Please post your blog address here under the comments section so that we can all link up to each other, if not done already.
Here are some to get you started:
emma'sgothicreadingjournal.blogspot.com
little-pink-pineapple.blogspot.com
fransgothicreadingjournal.blogspot.com
alzsgothicreadingjournal.blogspot.com
alislitblog.blogspot.com
alexsreadinglist.blogspot.com
amydislikes.blogspot.com
Please try to make a comment on two other people's blogs this week. This might mean you'll have to check other's blogs more than once. We'll see who gets most comments.
Saturday 14 November 2009
Y13: Extra reading
Might be worth a look, if you are interested...
http://watershedonline.ca/literature/frankensteindracula/taleof2monsters.html
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http://watershedonline.ca/literature/frankensteindracula/taleof2monsters.html
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Tuesday 10 November 2009
Y13: Our Friend Vlad
Have a look at this link as some background research for next lesson.
http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm
Don't get scared now!
http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm
Don't get scared now!
Monday 2 November 2009
Y13 Dracula reading
Take a look at the full article on the following link:
http://axwoundzine.com/twd.htm
Also, take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_theory
http://axwoundzine.com/twd.htm
Also, take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_theory
Friday 23 October 2009
Y11 Half Term Research
Make sure you have read chapter 14.
Have a look at these websites and makes notes (1/2 page?) on things you find interesting or applicable to TKAM.
www.afroam.org/history
www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk
See you next half-term!
Have a look at these websites and makes notes (1/2 page?) on things you find interesting or applicable to TKAM.
www.afroam.org/history
www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk
See you next half-term!
Thursday 1 October 2009
Y11: Background research
Ok folks, now is the time we get into some serious background research for TKAM.
The Scottsboro Trial Link 1
Link 2
Alabama Link 1
Link 2
The Great Depression Link 1
Racial Discrimination Link 1
Link 2
Jim Crow Laws Link 1
Link 2
Harper Lee
Use the information on these links to create a fact-page to show others in the class what you have found.
The Scottsboro Trial Link 1
Link 2
Alabama Link 1
Link 2
The Great Depression Link 1
Racial Discrimination Link 1
Link 2
Jim Crow Laws Link 1
Link 2
Harper Lee
Use the information on these links to create a fact-page to show others in the class what you have found.
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Monday 28 September 2009
Y11: Mockingbird research
Y11s
For Research on the Mockingbird, start with:
The Northern Mockingbird
Texas Wildlife Facts
Nature Works Facts
You need to find out what the bird looks like, feeding habits, habitat, and any other interesting information. At the end of the lesson you will be asked to create a song or poem about the bird ready to present to the rest of the group.
For Research on the Mockingbird, start with:
The Northern Mockingbird
Texas Wildlife Facts
Nature Works Facts
You need to find out what the bird looks like, feeding habits, habitat, and any other interesting information. At the end of the lesson you will be asked to create a song or poem about the bird ready to present to the rest of the group.
Saturday 19 September 2009
Just for fun...
A little analysis for you. One day you will all be able to do this...
http://jedsmommy.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html
http://jedsmommy.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html
Thursday 17 September 2009
Y12: lesson journal
Thank you all for your hard work in today's lessons. I realise that some of the things we were doing were quite difficult, but I felt you all coped really well with it. If some things are still not clear, try explaining them in your lesson journal (i.e. your blog) and see if anything becomes clearer. If not, please say and I'll try to help you out. Overall, things will probably become clearer when we start looking at the text properly (If you haven't already read The Kite Runner, I advise you get started pretty quick as we will not be reading all of it in class together).
As this is going to be your first entry in your Lesson Journal, I'll give you a quick run down of some of the activities we did today (If you are not yet doing so, I advise you start taking your own notes in lessons to help you remember).
Sequence
1. Pictures in different orders
2. Looking at Memento and Time Traveler's Wife extracts
3. Looking at The Secret History extract
4. 4 places from which to start a Crime narrative.
5. Reading of Digging to America extract
6. Summaries of The Interpretation of Murder, On Chesil Beach and Brave New World
Remember: You don't have to write about each part of the lessons! What I want from this activity is for you to be able to process some of the thoughts you might have had in today's lessons and for me to be able to see what those thoughts are in order to help and stretch you in future lessons.
