HIGHER- MONDAY!!!

Please note that as folio lessons are finished, Monday will be an additional poetry lesson until we are finished poetry and then revision rotation with 'Gatsby' will begin!

'A View From The Bridge' 'The Cousins arrive!' Questions and 'Paperdoll' symbolism task.

The Cousins arrive! p 16 – 22 ( yellow), p. 26-34 (silver)- finish for homework over hols- you will need to get yourself a copy of the play to do this!


1.  How does the family greet the brothers? P26-27
2. What differences are noticeable between Rodolpho and Marco? Evidence?p27-29
3. How does Eddie show his opinion of Rodolpho? Evidence?p29
4. What are Marcos ambitions? p30
5. What are Rodolpho’s ambitions? p 30
6. How do Catherine and Rodolpho show their developing attitudes to one another? Evidence?  p32
7. How does Eddie react to Rodolpho’s singing? P32-33
8. What is Marco’s response? p33
9. [Embarrassed, now angered, Catherine goes into the bedroom] Explain Catherine’s response? p33
10. Alfieri states ‘Now as the weeks passed, there is a trouble that would not go away’ What trouble could that be? What tension can you sense developing between which characters? Site instances where this is shown? p34

'Paperdoll song' symbolism

Read the lyrics to the 'Paperdoll' song that Rodolpho sings in this section of the play and answer the following:
1. What is the song about?
2. What situation (between our characters) does the song seem to be symbolic of? Fully explain the symbolism (HINT- who is trying to treat who like his very own 'doll'?).

S4 'Gap Year' Questions homework! FOR WED 22nd FEB

1.Look at stanza 1. What feelings does Kay have as she awaits her son’s birth? (3)

2.Name the language techniques used in the following phrases: “tight tub of a stomach”; “turning, burping, awake, asleep”; and say how effective these expressions are in describing the expectant mother’s experience. (5)  Fully analyse to prove your answer.

3.What does the phrase “close stranger” and the word “tumshie” tell us about the poet’s feelings about her unborn child? (5)  Fully analyse.

4.How does the poet link the two sections of the poem? Two examples please. Use maps. (4) Quote and explain.

5.What is the poet’s reaction to the grandfather’s blunt advice? Evidence and analysis . (3)

6.How does she react to the news that Matthew will be returning four weeks later than expected? Evidence and analysis. (3)

7.The last two stanzas signal a further mood change. Explain the change and comment on the effectiveness of the language the poet uses to convey her feelings. (5)

8.Comment on the poet’s language in the phrase “a flip and a skip ago”. What is she trying to emphasise? (Assonance!) (2)

Higher pupils!!!

Good luck!!!!

I will be in school for the next hour and a half or so, so if you want to come and pick up work or discuss anything then please do drop in to see me!! (Friday afternoon- 13.05)!!!

4B3-NAT 5 'Gap Year' Word-choice/imagery homework- OVERDUE

WORD-CHOICE

Task Two: Read the statements, identify the effective piece of word choice and analyse it.

1.      The boy was interrogated about his actions by his parents.

2.        We have been bombarded with numerous images.

Now, check your answers at the bottom of  the page and give yourself a mark out of 4.  2 marks per question.

Task Three: For each of the following quotes from the poem ‘Gap Year’, fully explain the effective example of word choice (in bold), following the correct steps from your formula.

Example:

 ‘I remember your Moses basket before you were born’.

The word choice of ‘remember’ means to think back over something. However, it has connotations of nostalgia, intimacy, and of something being meaningful enough to you for you to remember it. This shows us she is reminiscing positively about her memories of the past and how she waited in anticipation for Matthew’s birth.

Your turn

1. willing you to arrive, hardly able to believe
2. I’d feel the mound of my tight tub of a stomach
3. Now, I peek in your room and stare at your bed
4. Your handsome face – soft, open..
5. I feel like a home-alone mother
6. your empty bedroom, trying to imagine you in your bed
7. My love glows like the sunrise over the lost city

Numbers 2, 5 and 7 are also examples of imagery. Use your imagery formula (just as…,so…) to fully analyse these, using your word-choice analysis to help you !

Answers to task 2

1.       ‘interrogated’ – Denotation- to question. Connotations- force, crime, suspicion, lots of questions…

This suggests the parents asked the boy lots of questions, possibly to catch him out.

2.       ‘bombarded’ – Denotation- hit by connotations- attacked,  no escape, enveloped.

This suggests that there have been a lot of images, so many that it is overwhelming.

HIGHER MOCK PRELIMS AND ESSAYS MARKED TO BE COLLECTED

Mock prelims:

• Freya
• Olivia
• Agathe
• Emily C
• Rosa
• Mia
• Naomi
• Aiden
• Hilary
• Chloe A
• Chloe M
• Stephen B
• Sadie
• Katie P
• Vinny
• Sean
• No name- Anna? 
• Hannah
• Erin
• Gregor
• Emily A
• Leila
• Kathryn
• Murray
• Keiran 

JOHN- where is your mock prelim?????

Significant Moment essays ( remember that some of these have already been handed back!):

• Erin
• Freya
• Alice
• Agathe
• Chloe A
• Gregor Mc
• Hilary E
• Stephen B
• Mia

4A1 OVERDUE HOMEWORK- LAST CHANCE!!!

For Friday- Complete the RUAE Understanding homework. A copy of the sheet can be collected from me, or, if you scroll down approx 3 posts (after Higher stuff), you will find it copied onto the blog. Please complete all tasks.

For Monday- Complete overdue 'Gap Year' work, detailed below. You can collect a storyboard sheet from me or create your own by drawing 6-8 boxes and writing the relevant quote below them.

Nat 5: Kay homework- storyboard and emotion chart.

FINISH FOR NEXT TUESDAY!

1. STORYBOARD

•Visualise the narrative of the poem in a series of 6-8 images.
•These may be in storyboard or graphic novel form.
•Choose your images carefully.
•Then, draw the image into the box and include the matching quote beneath your pictures.



2. Once finished:

Consider the relationship between the physical journey/ distances in the poem and the emotional ones.

Chart this by finding quotes and organising them under the following headings:


Physical                       Emotional                                Both



Then, answer the following question: 

What do you notice about the relationship between these two types of ‘journey/distance’?