of your mind right now. next…