Welcome back!

Welcome back to school and to the second half of the English course.

As you remember we ran out of time before Christmas and are a bit behind in the schedule as originally planned. By now we should have completed "Romeo and Juliet" but as you will see we have a couple of weeks of study left to do it justice.

 Today I want to talk to you individually about your grades from the autumn term. I have made a document for each of you which we will look at during the lesson and I will email it to you afterwards.

As you can see the oral presentation is still not graded. This is because I had a computer crash during the holidays and only now have I got the films working again.

While on the subject I wonder how many are prepared to do their Shakespeare page summary today?

Well, thankfully, we will begin with this on Monday and complete it next Friday- no excuses!

There are three graded assignments for "Romeo and Juliet":
1. The page analysis
2. Final questions (see the attached document at the end of today's blog)
3. Comparison of the film and play (see preliminary planner)

Today I want you to begin by doing an interview with a classmate about his/her Christmas holiday. Record it on your laptop and mail it to me.

Call the file: name_name_christmas where the FIRST name is the INTERVIWER and the SECOND name the person who is INTERVIEWED.

After that I want you to get into groups of 4-5 students and do an assessment and a preliminary planner.

You will find copies of the relevant documents on the teacher's desk.

Here they are in digital form:-
1. Free assessment
2. Preliminary planner

The other important decision is our choice of modern novel. There are four candidates. They are:
  John Marsden  Letters from the Inside
  Jodi Picoult      My sister's keeper
  Julie Bertagna  Exodus
  John Green      Looking for Alaska

There is a copy of them on the teacher's desk. Find out a little about the books and vote for the book of your choice individually.
Write the result on the assessment.

Finally here are the Shakespeare questions in document form.

If you have time over at the end of the lesson then please work on your Shakespeare.