Homework, Friday, January 27th, 2017

Read the article below and answer the questions that follow:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/jun/21/schools.uk1

1. What is the name of the school which is mentioned in the article?

2. What did the teacher who ‘lost it’ threaten to do to the pupils?

3. Why do you think the writer asks us to put ourselves in the place of the teacher?

4. The writer asks us whether we have any children of our own. What literary technique is this an example of?

5. Why do you think the writer tells us in the second paragraph that she herself has been a teacher?

6. What word does she use to describe the experience of supply teaching?

7. What is the effect of this word on us as readers?

8. Who does the writer partly blame in the fourth paragraph for the negative attitude of students towards teachers?

9. How does the writer describe the students in the final paragraph?

10. Thinking about the article as a whole, how does the writer try to make us sympathise with the teacher who ‘lost it’?

Before you write an answer to this question, copy out and fill in the table below (the first two points have been done for you):

What she says	How she says it
·        The writer tells us that she herself has been a teacher and it was not much fun.	·        She uses the word ‘hell’ to describe her own experience. This is a very powerful word and an example of hyperbole.

Now take the information from the table and turn it into a two paragraph answer the question. You need to write around 200 words. 

As always, this is due on Monday. 

Good luck!