Category: Reading
Ozymandias
Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias” I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert… near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, …
Exam Preparation: 1.1 Extended Written Texts
You should attempt the sample paper and then have a look at the excellence exemplar and answer rubric to evaluate your response. You are most welcome to give your practice papers to me to assess as well.
Exam Preparation: 1.3 Unfamiliar Texts
AS 90851: Show understanding of significant aspects of unfamiliar text(s) through close reading, using supporting evidence. 4 Credits. External
Novel Study: Lord of the Flies
A critical theory-based study of some of the central themes of Lord of the Flies and the extent to which it expands our understanding of human ambition.
1.5 Formal Writing Assessment: Vaulting Ambition in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
This task is a culmination of our study of William Shakespeare’s Tragedy Macbeth. This is an opportunity to explore the techniques of language, structure and conventions of theatre that Shakespeare employed to convey his strongest themes
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow – Despair in Macbeth
Analysis of the language effects Shakespeare employs to reinforce the sense of despair Macbeth feels on learning of his wife’s death.
Personal Reading
A longitudinal project that encourages you to read widely and extensively and to make thoughtful and insightful observations about the connections you make between what you read, your own experience, the world around us and other texts.
Soliloquy Schedule
A performance series of self-selected soliloquies – the schedule and some exemplars
Macbeth Act 2, Scene 2 – Is this A Dagger?
Is this a dagger which I see before me?
Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5: Unsex Me Here
In Act 1, Scene 5 of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is introduced in full command of her power of evil persuasion. “unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!”