1. Writing to EXPLORE
Friday, 22 February 2019

2. Michael GOVE
'School timetable is only fit for an agricultural economy': Michael Gove calls for longer school days and shorter holidays A headline in The Independent on April 19th 2013 Your question will ask you to explore the possible reaction to this idea. timetable-is-only-fit-for-an-agricultural-economy-michael- gove-calls-for-longer-school-days-and-shorter-holidays html

3. Explore - possibility
If there is uncertainty in your response, the language must reflect this. You MAY need to use the conditional form of verbs, using modals… The “verb of possibility” Might, could, should, may…

4. HATS
Yellow – positives for children Blue – negatives for children White –positives for families Red – Negatives for families Green – wider positive implications for society Black – other areas that would be impacted in a negative way

5. 5 minutes in each hat
We will carousel round and build ideas for an essay I will copy these to the blog, edmodo and the VLE You will be writing an essay in class next week - 45 minute task. Unlike an argument, EXPLORATION has no fixed outcome – you are not expected to take sides, nor to persuade. The organisation should reflect the sense of “topic grouping” that we used when writing for debate (argument)