Over the half-term break, please complete the following:Poems from Other Cultures

Choose 2-3 questions from ‘Poems from Other Cultures questions’ and answer them in timed conditions.

Mark what you have written against the Grade B response. Set yourself targets on how to improve after each essay and try to improve your response

under timed conditions.

Literature Poems

Choose 2-3 questions from ‘Literature poems questions’ and answer them in timed conditions.Mark what you have written against the Grade A response.Set yourself targets on how to improve after each essay and try to improve your response under timed conditions.

Writing exams

o Remember, this is where you will be assessed on how well you accurately use varied punctuation, varied sentence lengths and link paragraphs.

o You are also being assessed on how well you write an interesting piece of work.o Choose 2-3 questions from ‘Writing to argue/persuade/advise and

inform/describe/entertain questions’ and answer them under timed conditions.o Mark what you have written against the Grade A/B responses.o Set yourself targets on how to improve after each essay and try to improve your response

under timed conditions.

Of Mice and Men

Choose 2-3 questions from ‘Of Mice and Men questions’ and answer them under timed conditions.

Mark what you have written against the Grade B response. Set yourself targets on how to improve after each essay and try to improve your response

under timed conditions.

Paper 1, Section A

Read a variety of texts- articles from newspapers and the internet, and summarise them in 6-9 points. (see articles below)

Read them and analyse them for use of facts and opinions- can you highlight any/can you discuss why they are being used. Choose 2 facts/opinions per article and write down why they are being used.

Analyse the use of language in them. What type of language is being used and why. (PEE/EE/EE response)

What presentational devices are being used to present the creator’s ideas and perspectives (in the three adverts below.) Write a PEE/EE/EE paragraph response for each.

Jamie Oliver Article- example questions.

1. In your own words, explain why ‘canteens are the biggest barriers to healthy eating for kids.’ (4 marks)

2. Explain why Jamie Oliver is going to ‘give away millions of his own cash.’ (4 marks)3. Explain how facts and opinions are used effectively in both articles. (6 marks)4. Write down three facts and three opinions from each article. (3 marks)5. Write down two reasons to explain why Judy Hargadon thinks children are ‘put off’ from

eating in a canteen. (2 marks)6. How has Jamie Oliver used opinions to persuade in his article? (6 marks)

When complete, please bring back into class with you, after half term, an example of your best work from each of the questions.

Jamie Oliver to spend own millions on school meals By Liam Allen Entertainment reporter, BBC News

Jamie Oliver plans to spend millions of pounds of his own money over 10 years to improve food education and meals in UK primary schools, he has revealed.

Individual schools could bid for "literally hundreds of thousands of pounds" to take measures including building gardens and new kitchens.

He said he wanted to "touch 1,000" of the UK's 20,000-plus primary schools.

Although plans were at an early stage, he hoped the scheme would provide a model for government policy.

Last month, a study by Oxford University and Essex University found that Oliver's campaign for healthy school dinners had boosted pupils' test results.

He started his Feed Me Better Campaign in 2005 because he was appalled by the junk food being served at many schools in England.

Aggressive approach

He told the BBC he hoped his new scheme would tackle childhood obesity in "the most unhealthy country in Europe" which had "the first generation of kids expected to live a shorter life than their parents".

Oliver, 34, was speaking after it was reported that he will appear in 22nd place on the Times Giving List, which estimates he has given £2.7m to charity.

His Fifteen restaurants support a charitable foundation which funds chef apprenticeships for disadvantaged young people.

"Probably what I am going to do over the next 10 to 15 years is literally have a percentage of profits from every single company that I have which hives cash down."

The pot of money would be used to create "a mechanism of food that the schools can bid for".

Oliver's US campaign, Jamie's Food Revolution, is showing on ABC

We'll say to government, 'now we've proved it - just do it'

Jamie Oliver

"If, in terms of parents and teachers, they can put all their ducks in a row then literally hundreds of thousands of pounds will be spent on that school.

"It will build gardens, build school kitchens, give them seeds and fruit trees as well as teaching collateral including web sites, DVDs and conferences."

'Tangible change'

Mentors provided by Oliver would help to provide full food education support, he said.

Oliver, who has made a new Channel 4 series Jamie Does and written an accompanying book, said he hoped to start off with 20 to 40 schools a year, building to between 80 and 100".

He hoped eventually to introduce the project to 1,000, or about 5%, of primary schools, he said.

"It only takes 2% to change anything," he added.

"We'll use that private, entrepreneurial, idea - that is obsessed by relevance and making a true, real tangible change to children and their parents - to then come up with a model.

"And we'll say to government, 'now I've proved it - let's do it'."

He added: "It'll work, just give me 10 years."

