Here are some quotations from A Christmas Carol. Stave 1 He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone External heat and cold had little influence (description of Fred) his face was ruddy and handsome every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas should be boiled are there no prisons … are there no workhouses if… Continue reading Y11 – A Christmas Carol: some quotations
Hi Year 11 Here are some key quotes on Macbeth just in case you can’t access them on dropbox or weren’t in the lesson. Remember, I’ve not included some of the common ones (unsex me here, is this a dagger, will these hands ne’er be clean, fair is foul, so foul and fair a day etc… Continue reading Y11 Macbeth key quotes
Here are some key quotes from Jekyll and Hyde. There is a lot I know, but we will be working with these in next Tuesday’s revision session. Can you find out what the quote refers to/who says it? Do you notice any patterns? Ape-like fury Rich lurid brown like the light of some strange conflagration… Continue reading Y11 some key Jekyll and Hyde quotes
REVISED PPT for working through paper 2 is here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jqtjpkxr6d7lnr6/AACD2LJ9E99bQh2EmnK5rRPSa?dl=0 Right, to my 60 year 11 students (!!): here is the link to the revision folder which contains loads of resources including the recent lesson PPTs. I’ll be adding more ideas to this as we go on https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jqtjpkxr6d7lnr6/AACD2LJ9E99bQh2EmnK5rRPSa?dl=0 I need to… Continue reading Redhill Y11 GCSE Revision Folder: April 2017
This week, we’ve been feeding back on the mock exam. We found the two section C poems for the comparison question quite difficult and for the comparison ended up talking more about the ideas in the poem than the language. We’ve called this our ‘Saving Private Ryan’ question: there were bodies everywhere with only a… Continue reading Saving Section C: Unseen comparison poetry (AO2 only)
Following on from the idea of using images to practise paper 2 question 2, I dug up this little gem from some old resources that I used to use for media studies. It uses the old AOL adverts for the internet (voiced by the late John Hurt). At the time, I found them really useful… Continue reading Language paper 2 – viewpoints: The Internet – good or a bad thing?
Last week, we returned to Macbeth and decided to read some key scenes from act 5 for two reasons: firstly, we didn’t do this enough justice first time round (we ran out of time) and secondly it’s a good way to revise the play because we are constantly thinking back to how these scenes link… Continue reading Y11 Return to Macbeth – Act 5 Scenes 2 and 3
Three definitions of the term ‘abjection’: Abjection: the state of casting out or being cast out. From the Latin abjectus, which means to ‘reject’ or ‘throw away’. Abjection according to French theorist Julia Kristeva: that which defies borders, the zone between being and non-being. It is filth and pollution, decay and the corpse. Abjection: Mr… Continue reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – a strange case of abjection
This is the question: How important is Eva Smith to the play? For your homework, I asked you to write a couple of paragraphs in response to this question. Below is the paragraph that we did in class with the breakdown: Firstly, you need a strong opening sentence which signals to the examiner what your paragraph… Continue reading Writing a critical paragraph – An Inspector Calls
Here’s the ‘board shot’ from this morning’s lesson. Remember we were trying to link structure to language so that we don’t just describe the poem’s structural features. This was a fairly simple example to illustrate an idea so I’ve developed it further for you below. Just describing the structural features of the poem is not… Continue reading Poetry: linking structure to language in Blake’s London
Mr Hanson's English 