'Father and Daughter'

Please feel free to watch the short animated film above and start a discussion here on your thoughts about it.

General discussion on 'Killing Time at Home'

Please start a discussion here with each other on your thoughts about the film using the conversations that we have had in class as a starting point.

Neil Coslett - Director of 'Killing Time at Home'

http://neilcoslett.blogspot.co.uk/

See the link above for further information on the director of 'Killing Time at Home' - Neil Coslett.

'Killing Time at Home'

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Homework Questions on WW2

1.       In which year did WW2 begin?

2.       In which year did WW2 end?

3.       Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during WW2 (there may be more than one so name all the ones you find)?

4.       What event caused the USA to enter the war?

5.       What does D Day celebrate?

6.       Find the names of three countries which were allied to Great Britain during the war, three countries which were fighting against Great Britain and two countries which remained neutral.

7.       Find definitions of the following three terms: Concentration Camps, Genocide, Holocaust.

Extension task (optional): Find out what you can about a man called Adolf Hitler.

Reflections on the Debating Task

Write a short comment here on how you think you did in your debating task. Remember not to be too hard on yourself - write some of the good things as well as one or two things you would like to improve on for next time.

'Unrelated Incidents' by Tom Leonard

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.
thirza right
way ti spell
ana right way
to tok it. this
is me tokn yir
right way a
spellin. this
is ma trooth.
yooz doant no
thi trooth
yirsellz cawz
yi canny talk
right. this is
the six a clock
nyooz. belt up.

Hi everybody. Thanks for some fantastic discussion last lesson on the poem above. For your homework, I am asking you to engage in further discussion of the poem with each other, using some of the points raised in class as a starting point, for example:

1) Tom Leonard's Glaswegian accent and attitudes towards it/him.
2) The BBC and the fact that it is based in London.
3) The fact that the poem is written phoentically.
4) Consider why the poem is written in a narrow form on the page.
5) Standard English and Received Pronunciation

Here are some useful links to continue your thinking about the poem:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/poemscult/unrelatedrev2.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/tom-leonard-the-six-o-clock-news/10301.html

Watch Tom Leonard talking about the poem below. What are your thoughts about what he says? Start a discussion with somebody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfU9qm-oOUY&feature=related

You migth also consider doing some research into the terms 'Standard English' and 'Received Pronunciation'.

Good luck and get talking!