Knowledgeables,
please write the homework down before you start.
Today you get to explore a great resource: the 'learning' section of The British Library website. You can visit this site again to do some practice analysis but I want you to explore some of what is available today and find your way around. Write a review of one of the sections/texts you look at and do some PEE analysis of something you found in the text (plan to hit all 3 assessment objectives in the paragraph). Below are some ideas to get you going. Don't feel you need to use them. Do make your review helpful and do more reviews whenever you visit something useful in the runup to the exam.
I particularly love the virtual books e.g. Alice's Adventures Under Ground (the original version of Alice in Wonderland). Click on the book to turn the pages and have a look. Explore some of the other most viewed virtual books.
If you have headphones, the section 'sounds familiar' on the left-hand menu might be interesting. For Language Change, there is changing voices, which some of the sound links work for: 'tunes' doesn't for me, sadly! But others did.
This text in the 'Books for Cooks' might look familiar. This is a great section to find suitable practice texts in. Use the 'show transcript' link to get the texts.
The changing language section is obviously a must-visit locale.
find Dr Johnson's dictionary (and much more besides!) on the English timeline and listen to the audio performace of the preface.
homework for next Tuesday:
read the letters in this text from 1928 and then the 1967 Ebony magazine article and the letters in response (which mentions the original exchange and Benjamin Whorf of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis). Think about the terms that are used to describe race now. What do you use about yourself? About others? Make notes - they can be personal as I will just have a quick look and I won't ask you to share with the class without your permission.
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