YEAR 11 ENGLISH

To all students in my Year 11 English class

We have agreed that during the strike day planned for tomorrow that you will revise for your rehearsal examination

It is very important that you revise 'LORD OF THE FLIES' and 'VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE'

Please use the notes that we have made in class to guide you.

• Your exam will be on MONDAY 5th DECEMBER 2011 from 9am - 11am


• You will have ONE hour to write about 'Lord of the Flies'


• ONE hour to write about 'View from the Bridge.'


• The ACCURACY of your written work is important - so please remember this

Finalising the presentations.

We have ONE week to get everything ready for the presentation. You have all worked hard on your allocated tasks but these now need to be all collated so that we can have time to rehearse and feel confident about the great work you have done.

I know that you all have rehearsal exams next week and I would like to wish you all the best for those. I appreciate that you feel nervous about presenting to your peers bu come to our English lessons for calm / unstressful time between your exams and allow yourself to explore the world of Shakespeare for the enrichment of it.

Hope you all have a good, hard working, weekend!!

Your presentations on Hamlet

I wanted to thank you all for your hard work with your presentations. The key feedback is to use the guidance sheet we have agreed - you all have a copy of this.

You need to remember that when we have finished these presentations, we will work together to select / edit / adapt to form the basis of the main presentation you will be giving to the otehr half of the class. The format of this and the content will be taken from the work we have done to date. There is much great work & ideas being generated.

Please remember the following guidelines to raise the quality of textual analysis:

1. What shakespeare does - brief plot overview
2. How he does it - language analysis, audience / performer interaction
3. Intended impact / effect on the audience - successful??
4. Why he does this - authorial intention - message

Keep up the good work. I think you are a fantastic group of students & a pleasure to teach.

The Presentations - scene analysis

I wanted to thank you all for all your hard work with Hamlet this term. You have been a pleasure to teach and I was impressed by your presentations on the soliloquies. It is now really important that you use all your comments to each other to lift the quality of your work even further. These are all collated for your reference on the handout from today which I will add as a link.

Now, you have all begun to develop the scene analysis that you have been allocated. Keep referring to the purple booklet which has critical essays in it at the back. These will be very good for you to read and lift ideas from and then quote as critical evidence.

Also, refer to the notes on the classification of the canon - start to lift the points that are relevant for your scene - explore how it fits with your analysis.

Keep up the good work and use the half-term wisely.

The presentations

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