3.8 page updated

Hello 3.8,

Your page has been updated with the BBC punctuation game we played in class. We have only played the first of the games so far, but please do feel free to check out the others (this goes for other classes, too--how good is YOUR punctuation?).

New contact details

Hello all,

Please use ngreen639@highlandschools.org.uk to contact me by email rather than the gmail.com address.

Thank you,
Mr Green

S3 Homelessness Links

Hi 3.3,
Place your links for your homelessness projects here in the comments. Simply copy the web address in the white address bar (highlight and press ctrl+c) then paste it into the comments. You might want to mark it with your Group letter, for example:

Group A: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jun/09/homelessness-england-data

Higher Macbeth Work

Line #s	Character	Line(s)	Reference	Line(s)
22-3	Gentlewoman	She has a light by her continually, ‘tis her command	1.5, 50-5	And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,/ That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,/ Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark/ To cry, ‘Hold, hold.’
35	LM	One, two…	2.1, 31-2, 62	M: Go bid they mistress…/ She strike upon the bell M: Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell/ That summons thee to heaven or hell
36	LM	Hell is murky	1.4, 50-55	Macbeth: Stars hide your fires/ Let not light see my black and deep desires…
37	LM	A soldier, and afeard?	1.7, 39-41, 49
38-9	LM	power to account	1.7, 77-9
39-40	LM	old man to have had so much blood in him?	2.2, 52-3, 61
43	LM	No more o’ that my lord, no more o’ that: you mar all with this starting	3.4, 63	O these flaws and starts/ Impostors to true fear…
49-50	LM	Here’s the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.	2.2, 49-50, 70	Go get some water/ And wash this filthy witness from your hand. A little water clears us of this deed.
60-63	LM	Wash your hands, put on your night-gown, look not so pale. I tell you yet again Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave.	x3 refs (2.2 3.4 3.4)
64-67	LM	To bed, to bed; there’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.	x3 refs (2.2 2.2 3.2)

Time for a new riddle?

No correct solutions yet... keep trying!

S3 Homelessness

Homelessness Project

You are currently working on a big project which involves two major outcomes: a written piece and a spoken piece.

The ultimate form of this project is up to you and your partners/trios.

For Monday, make sure you have caught up to the end of Activity 3 on your sheets.

S4 Homework

S4,
Your homework is to redraft (and in some cases, draft!) the essay we wrote in class on Owen's 'The Last Laugh'. Due TUESDAY 13th November. You have 'Tree of Knowledge' on Monday, so will not be in English.

No excuses!

The poem and essay plan are below:

The Last Laugh

'Oh! Jesus Christ! I'm hit,' he said; and died.
Whether he vainly cursed or prayed indeed,
The Bullets chirped-In vain, vain, vain!
Machine-guns chuckled,-Tut-tut! Tut-tut!
And the Big Gun guffawed.

Another sighed,-'O Mother, -Mother, - Dad!'
Then smiled at nothing, childlike, being dead.
And the lofty Shrapnel-cloud
Leisurely gestured,-Fool!
And the splinters spat, and tittered.

'My Love!' one moaned. Love-languid seemed his mood,
Till slowly lowered, his whole faced kissed the mud.
And the Bayonets' long teeth grinned;
Rabbles of Shells hooted and groaned;
And the Gas hissed. 

Wilfred Owen

ESSAY PLAN

‘The Last Laugh’ by Wilfred Owen

Task: Choose a poem which deals with the topic of war. Identify the poet’s message to the reader, and explain how this message is delivered.

Introduction

Include:

-          Wilfred Owen

-          ‘The Last Laugh’

-          A line or two describing what happens in the poem

-          The theme(s): shock and waste of youth/human life to the machinery of war

-          Owen’s message to his reader

-          The techniques he uses: personification and onomatopoeia

Paragraph One

Include:

-          What happens

-          Why the soldier says “O Jesus Christ! I’m hit”

-          Personification: What do the bullets and guns do? How does Owen make the bullets and guns sound? (hint: think about ‘guffawed’)

-          Owen uses repetition to emphasise the guns’ message. What do the guns and bullets seem to be ‘saying’ to us? (hint: think about “In vain! In vain! In vain!”/ “Tut-tut! Tut-tut!”)

Paragraph Two

Include:

-          What happens (Who is this soldier? Why is he calling out to his mother and father? What is Owen reminding us of?)

-          What does Owen tell us about his facial expression? Why? Why does he say the soldier’s face is ‘childlike’? (hint: is a battlefield a place for children? Is ‘being dead’ ok?)

-          The soldier is killed by a bomb and its shrapnel. What does the ‘Shrapnel-cloud’ do and say? Why does Owen have it do this?

Paragraph Three

Include:

-          Who is the third soldier calling for? What does this tell us about him?

-          Why is this soldier ‘kissing the mud’? Why might this be disturbing to the reader? Who should he be kissing?

-          Look at: ‘the Bayonets’ long teeth grinned’. Why has Owen described the bayonets this way? How does it make the reader feel?

-          There is a lot of noise in this stanza: ‘Rabbles of Shells hooted and groaned’. Why might the shells be described as hooting and groaning? (hint: think of them as spectators at a match).

-          Owen ends his poem with ‘the Gas hissed’. Explain why this is a powerful use of personification.

Conclusion

Who or what is laughing at the soldiers when they die?

What is Owen trying to say about the war?

Do you think his poem is effective? Did you like it? Explain why, or why not.

For more information, check out the following sites of interest:

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/pathways/path/5hn2it

and

http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/poetry/the-last-laugh