Exemplar: Theme Study Presentation
Chris Lewis presents to the class on the findings of his longitudinal Theme Investigation into Communism.
Of Mice and Men – Character Scrapbook
After yesterday’s brilliant in-class dramatisation of characters from Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, everyone spent today exploring facets of a selected character – creating a compilation of information gleaned by exploring the diverse methods Steinbeck uses to reveal his characters. Everyone followed the following lines of inquiry in relation to their selected character We then wrote a paragraph, selecting the best...
Exemplar: Spoken Language Study
Alex’s Spoken Language study piece provides a good representation of what a student who is achieving higher grades needs to pursue to improve further. It’s also useful as a reference point for those working towards such grades. Here is his original work with teacher annotations. You can also visit his blog to see the process he underwent to achieve this...
Mr Waugh’s Paragraph Effort: Futility by Wilfred Owen
Futility by Wilfred Owen The title, Futility, is the key to unlocking the deeper meaning of this intensely personal poem by Wilfred Owen. Owen, a young soldier who served in the trenches of World War I, writes in these seemingly simple lines of coming across a recently-dead soldier in an open field. He writes of the illogical, but somehow also profoundly understandable, impulse to move the soldier, who is still warm, into the sun to...
Out Of The Blue, by Simon Armitage
After watching the filmed reading of the poem (accessible via the following URL: Out of the Blue, Film Interpretation) the students explored some of the language devices that made it such an affecting thing to watch and listen to. Their task (as outlined below) is to write a paragraph that explores how one of the features they discovered strengthens the poem. Here is an example of the kinds of features the boys found in their first...
