Term Two study break

Hi everyone,


Hope you're being strategic about getting some down-time and still getting done the things that need to be done!

To that end, here's what I expect to be done:

• Read Antony & Cleopatra (main play text)
• Read Intro to Antony & Cleopatra, at least through first 15 pages (main play text)
• Read summary & analysis for all scenes in Antony & Cleopatra (study guide)
• Revise and consolidate ALL notes for ALL other texts - these should reduce your notes to core basics for all poems, chapters, and scenes.
• Choose the four poems you will be memorising in preparation for your examinations, and begin memorising.  At least two of these should be memorised before we return to Term Three.

And no essay for the holidays!  I know; I'm amazing.  :)

Enjoy.


- T. Marcus

Twelfth Night - Week 6 reading

Hi everyone,


This week's readings:

Main text-

• If you haven't finished it yet, do.

Study Guide-

• 'The Pangs of Laughter', 'Antonio's Agony'; p45
• p83, 85-87

Also, you should start going back through the study guide and developing your scene notes.


- T. Marcus

Twelfth Night - Week 5 reading

Hi everyone,


This week's readings:

Main text-

• Act 4, Scene 3 - end; p143-162 (sorry, last week's pages were meant to read 119-142)
• Intro, p36-46 (Stage history)

Study Guide-

• Act 4&5 summary / analysis; p50-54
• Using Critical Interpretations & Perspectives, p98-105

Sorry this one is so late!



- T. Marcus

Twelfth Night - Week 4 reading

Hi everyone-


This week's readings:

Main text-

• Act 3, Scene 4 - Act 4, Scene 2; p143-162
• Introduction, p34-36

Study Guide-

• Act 3&4 summary/analysis, p44-49
• Characters: p60-61, 66-67
• Contexts & Critical Debates, p79-82

We will be discussing in class this week what you're getting out of the above.
I will be focusing on notes from:

• Characters
• Contexts & Debates
• Intro pages

Have fun!


- T. Marcus

Twelfth Night - Week 3 reading

Hi everyone,

This week's readings:

Main text-

• Act 3 Scene 1 - Act 3 Scene 3, p 107-119
• Intro, p27-34

Study Guide-

• Act / Scene summary, p37-43
• Characters, 56-59 & 62-65

Have fun!

- T. Marcus

Essay - just in case..

Hi everyone,


I added this onto the previous blog post, but in case you haven't read it yet:

Your new essay is an 'open text' essay:

Rosedale asks, 'Why should I mind saying that I want to get into society?'
In light of this comment, discuss Wharton's presentation of social ambition in the novel.

Hope that's all clear.  :)


- T. Marcus

Shakespeare, Act 2 readings

Hi everyone-


Sorry, thought I'd already published this one.  Hm.

SO, this week's reading:

Main Text-

• Act 2- pg 81-107
• Introduction- pg 15-25

Study Guide-

• Themes- pg 68-74
• Writing essay responses- pg 90-91

UPDATE-
Your new essay is an 'open text' essay:

Rosedale asks, 'Why should I mind saying that I want to get into society?'
In light of this comment, discuss Wharton's presentation of social ambition in the novel.


There!  Enjoy.


- T. Marcus