AS Language work in my absence Fri 22nd lesson time

Diligents,

I haven't had many emails with questions or updates and I hope that this means you are getting on well with the gender research.

More comments are needed on the articles on my blog and they need to show that you have engaged with the posts: you can ask a question, state a linguistically-focussed opinion, challenge what is said, link to another article or your own example or make any other kind of relevant comment but you must use these posts as inspiration for connections you could make in the exams, so it is important you do wider reading based on the ideas that interest you and that you ensure you really understand what was said.

For Friday's lesson time, please comment on three posts that I have put on my blog. You can use the search bar at the top left of my blog to search for key words within my archive of posts, so it would make sense for at least one of the ones you read to be on gender - just make sure you scroll down to evaluate them until you choose one you think you would like to get to grips with - don't just choose the first! There isn't much on occupation but there is plenty on power, gender and accent and dialect or you could just browse the archive until you find something that captures your interest.

If you were struggling to find something on women's voices from my research prompts, if you search 'Mary Beard' within my blog, you will get to an article that discusses her ideas.

I will be able to read your comments through the Blogger dashboard no matter which article you comment on so I will see who has and has not done the task. Use the lesson time so you should all have finished by end of Friday and I will look at the comments on Saturday. I will accept two thoughtful comments on longer articles if I think what you've done represents a lesson's work.

Edit: if you haven't done six comments across all the blogs from the eearlier set work, you need to catch that up. I want to make sure you have a really good range of wider reading to apply as we start doing more practice papers.