Mr Legowski’s Yr 10 Summer Shakespeare task – due Thursday 10 September

I would like you to research and prepare a presentation on one of the topics below. Your presentation will be given to the class on Thursday 10 September and you can use either PowerPoint or prezi.com to accompany it. You will speak for no less than two minutes and you will be given a grade for how well you present your research to the class.

• William Shakespeare the man 
• The theatre in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
• Shakespeare’s England – what was the country like at the end of the 16th century?
• Shakespeare’s legacy – why is he such an important playwright? 
• What was life like in 16th century Verona, Italy?

And here is Tia and Chloe H’s PowerPoint:

William Shakespeare – Tia and Chloe H

Mr Legowski’s Yr 9 Summer Of Mice and Men Revision – due Tuesday 8 September

Dear students,

Your home learning task over the summer holiday is to complete the attached Of Mice and Men revision PowerPoint. You can either complete the tasks on paper or save a copy of the PowerPoint and then add your answers to your own copy. I have also attached a PDF copy of the novel too, which you will need to help you complete some of the tasks.

Of Mice And Men tasks

Of Mice and Men – whole novel in PDF format

You really have been a splendid group of students and I hope you have a fantastic, and well-deserved, summer holiday. I look forward to seeing you all again in September.

Mr Legowski

Mr Legowski’s Yr 9 Of Mice and Men homework – due Thursday 23 July

Now we’re watching the 1993 film adaptation of the novel, pick one of the following questions and answer it in the comments box below. Your answer should be developed and be between 100-150 words.

EITHER

a) Why does the director Gary Sinise choose to begin his film with George and Lennie fleeing from Weed?

OR

b) Why does the film have the scene with George and Curley’s wife in the barn, when there is no such encounter in the novel?

Mr Legowski’s Yr 10 Mercutio’s song homework – due Thursday 23 July

Mercutio sings a song full of indecent, if hidden, meaning. Your homework task is to memorise his song and be prepared to recite (or even perform!) it in Thursday’s lesson.

Mr Legowski’s Yr 8s (both sets) Planning homework – due Wednesday 22 July (for Miss Maguire’s class)

Please use your notes from today’s lesson – and recall all of the skills you have been practising over the past two weeks – to plan your review of Britain’s Got Talent. These plans must be completed for tomorrow’s lesson (8xEn3 with Miss Maguire).

If you need a copy of the planning sheet, click here.

Here’s the episode again if you want to watch it and add to your notes.

Mr Legowski’s 8yEn1 Talent TV clichés homework – due Wednesday 22 July

Talent TV shows are full of clichés, aren’t they? Please find five clichés that you will usually find in a talent TV show like The X Factor or Britain’s Got Talent and write them in the comments box below.

Deadline: Wednesday 22 July

Mr Legowski’s Yr 10 Romeo (Act 2, scene 2) homework – due Tuesday 21 July

How do you think Romeo is feeling when he says these words? You must refer to specific examples from the text to support your answer, which will be written in the comments box below.

Deadline: Tuesday 21 July

Year 9 presentations: Putting Of Mice and Men into context

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The following presentations provide the background to George and Lennie’s America in the 1930s. Students researched key topics including Robert Burns’ poem To a Mouse, the Great Depression, the American Dream, as well as attitudes to race and to women.

Here is a selection of some of their presentation slides.

The Salinas Valley and California in 1930s – Toby

What is the role of women and black people – Courtneys

The salinas valley – Kieran

The role of black americans in the 1930s – Erin

The great depression and the dust bowl in 1930s – Ty P

The dust bowl and the Great Depression – Kodi

Migrant workers – Lili

Mr Legowski’s 8xEn1 Structure homework – due Monday 20 July

Design a flow chart to show how you might structure your own talent TV review based on The Scotsman article, Fear and Loathing…

The following example of the first few steps is a fairly straightforward potential structure, however for students who want to (or need to) challenge themselves, you could create an alternative, more sophisticated, structure. Either way, be prepared to justify your decisions.

Mr Legowski’s Yr 10 Tybalt homework – due Thursday 16 July

Tybalt creates a strong impression on the audience in Act 1, scenes 1 & 5. Read his lines again (see below) and choose one key word from each line that you think clearly shows his character. (You should have twenty-two words in total.)

Next, find a way of presenting these words strikingly (with imagination) on paper so that we can display them in the classroom.

Don’t forget to look at No Fear Shakespeare for help understanding the text: ‘No Fear’ Modern R&J

Deadline: Thursday 16 July

Act 1, scene 1

[Enter TYBALT]

• Tybalt. What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
  Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.

• Benvolio. I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,
  Or manage it to part these men with me.

• Tybalt. What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,
  As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:
  Have at thee, coward!
  [They fight]

Act 1, scene 5

• Tybalt. This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
  Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
  Come hither, cover’d with an antic face,
  To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
  Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
  To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.

• Capulet. Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?

• Tybalt. Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,
  A villain that is hither come in spite,
  To scorn at our solemnity this night.

• Capulet. Young Romeo is it?

• Tybalt. ‘Tis he, that villain Romeo.

• Capulet. Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;
  He bears him like a portly gentleman;
  And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
  To be a virtuous and well-govern’d youth:
  I would not for the wealth of all the town
  Here in my house do him disparagement:
  Therefore be patient, take no note of him:
  It is my will, the which if thou respect,
  Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,
  And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.

• Tybalt. It fits, when such a villain is a guest:
  I’ll not endure him.

• Capulet. He shall be endured:
  What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;
  Am I the master here, or you? go to.
  You’ll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!
  You’ll make a mutiny among my guests!
  You will set cock-a-hoop! you’ll be the man!

• Tybalt. Why, uncle, ’tis a shame.

• Capulet. Go to, go to;
  You are a saucy boy: is’t so, indeed?
  This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:
  You must contrary me! marry, ’tis time.
  Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:
  Be quiet, or—More light, more light! For shame!
  I’ll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!

• Tybalt. Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
  Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
  I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall
  Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.

[Exit]