Punishment

Choose and essay question.

Write a thesis statment

Construct four topic sentences to go with it.

Act of Union

View the short analysis of Act of Union here.

Make notes on the questions at the end of the video ready for tomorrow.

The poetry of stench

Competition!

In no more than one simple sentence, use words to convey the smell of a dead animal.

Translations Overview

Translations_Overview.mp4 Watch on Posterous

Google Docs

Hello all.

It’s midnight in Melbourne, but I am on Perth time where it is 9. I think tomorrow will hurt a bit.

So that you know, you can give permissions to others to view our google docs pages. Just click share and add the email for their google account.

I can’t do it from my iPad, but I think Craig will probably disagree. That’s okay, Craig disagrees with everything I say.

I look forward to reading your stories. Remember that you have to post whatever drafting you have to your blog tonight. I will try to read a few if I get a chance.

Take care

Mr Derby

Work in my Esteemed Absence

Tuesday

I have created a Google Docs page here.

In pairs or trios, tackle one question each. Once you’ve done your question, go and see if you can add or amend the work of other groups.

Could this be good exam prep? You bet your booties!

 

 

Wednesday and Friday

Bring your stories to school!

Work on your short stories. At the end of Wednesday’s period, post your draft to your own blog.

Wednesday night homework: Read another student’s story and post a comment. Please avoid double ups.

 

Friday: Edit and revise your story.

 

Weekend Homework & Permission for Arcadia

One

URGENT – I forgot to give you your permission slip for Arcadia. I am very jealous for missing this.

Arcadia Permission Letter

Print out the letter, get it signed, bring in the moolah.

 

Two

Complete the following study sheet and bring it to class on Monday.

Literature Study Sheet

 

Three

Read Act 3 of Translations.

Post two questions as comments to this post.

Translations Readings

Please make notes on your allocated reading on Google docs here.

 

If you don’t have permissions, email me and I will fix it. You can also add permissions for each other.

 

Please remember to add your initials to your notes.

 

The set of readings can be found here

WB Yeats

These two poems will be the focus for tomorrow’s lesson:

Leda and the Swan (1924)

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

The Second Coming (1919)

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

In preparation for tomorrow:

1. Read the poems
2. Write down questions
3. Read about WB Yeats’s background

Translations Act 2

In today’s lesson, we looked at Translations through the lens of your questioning.

You wanted to know what the deal-i-o is with the maps.
You wanted to know what was up with Yolland and Maire.
You wanted to know what the skinny is on the transition from scene 1 to 2.

So, d-o-double-g, write a summary of what we learned to day based on the number I gave you in class.

Peace.

(To successfully ensure that you shift ground back to the Queen’s good English, I have decided to appropriate your generations discourse for my own malevolent purposes.)