Tasks for Week One

16 March 2020
Hello everyone,

Given we are now off school for the next few weeks, I will be posting the work to be done online using this blog.

Please communicate with as many people in our class as possible to make sure they are getting the right information.

If you have friends in my other classes, you might know that I am setting week-by-week tasks with the deadline for each week on Friday.

I will grade your work and then put your grades onto Pronote so you can see your progress. I will write your feedback onto a piece of paper which you shall get once we return.

This is my plan at the moment, but - of course - things can change.

Tasks for week one : 16/03 - 20/03
Due date: 20/03 at 16h

Task One.
Your first task is to transform your PowerPoint on Raisin in the Sun into a one-page handout. This document can either be type or handwritten and will be assessed in a similar manner to the posters we made on A Separate Peace.

You can email me a typed document or send me a picture of your handwritten work.
The key is that your classmates can use your document to revise for the final exams.

My suggestion: copy and paste the information from your PowerPoint (which was NOT just taken from the internet) into a one-page document, using the same headings (and everything). Then develop your bullet points enough so that everyone can understand your ideas.

Only include one or two images - they are no longer as important as for your PowerPoint.

If you want, you can submit one document for 2 people. That is, your presentation partner and you can work 'at a distance' to create a single poster and then submit it with both your names.

Label ALL your work clearly with YOUR NAME + 2IGCSE1.

When we return to school, we will combine our documents - as we did with Separate Peace - to create a revision booklet.

Task Two.
Realise that in the weeks ahead, you will need to prepare the following poems for the Poetry and Prose exam:

1. Billy Collins, "Afternoon with Irish Cows"
2. Allen Curnow, "You Will Know When You Get There"
3. Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Caged Skylark"
4. Elizabeth Jennings, "In Praise of Creation"
5. John Keats, "Ode on Melancholy"
6. Charlotte Smith, "Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening."

On Wednesday, I will post an exercise on Billy Collins "Afternoon with Irish Cows" - complete with a copy of the poem, links to online information sheets, my own information sheet plus questions.

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Obviously, if you have any questions or concerns, you can email me at
robyn.cnockaert@gmail.com
or telephone me at: 06 62 88 93 45


Kind regards, as ever,
Mrs C

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