Watch Obama's Victory Speech again and choose at least four key quotations to use in your GCSE assessment. Remember to identify which language features he uses in your quotations.

Obama's Election Night Speech




Click here for a Transcript of Speech


Informal Speeches


Watch the following interviews with Barack Obama and identify when he talks about similar issues to those he is discussing in the quotations you chose from his speech. Copy quotations from his interviews into the space provided on your planning sheet and annotate these to identify the features of informal/spontaneous speech which he is demonstrating.

Interviews with Ellen DeGeneres:




Interview with Will Smith:


Interview with David Letterman:



Mr McCarey's video


The following video should give you ideas of things to write about in your GCSE assessment:

A Public Appeal

As a crack team of police officers, your task is to create a website for the public of the town for the following purposes:
To inform them of what has been going on
To warn them that they must be vigilant
To persuade them to support the police in their investigation

Click here for an example

First, you need to plan what content you intend to include in your website.

Then split up the tasks between you in your group.

Writing Comparison

Write your own answer to the question and post as a comment: How do the poets of “The Soldier” and “A Life is a Life” show their feelings?

Remember to try to meet all of the Assessment Objectives.

Charge of the Light Brigade

Post as many comments as you can which include the following information:
1) Quotation from the poem which uses a poetic device
2) Name of device
3) Explanation of effect achieved by the device

War Research

Post as a comment on this post the information that you have found out about the Iraq War and the Afghan War in your own words.

How does George Lazarus convey his attitude towards specimen 14UR4z in his observation report?

In your answer, you should comment on:

The way he presents his findings
The language he chooses
The tone of his writing

Write your answer as a comment on this post.

Poetry Detectives

Read the poem 'The Closed School' and then follow the process that we practised earlier.
Then answer the 3 detective questions as a comment on this post:
How is the poet feeling?
Why are they feeling this way?
How do you know?