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First Year Students Debate

27/2/2012

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Dylan Smith's excellent homework! 19e Student of the Month
Last week, the students from 19e and 19p were learning how to write an argument for a debate. We have quite a bit more work to do before we can actually conduct a proper debate. We are perfecting our writing skills in the meantime! 

On Thursday, I received what has to be the BEST homework EVER from 19e. Well done everyone! 

The students really enjoyed writing out their debating arguments. I have discovered that the more controversial the topic, the more passionate the answer. 


Here our some examples of our propositions:
  • Students should have to attend school on a Saturday
  • Women belong in the home, not in the workplace (The girls argued for this proposition and the boys argued against it)
  • Homework is a waste of time and should be abolished

In the coming days, we will be conducting a debate through a blog. 

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Behaviour report 19e - Term 3

21/2/2012

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Well done 19e! There has been a huge improvement in classroom behaviour.  Even though we didn't reach our 80% target, we still enjoyed a movie in school because let's face - nobody's perfect and we all deserve a break ;-) 

There will be a similar treat at the end of term three if we match or beat 72%. (This time I'll hold firm - no target, no reward)  

Student of the month for January goes to Dylan S
. Congratulations Dylan. Your hard work and excellent homework haven't gone unnoticed. Keep it up!
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Behaviour report 19p - Term 3

21/2/2012

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Congratulations to 19p!! 93% - what a result! Well done everyone. As a reward, the students (and myself!) enjoyed a movie on our last day before mid-term break. We also made complete pigs of ourselves thanks to copious amounts of chocolate ;-)

Student of the month for January goes to Emma for her imaginative and creative work in her homework and classwork copies
. Emma always makes great contributions to class. Congratulations Emma! 
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Joe's question to Mr. Doyle: Why all the bad language?!

20/2/2012

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When Mr. Roddy Doyle visited our school on the 30th January, Joe from 19p asked him "Why do you use bad language in some of your books?" Read Mr. Doyle's answer below...

"Well Joe, I'm tempted to use bad language in my answer! I kind of pick and choose it. There's no bad language in my books for children and there shouldn't be. It'd be wrong. They wouldn't be published anyway if there was. There's bad language in probably most of my books for adults because the characters I write about use it. Sometimes, a lot of it, other times, not so much. 

In 'The Van', the characters use a lot of bad language. There's a character called 'Jimmy Rabbit Snr.' and his wife is in a constant fight against bad language. There's a swear box on the kitchen table and anybody who uses bad language has to put money in the swear box. The swear box gets full quite quickly. She's aware of this and she doesn't want it in the house but it's in the house. 

That's similar to a lot of houses. So the characters in the books use bad language because that's the way they are. That's what happens. 

I think a lot of people who come to Ireland are often really, really shocked when they hear all the bad language that some of us don't actually consider that bad at all. It's possible to use bad language and for it to be almost affectionate. In other places, that doesn't happen at all. If you said the same words in another place, it'd almost be vile and cause a terrible reaction. Whereas you might say it in Ireland to each other and you'll get laughter. 

Does that make sense? So I use the bad language when it fits. I have a play on in Dublin and there's very, very little bad language in it because it wouldn't have fit. It wouldn't have been right. It's just once or twice because it does fit there. So I use it where it does fit." 
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    I am an English teacher in St. Oliver's Community College, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. 

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