Homework: Due Friday 5th October 2012
Monsters and Villains
Evil cackles, gruesome ghouls and violent battles have been the subject of our lessons this week. What really makes a monster? What are the metaphorical monsters that plague us? Is violence in literature acceptable? These are just some of the interesting and philosophical dilemmas that we have debated this week. I have been impressed with […]
Tick Lists from Last Week
Beowulf in tableaux
In the last two lessons we have explored how to perform ‘Beowulf’ through frozen physical pictures (tableaux). We considered why this was important: because it was from a useful tool to help us understand the story because it made the story more dramatic and exciting because it allowed us to look at different opinions about, […]
Tick List 13th September 2012
Quotation station
Today we explored the idea of what a quotation was and when we would use this in English. It was a challenge trying to figure it all out but we got there in the end! We decided that a quotation – when it comes to fiction work – was a word or phrase from the […]
I need a hero
Today we had fun considering what made an hero. You came up with some fantastic heroic qualities and I was moved by the amount of you who stated that your parents were your heroes. I was also impressed with the range of vocabulary you used when describing heroes and the ‘Beowulf’ story so far – […]
Epic beginnings
So today we started thinking about our first text – ‘Beowulf’ and we discussed what makes an epic story. We even created our own epic story in the oral tradition of story telling – there were monsters, zombies and three different types of heroes! We considered a few words which connect to the epic story […]
Making a great start!
There was some excellent work today and some of you managed to get your name on the tick list – well done! Those of you who didn’t make it this time, don’t worry – you have plenty of lessons to display your hard work. Remember if you have done a piece of work that you […]
Welcome Year 7
Hello Year 7 and welcome to your blog. I hope that you will enjoy visiting this blog and using it to keep up with what we are studying and your homework. I will also use the blog as a venue to post some of your excellent work and to communicate any exciting English news. If […]