“Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own
First Year English
September - October
'it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort'
Let's improve our reading skills this term by adventuring with Mr. Bilbo Baggins. Where will he take us? What's going to happen? We'll soon find out!
Looking Back
Looking Back
- Autobiographical Writing - Diary of The Titanic, The Diary Of Georgia Nicholson, Chinese Cinderella
- Nouns
- Capital Letters
Trip to Fighting Words
Trip to the Fighting Words Centre on the 4/10/13 to meet Sarah J. Maas, a Fantasy novel writer who has created the series of novels beginning with Throne of Glass.
What might she reveal to us about creating exciting characters in imagined worlds? What questions could you ask her about novel - writing?
What might she reveal to us about creating exciting characters in imagined worlds? What questions could you ask her about novel - writing?
Second Year English
September - October
There are no limits to what your imagination can create!
Let's get writing descriptive fantasy stories full of adventure and imagination. Try to bring your character to life and give them a sense of purpose.
Looking Back (Descriptive Writing)
Looking Back (Descriptive Writing)
- Descriptive Writing - Appealing to the 5 senses, essay writing - The Sweet Shop
- Descriptive poetry and Metaphors - Poem for Lara, 10 by Michael Harnett
- Descriptive writing and Functional writing - Letter to Lara
- Descriptive writing and music - what images come to mind whilst listening to atmospheric music?
- Descriptive Writing and Reading Comprehension
Look below at the creative imagination behind the animation Dreamgiver! Let's find out more about what's happening in this story....
Transition Year English
September - October
'Her voice was full of money'
Let's see if the twisting plot leads to a happy ending for Gatsby and Daisy. Has the bitterness of 1920's New York poisoned the sweet? Has the flash of money blinded all? Is love a memory or a living thing in Daisy's heart? Will Mr. Wilson realise that he has been treading water n a dark, deep and murky pool?
Looking Back
Looking Back
- Theme - The failure of the American dream
- Characters - The Buchanans, Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the Wilsons
- Setting - 1920's New York, jazz-era, prohibition act, post WW1
Fifth Year English
September - October
“A word after a word after a word is power.” Margaret Atwood
Language Skills
- Aesthetic use of Language
- Narrative Language
- Informative Language
- Persuasive Language
- Argumentative Language
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Aesthetic use of LanguageMirror in February
The day dawns, with scent of must and rain, Of opened soil, dark trees, dry bedroom air. Under the fading lamp, half dressed -- my brain Idling on some compulsive fantasy -- I towel my shaven jaw and stop, and stare, Riveted by a dark exhausted eye, A dry downturning mouth. It seems again that it is time to learn, In this untiring, crumbling place of growth To which, for the time being, I return. Now plainly in the mirror of my soul I read that I have looked my last on youth And little more; for they are not made whole That reach the age of Christ. Below my window the wakening trees, Hacked clean for better bearing, stand defaced Suffering their brute necessities; And how should the flesh not quail, that span for span Is mutilated more? In slow distaste I fold my towel with what grace I can, Not young, and not renewable, but man Thomas Kinsella Documentaries -
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