Category: Reading
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde assessment
Year 9, I know you found some of the questions on the novella difficult today – I suggest that you go on-line to reread the chapter called Incident of the Letter again (this is chapter 5.) You will be retelling the chapter from the point of view of Mr Guest, Mr Utterson’s clerk. Remember that…
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Romeo and Juliet – The Prologue and its purpose.
Last week we translated the prologue as a class and considered the question ‘Why does Shakespeare tell us the ending at the beginning?’ Ebeneezer made the well-observed comment that it forces the audience to react differently to the play. We discussed how ‘pageturners’ are all about how the plot advances, yet here we focus on…
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Romeo and Juliet – Initial discussions
This week we have started to delve into Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The first task you approached with gusto was galloping around the classroom to the rhythm of iambic pentameter. We established the natural rhythm and then went on to read the prologue. Today we began to ask questions about why Shakespeare decided to…