IGCSE With Mrs C

Hello everyone, As promised here is the work I would like you to do for Billy Collins' "Afternoon with Irish Cows." Remember, the key is for you to be ready for the IGCSE exams - as we are unlikely to be able to have enough time in class for thoughtful work on our poems. For each of our remaining poems, I would like you to follow the same process. 1. take a blank sheet of A4 paper, which you will store in the Poetry section of your IGCSE binder (if you have not yet created/organised your binder, this is the ideal time to do so). 2. Write "An Afternoon With Irish Cows" at the top (duh!) 3. Write your answers and notes neatly, so you can later revise the information. 4. Let me know if you need any help. Afternoon With Irish Cows Billy Collins Afternoon with Irish Cows by Billy Collins There were a few dozen who occupied the field across the road from where we lived, stepping all day from tuft to tuft, their big heads down in the soft grass,...

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...

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Stormcock in Elder Ruth Pitter Ruth Pitter Ruth Pitter (1897 - February 29, 1992) was a British poet. She was the first woman ever to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (in 1955), and was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in 1979 to honour her many contributions to English literature. In 1974 she was named a Companion of Literature, the highest honour given by the Royal Society of Literature Stormcock in Elder Also known as 'Mistle Thrush' It gets its country name 'stormcock' because it sings in all weathers. There's something about its clear, tumbling song that puts one in mind of the peace and clarity that comes after a heavy spring rain shower (allpoetry.com/RuthPitter) Elder(berry)  a  common   shrub   with   black   fruit  or a small   tree  of  Europe   and   Asia;   fruit   used   for   wines and   jellies Form A seven stanza poem which is ...

The Sea Eats the Land at Home Watching for Dolphins Coming Cetacean Homework one : Choose one of the following questions, and write a 1.5+ paper. Resubmissions possible. Due Wednesday 13 November, 2019 How does the poet memorably convey the experience of watching a natural event ? How does the poet memorably convey the experience of watching for dolphins ? How does the poet memorably convey the experience of watching whales ? How does the poet memorably convey the experience of a flood ? How does the poet memorably convey the experience of recognising the arrival of Spring? Eg : Introduction (reuse key words from question and explain the intents of your paper Paragraph one : the setting and the atmosphere / poetic techniques paragraph two : the speaker’s experience of the event (what does he pay attention to /seem to appreciate ? /poetic techniques paragraph three : what have we learned about t...

Peter Reading’s “Cetacean” Poet Peter Reading was born on 27 July 1946 in Liverpool, England. He worked as a school teacher in Liverpool (1967-8) and at Liverpool College of Art where he taught Art History (1968-70). He was Writer in Residence at Sunderland Polytechnic (1981-3) and he won a Cholmondeley Award in 1978. His collection  Diplopic  (1983) won the inaugural Dylan Thomas Award.  Stet (1986) won the Whitbread Poetry Award and he was awarded the Lannan Award for Poetry in 1990 and again in 2004. In 1997 he held the Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. The collection  Marfan  (2000) was inspired by his tenure as Lannan Foundation Writer in Residence in Marfa, Texas, in 1999. Peter Reading was a highly original poet - his style was innovative and experimental, while his blunt outspoken tone and ‘grotty’ subject matter proved controversial. He was also incredibly prolific - from the mid-1970s, he produced almost one volu...

In order to better understand the grading scale I used when grading your Language papers on Wildlife safaris, do use this evaluation grill and try and understand how you can move up bands (for example, from Band 3 to Band 4): http://bestexamhelp.com/exam/cambridge-igcse/english-first-language-0500/2019/0500-s19-ms-21.php