Mount Aspiring College Department of English
Following our study of King Lear, the class will now work on their individual essay centred around the notion that King Lear is an Aristotelian tragic hero. This task is the first of the writing portfolio, an assessment which requires …
This post will develop over the course of the class’ study of the Shakespearean play, King Lear. Please note: a block of text that has a blue background indicates a question or action that the students have been asked to answer …
Below you will find the offical course outline for the Level 3 program, Knowledge Through Suffering with Mrs. Plunkett.
Mr Waugh has kindly put together entire exams (question books, resource books, marking schedules and model answers) for you to look through as you begin to prepare. These can be found on his website by …
Whiteboard notes on speech writing: Hook: Engage the audience – anecdote, analogy, metaphor, information overload (highest-grossing list). Introduction: must outline the moot, your team’s arguments and how you plan to add to this argument. Rebuttal: …
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The moots and teams for our end of year debates.
This is a little late in being posted, sorry! Over the past couple of weeks, students have been exploring the connections across texts from the genre of tragedy. We have looked at a range of …
The class is currently working on developing their thoughts for about our entire program of learning for this year. They are now investigating the features of the genre across four texts. Their findings will be …
Below is a copy of the notes I wrote before I lectured the class. This was new territory for me but the feedback from my students was very positive. They felt it helped to clarify …
One of the most common things that held students back in their first writing portfolio task was their writing skills. In particular, the inaccurate sentences that were being used. We have gone right back to …
We have come to the end of our study of Gladiator and the second writing portfolio task is now upon the class. The task handout can be found below. Below are some of the scenes …
Below is the Slides presentation we used as a base for our class exploration of Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott. Below are the notes that various pairs from the class wrote while watching Gladiator the …
