Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Mary Oliver Prep

Hello,

A link to Lannan talks with Mary Oliver reading from her poems and a conversation with Coleman Barks, please watch, take notes and be prepared to discuss on Monday.

http://www.lannan.org/lf/rc/event/mary-oliver/

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/travel/05oliver.html landscapes she has written about

http://www.orrt.org/oliver/criticism.html literaty criticism

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/11-ways-to-celebrate-national-poetry-month-with-the-new-york-times/ ideas for prompting thought about poetry as a genre

http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2008/03/johnny-depp-bill-clinton-and-mary.html

http://people.bridgewater.edu/~sgallowa/386/oliver.htm links to many poems online

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Cover for Monday

Cover for Monday

Periods 1 and 2 Year 13

Please read pages 11-19 (photocopies are at the side of the room above cupboards) Taken from English A1 textbook which work on developing analytical skills for yourUnseen exam in February.

Please complete the activity questions on pages 12, 16, 17 and 18.

These must be finished for h/w ready for Tuesday’s lesson.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Last Minute Revision for IOCs

Dear all,

Please, please spend this weekend re-familiarising yourselves with all the poems and Othello. Plan! As we did in class- practise preparing a poem or extract for commentary. Give yourselves 20 minutes- try it in pairs.

Points to remember:

Address both guiding questions

Othello extracts will NOT be longer than 50 lines- so you need a massive focus on techniques and language.

Have a thesis, not a rambling intro.

You will have to speak for 12 minutes

Bring in pen, pencil and higlighter.

Questions we ask are designed to help you- take your rime, think before you answer.

Structure your commentary carefully- why are you talking about, say, Iago's duplicitous characterisation first.

Use formal, literary language and terms.

Look back on your notes- remember some of our notes on the poems eg the intertextuality/ biographical details of Owen.

There will be no nasty surprises in the IOC- the poems and questions I have prepared are ones we have discussed, studied and written about in class. Those of you who engage in the lesson will be well prepared!

08.00-08.20: Prep 1 Ho Young
08.20-08.45: Assess 1 / Prep 2 (08.25-08.45) Ho Young/ Bao Anh
08.45-09.10: Assess 2 / Prep 3 (08.50-09.10) Bao Anh/ Tu Bao
09.10-09.35: Assess 3 / Prep 4 (09.15-09.35) Tu Bao/ Bernard
09.35-10.00: Assess 4 / Prep 5 (10.05-10.25) Bernard/ Kirsty
10.00-10.25: Break
10.25-10.50: Assess 5 / Prep 6 (10.25-10.50) Kirsty/ Ezra
10.50-11.15: Assess 6 Ezra


Whe you're not in the study room in the 1st floor preparing or doing your IOC, you should be in the library preparing- it has been booked for you guys alone. Once you have done your IOC, you go to lessons as normal.

All that remains for me to say s GOOD LUCK! I hope you all perform as I know you can.

If you have any questions over the weekend, please email me on davidpollicutt@bisvietnam.com

I think there will be some very relieved and happy students on Tuesday!