Category Archives: Senior 3 2020

Poetry (Seamus Heaney)

Posted on 13/05/2020 by Pat

Mid-Term Break BY SEAMUS HEANEY I sat all morning in the college sick bayCounting bells knelling classes to a close.At two o’clock our neighbours drove me home. In the porch I met my father crying—He had always taken funerals in his … Continue reading →

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Rite of Passage

Posted on 12/05/2020 by Pat

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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There Will Come Soft Rains: Reflections

Posted on 07/04/2020 by Pat

Today we are going to reflect on the story we have read.

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There Will Come Soft Rains

Posted on 03/04/2020 by Pat

There will-come-soft-rains-mini-scheme from Pato_Ch Here some analysis of the story in case you need it to write your essay

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Google classroom for our virtual classes (until March 31)

Posted on 15/03/2020 by Pat

Google classroom will be the platform for us to share work and submit activities and tasks but we’ll also use the blog (as usual), drive (doc and presentations) and other tools you are familiar with (I’ll let you know later). … Continue reading →

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What is missing towards our IGCSE Literature 2020?

Posted on 03/03/2020 by Pat

From Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 3, the following 15 poems: Maya Angelou, ‘Caged Bird’ Elizabeth Barret Browning, ‘Sonnet 43’ James K. Baxter, ‘Farmhand’ Sujata Bhatt, ‘Muliebrity’ Isobel Dixon, ‘Plenty’ Rosemary Dobson, ‘The Three Fates’ Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter … Continue reading →

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Farmhand by James K. Baxter

Posted on 03/03/2020 by Pat

Farmhand You will see him light a cigarette At the hall door careless, leaning his back Against the wall, or telling some new joke To a friend, or looking out into the secret night. But always his eyes turn To … Continue reading →

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