How you write down your thoughts is up to you. It could be in chronological order, or it could just be an exploration of one individual idea that you found of particular interest. And please: don't be dull in your responses; say something interesting. Be creative. (It can be informal; just don't write it in text-speak - that's not going to help you with your written expression! (AO1))
Looking forward to seeing your responses!
Ssssssssssuper.
As this is going to be your first entry in your Lesson Journal, I'll give you a quick run down of some of the activities we did today (If you are not yet doing so, I advise you start taking your own notes in lessons to help you remember).
Sequence
1. Pictures in different orders
2. Looking at Memento and Time Traveler's Wife extracts
3. Looking at The Secret History extract
4. 4 places from which to start a Crime narrative.
5. Reading of Digging to America extract
6. Summaries of The Interpretation of Murder, On Chesil Beach and Brave New World
Remember: You don't have to write about each part of the lessons! What I want from this activity is for you to be able to process some of the thoughts you might have had in today's lessons and for me to be able to see what those thoughts are in order to help and stretch you in future lessons.
How you write down your thoughts is up to you. It could be in chronological order, or it could just be an exploration of one individual idea that you found of particular interest. And please: don't be dull in your responses; say something interesting. Be creative. (It can be informal; just don't write it in text-speak - that's not going to help you with your written expression! (AO1))
Looking forward to seeing your responses!
Ssssssssssuper.
Thursday 10 September 2009
Y12: Welcome to my y12!
Welcome.
Well done for getting your blogs up and running.
A reminder of your homework: a blog post showing how even a perfectly ordinary item can have significance once it enters a narrative.
For example...
A PIECE OF PAPER ON THE FLOOR
Once a narrative makes reference to something, it shows that the writer has deemed that item to be significant to his narrative. A piece of paper on the floor might not be significant at all in real life, but once included within a narrative it could later be revealed that it was really:
A treasure map;
a top-secret governement document revealing a deadly plot;
a draft of a suicide note from someone planning to kill themselves;
a love letter accidently dropped from someone's bag;
an assassin's hit-list.
Y12: you must choose an everyday item that might mean very little in real life and assign it significance as though it were to be included within a narrative.
Education: wow!
Well done for getting your blogs up and running.
A reminder of your homework: a blog post showing how even a perfectly ordinary item can have significance once it enters a narrative.
For example...
A PIECE OF PAPER ON THE FLOOR
Once a narrative makes reference to something, it shows that the writer has deemed that item to be significant to his narrative. A piece of paper on the floor might not be significant at all in real life, but once included within a narrative it could later be revealed that it was really:
A treasure map;
a top-secret governement document revealing a deadly plot;
a draft of a suicide note from someone planning to kill themselves;
a love letter accidently dropped from someone's bag;
an assassin's hit-list.
Y12: you must choose an everyday item that might mean very little in real life and assign it significance as though it were to be included within a narrative.
Education: wow!
Tuesday 8 September 2009
Y13 Time is slipping away...
I hope you are all prepared for the imminent arrival of ... our first lesson where we will be starting with Doctor Faustus. Please bring in your texts.
Just to let you know: we will be looking at the life of Christopher Marlowe and reviewing your summer reading and your blog posts.
Better get blogging those last few thoughts...
See you all soon.
Just to let you know: we will be looking at the life of Christopher Marlowe and reviewing your summer reading and your blog posts.
Better get blogging those last few thoughts...
See you all soon.
Saturday 5 September 2009
A2: it's getting closer!
Just a quick reminder to get blogging with your comments on your summer reading. Some of you have only posted a couple of times (naughty!). Your reading journal is NOT optional. I will expect evidence of the reading from everyone. (I think Fran is in the lead for best posts so far...)
I have had a meeting with Mr. P. this week and we both agree that the results this summer were not as good as they should have been. We have not yet recieved the scripts back that we have ordered, but it is probable (PROBABLE does not mean DEFINITE) that we will get some re-marked. If you did not get the mark we think you deserved, please do not give up on A2 - it can still change!
Now stop reading this and get on with your summer reading...
I have had a meeting with Mr. P. this week and we both agree that the results this summer were not as good as they should have been. We have not yet recieved the scripts back that we have ordered, but it is probable (PROBABLE does not mean DEFINITE) that we will get some re-marked. If you did not get the mark we think you deserved, please do not give up on A2 - it can still change!
