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Intermediate 1: Night

We are now reading Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night.

You should have read up to page 18 last night. Your job now is to finish reading to the end of chapter one, page 34, by Friday. We'll be doing some work on it.

I will publish a guide to reading/our lessons sometime over the next week which will let you know where you should be at any given point in the term. One tip: try reading a little every night. If you read a little every night, you stay on top of the story, and lessons will make a lot more sense. At this level, there's not a lot of in-class time for reading aloud, but we will do some of this as we go along. Lesson time is mostly for contextual work, analysing the text and working out how to write essays about it.

Please do use the vocab 'parking lot'. We'll be working with the words each week.

And please do keep asking questions!

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Int 1--has this shown up for you? See if you can manage a comment below!

Intermediate 1 Homework

Int 1: your first essay at this level is due on MONDAY

Choose a poem in which a character or incident or an experience is vividly described.

Briefly state what the poem is about and go on to say what techniques are used in the poem to catch and maintain your interest.

S2 Underground to Canada Vocabulary List

Here are our words for this week:

scant
quenched
savour
fragrance
haggard
dispersed
unkempt
defiant

Your instructions:
1. Look these words up.
2. Write down the definitions.
3. Use them in a sentence.
4. Memorise them!

Spellings will be tested next Wednesday.

S3 Profile

Here it is, everyone:

Link to Flashcard site

Here is the link to the Macbeth cards. Remember that these were prepared by other students (somewhere in the world!), so the explanations may not fit what you are used to hearing. Useful at least for the quotations themselves.

http://quizlet.com/7623875/macbeth-20-key-quotes-for-exam-revision-flash-cards/

And here it is embedded:

Notes and resources from Miss Fyvie

Hi Highers,

Here you can find some revision materials Miss Fyvie has prepared. For those in my class--remember that Miss Fyvie's class did Macbeth and Saving Private Ryan. You will likely find this material helpful.

Thanks, Miss Fyvie!

Remember to REVISE over the holiday. Although you do not have formal homework, you know what you need to do. Right?

See you on the 15th...

Mr Green

3.3 Limericks

Here's the fun video from today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-rN3DGMCsE

Don't forget to upload your own limericks either here or on the class page!

Macbeth podcast

PODCAST

Listen to the podcast above, then consider the essay question below. 

Make a plan, including line of thought and quotations. 

This will be a timed essay task on Friday.

Choose from a play a scene in which manipulation, temptation or humiliation is an important feature.

Explain what happens in the scene and go on to show how the outcome of the manipulation, temptation or humiliation adds to your appreciation of the play as a whole. – 2011 CE Paper

Higher: Lord of the Flies extra material

We've talked in class about "man's inherent evil," a major theme of Lord of the Flies. You may have been slightly shocked today in class when we were thinking of the chapter 'Painted Faces and Long Hair', when I said that the boys had actually done quite well to last so long. You may have wondered why...

Remember the references I made to the Stanford Experiment? No? For info, check here and a recent BBC piece here. When I was looking into studies relating to Lord of the Flies, I refreshed my memory, and was surprised to find that I'd forgotten that the experiment was terminated after just six days. Six days. So if the boys' hair had grown 'long' (probably not so much as we would consider long these days, but still!), then they'd made it at least a month... or possibly much more.

This weekend, I watched two films you might be interested in, as one deals with the experiment itself, and the other addresses what might be considered Jack's style of leadership.  The first was a dramatisation of the Stanford Experiment, and the second takes place in a secondary school in Germany. Both, interestingly, deal with very short periods of time.

Both of these films involve some violence which some of you may find distressing (as an aside, it is interesting to note that in Imdb, The Experiment is rated R, but in Netflix it is 15).

The Experiment (2010)

In this gripping thriller, a group of men volunteers to take on the roles of guards and inmates at a mock prison as part of a controversial psychological study. But when the guards abuse their power in alarming ways, the prisoners stage a revolt. (from Netflix)


The Wave (2008) 
Die Welle (original title)


A high school teacher's unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

"High school teacher, Rainer Wegner, may be popular with the students, but he's also unorthodox. He's forced to teach autocracy for the school's project week. He's less than enthusiastic at first, but the response of the students is surprising to say the least. He forces the students to become more invested in the prospect of self rule, and soon the class project has its own power and eerily starts to resemble Germany's past. Can Wegner and his class realize what's happening before the horrors start repeating themselves? Written by napierslogs"

If you do check these out, let me know what you think!

3.8 Crime and Punishment!

Hi everyone,

Task 1: But it wasn’t me!

In Kes, Billy is accused of doing something he didn’t actually do. So is the messenger. Both are punished. Think about a time you were accused of doing something you didn’t do.

First, do a mind map to help your thinking and planning

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Write a paragraph (or two!) about the incident. Remember to include:

-         What you were accused of

-         What happened

-         How you felt

DUE THURSDAY!

Mindmapping LotF

Click here for the mindmap on Character and Conflict

3.3 Haiku work

For those of you who found it beneficial, here is the video we had on in the background as you were considering the thoughts and images you gathered outside:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfJHmDhLVRc

We used the first six minutes.

Happy haiku-ing!

Supported Study Survey

Survey for supported study:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MXFDFRY

Cast your votes! If we were able to offer Supported Study, what would you like to do?

Higher folks:

Recent Prose questions are on your page. Just hit the 'Higher' tab above.

Past questions (2007-10) are below:

Begin assembling a 'quote bank', revising all texts (Macbeth, Saving Private Ryan, Lord of the Flies, All That Glisters, all poetry).

Higher prose fiction questions 2007 to 2010

View more documents from Mr Green

Higher drama questions 2007 to 2010

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Higher poetry questions

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Higher Homework

Complete any outstanding essays (your short story and/or discursive essay) for Monday. No excuses! Not even if you're hanging about with semi-famous bands!

That sonnet video...

S3, here it is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_lxFaYwAA

Remember, sonnets due TOMORROW!

Higher Questions

Hi everyone,

The practice questions you planned out in class are in the Higher space (tab). Choose one. Give yourself no more than one hour to do it. Go! Go! Go!
You should also be revising your Macbeth and poetry.

See you Monday.

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?).