Comparison

Dear Y10

We are now at the stage where we are comparing our texts.

During this task we have had a focus on analysing language - that's because you get more marks for it! We've done this through mind-mapping, which is an incredibly useful revision tool. These should look something like this (please note, some of the sentences aren't quite right - it's hard to see in a small box in PowerPoint!):

These are what you need to turn to in your quest for connections homework. You only need to find two quotations (one from each text), but I am expecting you to know the connections well; basically, be able to explain them verbally.

There are a range of different connections here. You could connect by theme, perhaps the subversion of nature, or by the presentation of characters or emotion. You could also Find connections through the Gothic - the choice is yours and will therefore lead to a full range of connection (this is perceptive you see and the highest band work).

Do let me know if you have any problems.

Best wishes,
Ms

Holiday Homework

Happy Easter Y10!

This holiday your homework is to fully annotate your booklet.You're looking for emotion and make sure it is detailed showing layers of meaning.  If you do not have it, THE CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT BOOKLET IS AVAILABLE: CLICK HERE.

I'm not expecting you to be able to translate this on your own. Use the wealth of information on the web - you'll have to be able to do this for independent study; in short, this search itself is a useful learning experience for you. See previous post for links.

Should be simple enough! Let me know if you have any problems: you can leave a comment and it will email me.

Ms :)

Macbeth

Whoops! (this didn;t post when I thought it had...)
We have been looking at Macbeth in the last few weeks. This has been somewhat thwarted by the Science talk so we're a bit further behind than I had hoped....
Your homework was to annotate Macbeth's soliloquy.
Sparknotes is a useful site, but you should also be able to research it independently. That way we'll get a range of interpretation.

Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
    She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.

    Exit Servant
    Is this a dagger which I see before me,
    The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
    I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
    Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
    To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
    A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
    Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
    I see thee yet, in form as palpable
    As this which now I draw.
    Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
    And such an instrument I was to use.
    Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
    Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
    And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
    Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
    It is the bloody business which informs
    Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
    Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
    The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
    Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
    Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
    Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
    With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
    Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
    Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
    Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
    And take the present horror from the time,
    Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
    Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.

    A bell rings
    I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
    Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
    That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

    Exit

Macbeth

Hi Y10

This week, we have moved on to Macbeth. Use this link if you want to read ahead.

We've watched Polanski's version of the play. Best English week so far according to KH - watching a film and no homework. A brief respite in the homework from me (after GH said that he had never had as much homework in one subject); this is temporary though so make the most of it!

Your formative work will not be marked until after next week - I have Y11 and Y13 and they must take priority as you will this time next year...

Let me know if you need anything,
Ms

Romantic views on Nature and Frankenstein

Hello all
This week we have looked at Romantic views on Nature and Frankenstein. You watched this film on this and, as much as you thought it was pretentious (it's Peter Ackroyd; he can't be pretentious: he is awesome! Maybe one of the words you need to look up is pretentious?), it's very informative and gives you a good understanding of Romantic ideas about nature. I would also recommend you watch the other two films in the series, Eternity and Liberty, as they will deepen your understanding of the movement. Try to hate a little less.
Some hilarity at the 'birth' of the monster in lessons, but a valuable critical interpretation... A range of interpretations were brought up by the class and some thought on whether or not this might be a feminist text.
Homework is three words - you should know what you're doing.
Let me know if you need any help.
Ms

Homework: Frankenstein mind maps

Hi Y10

Homework is on the penultimate slide - happy holiday! 

Chapter 5 Emotion

Hello Y10
Some excellent work this week. The wall is becoming an excellent resource!
You have two homeworks (if you're on the French Exchange, just do the one in the powerpoint and I'll give you the resource for the other one next week).

1. Fully annotate Chapter 5 for emotion. I expect this to take and hour + of really focussed reading and interpretation. 
2. The pink sheet is some research you can do on philosophical ideas that would have influenced Mary Shelley. 

Let me know if you have any problems.