Thursday - bring in essays and marked work

Hello boys,

Please bring in previous essays and marked work to tomorrow's lesson in case OFSTED want to see samples.

Tomorrow's lesson will be continuing on from last lesson on imagery.

See you tomorrow,

Ms Walker

Thursday's lesson

Work for Thursday's lesson 08/02/12

TASK:
a) To choose an excerpt from Othello.
b) To identify five key linguistic features in that excerpt.
c) To write in the style of your chosen excerpt, so if you chose the play's opening you could extend Roderigo and Iago's conversation, equally if you chose the play's ending you could extend Othello's apology.
d) Highlight on your text where you have used the five key linguistic features you identified in the original excerpt.

Work to be handed in by Friday

• Annotated copy of your Non-Fiction article. I gave you an example of what I wanted - essentially you need to embed into the text where and how you have met the different AOs. Additionally, I want you to embed in brackets into your text the key linguistic features you have used so for e.g. declarative sentence, an example of informal register, foregrounding, an example of perspective, an example of a semantic field etc.



• Thursday's classwork




• Polished copies of your Non-Fiction articles

Homework for 18th October Tuesday

Homework for next week. This homework is due Tuesday lunch break.

Finish reading Othello and then write a plan and an essay of a minimum two sides on the following subject.

Compare the experiences and situations of Othello and Alan (Equus) and their two 'crimes': the killing of Desdemona and the blinding of the horses.

You must consider in your essay:

• Why the characters commit their 'crimes' - you should discuss the hostile worlds/societies they belong to.


• Compare the 'crimes'.


• Compare how the playwrights present their characters - is it a sympathetic presentation?


• Compare how an audience might respond to each character's 'crime' - you could refer to specific productions of each play.


• Compare the playwrights' messages - what are they saying about their character and his actions?

You must use PEE (Point, Evidence & Explanation) in your essays - you must support your points with textual evidence. If you hand in an essay without textual evidence I will ask you to rewrite it.

Monday 26th classwork & homework

Classwork: to watch Oliver Parker's version of Othello. (a register will be taken)

Homework: to write a review (minimum A4 page long) of as much of the film as you're able to see in a single period. (There's a review of the film on the blog you may find handy to generate ideas). Due Thursday 29th.

Consider in your review:

• Whether the play belongs to the character Iago or Othello (there's an article on this subject on the blog)


• Laurence Fishburne's interpretation of the role compared to Laurence Olivier's (clips of Olivier as Othello are available to watch on youtube)

You could also take a look at Orson Welles' version of Othello (clips are again in youtube) and compare his heavily visual film to Parker's.

Lesson Monday 26th

On Monday 26th I will be out of school on a Y9 Shakespeare trip, but your lesson will still take place. I will post further details plus that week's homework on this blog. I'm currently considering arranging for you to watch Oliver Parker's film adaptation of Othello.

Thursday classwork & homework

Classwork is to read & annotate Act Two, Scene One. A question to consider when reading is Iago's attitude towards women.

Homework is to write a diary account for Iago, in which he reflects on all that has happened in Act One (hand in Thursday 29th). Have fun exploring his mind!

Consider including reflections on

- Cassio's promotion

- Othello's marriage

- his developing plot to destroy Othello's peace of mind

- why he is so determined to ruin Othello

For further inspiration explore the blog to see how critics, directors and actors have interpreted the workings of Iago's mind (for instance James Earl Jones thinks Iago is a tragic rather than evil character - see excerpt below)

"I contend that Iago is the most complex character that Shakespeare ever created. He has also been called vengeful and nihilistic, a man of 'diseased intellectual activity, with an almost perfect indifference to moral good or evil.'

Iago is dangerous to those who love and trust him because he convinced them over time that he loves them in return, and that he can be trusted absolutely.

The tragedies that happen to Othello and Desdemona are grand, classical tragedies. There is a much more modern tragedy in the character of Iago. His is a very contemporary tragedy that should not be thrown away."

*Connor deliver your homework asap Friday to the English staffroom or feel my wrath! Alex, I'd like your homework, due Monday, as well, Friday.

Oliver Parker's Othello

http://bostonreview.net/BR21.2/Stone.html

A thought provoking review of Oliver Parker's Othello published in the Boston Review.