In March, researchers reported that primary pupils in Greenwich, London, who took part in the Feed Me Better scheme, achieved better results than those in neighbouring boroughs and were less likely to be off sick from school.

Schools replaced junk food and processed dinners high in fat, salt and sugar, with healthy school lunches.

Another Oliver TV show, Jamie's Food Revolution - based on a similar campaign on the other side of the Atlantic - is currently being shown in the US on ABC.

Oliver faced resistance in his original campaign from parents and children

Canteen biggest barrier to healthy eating for kidsNew research has shown for the first time that poor quality canteens are the biggest barrier to children's uptake of school food.

The independent study, carried out on behalf of the School Food Trust, highlights several environmental factors that contribute to low school meal uptake, including cramped canteen layouts, poorly managed queuing systems, inefficient payment methods and high noise levels.

The School Food Trust is warning that the huge amount of time, effort and money that has gone into transforming school food over the last five years is in danger of being wasted unless schools ensure their canteens are fit for purpose.

The research forms part of the School Food Trust’s Canteen Rescue campaign which is launched today. The campaign’s aim is to encourage schools to implement simple measures that will drive take-up of school meals and, with it, the nutritional intake of pupils.

Judy Hargadon, Chief Executive at the School Food Trust, commented: “It is clear that when children walk into a dining hall that is crowded, noisy and unattractive, they will vote with their feet – no matter what is on the menu. The danger is that the huge efforts which have gone into improving the quality of school food will quite literally go in the bin unless schools tackle the environment in which it is served. With such small steps making such a positive and significant effect on a child’s health, we want all schools to consider making these changes in their dining spaces. For the well-being of their pupils, we encourage them sign up to Canteen Rescue.”

Further experiments in canteens by the School Food Trust tracked the eating behaviours of children in primary and secondary schools and found that even small improvements to dining spaces can make young people eat more school food.

After making minor changes to the environment, such as staggering lunch queues to give children more time to eat, introducing tablecloths and replacing plastic plates, knives and forks with crockery and cutlery, the average child threw away 38% less food.

Jane Nicholls, Deputy Head Teacher of Langley Park Girls School where one of the experiments took place, said:

“The small changes we made to the dining room made a huge difference to our pupils and turned lunch into a special occasion where the girls took the time to sit down and really appreciate their food. It has made it obvious to us that encouraging healthy eating is as much about providing an attractive environment as improving the food.”

Series: Shortcuts

Your last chance to see Tutankhamun's tombVisitors are causing so much damage to the tomb of Tutankhamun that Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities wants to close it and open a replica instead

Inside the tomb of Tutankhamun, which may be closed to visitors by the end of the year.

What excites us about the past is being there: feeling the heat as we climb a Mexican pyramid; adjusting our eyes to the light in the Pantheon; watching the paint peel off the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb. Peeling paint? If, in the brief, crushed tour of the Egyptian boy-king's rooms at Luxor we don't actually see it happen, we can certainly return later and note the damaging spread of holes and spots. Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has had enough of it. He promises that the tomb, and two others, will close by the end of the year. To keep tourists happy, he has commissioned a replica.

It won't be the first. You can already see one in Las Vegas: until recently, Tut's tomb graced the Luxor Las Vegas Hotel, filled with replica treasures. Now it has been installed in the city's Museum of Natural History. So will the Valley of the Kings become a Las Vegas Strip, more tat than Tut? Is there no other way?

There can be no disputing the problem. Howard Carter emptied Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, leaving four rooms cut from the rock, one of them covered in paintings. It was recognised immediately that the sterile environment had been compromised: Carter's chemist found "air-infections" the day after they broke in. Those were nothing, however, compared with the humidity, fungi and dust wafted through the tomb by a thousand or more visitors a day. Cue staining, crumbling and erosion of the paint. Short of sand-blasting it, you would be hard pushed to devise a more efficient mechanism for destroying the 3,300-year-old art.

The problem affects ancient sites around the world. The ice age painted caves at Lascaux in south-western France were closed in 1963 and a facsimile opened nearby 20 years later. Stonehenge was closed to visitors in 1977, to save shallow carvings from wear. Easter Islanders would like to restrict tourists for fear of damage to the statues there. Heritage tourism may be good for economies but, badly managed, it harms the heritage. It's right that our access should be controlled.

The great thing about Tutankhamun's tomb will be the replica's quality. Technology means that a copy now can be visually indistinguishable from the original; and you can see it with better lighting and access. Indeed, the replication process is so precise, it brings new insights to the original, helping academics and tour guides alike. No, it's not the real tomb. But it is a real facsimile, and when you visit you will become part of a cutting-edge research project. Before, you were just a pan scourer.

Mike Pitts is editor of British Archaeology