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| Teachers' Note: Please go through the marking key with the students so that
they know what they need to achieve and what is
expected. Also, I ask my students to complete
these questions/activities each week and I mark
their work once or twice a term. This helps them
to develop their work and for me to assess growth
in their analytical, writing and meta-cognitive
skills. This
is more suited to lower school English Studies,
although it can be adapted to Senior School
Studies by asking more specific questions on the
implied reader and author, gaps and silences and
ideology.
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REFLECTION JOURNAL QUESTIONS
Read some humorous responses to some
of these questions
Your answers are required to be thoughtful and
extended and are to be as different as you can make them from
week to week.
Continue the following sentence stems (a) and answer
the following questions (b) Each
response should be at least
3 lines. Each answer should deal with what you have learnt/studied/viewed/read
in English but you may include references to other subject areas
when relevant.You need to provide examples as far as possible.
A
- This week I learned.........
- What I have found difficult about what I have
read/viewed/heard this week is.........
- My writing and reading skills........(reflect on
them and your efforts, areas of strength and weakness
providing specific examples)
- My listening and speaking skills........(reflect
on them and your efforts, areas of strength and weakness
providing specific examples)
B
- Is what you are currently reading/viewing or
studying challenging you in any way? In what way?
- What is puzzling you as you are reading at
present? (About the author, characters, ideas etc.) What
specific questions are being raised by what you are
reading?
- Can you make any connections between what you are
reading/viewing and everyday life, history, situations in
the world, any other subject you are studying or your own
life?
- Write down 3 questions you have for an author of
a text you are reading/viewing/studying at present.
Explain why you have asked those questions.
- What are you learning about yourself from what
you are reading/viewing/studying? (Your own values,
attitudes and beliefs)