Year 2012
Today you took charge and all became teachers. Each one of you took an expert position from ‘spelling checkers’, to ‘creative ideas men’, to ‘words magicians’. You then worked with your group to teach and advise each other on how… Continue Reading →
Today we discussed how to improve your writing and considered what makes an exciting story. You are working towards producing a piece of extended creative writing and we are starting to trial some techniques which will help you improve. Jayden… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →