Paper 1
What does Paper 1 test you on?
Bonus: how many questions are there?
Reading
3 questions (many sub-questions)
What does Paper 2 test you on?
Directed Writing & Composition
What is the purpose, audience, and form of journal entries?
Purpose: Entertain
Audience: Individual
Form: Structured by date, short reflections of each day, informal writing
Narrative writing is __% plot and __% description.
80% plot / 20% description
Descriptive writing is 20% ____ and 80% __________.
plot / description
Question 1 on Paper 1 tests comprehension and summary skills. What do you need to write a summary? (List 3 things)
Bonus: What tips do you have for summary writing?
- Be concise/focused (use few, precise vocab words)
- articulate (use varied vocabulary)
- be brief/relevant (only include important details)
- Well-structured
- Use your own words
Approximately how many words should you write per section for Paper 2?
Section B: ~350-450 words
What is the purpose, audience, and form of interviews/podcasts?
Purpose: Entertain/Inform
Audience: Those interested in specific topics (sports, art, politics, etc)
Form: Q&A focusing on the interviewee
Name the different types of conflict.
Internal (character versus self)
External (character versus man, character versus society, character versus nature)
How can you make descriptive writing interesting?
interesting adjectives, powerful adverbs, strong appeal to the senses, literary devices, complex sentences to give details and variation, and short sentences to emphasize or create tension/suspense.
Question 2 on Paper 1 focuses on showing an understanding of how writers achieve certain effects and how they influence others. How is this done? (List at least 3)
LIDDS
Language - figurative language, e.g. metaphor, personification, simile, etc
Imagery - How does the author use descriptions/5 senses?
Diction - word choice
Details - what is included/left out?
Syntax - how is the sentence structured?
Section B (Paper 2) is about composition. What types of writing will you do for this section?
Narrative or Descriptive
What is the purpose, audience, and form of speeches?
Purpose: Persuade
Audience: General
Form: Direct address, powerful language, first-person
Describe a general narrative structure.
Exposition (establish the norm)
Inciting incident (introduce problem)
Rising action (problem escalates)
Climax (problem is addressed)
Falling action (direct result after problem is addressed)
Resolution (long-term effects after problem is addressed; what is the "new normal")
What are effective ways to describe something?
Figurative language (literary devices), imagery (5 senses), describing emotions through observation/experience, describing the scenery/environment, describing actions, show-don't-tell
List at least 5 different types of directed writing you may need to do for Question 3 (Paper 1).
Bonus: Tell us your favorite kind!
Newspaper/formal report, magazine article, journal entry, interview/podcast, speech, formal letter, informal letter
Section A on Paper 2 tests comprehension and directed writing skills. You will be asked to create a discursive/argumentative/persuasive response using your own words.
What does discursive, argumentative, and persuasive mean?
Discursive - explore many ideas on a topic and discuss both sides in a balanced way.
Argumentative - take a position on an issue or topic and explain and support your position. Should include a counter-argument and is to a more specific audience.
Persuasive - To persuade the readers to agree with you.
What is the purpose, audience, and form of formal letters?
Purpose: Inform
Audience: Specific individual
Form: Direct address, raises a concern, formal language, request for action
What are the different ways to start a story? Name at least 3.
1. Starting in the middle
2. Shocking/intriguing statement
3. Flashback/Flashforward
4. Framing the story
5. Setting the scene
How do you structure a descriptive essay?
1. Setting: Describe the setting
2. Positioning: Describe where the "camera" is located in relation to the object/place it's describing.
3. Approaching: Describe the "camera" getting closer to the object/location.
4. Arriving: Describe the "camera" now that it's at the location/object.
5. Farewell: Describe the "camera" leaving the scene.
Using your own words, explain what the writer means by each of the words underlined: Trek-training began in earnest. My carefully planned route passed fortuitously close to a favourite café in case of emergency. I’d anticipated I’d need a few jabs for Peru, but the cheery list of disorders I needed vaccinating against was reeled off by my doctor with more than a little glee.
in earnest: for real, seriously, really began, started properly
fortuitously: fortunately, luckily, as if by luck, conveniently, as if by accident, deliberately
anticipated: realized beforehand, expected, thought, imagined, assumed, predicted, foresaw, knew
What is the structure of a general essay that could be used for longer written pieces?
Introduction:
- Hook (optional)
- Background information/Definitions
- Thesis statement
Body paragraphs (3)
- Topic Sentence
- Explanations
- Examples/Evidence
- Link to thesis
Conclusion
- Summary of essay
- Call to action/Explanation of why it matters
What is the purpose, audience, and form of magazine articles?
Purpose: Entertain/Inform
Audience: Targeted audience (whatever the content of the magazine)
Form: Informal, humorous, engages audience, educational
Name at least 8 literary devices.
Alliteration, allegory, allusion, analogy, anthropomorphism, anachronism, anti-climax, antithesis, colloquialism, diction, elegy, epiphany, euphemism, foreshadowing, hyperbole, idiom, imagery, irony, interrogation, juxtaposition, malapropism, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, personification, pun, repetition, rhyme, rhythm/meter, satire, simile, symbolism, synecdoche, tone
Describe your favorite place.
Best description gets the points!