Hello folks,
Below is the marking guidelines for portfolio pieces, both creative and discursive. You should have a look at these and familiarise yourself with them, particularly when working on your own folio pieces.
As you look at the exemplars today, try and consider why those pieces scored what they did.
Hello!
I’ve also decided that the Gothic prose literature we will study this coming year will be:
Please read these over the summer holidays, and have a fantastic break!
Hi folks,
Can you complete the attached form (digitally, if possible) for the day you come back after the summer, Wednesday 16th August?
Thank you!
Sleep in the Mojave Desert
Out here there are no hearthstones,
Hot grains, simply. It is dry, dry.
And the air dangerous. Noonday acts queerly
On the mind’s eye erecting a line
Of poplars in the middle distance, the only
Object beside the mad, straight road
One can remember men and houses by.
A cool wind should inhabit these leaves
And a dew collect on them, dearer than money,
In the blue hour before sunup.
Yet they recede, untouchable as tomorrow,
Or those glittery fictions of spilt water
That glide ahead of the very thirsty.
I think of the lizards airing their tongues
In the crevice of an extremely small shadow
And the toad guarding his heart’s droplet.
The desert is white as a blind man’s eye,
Comfortless as salt. Snake and bird
Doze behind the old maskss of fury.
We swelter like firedogs in the wind.
The sun puts its cinder out. Where we lie
The heat-cracked crickets congregate
In their black armorplate and cry.
The day-moon lights up like a sorry mother,
And the crickets come creeping into our hair
To fiddle the short night away.
For those of you who missed Friday 9th June’s lesson.
Hi folks,
Below is a huge list of possible texts to consider for your dissertations – it’s also helpfully been divided by theme. This is not a restrictive list – don’t feel you HAVE to choose something from it, but it will give you an idea of the calibre of texts you should be selecting.
SUGGESTIONS FOR DISSERTATIONS TEXTS
Reminder of your deadlines, too:
Please print your own copies of the following documents – you will need them for the year ahead:
Advanced Higher English Course Guide
Advanced Higher English Dissertation Guide
Folks, such good luck to you tomorrow! Don’t panic, and try and get a good night’s sleep. Remember, you’ve worked hard; you’ve got this.
Come see me after and let me know how it went!
Covers relevant questions for our poetry, prose fiction and drama texts.
