Videos for homework this week

 

Tuesday Night Homework

View and make notes on the following video about the Rise of the Christian Right

 

 

Weekend Homework

View and make notes on the following video on the context of feminism in The Handmaid’s Tale

 

Preparing for tomorrow

Gents,

I am trying to get a video of today’s afterschool tutorial onto YouTube to then place here. Check back in later and hopefully the Internet God’s will have smiled upon me. In the meantime, check out the Learni.st board for Othello from the sidebar.

Good luck tomorrow!

Update 6:48

The vids are uploading from my phone now. I have a parent evening now, so it will take a while to put the vids here. Check on my youtube channel over the next 30 mins or so to see if the vids have appeared.

http://www.youtube.com/user/bfderby

Here they are:

Revision 1

Revision 2

 

I bleed for my art …

Readings of Othello

View this video, make notes and come prepared with questions on Monday

 

Homework

 

 

1. Complete the questions attached. Nat and Patrick skip Q7 (half the class is doing Q7, and the other half Q8) to rationalise the load.

Othello Act 2 Sc 2 and 3

 

2. View the video below about race in Othello. Make notes and come prepared with questions (what needs elaborating? what need clarifying?).

 

Iago and Reason

Explain Iago’s views on Reason and Love in Act 1, Scene 3.

The success criteria we developed for this response included:

• having a clear topic sentence or thesis
• using the language of the text analytically in your response
• engagement with the context of the period in your response
• identifying the significance of your response to the play as a whole
• discussing how the scene encourages intertextual reading

Of course, you don’t need to hit all of the bullet-points for this particular task. I would like for you to develop your skills in writing clear, well-articulated responses. That said, this one passage from the play could well be the focus of some detailed writing.

In our lesson, we talked about the way literature contributes to the circulation of ideas. In the Renaissance period, we see a growing concern for self-fashioning.  The emergence of Humanism saw greater consideration for “man” as the master of “his” destiny rather than the object of God’s predetermined plan for each individual. This is a very cursory sense of Humanism and I encourage you to do wider reading. Also, Fr McMahon will run a lesson next week on this very topic.

So, that leaves us with the text of passage and a video from the 1995 Branagh version of Othello.

Please post your response on your own blog and as a comment here.

RODERIGO

Iago,–

IAGO

What say’st thou, noble heart?

RODERIGO

What will I do, thinkest thou?

IAGO

Why, go to bed, and sleep.

RODERIGO

I will incontinently drown myself.

IAGO

If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why,
thou silly gentleman!

RODERIGO

It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and
then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

IAGO

O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four
times seven years; and since I could distinguish
betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man
that knew how to love himself. Ere I would say, I
would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I
would change my humanity with a baboon.

RODERIGO

What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so
fond; but it is not in my virtue to amend it.

IAGO

Virtue! a fig! ’tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you call love to be a sect or scion.

RODERIGO

It cannot be.

IAGO

It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of
the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself! drown
cats and blind puppies.

Richard III homework

The homework for Richard III is on edmodo.

Welcome back homework

1. Sign up to Edmodo

2. View the video below, and come to class tomorrow prepared with questions based on your viewing.

 

Class presentations

Congratulations, boys, on your fine work.

Below are your presentations, which were the product of you:

• setting your own topic to create a presentation that will help your peers study for exams through Seamus Heaney’s poetry;
• designing your own marking key collaboratively using Google Docs;
• recording your live presentation (apologies for the poor sound quality on most as I had the wrong setting on the microphone); and,
•  marking each others presentations and putting the marks onto a Google form to get the average scores for your work.

In the coming days, you and your parents will receive your marks in your email.

Once again, congratulations. Also, go to the Mazenod YoutTube channel to see how many hits your presentation gets. Once we get enough hits, we can then look at audience retention and other fun stats!

Heaney Oral Task

Watch this space for items relating to your oral task

1. Please enter your proposed topics here.

Task 09 – Heaney Oral

Below is the link for you to contribute to the class’s marking criteria for this assignment.

Marking Criteria

The poetry lecture for Heaney is here.

Well, here is my last amendment to this post.

Use this form to enter the marks you created for your peers. The average student marks will be included in the final mark.

Homework Essay – “Act of Union” and “Leda & the Swan”

Reading intertextually can help us to understand that literary texts contribute to the circulation of broader social or political ideas.
Discuss with reference to at least two texts you have studied.

 

800 words – due Tuesday 25/6

Post on your own blog and copy as comment here.