Week Two Stuff

We worked on activities from The Learning Curve, chapter one: Introduction to journeys and revised basic concepts of meaning, and how that is affected by form, context, audience, features, structure and register.

Students were meant to complete activities 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8.

We spent a bit of time analysing in detail Lao-tzu's proverb, "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." We looked at the effect of word choice, the composer's purpose and what this quote said about journeys, and how the conception of the journey implied in this quote might be different or similar to other notions about journeys.

We looked closely at the Board of Studies description of Physical Journeys. Students were asked to reflect on this and write their own understanding of physical journeys in their learning journal.

Stimulus texts were also handed out and students asked to read and write responses to these along the lines laid out on page 5 of The learning curve.

We began analysing "The Road Not Taken".