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...
Exemplar: Theme Study Written Report
This written report by Jonas Kalvis goes well beyond the minimum requirements of this task, but as such, it also provides an excellent example of where you could take this project if you want...
Theme Study: Outline
With two texts to be submitted every term, the Year 10 Theme Study is an on-going homework assignment that encourages the students to pursue a programme of thoughtful wide reading and viewing that will ultimately raise their general literary awareness. The students choose their own theme and write their journal entries into their personal blogs. Watch out for excerpts and examples from those journals to be published on here as the...
Welcome to the GCSE
It is with great enthusiasm that we welcome you all – students, parents and interested parties – back to English at the London Nautical School. We sincerely hope you’ve had a brilliant Summer break and that you’re returning to school with vigour and enthusiasm for the year ahead. We will unquestionably be hitting the ground running with a study into the unique features of spoken language and how it affects the...
