A post to remind you of work that needs to be completed, either via your blog or handed in. I have created a list of tasks that should have been completed – mostly essays. You also need to read through the work that is on the blog to ensure that you have worked through all […]
Christina Rossetti
A hold upon beauty.
So Edmund Gosse describes one of Christina Rossetti’s achievements in her poetry, and so we can consider the art of poetry itself. Our work this term is focused on poetry and in particular upon the collection of Rossetti poems in the AQA Poetry Anthology. We started by taking some of the advice offered to us […]
Poetic Forms – Presentations and Individ
As part of our study of poetry, you are going to be researching one form of poetry (see below). You will be using your new blog pages to create an online resource which explains the given form and explores examples. You will also be presenting this information to your fellow students.
Presentations about the character of Dai...
Today you were given the task to create a presentation based on a specific aspect of narrative that helped to create the character of Daisy. You will present this in class on Tuesday and need to ensure that your presentation takes an in-depth look at Daisy as a character, using evidence from the book to […]
A Level Conference – Wednesday 24th Octo
Hoping that all of you will be making this fantastic conference, especially as we have organised for you to pay the bargain price of £5 each! Check out this link for more information and remember to get reply slips and payments in by Tuesday 15th October. http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/lit_conference/programme.html
Homework Due: Tuesday 9th October 2012
Hey all – just a reminder about your homework, which was to create a collage representing your research of the social and historical context to The Great Gatsby. Try to include a variety of words and images which convey what you found out about the time but also what you interpreted as important and relevant in […]
Homework – first essay due Thursday 27th
I set you your first essay task this week. We discussed how to go about planning, structuring and writing the essay to move on from GCSE format through to a more mature style at AS. The task you were given was to answer the question: How does Fitzgerald establish the characters of Daisy, Nick, Tom […]
The Great Gatsby
This week we have made a start on our first set text – ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F Scott Fitzgerald. We read the first chapter and started to consider the main characters – we made CVs for Nick, our narrator, and wrote in perspective from either Daisy/Tom/Jordan’s viewpoint of the scene where Tom is called […]
