Author Archives: Pat

The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection

Virginia Woolf After reading the story in class, answer the following questions. (Share a doc in classroom) Notice how the mirror in the first paragpraph is set up as the frame for a kind of a portrait. The unnamed narrator … Continue reading

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Topics for the Literature Paper

Choose one option to write your paper. Classical period: Electra by Sophocles Romanticism: John keats (selected poetry) Gothic: Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson Victorian period: The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde Modernism: To the … Continue reading

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The Kites are Flying: Context

The story is set in the West Bank, part of the occupied Palestinian territories. Since thefoundation of the state of Israel in 1948 there has been conflict between the Israelis and thePalestinians over ownership of land. Hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading

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The Thinkers of the Enlightenment

Let’s take a look at this presentation together and take notes of famous thinkers and their main idea.

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If Thou Must Love Me

We are going to read and analyse 2 poems (This activity will take 3 classes) Task 1: She was called “the feminist Victorian writer”. Do some research and tell me why. (write answers in your folder to be discussed later) … Continue reading

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Good Bye Senior 5

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Project: The Poetry of Ted Hughes

Objectives: -To learn about the writer and how animals are presented in his poems. -To explore the theme man vs nature -to explore the concept of the dark side of the self. -to be able to apply these ideas and … Continue reading

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Topics for the Research Paper

Choose a topic and do research on the writer/writers and the literary movement. GOTHIC LITERATURE Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Read the book and then decide on the topic you would like to develop. VICTORIAN TIMES The Picture of Dorian Gray … Continue reading

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Rite of Passage

Gennep’s major work was Les Rites de Passage (1909; The Rites of Passage), in which he systematically compared those ceremonies that celebrate an individual’s transition from one status to another within a given society. He found a tripartite sequence in ritual observance: separation, transition, and incorporation. … Continue reading

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Poetry Presentations

Presentation 1 If thou must love me from Pato_Ch Presentation 2 The Pains of Sleep by Juana, Bianca and Sol Presentation 3 I years had been from home from Pato_Ch Presentation 4 A wife in london by thomas hardy from … Continue reading

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Rising Five

Check out this video to understand the poem deeply. Rising Five by Norman Nicholson Take notes of the following: -Voice -Theme -Tone -Literary devices (visual images, symbols, alliteration, etc) After this, go to classroom to work on a worksheet.

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A View from the Bridge: Review

This year we are going to review the play we read in Senior 1. Study guide  Complete guide to all the play A view-from-the-bridge-revision-guide from Pato_Ch   A view from the bridge from krowland

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