Year 9 English 2009

In novels, there are often several settings where the story happens. These different settings can occur at different points in a character’s life such as a flashback to their childhood. They can also occur at different places the characters go to during their days such as school, work, or friends’ places.

Choose at least 2 settings where the story happens and complete the following for each of them…

· Year

· Country/City

· Season

· Location

· Time in the characters life

Minimujm requirements:

1. salient feature
2. text – descriptive & persuasive language + slogan
3. gaze – how we look at the advertisement
4. framing the shots
5. identifiable product
6. ’story’ of the advertising campaign

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. 

In 1790 the poet William Blake (pictured above) wrote these words “To see a world in a grain of sand and Heaven in a wild flower/ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour”.  Blake was very good at using descriptive words and phrases to give his readers the exact idea of what he was thinking about.

Last lesson you made some close observations of our world – out on the oval – and in today’s lesson you are going to use those notes you made as the reference material for your own poem.

1. Read back over your notes and add in words/phrases that will extend the idea and make it clearer for your reader. Think about our senses – sight, sound, taste, touch and smell – and imagine how you will make your descriptions very clear for someone else to consider what you were looking at.
2. Now start writing your poem!
3. ADD YOUR POEM HERE – AS A COMMENT – by the end of the lesson
4. If you are absolutely stuck on where to start use the following lines/stanza starters:

I can see…

And it makes me think of….

 

I can hear…

And it reminds me of…

 

I can taste…

And its just like…

 

I can touch…

And it makes me think of

 

I can smell…

And it reminds me of…

 

I can feel…

And its just like…

Warning

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

With a red hat that doesn’t suit me,

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for the butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired

And gobble up samples in the shops and press alarm bells

And run my stick along public railings

And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain

And pick flowers in other people’s gardens

And learn to spit.

 You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat

And eat three pounds of sausages at a go

Or only bread and pickles for a week

And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes 

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry

And pay our rent and not swear in the street

And set a good example for the children.

We shall have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But may I ought to practise a little now?

So that people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

When suddenly I am old and start to wear purple.

Jenny Josephs

1. Explain why you think the poem has the title ‘Warning’?
2. ‘And make up for the sobriety of my youth’. How does the poet seem to feel about her younger days?
3. What makes the line ‘And learn to spit’ such a strong finish to the first verse?
4. How does the poet seem to feel about her life up until this point? Explain your answer by using some quotes from the poem.
5. What response do you think the poet hopes to draw out of her readers? Is she successful? (explain how she made you feel)

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PICTURES AND POETRY

In today’s lesson we are going to use the poems we drafted in our last lesson and illustrate them for our readers.

1. Complete your poem draft (if you haven’t already done so)
2. Research on the internet to CAREFULLY select photos, line drawings, textures or similar that are suitable for your poem. Be fussy about this – you want the illustrations to add to your words and not distract the reader from what you’re describing.
3. In PowerPoint use one line from your poem + one illustration = one slide.
4. Next choose slide animations, timing the sequence so that your reader has time to enjoy each slide.
5. If you have time AND if you choose to why not also add some music to your presentation?
6. When all is completed (finish for homework tonight if you need to)please add your PPT to our English dropbox on the Portal

                                                                Year 9- Romeo and Juliet

Watch the two scenes of the film and use them to answer the following:

1.       Look at the costumes of Romeo and Juliet in the balcony scene. Why did Baz Luhrmann choose to place them in these costumes? What does it tell us about their love?

2.       Are Romeo and Juliet rebellious children? Why, why not?

3.       Did Romeo and Juliet have to die?

4.       A theme is a reoccurring idea within a literary work, longer works can have multiple themes. Choose a theme from the list below that reoccurs throughout the text and rewrite the given scene as a short story maintaining the same theme. It can be in modern setting or in Shakespeare’s time, keep the language or change it- it is up to you.

Examine the three photos below and

1. choose the one you think best represents this scene
2. write a paragraph to explain why you chose that photo
3. post your paragraph as a “comment” below.

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Act 3 Scene 1

1.   Why do you think Tybalt approaches Mercutio and Benvolio and wants a “word” with one of them (line 36)?

2.   After Tybalt insults Romeo, Romeo responds with lines 59-62. Explain his lines. What is the “reason” Romeo has for ignoring the insult?

3.   Romeo tries to stop Mercutio and Tybalt from fighting by reasoning with them (lines 82-85). Paraphrase what he says.

• Continue/complete the cartoons and your script from Monday’s lesson

• Research the text and explanations and plan out a 3-4 paragraph answer to the following question…make sure you use some quotes from the play in your discussion:

Discuss the relationships between parents and children in Romeo and Juliet. How do Romeo and Juliet interact with their parents? Are they rebellious, in the modern sense? How do their parents feel about them?

ACT 1 SCENE 3

In this scene Lady Capulet is informing Juliet and her nurse of Count Paris’ proposal of marriage.

1. What is the Nurse’s relationship with Juliet?
2. Reread lines 62-63. What is the Nurse’s one wish for Juliet and why?
3. When Lady Capulet asks Juliet how she feels about being married, what is Juliet’s answer (line 67), and what does it reveal about Juliet’s character?
4. Reread lines 98-100. Explain Juliet’s answer to her mother when asked if she can love Paris. What does it reveal about her knowledge of being in love? What is her attitude toward love and marriage?