10TT Romeo and Juliet

Why do you think that Romeo and Juliet were NEVER going to live happily ever after.

10RW Beatrice and Benedick

Go to http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/secondary/keystage3/subjects/english/shakespeare/globe_audio/

Listen to the interview with Beatrice - What do you learn about the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick?

10RW New Zealand's contribution to Medical development

Use the net to see if you can find out some of the major contributions that New Zealand has made to the medical world.

End of Term 3

To: 10TT 10RW and 11English
Thanks for all your hard work. Next term Year 11s will be in for some serious revision - brushing up on response writing will be a major focus. Year 10 classes will be doing a mixture of film making, performance, some will do poetry and some will be doing latin!

Thanks to all of you who have used this site to express your sensible and constuctive ideas.
Have a great and happy holiday.

Mrs Hucker

I've won! I can't believe it!

You are Dave. Write in the first person your account of winning the Little 500 and what it means to you.

10TT 10RW Breaking Away

Check out this site http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/070503

Play the video, it will give you some interesting insights into the film Breaking Away.

Do a Google search on Little 500 - leave an interesting fact on the comments

9NR Short Stories 2007

We've read lots of short stories this year. Which one can you remember the best? Tell me why you remember it the best? What was MEMORABLE? I was most pleased with the way you all handled The Bet.

"Everyone cheats." 10TT 10RW

"Everyone cheats. I just didn't know."

Who says this in Breaking Away?

Who is he talking about?

Do you think he is right?

Why is this an important moment in the film?

Breaking Away 10TT 10RW

Now that you have viewed the film what is your impression of the whole film. Can you identify any common elements when comparing it to The Outsiders?

Visual and Verbal Techniques/Features

Some great responses to Looking for Alibrandi. One thing I would like you all to keep in mind is to be very specific when referring to visual and verbal features. In the scene where Michael and Josephine come face to face the visual feature is simply a mid shot which is the most frequently used shot to show emotion/reaction. The verbal features are dialogue, voice over and music. It is not sufficient to say verbal and visual features are used to show this. Do make sure you distinguish between voice over and dialogue. Keep writing it's fabulous to read your responses expressing an excellent depth of understanding.

An important scene - Alibrandi

Describe an important scene in the text. Explain how visual and verbal techniques were used in this incident to help you understand why it was important.

Born on the wrong side of the tracks

What does this mean? Use the Greasers as your example. Is it possible to leap the track in real life?

Alibrandi - Jacob Coote

What was Jacob Coote's appeal to Josephine?

Alibrandi - John Barton

Was John Barton attainable for Josie?

Thanks

It's great to see a number of you from TT RW and Year 11 English using this site for your homework. Please do remember to leave your name if you haven't cracked how to automatically put your name on your comments. I can't credit you for doing your homework otherwise. Keep up with the great work now we are with the 21st Century!

11 Eng Looking for Alibrandi - Josephine

Write a couple of lines explaining how the character of Josephine is initially established at the beginning of the film or choose Sister Louise to describe. Don't forget to refer to both visual and verbal features.

10RW 10TT The Outsiders - Characterisation

You can tell a lot about a character by the way they dress and the way they present themselves. What can you tell about Steve from this photograph?

11 Eng Looking for Alibrandi

What is Tomato Day? How does Josephine feel about her participation in Tomato Day at the beginning of the movie? You might also like to comment on this still shot of the three Alibrandi women.

10TT 10RW The Outsiders

What do you really think of Cherry after she told Ponyboy not to be offended if she didn't speak to him at school?

10TT 10RW The Outsiders

"Curly said you were a good kid. Curly's in the reformatory (jail) for the next 6 months"

Tim Shephard, a Greaser, says this to Ponyboy and Darry just before the rumble. What do you think about what he says?

Year 11 English

You have now viewed the film - Looking for Alibrandi - what are your first impressions?

10RW 10TT The Outsiders - film text

You have now viewed The Outsiders - what are your first thoughts/impressions.

Mrs Hucker Playing - She is not a Geek!

I'm just playing to see how to upload photos on to my blog - this worked super quick!
Yay it's Friday and the weather is looking up - all is well after a messy week.

10RW Z for Zachariah - the setting

The setting in Z for Zachariah was both sanctuary and hostile for Ann. Explain your thoughts on this idea.

Create a blogging name

Create a blogging name. Mine is Chucker,most of you can work it out very easily - you see it often enough! Mrs Cleary uses Mrs C. You need one too!

Hiroshima 10RW

Go to www.archive.org/details/TaleofTw1946 View the footage, it's about 12 minutes long. Make a comment. The site archive.org has a wealth of visual oral and written material available to you for all subjects - investigate and let me know of some great films, recordings or texts you find.

Tin Soldiers 11 CH Eng

Michael and Benny have a lot in common - they are both thugs who have viciously attacked another human being because they belong to a different group. Am I right or are there very real differences between Michael and Benny?

Gangsta Rap - 10TT

X Ray X, Pro Justice and Prem de la Prem, have every right to be very angry with Sinclair who stirred up all the trouble with the Western Alliance but they also should be thanking him for giving them a flying start to their career. What do you think!

Z for Zachariah 10RW

What do Z for Zachariah and the Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh have in common? Mrs Forsyth who teaches Year 7 English is a huge fan of the film version and does it as a film study with her classes at Tuakau College. Do you know it? Those of you who are familiar with the book or the film - can you find any links. Leave me a comment.

Creative Writing Year 10s and Year 11s

If you are in Year 11 CH Eng, 10TT or 10RW, you have been through the process of completing a piece of creative writing. How comfortable do you feel writing descriptively? Do you think your writing improved during this unit of work? How important is writing descriptively to you? Tell me what you think.

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