Choose THREE and write short (3-4 paragraph) responses to each.
DUE Monday 29th September
Thursday 18 September 2014
N5 Macquestions
National 5 Macbeth questions... created by you!
Choose THREE and write short (3-4 paragraph) responses to each.
DUE Monday 29th September
Choose THREE and write short (3-4 paragraph) responses to each.
DUE Monday 29th September
Advanced Higher... your first question!
The Canterbury Tales is acknowledged to be one of the best of its kind: Estates Satire. One of the estates Chaucer is particularly interested in is those who pray: the Church. Discuss his portrayal of ecclesiastical pilgrims, considering what we learn of Chaucer's attitude towards the Church and its members as a result.
Due: 01 October
Due: 01 October
Monday 15 September 2014
Dingwall Academy Writers
Keith Gray's visit seems to have inspired many of you to come out of the woodwork--you are writers! Time to share our passion for writing: if you are S1-6 (yes, everyone!), then come along to my room on Thursday at lunchtime. Do bring your lunch. We will discuss then what visions you might have for a writing group at the Academy, and ensure that Thursday is the best day for everyone. Looking forward to seeing you all!
Book orders S1-6
Reminder: C2C (Scholastic) Book Club: If you want to do this online, the web address is http://schools.scholastic.co.uk/dingwallacademy and we need orders to be placed by 22nd September.
Go on, you know you need a new book!
Go on, you know you need a new book!
S1
Welcome to Green's Galaxy, S1! I'm looking forward to a great year with you all.
We have now finished our Fairy Tales, and will be shortly moving on to a novel which I know you will enjoy. You'll have plenty of opportunities to stretch your skills, and you'll write your first critical essay at the end. I hope some of you are decent singers, because I'm not, and there's music involved...
Today we reviewed proper nouns and collective nouns.
We drew pictures of our family to help us remember proper nouns, labelling them with names, months, places and days.
When we investigated collective nouns, we drew a group of our favourite animal (i.e. a group of tortoises, or cats, or lemurs etc.). We then identified the collective noun for that animal, and worked with using singular verbs in a few lines to describe the group (remember, collective nouns are singular!).
We all felt it was a really informative and entertaining lesson--the best kind!
REMINDER: Keith Gray articles due tomorrow (digital copies--remember to email or bring your memory stick!)
We have now finished our Fairy Tales, and will be shortly moving on to a novel which I know you will enjoy. You'll have plenty of opportunities to stretch your skills, and you'll write your first critical essay at the end. I hope some of you are decent singers, because I'm not, and there's music involved...
Today we reviewed proper nouns and collective nouns.
We drew pictures of our family to help us remember proper nouns, labelling them with names, months, places and days.
When we investigated collective nouns, we drew a group of our favourite animal (i.e. a group of tortoises, or cats, or lemurs etc.). We then identified the collective noun for that animal, and worked with using singular verbs in a few lines to describe the group (remember, collective nouns are singular!).
We all felt it was a really informative and entertaining lesson--the best kind!
REMINDER: Keith Gray articles due tomorrow (digital copies--remember to email or bring your memory stick!)
Thursday 11 September 2014
National 5 1.3
Today we discussed our upcoming Macbeth trip a little further. We have provisionally booked 20 pupil tickets, and are sorting out travel arrangements.
We also looked at C2C Book Club, and you were encouraged to buy books. If you want to do this online, the web address is http://schools.scholastic.co.uk/dingwallacademy and we need orders to be placed by 22nd September.
We then moved on to the challenge:
Having written your paragraph on our first impressions of Macbeth in 1.2, use 1.3 to investigate and discuss how our perceptions of this character change as we progress through Act 1.
We also looked at C2C Book Club, and you were encouraged to buy books. If you want to do this online, the web address is http://schools.scholastic.co.uk/dingwallacademy and we need orders to be placed by 22nd September.
We then moved on to the challenge:
Having written your paragraph on our first impressions of Macbeth in 1.2, use 1.3 to investigate and discuss how our perceptions of this character change as we progress through Act 1.
Wednesday 10 September 2014
National 5 Macbeth... continued
Today we attempted to finish digging for our golden quotes. We wrote one paragraph on how Macbeth is characterised in 1.2.
Some of the quotations:
"For brave Macbeth — well he deserves that name —
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave." I. ii. 16-20.
And again, Ross speaks of him as
"Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof." I. ii. 54.
"As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion." I.ii.35
"What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won. I.ii.67
I also introduced you to www.shmoop.com/macbeth/, which is an excellent revision site, and for those of you who struggled with reading the play in its entirety, it may well be the lifeline you are looking for. Check it out!
Some of the quotations:
"For brave Macbeth — well he deserves that name —
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave." I. ii. 16-20.
And again, Ross speaks of him as
"Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof." I. ii. 54.
"As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion." I.ii.35
"What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won. I.ii.67
I also introduced you to www.shmoop.com/macbeth/, which is an excellent revision site, and for those of you who struggled with reading the play in its entirety, it may well be the lifeline you are looking for. Check it out!
Tuesday 9 September 2014
National 5... in case you missed it...
Today we were working on Macbeth 1.2.
We watched: this summary and then worked with Table F's notes.
Our main aim was to look how Macbeth is characterised by Shakespeare in the opening scenes, with the understanding that this characterisation is in no way fixed. We began to 'dig for gold': finding and explaining quotations (at least 5) in the scene which tell us that Macbeth is at this point considered a great man.
Most groups were at one or two quotations, so we will finish this activity in the first period tomorrow before going on to 1.3, where we will similarly look at the portrayal of Macbeth, Banquo and the witches.
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