introduction

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 6

Introduction:

class

Introduction

• tests  this year;
• - reading, writing, listening and speaking



• final exam
• Booklist

PTA 2020-2021 6VWO

4 tests this year:

• 1 Reading test CITO
• 1 CITO Listening and watching


• 1 Writing test
• 1 oral exam

Literature

• 1. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories 
  
• 2. Julian Barnes – The Sense of an ending
  
• 3. Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights
  
• 4. Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre
  
• 5. Truman Capote – In cold blood
  
• 6. Nicholas Evans – The Brave
  
• 7. Ian McEwan- Saturday
  
• 8. Ian McEwan- Atonement
  
• 9. Frederick Forsyth- The Odessa File
  
• 10. John Fowles- The Collector
  
• 13. Mark Haddon – The Red House
  
• 15. Ken Kesey- One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
  
• 16. Harper Lee – To kill a Mockingbird
  
• 17. Michael Ondaatje- The English Patient
  
• 18. Ruth Rendell – Kissing the Gunner’s daughter
  

•  19.Jonathan Safran Foer- Extremely loud and incredibly close
  
• 20 . Paul Theroux- The mosquito Coast
  
• 21.Oscar Wilde- The picture of Dorian Gray
  
• 22.A million little pieces- James Frey
  
• 23. twelve years a slave-Solomon Northrup
  
• 24.Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  
• 25.Charles Bukowski – Ham on Rye
  
• 26.Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
  
• 27.Cormack McCarthy – The Road
  
• 28.Emma Donoghue – Room
  

29.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles

30.Dave Eggers – The Circle

• 29.Ian McEwan – The Children Act
  
• 30. Ian McEwan – Saturday
  
• 31. Gilian Flynn – Gone Girl
  
• 32.Nicci French – Until It’s Over
  
• 33. Nicci French- Blue Monday
  
• 34.Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
  
• 35.Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
  
• 36.Yann Martel – Life of Pi
  
• 37.Kathryn Stocket – The Help
  
• 38.Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  

So, This Year...

We are going to start with a final exam

You have to do the test on your own in order to figure out how much you need to do later on this year :) 

You will have three lessons to finish your exam. You are allowed to use a dictionary

Good Luck!!

Monday the 14th of September

Finish the exam text

Friday the 18th of September

• Read book ( 10 min )
  
• FINISH EXAM TEXT
  
• Do WRITING ASSIGNMENT 2 (studiewijzer)
  

 Wednesday the 23rd of September

• Read book (10 min) 
  
• Listening and watching exercise

Wednesday the 23rd  of September

• Read book (10 min) 
  
• Cito Listening and watching

Friday the 25th of September

• Read book (10 min) 
  
• How to write an essay
• finish exam text 
• Do ex. writing and more ( magister> studiewijzer> 6V EN> leerstof en toetsen P1> writing and more. 

How to write an essay

What is an essay

a short piece of writing on a particular subject/an attempt

 essay

• inventing - generating ideas/ organising them
• Drafting - writing of your essay
• Editing - correcting and improving your work

 essay

title

paragraph one- core sentence is the topic sentence which has to be linked to your thesis statement

To write an essay, there are three stages you need to follow:

Preparation: Decide on your topic, do your research, and create an essay outline.

Writing: Set out your argument in the introduction, develop it with evidence in the main body, and wrap it up with a conclusion.

Revision: Check the content, organization, grammar, spelling, and formatting of your essay.

introduction 

1. Hook your reader by piquing interest and curiosity

The first sentence of the introduction should pique the interest of your reader. This sentence is sometimes called the hook. It might be a question, a quote, a surprising statistic, or a bold statement emphasizing the relevance of the topic.

Introduction essay

Wednesday the 7th of October

* Reading ( 10 min) 

Write an essay and hand it in

Friday the 8th of October

* Reading ( 10 min) 

Write an essay and hand it in

Work on your exam text

Monday the 12th of October

* Reading ( 10 min) 

Write an essay and hand it in

Work on your exam text

 the 13th of October

*Presentations

* Quizlet ( if we have got some time left)

Friday 16th of October

*Read your book for (10 min)

*Questions about Essay writing

* Quizlet