Welcome Back Year 12...

... and here's your first homework (Mr. Stanley/ Mr. Roberts' class)!!

FIND DEFINITIONS OF THESE KEY POETIC TERMS:

Enjambment
Ceasura
Alliteration
Couplet
Assonance
Metre
Leitmotif
Symbolism
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Iambic
Tone
Quatrain
Sonnet
Pathetic Fallacy
Metaphor
Simile
Anthropomorphism

ADD ALL DEFINTIONS TO A NEW GLOSSARY AT THE BACK OF YOUR BOOKS

DUE: THURSDAY 24th JUNE

ELLA 4: William Blake

Blake was renowned as an artist as well as a poet, although he received little recognition for this during his lifetime (I know that feeling all too well!!). Below is his poem 'The Sick Rose' as it was first published.

What does Blake's use of presentational features add to our understanding of this highly symbolic poem?

Online Othello

Work for Mr Knight's set on 11th May, 2010.



Use this online text of Othello (and your incredible knowledge of the play) to find two episodes which relate to the themes of:

• reputation/honour
  
• honesty/deceit


• knowledge/ignorance


• love


• race

And complete the theme tracking sheets.

Once you've done that, choose a particular character in a particular scene where you think there is noteworthy representation of speech (particularly in terms of repetition), and copy and paste all of that character's lines from that scene into a blank Word document (taking care to cut out the other characters' lines and the capitalized names to show who is speaking). Now head on over to wordle.net and click "Create". Paste your character's lines into the box at the top of the screen and click "Go" in order to create a diagram of word frequency. The more times the word is used in the text, the bigger it will appear in the diagram.

Save your diagram in the public gallery, give it a title saying which character and scene it is and a brief comment explaining what it suggests about the character, then copy and paste the web address of your finished diagram into a comment on this blog.

Here's my example which is Brabantio in Act I, Scene ii.

When Politicians Aren't Prepared

Just as a little bit of contrast with those prepared speeches from the debate, here's an example of what happens when politicians are forced to stray from their prepared speech into murky spontaneous waters.

David Cameron found himself having to give an interview to Gay Times magazine after members of his party had appeared to back a homophobic law. See how he got on and what features of spontaneous speech you can spot which show he really isn't sure what he should be saying...

The First Televised Debate

What fantastic examples of prepared speech in practice!! Any guesses what my group will be analysing in class this week... time to take your corners!

Mr Knight's Group - Holiday Fun!

For those of you who missed Wednesday's lesson:
a) You missed out.
b) We finished Othello, so it's up to you to read to the end. Once you've read it, watch this video to get a sense of the dramatic staging:



c) Your homework (due Tuesday 20th April) for the holidays is:

1. Complete the reading logs (sheet available at O:\Students\ENGLISH\Mr Knight\Year 12) for all scenes to the end of the play.
2. Set an exam question:

• Choose a passage of 30-40 lines which you think includes particularly interesting representations of speech.
• Pose a question, in the style of this exam example (Othello question on page 13), which you think is relevant to the section you have chosen and would make candidates consider the passage in a worthwhile context.
• Prepare a mark scheme, in the style of page 18 of this example, listing possible points for candidates to consider.
• Be prepared to discuss your question in our first lesson after the break.

I'm sure I don't need to remind you that you should also be doing your own independent revision - especially those of you who will be retaking ELLA1 on 27th May and need to refamiliarize themselves with Things Fall Apart and Streetcar...

With all that to do, I know you'll have a whale of a time and so I bid you all a happy holiday.

Essay Skills Extension - the final countdown!

The last in my series of Essay Skills Extension classes will take place not this Thursday, as previously advertised, but on MONDAY (29th) after school in S07. Tell all your friends...

Oh, and if there are any requests for music to set tasks to, post a comment here.