Critical Literacy- Decoding Media!

1. What aspects of stories was she (Andrea)  interested in?
2. What did the ad imply with the big diamond ring?
3. What is subtext?
4. With CL, can each student have their own answer?
5. What does Andrea compare CL to?
6. How can CL be applied to your life outside of school?

1. Andrea was interested in the aspects of stories that no one told her. The secret messages that she had to decode to find. 

2. The ad that she seen as a child implied that because the man gave the women the big diamond ring that they were going to live together, happily ever after. It also implied that the man is the one that gives the woman the gifts in the relationships. 

3. It is an underlying theme in a story or conversation. Its what we dont see and is basically just our own interpretation on the text. 

4.Yes, a student can have their own answer and it's okay if their answer is different from their classmates. They bring their own opinions into class with them. With this part of English all students should have an opinion on the text, video or other media aspects. 

5. She compares Critical Literacy to a Super Power; decoding media to find the truth. 

6. It's something that you can use everyday and doesn't just have to be at  school. It allows you to be able to find underlying messages while you are watching an ad or movie. CL helps you decode messages that before you took the class, you wouldn't be able to have seen.

Creative Writing #5- Metaphors and Similes

What's the difference between the two?
A simile is when you use words such as as or like to compare one thing to another thing whereas a metaphor is where you just directly state the comparison that there is. 


What is a Metaphor?
It's a figure of speech that refers to something by telling us about another. It can/may identify similarities that we hadn't noticed before between two ideas. 



What is a simile?

It is a a figure of speech that compares two things directly. They are a form of metaphor that use  connecting words, but these words may not be always necessary. 


My own two metaphors and similes?

Janes heart is made of gold. 

The football pitch was like a sauna

She is like the sunshine
He is as bad as the devil. 

Creative Writing #1- Language Features

At the moment in English we've been doing Creative Writing. There are 6 tasks that we have to do in a set amount of time. The tasks can be done in any order and the chart that they are on looks like the one Miss Richardson used last year for our Creative Writing. Just on a smaller scale. For the first task, I chose to do the one where we had to find the definition of a few language features that we didn't know about and that we would see in bits of writing quite a bit. 

I chose anaphora and Allusion as I actually hadn't heard of these full stop. I found it interesting that, while I hadn't heard the names of these two features, I had come across them before and I had used them both in a few pieces of writing that I have done for school.