Sunday, 14 June 2015
Homework
Due Friday 19th June Write on A4 lined but single sided please.
Topic: Unseen Poetry
We will be making our first foray into Unseen Poetry this week. In the Literature exam, you will be given a poem you have not read or studied and an essay question. The mark is out of 18 and you need to identify the ideas in the poem, language techniques used and also the effect of these. Roughly you only get 25 minutes to respond and create a critical essay.
This homework task is also building your skills in being independent learners capable of researching and creating an independent and perceptive(band 5 language) response to texts.
Task - Read and research the poem below and then write a critical essay in response to the following question:
What are the main ideas considered in the poem?
Your essay should show perceptive analysis of the ideas and also exploration and analysis of language used for effect.
Revelation (Liz Lochhead)
I remember once being shown the black bull
when a child at the farm for eggs and milk.
They called him Bob - as though perhaps
you could reduce a monster
with the charm of a friendly name.
At the threshold of his outhouse, someone
held my hand and let me peer inside.
At first, only black
and the hot reek of him. Then he was immense,
his edges merging with the darkness, just
a big bulk and a roar to be really scared of,
a trampling, and a clanking tense with the chain’s jerk.
His eyes swivelled in the great wedge of his tossed head.
He roared his rage. His nostrils gaped like wounds.
And in the yard outside,
oblivious hens picked their way about.
The faint and rather festive tinkling
behind the mellow stone and hasp was all they knew
of that Black Mass, straining at his chains.
I had always half-known he existed -
this antidote and Anti-Christ his anarchy
threatened the eggs, well rounded, self-contained -
and the placidity of milk.
I ran, my pigtails thumping on my back in fear
past the big boys in the farm lane
who pulled the wings from butterflies and
blew up frogs with straws.
Past thorned hedge and harried nest,
scared of the eggs shattering -
only my small and shaking hand on the jug’s rim
in case the milk should spill.
Due Friday 19th June Write on A4 lined but single sided please.
Topic: Unseen Poetry
We will be making our first foray into Unseen Poetry this week. In the Literature exam, you will be given a poem you have not read or studied and an essay question. The mark is out of 18 and you need to identify the ideas in the poem, language techniques used and also the effect of these. Roughly you only get 25 minutes to respond and create a critical essay.
This homework task is also building your skills in being independent learners capable of researching and creating an independent and perceptive(band 5 language) response to texts.
Task - Read and research the poem below and then write a critical essay in response to the following question:
What are the main ideas considered in the poem?
Your essay should show perceptive analysis of the ideas and also exploration and analysis of language used for effect.
Revelation (Liz Lochhead)
I remember once being shown the black bull
when a child at the farm for eggs and milk.
They called him Bob - as though perhaps
you could reduce a monster
with the charm of a friendly name.
At the threshold of his outhouse, someone
held my hand and let me peer inside.
At first, only black
and the hot reek of him. Then he was immense,
his edges merging with the darkness, just
a big bulk and a roar to be really scared of,
a trampling, and a clanking tense with the chain’s jerk.
His eyes swivelled in the great wedge of his tossed head.
He roared his rage. His nostrils gaped like wounds.
And in the yard outside,
oblivious hens picked their way about.
The faint and rather festive tinkling
behind the mellow stone and hasp was all they knew
of that Black Mass, straining at his chains.
I had always half-known he existed -
this antidote and Anti-Christ his anarchy
threatened the eggs, well rounded, self-contained -
and the placidity of milk.
I ran, my pigtails thumping on my back in fear
past the big boys in the farm lane
who pulled the wings from butterflies and
blew up frogs with straws.
Past thorned hedge and harried nest,
scared of the eggs shattering -
only my small and shaking hand on the jug’s rim
in case the milk should spill.
Monday, 8 June 2015
Welcome Year 10!
Intervention will take place tomorrow after school 4-4.45.
We will be learning about creative writing in preparation for re-taking the Controlled Assessments for Descriptive and Narrative writing that compose 15% of your overall Language GCSE.
The skills covered will also help you appreciate the literary texts we study.
See you there!
Intervention will take place tomorrow after school 4-4.45.
We will be learning about creative writing in preparation for re-taking the Controlled Assessments for Descriptive and Narrative writing that compose 15% of your overall Language GCSE.
The skills covered will also help you appreciate the literary texts we study.
See you there!
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