Bare Vexed – Assessment Outline
Feb10

Bare Vexed – Assessment Outline

Bare Vexed

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Homework: Act 1, Scene 4
Sep29

Homework: Act 1, Scene 4

      This evening’s homework is to complete the scene summary in your book for Act 1, Scene 4 and to copy this last speech of Romeo in the scene into your book, with a line between for a translation.

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Homework: Modernise Act 1 Scene 1 “The Boys”
Sep15

Homework: Modernise Act 1 Scene 1 “The Boys”

This period we look at Romeo and Juliet as a play – examining the features of the text that are typical of what you’d expect from a play text – intended to be viewed rather than read. The attached presentation explores these features, provides a guide to annotation and contains an excerpt of a filmed interpretation to demonstrate how much of a play’s interpretation is left to the actors and director.  Your...

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Robert Burns – To A Mouse
Feb03

Robert Burns – To A Mouse

Today we will explore a stanza of Robert Burns’ Poem “To A Mouse” and discuss the intertextual relationship between its message and that of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!   thy-lane  = alone Gang...

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Of Mice and Men – Audio
Dec16

Of Mice and Men – Audio

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Homework: Perfect Paragraph
Oct02

Homework: Perfect Paragraph

As our lesson was interrupted by a fire alarm on Wednesday, this “Perfect Paragraph” exercise is now due on Friday. That task is simple: Follow the instructions in your book to improve your existing paragraph on the features of language typical of spoken conversations. This is due on Friday

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