Now stop reading this and get on with your summer reading...
Thursday 27 August 2009
AS results - on second thoughts...
Folks, just had a look at the break down of grades for English Lit and there are some really strange marks in there that I'm sure are wrong. Mr. P is away on Holiday at the moment but I've organised a meeting with him next week when he returns. I have also sent off for some of your papers to be returned to the school (which costs quite a bit, unfortunately, so I couldn't ask for everyone's) to try and work out what on earth has happened.
If we have a look at the papers and something looks dodgy, we can ask for some of them to be re-marked - meaning the papers you wrote in the exam will be re-marked by someone else with a possibility of a new grade.
Our other option on some of them, once we have had a look, is to advise some of you to re-sit the exam later on this year. You don't have to do this - it does cost a bit of money and is no guarentee of a better mark - but it is an option. The deadline for applying for re-sits is 18th September. But please, don't make any decisions yet until Mr P and I have had a chance to look at the papers we sent off for. We want to make sure we give you good advice on this.
Hang in there, folks.
Oh, and don't panic. Mr. P and I want you to get the grades you deserve - and we will do all we can to get them for you.
Over and out.
If we have a look at the papers and something looks dodgy, we can ask for some of them to be re-marked - meaning the papers you wrote in the exam will be re-marked by someone else with a possibility of a new grade.
Our other option on some of them, once we have had a look, is to advise some of you to re-sit the exam later on this year. You don't have to do this - it does cost a bit of money and is no guarentee of a better mark - but it is an option. The deadline for applying for re-sits is 18th September. But please, don't make any decisions yet until Mr P and I have had a chance to look at the papers we sent off for. We want to make sure we give you good advice on this.
Hang in there, folks.
Oh, and don't panic. Mr. P and I want you to get the grades you deserve - and we will do all we can to get them for you.
Over and out.
Friday 21 August 2009
Congratulations!
Just a quick note to say well done to all of my previously Y12, now going into Y13, students on your AS results. I always thought you had brains somewhere in there.
(If any of you didn't get the results you were hoping for then come and see me at the start of term and we can talk about it)
(If any of you didn't get the results you were hoping for then come and see me at the start of term and we can talk about it)
Friday 17 July 2009
Thursday 16 July 2009
Y12 Your Mission
This summer, you will need to read the three main texts (Doctor Faustus, Dracula, The Bloody Chamber).
As you do so you will need to keep a journal of your thoughts, in order to help you actively reflect on what it is you are reading.
I would expect at least six or seven posts over the summer. Although these do not have to be evenly spread out, I would insist that they are genuine - please do not make them up in hindsight.
I would recommend that you post before you start each book and talk a little about your expectations of the text, what you have heard about it that interests you or, conversely, what might make you apprehensive about reading it.
I would also ask that you post at some point before you finish the text and say what you are finding good or difficult about it.
Oh, and it goes without saying that I would expect you to say something once you have finished the text - did it live up to the hype? What worked or what, in your opinion, didn't? Did any characters stand out to you? Were any events you read about strangely significant to the story?
Please don't forget to look at and comment on each other's blogs - that's why I insisted you follow them.
That's all for now.
Have a super summer.
P.S. Have a look at Frankenstein, if you find the time - wonderful story.
As you do so you will need to keep a journal of your thoughts, in order to help you actively reflect on what it is you are reading.
I would expect at least six or seven posts over the summer. Although these do not have to be evenly spread out, I would insist that they are genuine - please do not make them up in hindsight.
I would recommend that you post before you start each book and talk a little about your expectations of the text, what you have heard about it that interests you or, conversely, what might make you apprehensive about reading it.
I would also ask that you post at some point before you finish the text and say what you are finding good or difficult about it.
Oh, and it goes without saying that I would expect you to say something once you have finished the text - did it live up to the hype? What worked or what, in your opinion, didn't? Did any characters stand out to you? Were any events you read about strangely significant to the story?
Please don't forget to look at and comment on each other's blogs - that's why I insisted you follow them.
That's all for now.
Have a super summer.
P.S. Have a look at Frankenstein, if you find the time - wonderful story.
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