I hope the work on your report went well.
Obviously many of you are still working frantically with your project so do not panic about handing in your report.
However, last week should have given you a chance to get started and come some way to a structure for your English 7 report.
We now come to the final assignment for the modern novel.
As for the Shakespeare there are three assignments- one based on the language (in this case the etymology of words in "Letters from the Inside").
The other two assignments are based on the context of the two books and are designed to give you an opportunity to discuss the content of the works.
Here are the second assignments again(in case you have forgotten!)
200-300 words please
CHOOSE 1 out of the 4 assignments.
Exodus
1.
What makes a leader of people? Courage? Conviction? Resourcefulness? Foolhardiness? All of those things, but perhaps above all a leader has a vision of the future. A dream.
Mara isn't a leader of people when this story starts. She's just a young girl eking out her existence with her family and a few other villagers on a tiny, remote, sinking island. In Mara's world global warming has taken its toll. The ice caps have melted, sea levels have risen and the world has sunk beneath the waters. Storms and tidal surges batter the few remaining, scattered settlements. For all Mara and the people of the tiny island of Wing know, they may be the last souls left alive on planet earth. There is nothing out there beyond their encroaching shores except a vast and angry ocean.
So when they finally have to abandon Wing, it is a desperate and fearful group of people who take to their tiny fishing boats. And they are almost entirely without hope, except for something that Mara has told them. She has accessed the old technology, found her way into the Weave:
Above the scrolling text, the on-screen simulation shows a cluster of towers, colossal trunks of towers, rising out of the flooded ruins of an old city. Now a vast, geometric construction - tiers and branching networks - begins to grow out of the central trunk, cresting higher and higher into the sky, mapping the air space between the towers with amazingly complex patterns, while massive roots bore down through the seabed, deep into the Earth.
Mara's parents gaze in astonishment at the vast structure that rises out of the ocean - a giant city in the sky.
'Impossible,' says Coll. 'It would blow down. How could it withstand a storm?'
Trace the steps by which Mara changes from a fifteen-year-old-girl to a courageous leader
2. "Exodus"- Science fiction or a realistic scenario?
Letters from the Inside
1.
Write a newspaper article about Tracey. You are a reporter from a youth magazine who has interviewed Tracey and then decided to write an article about her.
2. Analyse the concepts of freedom and confinement(isolation) presented in the book. Who is free and who is not? What does the ending of the book say about this theme?
The final (third) assignment is as follows:
Letters from the Inside
Write an alternative ending to the book using the same style as the author...
Exodus
Write a letter to the author expressing what you liked (or disliked) about the book. Were there any questions you had about the plot, characters or inspiration for the book? Name them here.
Next week we will be doing the Speaking part of the Cambridge Advanced Examination. This Friday you will have the opportunity to examine what the test consists of and practise for it in small groups.
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