1. Objectives Junior Cert ASSESSMENTS Date:
Understand the assessment/exam coming up this term.
Have students bring in English folders and, specifically, every piece of original work they have written (essays, poems, plays, speeches, etc.)
Write an essay to add to their ‘Collection of Texts’
Warm –up – raise your hand
One thing I did over mid-term. (If study – studied what?)

2. Let us read through the sheets to understand what is on the ‘exam’.

3. Plan I plan to have you write several pieces of work as follows
A descriptive essay linked to Once Germany
A functional piece (Letter) linked to Of Mice and Men America
An autobiography linked to Romeo and Juliet Italy
A media piece based on you Ireland

4. Write a plan for a descriptive essay set in World War Two Germany
Write a plan for a descriptive essay set in World War Two Germany. (We can reference your study of Once)
Note first: A Descriptive Essay – half-way between a short story and personal essay.
Plot (beginning, middle, end),
Setting, Characterisation.
Vivid Imagery, simile, metaphor,
evokes the five senses,
Rich verbs, adverbs and adjectives
Symbolism, Personification
Comparison, Contrast, 2
pages

5. We shall spend the class writing the essay.
Homework – have a plan by tomorrow
We shall spend the class writing the essay.
Bring in any and all essays, poems, speeches, letters, ANY PIECE OF ORIGINAL WORK you have written tomorrow.