Year 11 Language and Literature

New year, new topics and new post coming down during the year. Today we start English Language and Literature classes. This year is year is one of the most awaited by The Mackay School students, because the III medio students have the Europe trip.

Talking more about the classes itself, the English department have make some changes in the evaluation sistem. We still having 4 periods of 2 month approximately, in which we will see the following topics:

•  1st and 2nd Period: Language and Mass communication (media text critical analysis)
• 3rd and 4th Period: Literature: Critical study: Jane Eyre; Collection of poems (Tennyson).

MASS COMMUNICATION

Also in our first day of classes we did an analysis of the adverstisement of the man and the video game, and we answer some questions. The answers below.

1) Who created this advertisement?
Lowe Bull

2) Is this advertisement attractive or enticing? What particular techniques are used to get attention, affect emotion, or entertain?
I think the advertisment reach its objetive of calling the attention of people by not explaining the real meaning of the advertisement, using a kind of irony.

3) What values are represented in this advertisement?
Love, is socialy an important value in human life, in stead of a video game.

4) What point of view is left out in this advertisement?
As I said before, that having a women is more important than having or play a video game. Also Women shown as superficial, or maybe as an object (?)

5) What is the purpose of this advertisement?
 To sell the product, promote it and show 'how does it works'.